Rest assured America. Sarah has been studying issues since Sunday

Sarah Palin gives her first big speech tonight. She's been practicing for days and will be reading from a teleprompter. It's already clear she knows how to give a speech. The pundits will ooh and aah, but the question isn't whether she can read a speech before a crowd of adoring GOPers. As Rob notes below, the GOP's expectation is that she'll "hit it out of the ballpark."

Palin will have the style. That's a GOP hallmark, plus she started her career reading copy for a t.v. station. This isn't new for her.

Besides the scandals engulfing Palin, the real question is the substance.

The McCain campaign has leaked word that Sarah Palin is on top of all the issues that affect America -- because she has been studying since Sunday:



Don't you feel better now?

Said it before (many times) and I'll say it again: This decision is about John McCain. He's got a running mate who has to go to school. McCain made a rash, reckless decision -- and the rest of the country would suffer for it.

Rudy, who built his career on being Mayor of NYC during 9/11, thinks the Mayor of Wasilla is equal to the task:

In an interview Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Giuliani was asked, "If she were the president on 9/11, you would have been confident?"

Giuliani responded: "I'd be confident that she'd be able to handle it. She's been a governor of a state, she's been mayor of a city."

Inside, it must make Rudy seethe to compare himself to the Mayor of Wasilla. NYC has neighbhorhoods and housing complexes with more people than Wasilla.