Hell’s bells – Obama isn’t being held to the same standards as “Joe the Plumber”. I actually heard some media type wonder why the McCain campaign didn’t do a better job of “vetting” Joe. (So now we need to be “vetted” by political campaigns to ask a question?!) We’re hearing more about Joe’s tax problems than we’re hearing about Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) tax evasion.

I think Palin’s judgement is superior to Biden’s. He’s had 30+ years of “grappling with issues facing America”… whatever that means.

This just in!

Wise sage Chevy Chase does not approve of Sarah Palin’s appearance on SNL, and doesn’t think she was funny.

PS. Mr. Chase, what funny thing have you done lately. Oh, in the interview, he does compare Palin to Mrs. Butterworth. Now that’s almost funny… almost.

Ah yes, Scotty, while Democrat gays like yourself and your organizations fully endorse and support FMA supporters.

Is the silly lefty Scotty willing to say that anyone who opposes gay marriage and thinks that marriage is a “sacred union” that should be denied to gays is a homophobic hatemongering bigot? Call us back if you are.

McCain has gone after the “moderates” and “independents.” These people, if they exist at all, are jellyfish. They are not constant and are as likely not to vote as they are to choose a candidate and stick with him.

Obama should be many points ahead considering the fact that this is an election after eight years of Republican administration and the unpopularity of George Bush.

Palin draws enormous crowds. Her interview with Couric was proof of what the MSM produces when they have the chance to edit somebody. (What might they have done with Joe the Gaff Biden, if they had been so inclined?)

Any way you slice it, Palin is more qualified to be President (she is running for Vice President) than is Obama who is running for President.

The Republicans are having a tug of war between Joe the Plumber and Peggy Noonan and William Kristol. Frankly, I would happily watch a debate between Joe the Plumber and either of those two wordsmiths. Joe understands his conservative principles. Noonan and Kristol still have to be accepted on the Georgetown cocktail circuit. A pox on them. They have traded character for acceptance.

Joe Biden has been a member of congress for around 30 years, has sat on the senate judiciary committee most if not all of that time — and in the debate proved he still doesn’t know which article of the constitution establishes his own branch of government, nor that the constitution mandates that the vice president will not only break tie votes, but indeed presides over the senate.

There is no excuse for him not knowing these facts. None! he has sworn ~30 times to uphold a constitution he isn’t even familiar with!

But hes a smooth bullshitter. After decades of bullshitting, he sounds convincing. And liberals dont have the faintest clue that Biden doesnt know what hes talking about, because neither do they. They only care that he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. That he has his facts completely wrong is irrelevant to them.

That is what passes for intellectual rigor on the left.

Given Zakaria’s liberal leanings (and support for Obama), I wouldn’t trust him as a non-partisan observer of Palin’s answers.

I agree she hurt herself with the Couric interview.

As to Biden, well, just because he’s grappling with these issues doesn’t mean he has any intellectual vigor. He had, in those 35-odd years, been spectacularly wrong on nearly every major foreign policy issue and has never offered anything more than standard liberal boilerplate on any given issue. Indeed, he’s shown himself to be a man of entirely conventional thinking. Just watch video of him when he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee. When not reading from a script, he became even more incoherent than Sarah Palin with Katie Couric. It was downright embarrassing. He couldn’t go toe-to-toe with any Republican nominee. And at the time, he’d been in the Senate nearly two decades.

In two years, Sarah Palin will have a better understanding of Supreme Court decisions than Joe Biden had then and may even have now.

Just being in the Senate does not make a man wise or allow him any intellectual rigor. Would a man of that kind of rigor need to make up as many things as he did in the Vice Presidential debate?

And this is why you’ve seen her popularity plummet. The Charle Gibson interview was bad and the Katie Couric interview was devastating. She probably lost 10-15% points in her favorable rating because of it, numbers she just won’t get back in this election cycle. She could give an artful dissertation on Hamlet and people would still think she is an intellectual lightweight. First impressions like that are just really hard to undo.

As to Biden, he’s been in the Senate my entire life. He’s been grappling with the issues facing America for over 35 years. Whether or not he started with broad base policy knowledge all those years ago, he seems to have it now. So yes, I do see intellectual vigor in Biden.

Do you?

Do you see any intellectual rigor in Joe Biden?

I don’t.

As to the broad-based policy knowledge, well, she can gain that. She has shown something neither Biden nor Obama has shown, the ability to make a decision and act accordingly.

Example: I know a family friend in Virginia who was an early supporter of Senator McCain. He supported McCain in the primaries before any votes had even been cast. This friend if a political moderate, but tends to vote Republican. He valued McCain’s experience. He now says he is likely to vote for Barack Obama, mostly because of Senator McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin. When I heard this recently, I was very surprised. This is the sort of damage Governor Palin is doing to the Republican ticket. It is these types of voters in Northern Virginia that McCain is losing now and is why you’ve seen Senator Obama open a lead in the Commonwealth.

No surprise; the basic ideology of the Democrat Party is that the intellectual elite should paternalistically rule the stupid. I think it was a Simpsons episode once.

Makes me question the validity of the demographics of exit polls when they showed that the most educated voted for Obama in the primaries, Kerry, Gore etc.