Some Media Comments on the VP Debate: Palin Won
The Wall Street Journal calls Palin “confident” and “folksy,” and adds she held “her own against her vice-presidential rival.”
The New York Times reports “Palin exceeded expectations in this highly anticipated face-off,” adding she “succeeded by not failing in any obvious way.”
In a similar front-page analysis titled “The Politics Of Spunk,” the Los Angeles Times reports, “If Palin’s goal was to show that she could credibly share the stage with a seasoned politician — and turn the page after two bruising weeks of unsteady media interviews — then she succeeded beyond even many Republicans’ expectations.”
Roll Call reports that Palin “managed to leave behind the halting, circular answers she delivered in recent interviews. Her performance may end questions about her ability to grapple with complicated issues, at least on a rhetorical level.”
The Chicago Tribune says Palin “succeeded Thursday in one crucial respect: re-establishing herself as a charismatic, composed performer.”
USA Today says, “Both candidates exuded confidence and determination — a victory of sorts for Palin, the first-term Alaska governor performing on equal terms with the six-term Delaware senator.”
Roger Simon writes in The Politico, “Palin was supposed to fall off the stage at her vice presidential debate Thursday evening. Instead, she ended up dominating it.”
In a posting on ‘The Fix’ blog on the website of the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza offers his “first thoughts” on the debate, saying that Palin “came into the debate with three goals: show she could hold her own, cast McCain as a ‘maverick’ and drive a wedge between the issue positions of Biden and Obama. To borrow a phrase: Mission Accomplished.
And one conservative pundit who had been critical of Palin had this to say:
