Palin: 'We're mavericks.' Get your costumes and wardrobe ready and What's your reaction to last night's VP Debate

Last night's debate went as expected for me. There really weren't any gaffes made by Joe Biden or Sarah Palin. Biden laid out specific, concrete policy examples, while Palin played the role of Harper Valley PTA mom. She was upbeat and charismatic with little to no substantive responses to direct questions and rebuttals. She did carry out McCain's message by completely mischaracterizing how Obama and Biden plan to carry out their tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans; yes, this includes you and me.

I continued hearing "mavericks" over and over and over. Now, I visualize just what they mean when they infer they're reformers but have a long rap sheet (prefer this over record) that says otherwise. John McCain and Sarah Palin will ride to Congress on horses, donned in tight black pants, vests, pairs of boots with spurs, holsters carrying six shooters, and will shoot at the bad guys (those who support helping the poor and middle class for example). It will turn into a "Last Person Standing in D.C." event.

Palin said massive oversight is needed for Wall St. It's ironic that she and McCain are now supporting the same policy position Biden and Obama have supported for years. Politics as usual? It's convenient to support it now when average Americans are hurting by unscrupulous decisions made by top executives and a hands-off approach by our supposed regulators. I was glad to hear Biden mention a few times that McCain has voted for deregulation 20 different times and Bush's disastrous budget each fiscal year.

The last character Palin played last night was one of executive who knows how to work with both parties. Nope. "We're Alaskans and we work to see at the end of the day what's best for Alaska." Little media coverage has been made of this, but political opponents have said she becomes very irritable and even has her husband Todd in the room when she vehemently disagrees. I guess McCain and Palin are made for each other. McCain also has had a long history of becoming physically confrontational and walking out of meetings when he doesn't get his way.

Historically, the VP debate doesn't play a big role in the outcome of an election. Besides, we're a microwave age society. I think many of those undecideds will swing one way or another after the final two Presidential debates. I'm still skeptical about those swing voters. With all the information available to them today, many of them lean to a particular party's idealogies more than the other. You also had those interviewed during the primaries, on election day, who said they still hadn't made up their minds yet. Morons!