Okay, I watched Sarah Palin's terrific speech last night and I watched John McCain's surprisingly good speech tonight (thank heaven for DVR's).
Governor Palin did an excellent job. Frankly, if people are worried about her being a heartbeat from the Presidency, I say what's the problem with that. After McCain's one or two terms in office, I say "Palin for President." Frankly I think she'd be a better president than John McCain.
Was reading Peggy Noonan column from Wednesday and she said Palin will either be a spectacular success or a spectacular failure. There's no middle ground:
The Sarah Palin choice is really going to work, or really not going to work. It's not going to be a little successful or a little not; it's not going to be a wash. She is either going to be magic or one of history's accidents. She is either going to be brilliant and groundbreaking, or will soon be the target of unattributed quotes by bitter staffers shifting blame in all the Making of the President 2008 books.
Now on Friday Ms. Noonan says, "Sarah Palin killed. And more than killed." In other words, so far, she's really working. And I couldn't agree more. Governor Palen gets me excited about the McCain campaign the way McCain never could.
And speaking of McCain, his speech was good. Had a few clunkers (for me) when he talked about fighting drug companies, for example (drug companies that have to spend millions to research and develop drugs, then millions more to get them approved, then are expected to give them away, it seems). But he gave us reasons to vote for him. I was very happy he came out so strongly for school choice. That's risky as it's not all that popular outside the GOP. But he made the case for it.
And he hardly mentioned Obama, which is a good thing. He left that to Sarah the night before when she hit the former community organizer and hit him hard.
McCain's speech didn't end well. He kept talking over cheers instead of building to a climax. It was a fine speech and according to the AP the most watch convention ever. Maybe McCain will get a bounce out of it. Maybe he'll get a bounce out of his bulldog in lipstick. Maybe we can beat Obama. Maybe McCain will even have coattails and the Democrats won't get that filibuster-proof majority they so desire.
Maybe.
I just know that now I won't be holding my nose as much when I vote McCain/Palin and it's due to Governor Palin.
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