Oh Golly, you betcha doggone it...*wink* Sarah Palin looks like she is perfectly ready to compete at a high level with the best they can throw at her. The problem is the best I'm referring to is a game show. The vice presidency is not Jeopardy.
Her head was so filled with coached answers (including the order to be folksy) that I was seeing a programmed robot answering only the questions she was vaguely comfortable answering. If Gwen asked a question about economics, Palin, operating in an alternate universe, would answer "I'd like to re-address the energy question." On Iraq and Afghanistan she was clearly out of her element. For ninety minutes Sarah Palin was a tightly wound pseudo-relaxed candidate with memorized lines spouting them off like a child would recite the preamble to the United States Constitution before a grade school class. This is not thoughtful intelligence.
Now that we're in baseball's play-off season, someone at the Sedona debate school probably told Sarah Palin to wait for the right moment and zing Joe Biden with the memorable baseball line, "say it ain't so, Joe."
Joe Biden went into the debate with two strikes against him, simply being a male and being a sixty-something political veteran. He ended up hitting a grand slam homer. All through the debate he was a consummate gentleman, but one has to believe he was internally saying :bryce: