[Update: I might have felt better sooner if I'd have seen this instead of switching over to the Dodgers/Cubs blowout. Boy, does Morris really hammer Colmes or what?]

Wow! Last night’s vice-presidential debate was a 90 minute nerve-wracker for me. It only took a couple of questions for Sarah Palin to settle down and get into her groove, but I don’t know what was going on in my head ’cause I never did get comfortable. Not that I thought that Joe Biden’s answers made any sense, and sometimes it was practically impossible to find his point at all, which I guess the Left sees as a nuanced delivery or thoughtful articulation instead of blowhardness. I guess I’ve been out here in La La Land for so long now that if someone isn’t tryin’ to blow B.S. up my backside that I have to work to decipher I’m a bit, uncomfortable. Good. It’s time for that Straight Talk to begin in earnest in this election cycle. It’s time for us to be uncomfortable and to hold those that want our vote to higher standards than in the past — now, if only the MSM would cooperate a bit and actually bring us the news instead of slanted opinion. There’s plenty of the latter right here, thank you very much!

Sarah Palin won this debate. In reality, all she had to do to win was to show up, maintain her composure for 90 minutes on the same stage with 35-year Senator Joe Biden, and not make any major gaffes. Actually, for only being in this fight for 5-weeks or so, that was a very big deal, and she did that! And, as the Ginzu commercial says, “a whole lot more!” As Beldar writes:

Almost without exception, every bit of the analysis and punditry you read or hear from mainstream media sources — including even new media outlets like the major cable news channels — will have missed the most important point about Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. They all think it was close, and they all think that some of the things Slow Joe Biden said actually mattered.

To non-sophisticates (which isn’t an insult, by the way, and most definitely isn’t a synonym for “unsophisticated”) — to ordinary people of every economic class, occupation, gender, religion, and even political persuasion — from outside the Beltway and the bi-coastal Blue-State media enclaves, the defining moment of the debate was when a young governor from a remote, sparsely populated state strode confidently across the national stage, stuck out her hand for a firm handshake, looked a silver-haired senator of 36 years’ tenure squarely in the eye, and said: “Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?”

At that moment, the champagne bubble of the elites popped. For millions of viewers (but almost no national pundits), the juxtaposition telegraphed a clear message: “She’s not one of them, she’s one of us. But she isn’t awed by him. She’s not afraid.”

Nope, this lady doesn’t scare easily, never has. The Frank Luntz focus group of undecided voters, half of which had voted for John Kerry in ‘04, the other half having voted for Bush, in a big way thought that Palin did fine.

Michelle Malkin has a few words for the Palin haters in the MSM :

First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words.

Eat them.

Sarah Palin is the real deal. Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight’s debate.

She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.

McCain has not done many things right. But Sarah Palin proved tonight that the VP risk he took was worth it.

Gateway Pundit has some great pics from the McCain/Palin rally after the debate, and some woeful pics of the empty Obama party and a very disappointed press.

The Anchoress is keeping a running, growing list of links.

I’ll let my blogging buddy Laer at Cheat-Seeking Missiles have the last word on who won:

Who won the debate? That’s an easy one: Joe Biden beat Barack Obama. The contrast between his command of issues and willingness to speak his mind and Obama’s underscored that the man at the top of the ticket does not have the experience to be president.

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