The REAL Palin is Back READY for Prime Time

October 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Bridge to Somewhere
What did they do with the other Sarah Palin?

By Kathleen Parker

What did they do with the other Sarah Palin?

I mean the one who bases foreign-policy experience on the proximity of 
Russia to Alaska and who speaks cutely about Vladimir Putin poking his 
little head into American airspace. Where did they put her?

The Palin who performed so miserably in one-on-one media interviews was 
nowhere to be seen during Thursday nights debate with Joe Biden. Instead, 
the affable, tough, determined pit-bull-hockey mom presented to the GOP 
convention was back with a jaw-jutting, happy-warrior vengeance.

Poor Gwen Ifill was irrelevant  a second-tier actor in Palins morality 
play. Over and over, Palin skipped past Ifill, as well as Biden, to speak 
directly to the American people. I am one of you, she told them. And these 
people  Democrats and the media  are neither of us, nor for us.

And she said it in the nicest, gosh-darn way, bless her little heart. The 
GOP loved it, but did anyone else? Did Palin change hearts and minds? 
Probably not. My suspicion, bolstered by early polls, is that people left 
the debate with their original impressions intact.

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