Joe Biden's fight with Sarah Palin
Why the 2008 VP rivals are sparring over a once-obscure upstate New York congressional race
Joe Biden and Sarah Palin
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Sarah Palin and Vice President Joe Biden traded barbs in the last days of campaigning before Tuesday's congressional election in upstate New York. Stumping for Democrat Bill Owens, Biden said Palin’s “Drill, Baby, Drill” energy policy was simplistic. (Watch Joe Biden slam Sarah Palin.) Palin, who backed Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, shot back via Facebook, saying, “We’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!” Why are the two 2008 rivals squaring off over an obscure House race?
Hoffman and Owens are pawns: The contestants in this “rural outpost” are just “proxies for bigger forces,” says Charles Cooper in CBSNews.com. Sarah Palin and Tea Party conservatives think this is their moment to seize control of the GOP's future. And Biden and the Democrats are using the occasion to paint conservative Republicans as a bunch of "hysterical" radicals.
“Dems ready to face real conservatives?”
Biden is trying to save Democrats from a GOP sweep: With gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey looking bleak for Democrats, says Johanna Neuman in the Los Angeles Times, Biden’s "last-minute rescue mission" to upstate New York has a more immediate goal -- keeping the party from losing "the trifecta on Tuesday." But Hoffman entered election day with a double-digit poll lead, so Democrats are comforting themselves by saying that the Republican Party is hurting itself by purging moderates in favor of candidates like Hoffman.
“Biden heads to NY23 in last-minute rescue mission”
Palin is the left's favorite target: Joe Biden is just "working off a script" by attacking Sarah Palin, says Allahpundit in Hot Air. Palin's early, "high-profile backing of Hoffman was key to pushing out GOP moderate Dede Scozzafava, but she stayed off the campaign trail. Still, Palin is the Democrats' new "boogeyman," so Biden thinks by making her an issue he can get people who hate her to vote for Bill Owens.
“It’s on: Palin vs. Biden on energy”
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Posted by keith, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 12:13 pm Geez... I am not sure why Joe Biden's fight with Sarah Palin any way? My god... she is the joke of our country. It does not matter if the Democrate party has control of both houses, they still CAN NOT
Posted by Raymond, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:07 pm Correction: Joe Biden, not Sarah Palin, is the real joke of this country and so with the radical lefts and MSM that surrounds Barack Obama. I knew BHO is a conservative democrat president and how he wishes that his vice president is either Hillary or Sarah Palin!! LOL!! LOL!!
Posted by Angelo, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:11 pm Right on target, raymond!!I think McCain and Joe Biden will be a better washington teammates. They will put America backwards. These Trapos or old time politicians are preferred by mr. keith, ha!ha!
Posted by Rita, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 1:38 pm Like a fight between DUM and DUMMER. Biden is an old man, like McCain. Time for term limits, and AGE limits. Bring in the younger talent.
Posted by Dan, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 5:23 pm Ah, maybe I don't understand and didn't get this right but, I thought that I understood that Hoffman doesn't even live in the Congressional District. This isn't Britain where you can stand for a seat in Parliament even if you don't live in the district or so I understand about Britain.How is it that a candidate who doesn't live in the Congressional District can run for Representative in Congress from that district? I don't understand how that works, legally. Has he moved and established residency there or something?
Posted by Randall Thorpe, Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 5:28 pm Boring bag of gas Biden isn't fit to clean Sarah Palin's hunting boots.
Posted by Jay Gray, Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 9:28 am Joe Biden is a draft dodger and a chicken . Obama goes to court in January 2010. to prove his real birth. I have my copy of Certified Birth from Hawaii, dated August 5, 1961. I emailed congress and ask them what branch of government to get in touch with to show it to. They were too afraidto answer. Shows you what they are. A bunch of yellow bellied liars and thieves. Sooner we have a revolution the better.
Posted by missy, Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 12:54 pm Somebody should get Jay Gray back on his meds.
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