Personally, I like sarcasm. I like the barbs delivered with a gracious smile. But that's just me.
Typically, the vice president does the "dirty work" of attacking the opponent, and the presidential candidate can focus on more generic interests and rise above the fray. That's part of what will make SP formidable--the potential ability to do her traditional job as VP candidate, and still come across as intelligent, calm and pragmatic.
If she continues in the manner in which she delivered last night's speech, Joe Biden doesn't stand a chance. He's simply not charming enough, interesting enough, intriguing enough or pretty enough. And he probably doesn't have the capacity to rein in his temper as she does, but that's purely conjecture on my part. You know women can often push men's buttons with ease, and smile calmly while the man roars into an insane, incoherent rage.
I agree that that is what is typically done, but I think that one of Palin's selling points should be and has been that she is not "typical". I don't think she should resort to appearing "typical". That would be the effective counterpoint to the Dem's "party of atypical politics" mantra.
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