At a rally in Green Bay earlier today, Joe Biden made his sharpest attacks yet on Sarah Palin.
"Hopefully by the time the debate takes place, we’ll have a better sense of her other than some of what she says and what appear to be some very extreme views," Biden said.
"I’m assuming that she shares John McCain’s views on most of the issues. And she even says, if the press is correct — and I’m not ready, prepared to make a judgment [on this] — her views on everything from global warming to other things, if they are as presented, they’re pretty far out there."
"Far out there" is an understatement, based on what I've read. Shooting wolves from planes? Creationism? Yeah, that's mainstream. This is absolutely the right strategy--paint Palin as an extremist, while jumping on McCain for selling his soul to the James Dobson wing of the party.
The AP's writeup seems to reveal that Biden particularly wants to paint Palin in a corner on environmental issues.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will eventually have to defend "some fairly extreme views" on climate change when she starts granting interviews as Republican presidential hopeful John McCain's running mate, her Democratic rival Joe Biden said Monday.
"Her views on everything from global warming to a host of other things, if they are as presented, they are pretty far out there," said Biden, Democrat Barack Obama's running mate, during a town hall-style meeting. "She's going to have to defend those positions."
Palin has expressed doubt over whether human activity has contributed to global warming and has clashed with environmentalists on a number of issues.
Translation--you can doubt global warming all you want in Anchorage or Fairbanks, but it won't play very well at all in Philadelphia or Des Moines.
Biden also assured us that he knows how to handle Palin ... though the only Repub woman whom I'd consider to be even a match for him in debate is Olympia Snowe. Debating Palin, I suspect, is going to be more like tangling with relative lightweights Kay-Kay and Liddy.
Update at 3:35 pm Eastern: Wow, the rec list ... thanks, everybody.