This guy Ruben is so far up Dubya's butt he can probably blow his nose for him. Nobody in their right mind could call that debate a tie. To suggest that she won is just absurd.
If you like Obama-Biden, then Joe Biden won.
If you prefer McCain-Palin, Sarah Palin did. That's how you can tell a tie.
No, you can tell a tie when objective people say there was a tie. Obama/Biden supporters say Biden won because Biden wiped the floor with her. McCain/Palin supporters say she won because they have a screw loose and are divorced from reality. To suggest that the two groups somehow cancel each other out is like saying chimps cancel out Rhodes Scholars.
That's what this was. And since Biden was supposed to destroy Palin, and didn't even come close, this was a good night for the Republican.
Nobody ever said he would destroy her. Most people predicted that Biden would go easy on her to avoid angering the idiots who think she should never be criticized because she's a woman.
In the middle of last week, McCain won leadership accolades with his march to Capitol Hill to try to alleviate the economic crisis.
Were we watching the same reality last week? The Republicans were ambivalent at best, mostly angry that he dropped in and pretended he was the supreme leader of the Republican Party, the Dems were livid pointing out that he torpedoed an almost done deal by injecting politics.
At one annoying moment, the Democrat even instructed the moderator, PBS' Gwen Ifill, that Palin hadn't answered a question.
That's what actually happened, she was making up questions and answering them instead of answering the actual questions. It's not Biden's fault she did that.
He could have said that directly to Palin, but, in a McCainesque moment, he ignored her.
What would have been the point? She wasn't answering Ifill's questions, why would she acknowledge his? She was off in her own little world.
Biden caught himself later when Palin -- in her best line -- informed him and Ifill that she was going to speak straight to the American people even if it meant not answering questions the way that he or Ifill wanted her to.
It's not charming in a debate to declare that you're no longer going to participate in the actual debate and are instead going to just pretend you're at a different debate.
I tried to post a response at the bottom of the article but, surprise, they didn't allow it through. I guess Ruben doesn't like people to point out his lies.
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