She did do pretty well, Doug, and so did Biden, but that's not why "they" are attacking her en masse. ;-) They are attacking her en masse because she is running for the Republicans, and they would be attacking her en masse whether she had done well, badly, splendidly, or was a complete disaster. Any which way.

That's how it works. The attacks on Palin here are as inevitable as is your enthusiastic support of her, and have little or nothing to do with how well she did the debate.

Like I've said before, if I could predict the weather as accurately as I can predict people's political reactions to things on this forum, I'd have a lucrative job over at Channel 5, I'm sure. ;-D