I can’t help but feel sorry for Sarah Palin. Her most impressive political victory since her acceptance speech hinges on the notion Joe Biden didn’t completely crush her. That her solid performance didn’t win the game, but her confidence, her poise, and her sheer determination overcame tremendous odds against a 28-year Senator, which makes her the modern day political equivalent of Rudy.

True, she side stepped questions, completely changed the topic at times when it didn’t suit her, and at other times, defiantly refused to answer the questions the way “the moderator and Senator Biden want me to.” Her verbal electric slide only proved that she can not only operate, but, thrive in this murky government if she takes office. It wasn’t surprising that democrats tried to undercut her experience before she took the podium. What was surprising was that republicans consistently reinforced their counterparts’ argument in the past weeks.

Campaign managers hid her from the press. After her interviews with Katie Couric of NBC and Charles Gibson of ABC, it seemed like a good plan. In the meantime they probably drilled Palin like an offshore oil spot with facts for a strictly regulated debate that they demanded which, allowed no room for interaction between the combatants. Their moves propelled the underestimation of Palin and promoted the image of the Alaskan simpleton with the hornets’ nest hair-do.

After about twenty minutes of debate, I wondered why Gwen Ifill hadn’t pulled the large chain, which enacted the trap door underneath Sarah Palin’s high heels. No tomatoes thrown. No one tarred and feathered her. She hadn’t made any severe errors and argued some of her party’s most absurd ideologies in a democratic way. She even attempted to disconnect John McCain from the Bush administration by reiterating the word maverick a total of 743 times and told Joe Biden to “stop living in the past and start looking toward the future,” which rebuffed a classic democrat argument. Things seemed to sway in her favor until she did made her fatal mistake (which has been a contributing factor as to why people think she’s an idiot). She taunted the mainstream media.

The college journalism major attacked the press, again, as if there is another an alternative news media that isn’t filled with socialist conspiracy theorist loonies. Sure, people don’t have a high opinion of CNN and the New York Times these days. But, these media outlets have the resources to absolutely destroy people because in fact, that’s their job. For some reason I can’t shake from my head the scene in Rocky IV when Ivan Drago looks at Rocky and mumbles: “I must crush you.”

So it may seem to her like a maverick move to taunt the press like a nerd who’s confronting a bully in front of the principal. When the principal leaves though, the bully is going to stuff her into a locker upside down. How can this woman serve as vice president if all the blood rushes to her head?