Here is Sarah Palin and the future of American politics…PALIN:

We were so blessed in April, Todd and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. You know, from the inside, no family ever seems typical, and that’s how it is with us. Our family has the same ups and downs as any other, the same challenges, and the same joys. Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge. And children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. To the families of special needs — (applause) to the families of special needs children all across this country, I have a message for you: For years you’ve sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters. And I pledge to you that if we’re elected, you will have a friend and advocate in the White House.

That’s a home run, folks. That’s a missile seeking dead aim in the hearts of every American family, and it hit the target.

I’m sitting here laughing, you know, Wednesday the Obama campaign said, (paraphrasing)

“We’re not going to attack Sarah Palin personally, but we’re going to let the blogs and the media do that.”

So Palin speaks, here comes Obama’s campaign firing right back because they got nailed.

It was really hard pulling bites for this today ’cause the post her whole speech. I mean, what do you leave out of this? My favorite lines, I don’t remember it exactly, but she dug Michelle Obama. She was talking about her town, her little town and so forth, and other places like her little town all across America, where regardless the circumstances, the people who live there love and are proud of their country every day. (LOL) Zing.

And then, as it was pointed out to me, the military veteran from Lancaster, Ohio, to whom she blew a kiss, totally natural. This woman can be soft, cuddly, and then before you know it you have a fist buried in your gut. Mrs. Clinton I don’t think could pull that off.

PALIN:

I’ve learned quickly these last few days that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. (boos) But here’s a little news flash for those reporters and commentators. I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion; I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this great country! (wild applause and cheering)

You don’t know what music to the ears of Republican voters that is! Yes, you do, because you are Republican.

That is the sweetest music: I’m not going there to be liked; I’m not going there to be approved by these people. I’m going there to do what I said I was going to do during the campaign.

There was one point during the speech when she ripped the media, and the audience started shouting, “NBC, NBC.”

PALIN:

Our opponents say again and again that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems — as if we didn’t know that already. (audience laughter) But the fact that drilling, though, won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. (cheering) Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration we’re going to lay more pipelines and build more nuclear plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. (cheering) We need American sources of resources. We need American energy brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. (cheering and applause)

All right, all right, all right. Now, remember that part of the speech. The Obama campaign, put out this panic fundraising e-mail saying that we didn’t get one word from Sarah Palin on the energy problem in America today.

Blatantly mischaracterizing, lying about her.

Why do we all love Sarah Palin? ‘Cause we all know her. These kinds of women are all over our neighborhoods.

Sarah Palin, not only does she have more experience, she’s a better speaker than Obama.

PALIN:

I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent, and maybe you have, too. We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers, and there is much to like and admire about our opponent, but listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state Senate. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot, when that happens, what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?

And then she turned in the knife.

PALIN:

My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery. This world of threats and dangers, it’s not just a community, and it doesn’t just need an organizer. And though both Senator Obama and Senator Biden have been going on lately about how they are always, quote, fighting for you, let us face the matter squarely. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you in places where winning means survival and defeat means death. And that man is John McCain.

It’s impossible to pick out the best parts of the speech. I didn’t want it to end. That’s the best description I can give you.

I did not want the speech to end.

I did not want the night to end.