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Originally Posted by Vegas Vic
Thomas Dewey would have destroyed Harry Truman on Jeopardy. If FOFC had been around in 1948, there would have been a one-hundred page thread on the stupidity of the American people in supporting a bumpkin who spoke in colloquialisms over a polished intellectual who was obviously the smartest man in the room.
Jimmy Carter had a BS in Physics, and could explain in detail how a nuclear weapon functioned, but his analysis by paralysis record of governance was no match for the affable Ronald Reagan, who was blasted by intellectuals for being a vapid bubblehead.
It’s not a partisan issue. Look no further than Lyndon Johnson against Barry Goldwater.
Something that many of you are probably never going to grasp, and quite frankly I never grasped until 2004, is that a person’s core convictions and their ability to sincerely impart those convictions to the public without flinching or parsing their words is always going to trump someone with a college professor’s command of the facts.
Truman and Reagan are probably two of the best examples of men who knew their convictions and surrounded themselves with extraordinary talent in the cabinet who shared their ideology, did the micro-analysis and relayed their recommendations back to the executive, who usually made the correct decisions to the dismay of elitists everywhere.
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Sure. You can't underestimate the power of "homeiness" in politics. I agree that Palin probably saved her political career tonight by not having any major gaffes. That probably helped McCain as well, as it will help re-energize a low morale among his troups. Biden probably didn't make much a difference overall. He just didn't hurt the ticket, which is basically what he needs to do.
So, I guess if you measure the success of the debate by how much it actually helped the canididate, then Palin won. But that is mostly because that was the ticket that need any can of help right now they could get.
