[scottinoc]

The biggest lie of this campaign—and it’s really hard to pick just one—is the Palins-a-drag-on-the-ticket myth. From all my canvassing efforts during this election, one truth I would stake my life on: McCain wouldn’t have a chance in H-E-double hockey-mom sticks without Palin. People in the heartland simply adore her.

[nickcarraway]

Sen. Palin

Pleas, she's a governor, one of the reasons she's more qualified than the other three.

[MathDoc]

Among the six “Lifelong Republicans” I know who are voting for Obama this time around, all six (a remarkable number) are doing so because the Palin choice was such a dissapointment. Speaking of remarkable numbers, this may shock Freepers, but all six lifelong republicans also voted for Kerry 4 years ago - because they were disappointed in Bush’s illegal war. And, wonder of wonders, the four who were old enough to vote 8 years ago voted for Gore - because they thought Bush didn’t take global warming seriously enough. Yep, Palin is a disappointment to the “Lifelong Republicans”. But to the 60% who are conservatives in our country, she gives us Hope that the far-left dominance will Change.

[jla]

Sarah Palin personifies Thomas Jefferson's image of the true citizen-politician. She is not corrupted by the 'savants' in Washington DC who manage to just about screw up everything they touch.
Our greatest POTUS, Ronald Reagan, loved going back to his ranch partly to escape the intellectual morass of DC. W.F. Buckley, an infamous intellectual himself, stated that he'd prefer to be governed by the first five-hundred names of the (was it Boston?) phone book than all the self-anointed solons of Washington.

3 a.m. phone call? I would implicitly trust Sarah Palin to make the correct decision here and with any other policy or emergency issue that arose.
And I believe I can state with confidence that Mr. Jefferson would have much admired this grand lady.