I was very depressed about our chances this fall until Sarah Palin arrived on the scene.  I knew a little about her, but wow, what a difference the last couple of weeks have been.  She has completely turned the race around.  We know this by all of the "She is just like me!" connection she has made with women voters.  We see her approval shoot up among men!  Perhaps the best indicator of her dramatic change of McCain's chances is the fact that the left has gone completely stark raving mad beyond previous levels.  The press has dropped all pretense of disguising its anointing of "The Great Enlightened One, Barack Obama (pbuh)" as their Prophet/Messiah through its vicious attacks on Palin. 

The best way to handle all of these attacks is to let them continue and in fact bait them into more and more outrageous attacks on McCain & Palin.  It engenders sympathy and motivates the base.  Americans do have a sense of fairness and this only helps the Republican ticket and maybe even the down ballot races.  The other benefit of their way over the top attacks is that we now have what I think is the most deadly and effective weapon against the liberal Coastal Elites:  Ridicule & Derision.  They hate this and I love it!

One Reagan like trait I have seen from Sarah Palin is her good naturedness.  This comes from humility and a strong conviction.  Look how this came out in the interview with Gibson the Condescending.  They used to try to do this to Reagan and it made him look good and them look like self important windbags.