they love her here ...

They do.  They are ecstatic.  Everywhere I go I hear women (and it is, mainly, women) either chatting on their cell phones, or doing the stall to stall banter in the ladies' room,  talk with great excitement about Sarah Palin.  They are discussing their pins, and their signs and the great anticipation they feel for tonight's speech.  One lady I met yesterday said that she was so excited when she heard that John McCain had chosen Sarah Palin to be the Chosen One, that she went upstairs and she put on a dress.  "I wore it all day, that's how excited I was," she said, as I struggled to empathize.  But what about her experience, (or lack thereof), I asked her.  She was the mayor of a small town in Alaska, she ran a small business with her husband, that's it, that's all ... she's hardly ever been abroad).  She countered that Sarah Palin is incredibly accomplished, and that, comparatively speaking, "nobody could ever compare her modest experience to (Barack Obama's) complete lack of experience and say something like that."  And she continued.  All will be revealed tonight.  Sarah Palin will get up there and list her accomplishments and people "will be able to understand, oh, she has accomplished a lot, and it won't be much of an issue anymore. "

We shall see.