[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The first five minutes still gives me goosebumps. No doubt the lefties crapped bricks that night.

[Mariner]

Palin is a retail politics natural genius.

She's better on the stump than Obama, by far.

The only real obstacle between her and the White House is the quitting thing.

I could make on hell of an anti-Palin ad out of that. It'll be interesting to see if/how she overcomes that issue with independents.

[backhoe]

... let me tell you my story as briefly as I can.

Back when Hillary looked like the front runner, I stated loudly and publicly on the forums I inhabit that I would stay home rather than vote for McCain ( who I dubbed Capn' Queeg ) or any of those other tired, old Republican retreads.

Then Obama came along, and he sounded- at first-- not alarming.

But when I saw the eerie, quasi- religious fanaticism of his supporters, I started getting worried- they were kooks.

So, I decided to hold my nose and vote for The Capn' regardless, but I did not like it a bit-- it felt like BobDole! BobDole! All over again.

Now Miss Emily and I have been married almost 25 years, and in all that time I have never been able to get her to vote, protest, or show any interest in politics- she was a Goldwater Girl ( the real thing, not the phony Hillary type ) who turned into a Democrat after college at a liberal arts school, and becoming a union member.

When Sarah was introduced, she actually stood up, and yelled “I want to vote for that woman!” ( And for what little it's worth, I'd been aware of Sarah for some time, and hoped against hope she'd get the VP nomination )

And she campaigned tirelessly for her, and that, err, the white-haired guy...

And threw up all night after it became apparent that the Kenyan/Indonesian/Whateverian Usurper had it in the bag.

I don't know if it's enough to win an election, but there is a base of people like my wife- atypical, drawn to a new face with basically good ideas, who isn't part of that ghastly beltway Good Old Boy network of power-happy thieves.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Her recent almost single-handed battle against ObamaCare and “cap and tax” are proof of her enduring leadership of us ordinary barbarians.”

Single handed huh?? I guess we can all cancel the tea party meetings and organizing to the health care town hall meetings, she can do it all from Facebook like these two issues. Oh brother!