Palin - Can I Call you Joe - Way to keep Palin from calling him O Biden

[RamboLiberal]

Note - this comes from Drudge - still book sounds interesting.

'GAME CHANGE,' a new book about the presidential campaigns by political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

In the McCain-Palin camp, Schmidt says that when he was told by a campaign staffer prepping Palin for her debate with Biden that the vice presidential candidate was doing very poorly in her preparation, it was a crisis moment. Watch an excerpt. “He told us the debate was going to be a debacle of historic and epic proportions…she was not focused…not engaged,” he tells Cooper. “She was not really participating in the prep.” Schmidt confronted Palin and, he says, “She said, ‘You know, I think that's right.’”

If that wasn’t enough for deep concern, Palin had a reflexive tendency to refer to Biden as “O’Biden,” says Schmidt, something that had to be fixed before the debate. He says others in the campaign came up with a solution. “It was multiple people -- and I wasn't one of them-- who all said at the same time, ‘Just say, Can I call you Joe,’ which she did.” Schmidt says he took over the prepping, simplified it, and says she “more than held her own” in the debate. But not without one “O’Biden” slip on national television.

Palin declined to be interviewed for this story, saying she had dealt with many of the allegations in her own book.

The authors and Schmidt reveal other inside campaign issues, including that Clinton was so confident she would get the Democratic nomination that she had two top advisers planning her transition for after she won the general election. They also point out that up until only days before the Republican Convention, Sen. John McCain was still thinking Sen. Joe Lieberman would be his running mate, until the “blowback” was so strong, they feared Lieberman would be rejected by the party, forcing the last-minute choice of Palin for the role. Schmidt believes the Obama-Biden victory would have been even more lopsided without Palin on the Republican ticket.


http://www.drudgereport.com/flash60b.htm

[tammywammy]

1. "dealt with many of the allegations in her own book"

meaning anyone that contradicted her got the finger in the ears "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!

[Drunken Irishman]

2. She didn't hold her own.

She was vapid and her performance failed at halting the Obama-Biden (O'Biden) momentum.

[niyad]

3. "she more than held her own in the debate"?? not the one I was watching, steve.