is definitely not weird. We're taking up a collection for a dictionary just for you. Get ready for President Palin (what a relief) or as cybyoung9 would say - releif.

Angry? Meltdown? I just watched her speech and she seemed a bit nervous and a bit of a rambler, but angry and melting down? Honestly, Joan, have you no shame? My God, what is your obsession with trashing Sarah Palin really about? Could it be that she's drop-dead gorgeous? And you're... well... let's just say put off by that? Hmmm...

Well,is this a Neo-con tatic hoping she can recover by 2012.Or will they use her as the Attack dog like in the campaign to go around the country and attack President Obama's agenda.Now with 60th seat in the Senate according Al it is "NOT" the killer blow .But the seat of minnesota; this has all the markings of the old guard republican like Pat Buchanan and will they deploy Sarah out in the battle field after July 26 to fight the neo-con battle to win back the whitehouse.What gets me is Sarah said she would help any canidate it does'nt matter what party they where in.Let the test begin the dems should test that statement to see where she stands."OH" but could there be another investigation that was about to rock the alaskan governer and her office according to the radio host in alaska or maybe Mr.Schmidt was about to blow open the real Sarah Palin with recent statements that where made about Todd's association to the Extremist group independence party who would rather see alaska seperate from the lower 48.Or was it to much for the point guard to handle and dragging little Trig into the resignation to make it sound fill sorry for me cause my son was attacked please save the drama what she did was Sad for Trig himself .Mrs Palin leave your son out of it period typical politician."We shall see" which one plays out and if you think the Neo-Cons are not going to benefit from all this "THINK TWICE"....!

but I guess he can still try to blame Bush. Sarah will fix it after we start sweeping out the Communists next election. Why aren't Raines, Johnson, Gorelick et al in court for ruining the economy?

Obviously, Kristol, Matalin et al let their Frankenstein out of the shop too soon. She was recalled for a tune up ... crank up the brain a few notches; no, not that far, unless you dial down the free will ...

It amuses me that conservatives think libs are afraid of this woman. She doesn't even rate in the top 100 liberal concerns, which include a right leaning Supreme Court, Blue Dog Dems blocking legislation, corporate malfeasance, the plundering of the environment ... If the GOP wants to take her seriously, that's their concern.

... the unmitigated hate and media-promoted partisan bullying in this country, I am more and more convinced that the society is breaking up. Blame one side, blame the other -- it does not matter. Maybe the internet echo chamber is the root cause, but the "losing" side is internalizing its opposition and withdrawing from public debate. Psychologists will tell you how dangerous suppressed emotions can become. People really are capable of cutting off their noses to spite their faces, and I'm very sure that the desire to work against the current "powers that be" using all the tools at one's disposal: economic sabotage, civil disobedience, passive non-cooperation with national goals, etc. are very strong. Add to this the gradual unfolding of Great Depression Redux and I have zero confidence that this will come to a good end.

and absolutely terrified of Sarah. So that's why the likes of Joan will be merciless in their attacks and they must continue to attack. Libs are good at that. No substance. No leg to stand on. But persistent attacks for no good reason to protect their shaky turf.

Here's a comparison you don't hear every day. Nathan Bedford Forrest. I have a copy of his 1899 biography by John Wyeth. Bedford is a fascination of mine because my great-grandfather x3 fought against him as a member of the Indiana 47th regiment.

Forrest pulled a Houdini escape during Grant's victory at Fort Donelson. With no formal military training, and bare literacy, he was the most brilliant, sui generis general of the war. At one point, he wrote directly to Jefferson Davis with an audacious plan for victory -- essentially sidestepping the "anonymous handlers" of his day. Davis wrote later that ignoring him in reliance on more properly trained generals was one of his largest regrets.

The scraps of Forrest's rhetoric which survive are scattershot, like Palin's speech was accused of being yesterday. Yet his forceful orders, which an aide must have helped compose, are really quite poetic.

At one point, Sherman said of the elusive Forrest that he must be interdicted at all costs, even if it "breaks the treasury." Sherman understood Forrest's genius sooner than most -- fighting directly against it.

No doubt, a similar edict went out last year to the "plumbers" who descended on Alaska and drove up $600,000 in frivolous legal bills on Palin. The Obots are playing Sherman to Palin's Forrest. Her escape; i.e., using that persecution as a quite legitimate excuse to pass the ball and go national, is the most creative gambit I have seen in my lifetime.

And speaking of plumbing, I have to laugh every time I see a reference to Palin being pregnent when she married Todd. This came out in September last year -- CNN's inaugural hour-long segment on Palin tastelessly and gleefully pointed out with emphasis that Palin gave birth to Track eight months after her justice-of-the-peace marriage. People who think this would undermine modern Christian support don't understand modern Christianity.

First impressions:

1. She's a quitter. When the going gets tough (in her view), she doesn't get tougher. She picks up her marbles and leaves the game. Would we ever want anyone like this in national office?

2. She is impulsive, not a clear thinker or speaker. She shoots from the foot. Again, a poor qualification for any sort of elective office.

3. Instead of remaining in the gov's chair, where she can or should have a major impact on "wasted dollars," she resigns and thus can have no impact on wasted dollars. (If Alaska is indeed wasting dollars, what has Palin done about that during her term in office?)

4. She implies that every state governor is lame-ducking through her or his last 18 months in office, and that the other 49 states would be better off if all their govs resigned to save the states money. What does she know that we don't about theother 49?

5. Although she continued to use a basketball analogy, she didn't refer to the one thing she was doing well: dribbling on.

6. She uses what national celebrity she has to call a hasty and ill-considered press conference, and posits herself on the national scene for the loose cannon she is.

7. At no time did she refer to the electorate of Alaska and their views of her, and the job -- or lack of it -- that she's doing.

8. Perhaps she, Sanford & Spitzer could form a third party to...well, party.