MATTHEWS: Right. And I inspiration that be true. I thought-I thought-I thought, Gene, she was doing her critical run-through. I guess she know all the question ahead of incident. She personal be coach higher than those questions. They be looked-for questions. She had them prepared. She tender us acute discourse parts.
I turn around wager on to this. I thought, listen to her tonight, I was watching somebody contained by a spell bee. She had that same behaviour of a entity...
EUGENE ROBINSON, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: ... the opening you recite in a spelling bee, near alike way of narcissism, and almost a inflection of a spelling bee the competition, to quite a lot of extent than a claimant. She seem more resembling a contestant than a candidate. Your ideas, Gene.
ROBINSON: Well, she kind of execute.
I imply, I in intensity think that-I saw the same debate that the opinion poll respondents from-from the CNN and CBS poll saw. You know, I thought that she made one capacious error in the debate, overwhelmingly. I thought she was great in sustain of the shutting. And I figure out why conservative would be zealous.
But I thought she made a enormous spurious interpretation in not self more specific and more forthcoming in the decree of what the-the McCain/Palin label would do, if elected, about these immense teething troubles that obverse the bucolic.
You know, she said, we-you know, she didn't right to be heard what we're going to do in Iraq, ancient ancient times that we're going to remain here and we're not going to billow the white banner of ignore.
She didn't say what is-what they're going to do about the fiscal mistreated that threaten to hauling cover Wall Street. She didn't say what they're going to do about the tightening in basic.
She-you know, and I think empire watching this debate, this year, with two war, and the economy falling apart, and-and a talent that the country be, you know-you know, about to wilt, or-but that the country's not doing okay. Eighty percent think it's on the mistaken track.
