Debate: How Will Joe Handle that Obnoxious Motor-Mouth?

Whoa! I saw a clip of Palin's "governor debate". Her idea of debating is interrupting every sentence her opponent speaks and shouting over him (like the Repuke talking heads)! The opponent and the narrator could do nothing to control her. She was utterly obnoxious.

They said Joe will be looking at the tapes; but here's the dilema: He will know this is her trick and know he has to stop the trick very quickly. Unfortunately, he can't jump on it the first she uses it because the audience doesn't know it's her "trick" and will think he's being mean to poor, little woman. If he lets it go several times, he looks weak and unable to stand up to her "awesome" (cough) powers!

Joe has to pounce hard and fast and yet not let her play the victim....and I think from watching the tape, he will have to keep coming back again and again to telling her, in essence, to shut her obnoxious motor-mouth. (People who have nothing to say use these kind of tactics in hopes that the opponent's positions are not heard---and this broad is definitely an airhead and the reason they have to prep her before letting her out of her cage!).

He's a brilliant debater, and she's a shrill, obnoxious harpie. I know he can cut her off at the knees and make it look like she did it to herself.

but I think she did postgrad studies with Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

I was only half paying attention but my husband thought it was a good line.

And nobody in the media is pointing that out. Why should he change his strategy? I hope he goes all out and uncovers the fact that it would be irresponsible and dangerous to have this woman one heartbeat away from the presidency.

Honest to god. They started with the usual crap they did for Bush with the "bar will be set low" for the poor little thing (i.e., if she goes on stage and doesn't cry, she WINS). They have already warned that Biden has to tread lightly not to offend women, blah, blah. In other words, these media whores are going to watch him like a hawk and at the end of the debate TELL the sheep that he did this to her, hype if for days, and make Biden look like an anti-woman evil doer and then sit back and laugh, congratulating themselves for destroying Biden. When I started to hear the hype, I knew what was in store for him.

I guess we all know now why I am not in national politics, or any other for that matter, lol.

They aren't debates at all, in fact, but serial q and a sessions. There's no way they wll allow her to interrupt.

A) You are not listening!

and:

B) You are losing the argument!

call her on it.

...Biden wouldn't have lasted thirty-six years in the Senate without knowing a lot more about how to debate than any of us do. I'm sure he'll find the right approach.

http://rules.senate.gov/senaterules/rule19.php

Standing Rules of the Senate
RULE XIX
DEBATE

1. (a) When a Senator desires to speak, he shall rise and address the Presiding Officer, and shall not proceed until he is recognized, and the Presiding Officer shall recognize the Senator who shall first address him. No Senator shall interrupt another Senator in debate without his consent, and to obtain such consent he shall first address the Presiding Officer, and no Senator shall speak more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same legislative day without leave of the Senate, which shall be determined without debate.

(b) At the conclusion of the morning hour at the beginning of a new legislative day or after the unfinished business or any pending business has first been laid before the Senate on any calendar day, and until after the duration of three hours of actual session after such business is laid down except as determined to the contrary by unanimous consent or on motion without debate, all debate shall be germane and confined to the specific question then pending before the Senate.

2. No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.

3. No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any State of the Union.

4. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, in the opinion of the Presiding Officer transgress the rules of the Senate the Presiding Officer shall, either on his own motion or at the request of any other Senator, call him to order; and when a Senator shall be called to order he shall take his seat, and may not proceed without leave of the Senate, which, if granted, shall be upon motion that he be allowed to proceed in order, which motion shall be determined without debate. Any Senator directed by the Presiding Officer to take his seat, and any Senator requesting the Presiding Officer to require a Senator to take his seat, may appeal from the ruling of the Chair, which appeal shall be open to debate.

5. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in debate, upon the demand of the Senator or of any other Senator, the exceptionable words shall be taken down in writing, and read at the table for the information of the Senate.

6. Whenever confusion arises in the Chamber or the galleries, or demonstrations of approval or disapproval are indulged in by the occupants of the galleries, it shall be the duty of the Chair to enforce order on his own initiative and without any point of order being made by a Senator.

7. No Senator shall introduce to or bring to the attention of the Senate during its sessions any occupant in the galleries of the Senate. No motion to suspend this rule shall be in order, nor may the Presiding Officer entertain any request to suspend it by unanimous consent.

8. Former Presidents of the United States shall be entitled to address the Senate upon appropriate notice to the Presiding Officer who shall thereupon make the necessary arrangements.