She's a Winner!

Wow! I stayed up and watched Sarah Palin's speech last night then went to sleep with a big grin on my face. I said she was going to knock it out of the park, and I was right. I didn't say that the bases would be loaded, but they certainly were; Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani did a great job warming up the crowd. Since when have you seen even a convention center full of Republicans so happy?! Ronald Reagan has to be smiling down from heaven.

I've heard some commentary this morning and, naturally, it's all either on one end of the spectrum or the other, nothing in between. I suppose the ones on the negative end have to say something, but you'd think they could be more creative than calling her statements lies as some have. Of course those on the positive end just couldn't be happier. In fact, I made sure I had the radio on to hear Rush Limbaugh's opening words this morning; he said he didn't want it to end, didn't want Sarah's speech to end, didn't want Rudy Giuliani's speech to end. We knew he'd be excited, but the language needs more superlatives to describe his elation over the speech and everything surrounding it. He even mentioned little daughter Piper's loving gesture of wetting her hand (she licked her whole palm, folks, and it was adorable) and smoothing down her baby brother's hair. Speech writers can't invent "real people" gestures like that, and don't underestimate the importance of those things.

There's much more to say, but I'm still grinning so wide I can barely see to type, so for now I'm just going to savor the lingering positive vibes of the moment and look forward to the weeks to come. John McCain, no matter what happens now, you picked a winner.