Beldar is the expert on all-things-Palin. He was fisking the advice in Slate.com's by Dahlia Lithwick to Slow Joe on the debate. Good stuff. But this last part is, ummmm, devastating. Agreed?
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..."I'm pretty sure, though, that that's expecting the impossible of Joe Biden. A senator of smaller ego (say, Chris Dodd) might have managed that; Hillary might have, if that were the message discipline of the day programmed into her by her team. But asking Joe Biden to (a) accept Sarah Palin as a genuine equal and also (b) mostly shut the hell up is like asking a dog to stop licking its genitals: Even if he could understand why you wanted him to do that, and even if he wanted to please you, he just couldn't sustain the effort to resist. Eventually he'd give in -- doing it is in his nature, and besides, it just feels so good.".
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