The idea that it was McSame's opportunity to kick some ass, and that he flubbed it, is the only idea that you can come away with after Friday night's performance...

He needed to knock it out of the park, and barely dribbled a grounder to the second baseman...

If he lost the debate, then he really lost, because he needed to really, reallly win it convincingly.

If he was equally effective as Obama, then he lost, because he really, really needed to win it convincingly.

Even if he won it by a bit, he still loses, because he really, really needed to win it convincingly.

Unfortunately for him, as I said above, only the baseless base even thinks he won at all...and even most of them realize that even if he did win, it wasn't by much.

It would take someone with their head about nine feet up their ass to think that he won convincingly...and they'd vote for McSame if he crapped in his hand and put it in his pocket on national TV, so no skin of Obama's nose.

Biden is going to rip Palin a new one in the VP debate, and whatever is left of the facade that she knows anything at all about pretty much anything will be ripped away.

Obama will destroy McSame on domestic issues and the economy.

McSame's only chance was to peddle the usual Republican fear campaign..."We're all going to die at the hands of Islamo-Fascists if you elect anyone but me!"...and then show some sort of reason why he's the only one who can save you...and he couldn't even get that idea out there well at all, much less convincingly.

Fish on...

Todd