As I watched Palin's speech last night, I was trying to think of who she reminded me of... She's such a compelling, engaging speaker... it reminded me of Star Parker. That's it. Parker is engaging on a human level, and Palin's in that league. She makes you want to stand up and say 'I can be president too,' or 'finally, someone like me is going to lead this country.' She combats all the negative stereotypes of the GOP -- she's female; she's not rich; she's from a small town but she looks professional; and she's not some stiff 'mean' politician. She's the anti-Tom DeLay. I don't think I've seen anything like her. The GOP has a real future... all of this within the span of a week.

She hit a GRAND SLAM with that speech. Best speech I have heard thus far in this election. This little lady has a long way to go in the GOP. In addition, Fred Thompson and Rudy Guiliani made great speeches as well. All three of these people spoke TO people instead of AT people. I do believe that the McCain/Palin ticket has put fear into the Democrats and that there is more to come!

Has anyone taken the opportunity to actually research Palin? Let's start with the pipe-line...not even built, not even permitted for building. As a matter-o-fact, Alaska's legislature doesn't agree with the way she's negotiated the deal. It's still in process and may not happen. She wants it to run through part of Canada, Alaska doesn't because it won't benefit Alaska or the US. She wants the gas from that pipeline to be sold on the open market, not specific to USA. She has one of the highest requests for ear-marks (per capita) in history, over 700million. John McCain spoke of it as irresponsible...before she was his pick as VP of course. Her husband was a member of an independent party that wants Alaska to secede from the USA. In 2002 he suspended his membership...but still remains affiliated. She spoke at one of there events this year. Country First? There were actually 2 bridges to no where. One of those bridges connected her town of Wasilla to Anchorage. She was fear-mark until it became unpopular and through Ted Stephens under a bus...although she did send him a 70 page document in Feb of this year about her pork-barrel spending, wanting his support. Do we want someone who recently professed that we are at the end of days second in line to press the button? There are many more issues with this woman...from family values to ultra conservative views that are far from mainstream and she's a flat out liar.