I went through some of the AK issues and votes, and Palin is fine.
This USA Today piece today captures her style of governing nicely.
She's smart and a tough cookie - forget the issues you bring up, this is politics after all - lies, exaggerations, false outrage etc. are all part of the game. The kitchen gets hot during elections ...
Both Palin & McCain (order intentional :-) represent the right brand of republicanism - frontier, more libertarian than doctrinaire. Obama seems to have lost a step (or several), but there is no real worry for him/Dems - the election is going to turn on 10-50 congressional districts in just a few mid-western states, and he's doing quite OK in the polls.
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You'll be surprised to know that I'm actually in agreement with you on a couple of points :-). I can believe Palin is not the monster the left is making her out to be, and she can take credit for some reform of Alaska's rotten Republican establishment.
At the same time she's largely an unknown quantity, and it scares me to death that she might suddenly be President a year from now. I think what McCain did was absolutely irresponsible.
I also agree that Obama is fine despite the "hand-wringing and bed-wetting" :-).
What I object to though is the assumption that a person can campaign one way (divisive, Christianist, neocon, ideological) but will govern completely differently (centrist, secular, realist). Which is the real McCain, and is it all right to do whatever it takes to get elected?
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