aaaaggggghhhhhhhhh Don't tell me that in Palin we have Reagan in skirts!

A couple of thoughts here:

I'm glad that she performed better than I feared. As a woman and an Alaskan and a politician she was not an obvious train wreck. As another woman and an Alaskan I'm glad for that. After the elections she has to return to Alaska as governor and it would have been nigh on impossible to do if she'd had to come back with her stock completely shot. This way she and her handlers can blame the "liberal media" and power-hungry Democrats for her failures.

The operative word, of course, is "performed". She had good style but the main thing she demonstrated is that she can regurgitate creditably on demand.