So I didn't actually watch this thing all the way through. I approached it having pooled my collective will power to trudge through in one shot. Then in a moment of weakness, I winced through that interchange where Palin says, "there you go Joe". I just couldn't stomach watching much more in succession. So instead I started reading all the other reactions and then watched the sections way out of order with no organization. It turns out when you are watching Sarah Palin, relevance and sequence are of no consequence.

From what I can tell the initial reaction is that each side feels their candidate performed between sound to kick ass. I question if this would be the case had the Couric interview never occurred. The initial shock of hearing seemingly complete sentences from Palin put Biden and the viewers on their heels. I think for a second most people were starting to think that the Couric interview was the exception. In fact, they may not have realized that she faded back into intense bouts of idiocy. They will when they see the clips over and over again in the coming days.

In the end, the only thing that Palin won was to keep her base from air dropping her back into Alaska. None of the undecideds are going to be swayed by this performance. As I indicated in the preview, Palin's chief debating strategy of not answering shit would be noticed. It was actually worse than expected, she intertwined non answers with canned talking points with pivots so bad that they would be called traveling in the NBA. She is going to keep repeating the lame zingers in every single stump speech from now until the election. We all know how well that worked out with the whole bridge to nowhere line from the convention. This one will stink more with time. I want to highlight one thing, she once again claimed that climate change was not to blame for activities of man. Seriously, once is laughable, twice is appalling.

Biden actually exceeded expectations. Most seemed to think he was taking the knee and running out the clock as I had suggested. I suspect that was essentially the game plan but unwittingly he threw a heavy upper cut. In the moment that he got teared up about his son and then Palinsky responded in a cold sterile way, Biden stole Mrs. Joe Big Gulp back from Palin.

In the end, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow when the House flubs up the EESA bill right before the weekend. Remember every major banking failure in this crisis has transpired over the weekend.

Good night moon.