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Palin To Go On Attack Against Biden On ... Foreign Policy?
TPM Election Central — Be afraid. Be very, very afraid: Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight's debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight's showdown. Palin attacking Biden, the longtime chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a well-known figure in world capitals, on foreign policy? That should be interesting. Maybe she can attack over Obama's suggestion that ...

Vice Presidential Debate Predictions
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... recent CBS interview was a borderline disaster, especially since it played out in several segments over several days. Tonight will be different, they say. "This is going to finally put her back into a position where we see her like we saw her the first couple weeks," a McCain official said. "She was herself. She was authentic, and people related to that. ... Tonight, she'll get into a rhythm. You're going to see her in a way that you haven't seen her yet." Click here to read the rest of that story As it often does before debates, the ...

Vice Presidential Debate Predictions
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... recent CBS interview was a borderline disaster, especially since it played out in several segments over several days. Tonight will be different, they say. "This is going to finally put her back into a position where we see her like we saw her the first couple weeks," a McCain official said. "She was herself. She was authentic, and people related to that. ... Tonight, she'll get into a rhythm. You're going to see her in a way that you haven't seen her yet." Click here to read the rest of that story As it often does before debates, the ...

Liveblogging Tonight's Debate
democracyarsenal.org — ... We at Democracy Arsenal will be live blogging tonight's debate and responding to any foreign policy issues that arise. If this is to be believed, there may be more foreign policy content then originally expected, since Palin may actually decide to go on the ...

Actually, I Predicted This, Too
Balloon Juice — I forget who I was talking to last week, but I predicted this as well: Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight’s debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight’s showdown. The Palin camp is projecting surprising self-confidence in the pre-debate hours, despite the vice presidential nominee’s uneven — and, at some points, peculiar — ...

Palin Will Go After Biden
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — From the Politico : ST. LOUIS -- Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight's debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight's showdown. The Palin camp is projecting surprising self-confidence in the pre-debate hours, despite the vice presidential nominee's uneven -- and, at some points, peculiar -- performances in recent television interviews, the officials say. Top advisers to John McCain privately say ...

Countdown to The Debate
Taylor Marsh — ... Caption contest! Two hours and counting... So, here’s the Palin plan, as told to Mike Allen at Politico: ...

Sources: Palin to go on the offensive against Biden
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Smart . It restores the “pitbull in lipstick” image that the Couric interviews dissolved, it increases the chance of a golden Biden jackass moment by getting under his skin, and it keeps the spotlight off of her own answers. The debate’s supposed to be “about” Palin; to the extent she can make it about Biden or, better still, about Biden’s disagreements with Obama, it’s a victory even if she spends half her time tapdancing on policy. Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight’s debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for ...

Like a Barracuda: Sarah Palin Plans to Attack Joe Biden
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Politico: — Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight’s debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight’s showdown. ...

Sarah Palin to Go After Joe Biden?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Will Sarah Palin go on the attack against Joe Biden? The Politico says yes and reveals the Palin  playbook. This is all CW stuff but two interesting facts on the run up to tonight’s debate. Sarah Palin’s parents will be in the St Louis audience Palin will be sporting a bandage on her right hand from falling while jogging on Monday. Flap will be covering the debate and micro-blogging via Twitter in the right sidebar ————> Or you can follow Flap on Twitter directly. ...

Big Dig
Talking Points Memo — ... The McCain camp tells Mike Allen that Palin will go after Joe Biden tonight, trying to catch him out on old foreign policy positions that didn't pan out. Right. I don't buy that because I don't think they want to risk getting her into any detailed discussion of any foreign policy or defense issue. What strikes me as much more likely is that they'll send her in with a handful of prefab digs or snark lines. Their hope would be that whatever comes out of the debate itself -- that the some clever or incendiary snark line will dominate the next day's news cycle and get the ...

More Live Veep Debate Coverage
The Moderate Voice — ... While the Politico notes that Sarah Palin’s new plan is to “go after Joe Biden” we shall all have to draw our own conclusions. Tonight I will be working on an analysis of the debate as it happens, to post here shortly after the conclusion, but there will also be another live chat taking place. Over at Hot Air, I will be ...

The game plan
Political Animal — ... matters tonight is who she is "as a person," not her ability to "answer every detailed question." Sounds like a rather predictable way of setting expectations, doesn't it? If Palin can speak in complete sentences, Republicans can say, "See? She's smarter than everyone expected." If she's incoherent, Republicans can say, "See? She connected with voters on an emotional level. Only eggheads care about having competent people in positions of power and authority." As for Palin herself, Mike Allen reports that the governor "plans to go on the attack in tonight's debate, hitting Joe ...

Biden vs. Palin: Are You Ready to Stumble?
Weekly Standard Blog — ... be surprised to see post-debate coverage congratulate him for getting through 90 minutes without referring to his running mate as "clean and articulate." The McCain campaign has taken an unorthodox tack in the final hours before the debate today, pointing out Biden's consistent idiocy and simultaneously puffing up Palin. First they released a Biden's greatest-hits compilation called, "Embarrass:" Then aides informed Politico that Sarah will indeed be freed tonight: ...

Does Joe Biden have the better debate strategy?
Patterico's Pontifications — Seems like it, if the Politico’s Mike Allen has it right: Sarah Palin plans to go on the attack in tonight’s debate, hitting Joe Biden for what she will call his foreign policy blunders and penchant for adopting liberal positions on taxes and other issues, according to campaign officials involved in prepping her for tonight’s showdown. *** By contrast, Biden plans what an aide calls “a just-the-facts, prosecutorial approach laying out the case against McCain and defending Obama.” The aide said Biden will be “keeping the ...

Expect a pitbull (with lipstick) tonight at the debate
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Palin the attack dog is showing up at the debate tonight. Hey, it's a roll of the dice for the McCain campaign. But, they don't have much to work with here. Palin can't do substance so she'll get nasty. The McCain campaign is probably betting that if she's nasty and on the attack, people won't notice that she's absolutely not qualified to be president. So, expect a very aggressive Palin tonight: ...

Palin versus Predator: The Freak Show Debate Tonight
Open Left - Front Page — ... Republicans are making noises about Palin going after Biden on foreign policy blunders, which sounds kind of ridiculous if you respect DC gibberish.  The problem is that Palin just can't do the plain spoken hockey Mom shtick without cue cards, so most of us are going to be watching with an immensely nervous sense of dread, like when you don't know where that sentence uttered in a wedding toast by that kind of racist drunk guy will end up heading.  You know, cringe-worthy.  Not that Bush isn't cringe-worthy, and frankly, I watched a performance of Dan Quayle's 1992 ...

VP Debate Liveblogging: Governor Sarah Palin against Senator Joe Biden
Sister Toldjah — ... For her part, Gov. Palin plans on going on the offensive in tonight’s debate by not only highlighting her record as Governor, but also pointing out Joe Biden’s contradictions on what he said about Obama when he ran against him for the Dem nomination versus what he says about Obama now, as well as point out ...

Stephen Kaus: What Biden Should Say About Voting Against the First Gulf War
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Reports are that Palin plans to bring up Biden's vote against the First Gulf War to show bad foreign policy judgment. This was a problem John Kerry ...

Pre-debate musing
The Reaction — ... It's pretty clear that Sarah Palin will stay far away from issues and anything resembling deep thought tonight. She'll play the role of middle class attack dog for sure. The only question that's really up in the air is how the media will spin her predictable performance. I suspect they will eat it up in order to appear "fair." I also suspect, after Friday's presidential debate, that the American people will see through her attacks and the media spin of them. I smell backfire, and the end of the McCain campaign, in the air. ...

Debate Expectations and Predictions
TalkLeft — ... In 90 minutes, Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin will debate. Politico reports Palin's game plan is to attack Biden and throw his words from former statements, particularly about foreign policy, back at him. Biden, it reports, will be a "just the facts" style debater, concentrating on defending Obama and attacking McCain. ...

Hullabaloo — ... , with little time for any back-and-forth between the candidates, so there's not much chance of going off the prepared script, which will be filled with the type of zingers she delivered very well in St. Paul. And the McCain campaign has seemed to figure out that Palin's only way through this is to attack her opponent and take the focus off of her positions and knowledge and onto Biden's. ...

Palin Stuns: The MSM Had It Wrong?
Pajamas Media — ... about Palin’s abilities. Questions remained whether she was up for the job or merely had been “ freaked out ” by poor handling by the McCain team. The day had been another roller-coaster for the McCain camp. John McCain finally raised concern earlier in the day about Gwen Ifill’s upcoming “favorable” (actually laudatory) book about Barack Obama and the potential conflict of interest . Then the McCain camp projected an air of bravado — Palin would be going on the attack. That was just before word filtered out , later confirmed by a media conference call, ...