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The Weekly Standard

The Politico reported a couple days ago that the strategy is to go easy on Palin so as to avoid sounding condescending:

“If she makes a gaffe, he underplays it,” one of the people prepping Biden for his vice presidential debate told me. “At most, he says, ‘I am not sure what Gov. Palin meant there.’”

There are three reasons for this. First, Biden does not want to look condescending. For the same reason, he plans on referring to Palin as “Gov. Palin” during the debate and never as “Sarah.” (He will sometimes refer to John McCain as “John,” however, because they have been senators together for many years.)

Biden will allow the media to slam Palin for her mistakes and concentrate on going after the top of the ticket

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