The media, being the beaten down dogs that they are, immediately dropped their fully credible and necessary “who is she?” narrative the minute Palin stopped reading the teleprompter and didn’t run crying from the podium. Oh my God, she’s a politician and can read a speech! How wrong we’ve been. Of course she can read an effective speech. To think otherwise was naive and sexist . . . .

People are asking “where’s Hillary”, as if she’s obliged to take on Palin — or Gov. Sebelius or Gov. Napolitano or Sen. Feinstein. Please … this is ridiculous. We have a Vice Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, and it’s his job to treat Gov. Palin like a dangerous lunatic who wants to force our children to grow up in an abstinence only education, forced creationism, bare-shelved library, plutocratic tax policy hell.

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