The ironic thing about Sarah Palin is that she’s so personable that if her GOP handlers would just let her be herself she would probably do pretty well.  By all accounts she is bright, with an instinctive grasp of the things that are important to the people she’s addressing.  People who have debated her, including a rival for the governorship who did so more than twenty times around Alaska, say that she has a unnerving was of not answering questions, turning instead to areas where she is more informed, and doing it so adroitly that listeners hardly realize that she has deflected the question.

Let’s hope that her handlers, recruited from the ranks of Little George’s wranglers back in The Day, don’t hear about that.   If they let her get off the talking points and onto areas where she is comfortable, it could get ugly.

The woman’s got some chops, so pray she doesn’t get a chance to use them.

On the other hand, it would take direct intervention by an Apocalyptically Angry God to pull McCain’s s’mores out of the fire, so it probably doesn’t really matter much.