Palintology

Palin: 'Can I Call You Joe?'

VP candidate was scripted for debate opener.

Beef from the McCain campaign continues. After Sarah Palin criticized former McCain campaign adviser Steve Schmidt in her book Going Rogue, Schmidt is coming back saying that the campaign had to feed the vice-presidential candidate her lines. In the highly anticipated debate during the presidential campaign, Palin was instructed to ask Vice President Joe Biden if she could call him Joe, after repeatedly flubbing his name and referring to him as “O’Biden.” Schmidt claims that he wasn’t the only one who advised Palin to do so, and that he took over the debate prep after realizing it “was going to be a debacle of historic and epic proportions."