Last week's debate was very interesting indeed and shed a lot of light on how the General Election may shape up. However, tonight's Vice Presidential Debate between current Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan should not only prove to be informative and enlightening but could also be incredibly entertaining.
Joe Biden gifts of making gaffes and using racist or otherwise inappropriate jokes will be thrust once again into the national spotlight. He's already made a ton of mistakes in this election season ranging from implying that Mitt Romney and the GOP are slave masters to forgetting which state and century he was campaigning in to making sexually inappropriate jokes about high school cheerleaders.
This will be contrasted with the level-headed speaking abilities of Paul Ryan. Ryan has the ability to masterfully explain almost any subject and break it down into simplest terms for everyone. He has used these talents before to expose the Obamacare scam to President Obama's face, which is the major reason that is the only face-to-face meeting Ryan and Obama ever had. He also went out on stage in Tampa and made his acceptance speech for vice president without a teleprompter, according to reports.
With all that in mind, I'd like to make a few predictions for tonight:
1. Biden will lie big and lie frequently. Expect Ryan to go after him on that.
Last week's debate gave us the now famous Romney line, "Mr. President you are entitled to your own house and your own plane, but not to your own facts." Joe Biden will probably tout some of his own "facts" tonight, including his claim that the auto bail-out saved over 1 million jobs when there are only 700,000 jobs in the entire auto industry. Ryan will not be shy about calling Biden on those lies and he will slam Biden for them.
2. Biden will shoot himself in the foot by working in some sort of insensitive joke.
Biden just can't stay away from those jokes, his most recent being about how cheerleaders perform at basketball games (I'll leave you to figure that one out if you haven't already heard about it, it was incredibly inappropriate). Not only are these jokes highly insulting, they are embarrassing for Biden, if he even notices. Regardless of rather he notices or not, the American public will. And with around 70 million people expected to tune in tonight based on numbers from this same debate in 2008, those potential jokes will not go unnoticed.
3. Despite Biden taking 6 days off the campaign trail to prepare for this debate, Ryan will still win it and win big.
Simply put, Ryan is a way better speaker than Biden could ever hope to be, although Biden is known for being a good debater, a notion I really can't comment on seeing as most of Biden's national political career took place in the years before I was even born. Biden doesn't have any kind of positive record to run on and he lacks credibility, so expect him to try and make some credibility up. Ryan has a strong record of fiscal responsibility and he is clearly the more popular candidate going into this debate. I expect a big Ryan win and that the main stream liberal media will once again be beside itself as they try to break down the debate and make excuses for their man Biden.
Jimmy Williams
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