To hear the spinners’ spin, there is no chance that either Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware or Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska will utter a coherent sentence in the vice-presidential debate Thursday night.
The expectations aren’t just low; they’re in the Death Valley range. I’m not sure I remember such a vigorous race to the bottom, even when the world was coming to know a legally blond fellow named Quayle.
As Democrats in or near the Obama-Biden camp tell it, the concern is that the loquacious senator will talk too much, will be overbearing and condescending, too up-to-here with Beltway blather.
