Politics 2008:The Caucuses and The Dem/Rep Conventions

[SummerChild]

Ok, so I've figured it out. What Palin does during her interviews (and what she'll probably do tonight during the debate).

Here's her trick:
If anyone (Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric or even tonight, Gwen Ifill) asks her a question about anything in which she will have to be specific, she answers a different question - namely, she rearranges the question the question in her mind to one in which she can just broadly talk about the subject matter in general and then she actually answers the question that she has put together in her own mind. This is probably her and McCain's strategy b/c she is ignorant of everything of substance.

For example, when asked about the policy on preemption, I think she answered as if Charlie had asked her if America needs to defend itself IN GENERAL. She made that question up in her own mind and answered her own question - forget Charlie.

The only problem for her is that Biden is likely to push her to the wall and force her to answer the question that was asked. After all, this is a debate. Tonight, she won't be able to merely have a conversation with herself before the American people as she has been doing.

It's actually pretty swift if you think about it. If one is not listening closely enough to her answer, she uses enough of the related key words to *sound like* she's addressing the question (this flies over the head of the sloooow Americans who either are not paying attention or don't understand the issues anyway, which is many unfortunately) and it's also swift b/c she actually has to be *smart enough* to rearrange the sentence in her mind in real time and answer the new question that she has made up. I think that this is what the camp has her doing. It's actually pretty good when you think about it. Maybe she's not as dumb as everyone thinks - ok, that might be going too far. LOL.

Between Biden and Ifill, I think that she'll have to answer the questions ASKED tonight. I am almost certain that the Obama camp is on to her and her flicted strategy.

SC