The VP Debates
Clearly the Administration’s strategy was to demonize Mitt Romney (Paul Ryan would just be collateral damage, should it occur) as well as Joe Biden could muster.
Joe Biden’s method was a one-two-three combination of 1) smirk, 2) debatus-interruptus, and 3) policy can-kicking. His early-on debatus-interruptus was successful in making the debate difficult to follow at parts—even the moderator seemed a bit peeved at the uneven process—as Joe’s wooden choppers gleamed whiter than his shirt.
However, sadly for the Obama re-election effort, Mr. Biden, flawed as he was, far outperformed his boss (but that ain’t sayin’ much).
Mr. Biden strikes me as a political animal who will do and say anything to advance his team’s cause. However, his Obama-approved message is simply wrong, backwards looking, and unsustainable. Plus, he’s unable to articulate the superiority of his ideas (made more difficult by the absence of such superiority) in any sort of compelling way. Joe’s fall back position depends on insider name dropping, platitudes, and still more smirking.
Those intel guys just have to be loving on Biden (not)—we’ll see how the IC comes back at Joe.
And Ryan also got GaffeMaster Flash with the zinger of the night, a beaut.
Posted on October 11, 2012, in Uncategorized and tagged Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, VP Debates. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Ryan did fine. Biden did okay, but hurt himself with the smirks. I do not see this changing anything from immediately before the debate.
As one of those Republican guys said afterwards, the VP debate changes nothing, which (if true), favors Romney-Ryan in a big way. Just saw your link on the CNBC poll which offered the better-yet Ryan result than CNN. I didn’t watch on split screen so didn’t get the full effect of Smirkin’ Joe, AKA GaffeMaster Flash…must have been even worse than I thought.