There was no one killing stone, but the constant onslaught of small, targeted missiles had their deadly effect. Joe Biden, cool, slick, and calmed by thirty years of experience in the Senate, stood at his podium and delivered the Democrat party’s talking points with the smooth, polished delivery he has honed during that long tenure as a professional politician. Sarah Palin, a governor from the Alaskan bush, unpolished by Washington elitist terms, plain-spoken and homespun, kept launching those small, meaningful stones of common sense that finally began to make observable dents in that grand dome of Biden’s with all it’s enhancements of hair transplants, shining white, false teeth and a botox-ed smooth demeanor.

By the end, the wounds on Biden’s dermatologically corrected physiognomy were becoming obviously, wounding welts. Trying as he always does to be a man of the common people, Biden was clearly and simply out-commoned. Sarah Palin, not Joe Biden, came across as the candidate who connects with us out here in Middle America.

Where Biden made the standard Democrat pleas to class envy in his politically professional delivery, Sarah looked straight into that camera and made us believe that she, not Joe Biden, is one of us. Where Biden kept hammering away at the failures of the Bush administration, Sarah kept chiding him for his focus on the past and explaining to viewers that we should forget about the past and focus on the future.

Too bad that the debate had to end, because the young, inspired woman was clearly wearing down the old political hack. Biden should count his blessings that there was a ninety-minute limit. Another half hour and Biden would have been spouting the nonsense we have come to expect from him and Sarah would have been picking him to pieces, making him look like the old partisan hack he is.

The crowning moment for me was when Sarah baited the Old Pol into admitting that he would never change from what he is now, a professional politician, an embedded part of Washington’s professional political class. Before the entire world, Biden admitted he is stuck in the rut of congressional politics that has led this country to the economic disaster we now face. At that point, Biden should have taken out a pistol and fired a round solidly into his foot.

Sarah Palin, our small David, with her sling of common sense and her store of small stones formed from the core of America’s soul, left this Biden Goliath of the senate retreating from the field licking his wounds. My one regret is that she did not repeat the Biden primary statement that Obama is not ready to be Commander-in-Chief.

That point should have been hammered, ruthlessly. A large stone delivered forthrightly right into Biden’s artificially smooth forehead.

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on October 3, 2008 at 05:17 PM in Clueless Joe, Politics, Russ Vaughn, Sarah Palin | Permalink

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