Chris Matthews Trashes Palin Debate: "It is a Little Scary"

Schools Chris Cillizza on Hardball, 10/3/08.

Chris Cillizza: I think we probably put too much on it. The job of the vice president during this campain is to advocate for the president's position and I thought both of them --

Chris Matthews: No, it's not. The job of the vice president is to be with the president and counsel him or her on what the wise choice of action is --

Chris Cillizza: Chris, that's in governing, not the campaign.

Chris Matthews: Well that's what I'm talking about. This is what this is about. Picking the next Vice President of the United States. This is not Jeopardy. This is not a tv quiz show. It's not the dating game. It is about whether this person should be one of our top leaders. I had Orrin Hatch on the other night and said who is leading this country? Bush ain't - who's running the country? Chris Dodd and Barney? Who is calling the shots? It is a little scary. We're in an airplane that's in turbulence, this country. We don't know what will happen to the stock market next Monday. We don't know how many more plant closings there will be. We don't know what's happening to our currency in the world right now. This could be Zimbabwe in a couple years and we don't know it. We're trying to pick leaders and we're going through some spelling bee way of picking them. It is a little scary. Sure, she can memorize material that she's taught, but what does that teach us about her? That's all I'm asking.

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[freedomsfart]

Palin is clearly nothing more than a shrill, screeching, parrot.

[honeegrrl]

I'm a woman and I'm afraid of Sarah Palin, she's like a demon that came out of nowhere.

[cowlark2000]

I love Chris Matthews

[themeaningoflife38]

the cia will working very hard on the 2012 election to try to stop obama

[themeaningoflife38]

@honeegrrl Yep, she is a totalitarian fascist 

[Suffersosweetly]

I still cant get passed the,"I can see Russia from my house".

Priceless

[Stingerbillion]

@honeegrrl Well Republicans are full of them, so no surprise there.

[MrRflkt]

hmm and she quit halfway through...lol What does that say? No follow through? lol

[friendlee2007]

Sarah Palin talks out of her ass and only a dumbass like you would not be able to see it. She has very high approval ratings as governor of Alaska but doesn't know Africa is a continent. LOL.

[liberalsAREbigZEROS]

@mborgens the stimulus was supposed to be about job creation.

what the fuck are you fucking talking about ! sarah palin was fucking right !

loser