>>If you mean the VP debate, there was none... of such unscripted questions. No surprises. I didn't even bother to watch when I heard (and wasn't surprised, either), but daughter was in the car most of the time and heard parts of it - said there would have been a huge surprise had Palin managed to pass a complete sentence, but no cigar there.
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>Palin was coherent. I think you would have agreed if you had watched.

These guys came on top when I googled: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/03/sarah.palin.debate.feminism

"At least three times last night, Sarah Palin, the adorable, preposterous vice-presidential candidate, winked at the audience. Had a male candidate with a similar reputation for attractive vapidity made such a brazen attempt to flirt his way into the good graces of the voting public, it would have universally noted, discussed and mocked. Palin, however, has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably last night. By any normal standard, including the ones applied to male presidential candidates of either party, she did not. "