Well, the Republicans have set the standard for Palin's performance tonight. On MSNBC earlier today, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman had the GOP talking points:
She's going to stand up on that stage and hit it out of the ballpark. ... Tonight she's going to prove she's a world class performer.If your party standard of "world class" is record deficits, stagflation, Osama bin Laden still out and about, no WMD in Iraq, Abu Ghraib, illegal wiretapping, Katrina, etc. I guess Sarah Palin really is as ready to screw up America as George Bush did. No wonder the Republicans are satisfied with Palin.
NOTE FROM JOHN: I'll add that Sarah Palin, by all accounts, is a great speaker and good debater. She'll probably be great tonight - after all, she worked on camera on the evening news in a previous life. She knows TV, she'll probably recite an excellently written speech that she had no input on whatsoever. So that makes her a good actor. It doesn't change any of the nasty revelations of the past 5 days.
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