Report on Palin's debate tactics- she won't get away with this against Biden ...

[Alhena]

This quote is from Palin's favorable biography:

Knowles and Halcro] accepted invitations to twenty-five debates and forums in forty-five days . Their strategy was to wear Sarah down and expose her as a political lightweight.

"Knowles and Halcro felt the more they could debate her, the better they'd do," recalled Bill McAllister. The Democrats wanted to pin her down on the particulars of public policy. "She deflected all that stuff," McAllister said, "and they were frustrated that she wouldn't participate."

In her typical style, Sarah refused to play their game. Rather than sell her positions on specific issues, she sold herself as a new voice for Alaskans.

Sarah likened herself to a quarterback, drawing on the strengths of individual players. "When they get out there and they read the defense and see that the circumstances are changing, that quarterback has to call an audible and has to be able to communicate with the key players," she said.

She said her positions were clear: She was running as a fiscal conservative, a reformer, and an advocate for the people of Alaska.


http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/09/dems-ought-not.html

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Reportedly Palin does well in debates as long as she is allowed to spout generalities about relying on advisers and the like. She got away with that in the Alaska governor's debates even though she apparently wasn't up on the specifics of the state issues there. When the debate moderators ask her about her policies towards Pakistan and Saudi Arabia if she were president, however, she isn't going to be able to get away with saying that she will rely on her advisers' advice without exposing herself as the utterly incompetent candidate that she is.

[demo dutch]

1. advocate for the people of Alaska rather than the US given her AIP membership

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Unfortunately modern Pres debates are weak, moderators are don't re-ask, etc. . . nt