Wow!

Sarah Palin is knocking them dead! It helps, of course, to be speaking in front of an adoring audience. But there is a reason that Republicans have fallen in love with Sarah Palin. Her speech was a marvelous blend of using her personal biography to make both her case and the case of John McCain. She blends in policy with jabs against Barack Obama. Obama's speech attacking McCain and Republicans was angry. Her speech, like Giuliani's is able to combine wit with some great jabs at Barack Obama. Both of them realized that the way to puncture the Obamaballoon is with sarcasm and humor. She demonstrates that she can deliver a zinger with a smile and twinkle in her eye. She demonstrated more poise than many very experienced politicians. She's in the eye of the storm and she seems to relish it.

This is the way to take on the Obama - with pointed humor. Not angry attacks, but pointed ridicule.

I think she's doing so well that the media and the Democrats will have to redouble their efforts to demean and bring her down. But she's her own best advocate. Those who know her in Alaska have described her as a natural. They were right.

If a gifted speech launched Obama's path to the nomination to be president, I think she more than delivered a speech to launch her on the way to the vice presidency. We'll have to see how she does in interviews and the debate with Joe Biden, but she went a long way towards answering her critics tonight.