As the shock from Republican Sen. John McCain’s selection of little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate gave way to her stage-managed entrance onto the American political scene, some Americans – many of whom had paid little if any attention to Campaign 2008 up to that point – were swept away by the idea of a strong woman from The Last Frontier riding down to the Lower 48 to save the day.
And regardless of your politics -- regardless of where you stand on how to best help working families trying to make ends meet, or whether or not Social Security should be strengthened by the government or left to the whims of Wall Street, or any of the great questions concerning God and Country – regardless of all this, Sarah Palin is a great story.
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