Sarah Palin takes on a new foe: her image

Sarah Palin looked as though she had prepared for her appearance
at the vice presidential debate last night by studying Tina Fey's impressions
of her on "Saturday Night Live."
She twinkled and winked and piled on the perkiness, a "darn right" here and an "I'll betcha" there.
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"Saturday Night Live"
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Tina Fey

The challenge to Tina Fey, who is scheduled to play the Alaska governor and Republican candidate again
on the next "SNL" broadcast, will be to out-Palin Palin, to make the parody more outrageous than the original.

At the same time, Palin seemed determined to banish thoughts of her as airheaded
and inexperienced; she was really debating her own public image rather than Sen. Joe Biden.
She subverted the whole purpose of the exercise by merely repeating the key points
of her running mate, Sen. John McCain, and ignoring questions that called for more specific answers.

People who came to the debate loving Sarah Palin probably went away from it loving her
as much as ever. People who came to the debate hoping to see a fiasco,
to see Palin make colossal gaffes, had to have been disappointed.
She may have swayed a few "undecideds" her way with her mom-next-door demeanor
and seemingly indomitable smile. There were mistakes here and there,
but they were mostly minor -- but then, Palin's answers in the debate were more about herself
than about the policies of McCain or George W. Bush or even the country's current economic crisis.
(WashingtonPost)


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