The best, most accurate piece of punditry about Sarah Palin comes from veteran Democratic pol and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. He writes:

The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign. Period. Palin’s speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense. And we don’t do well on defense. Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don’t want to be seen as defending the status quo. From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions. Whenever you start having to explain things, you’re on defense. I actually went back and watched Palin’s speech a second time. I didn’t go to sleep until 1:30 a.m. I had to make sure I got the lines right. Her timing was exquisite. She didn’t linger with applause, but instead launched into line after line of attack, slipping the knives in with every smile and joke. And she delivered it like she was just BS-ing on the street with the meter maid. She didn’t have to prove she was “of the people.” She really is the people. There is one thing she should have done: announced when her 17-year-old daughter and the teenage father of the girl’s unborn child are getting married and invited all of us to the wedding. It should be like Sunday at church.

And Brown reminds us that she only need sustain the “Palin Bandwagon” for two months.

One wonders why Brown’s analysis is so smart and much of the media is so obtuse. Well, for starters, Brown is a politician himself who understands that 90% of politics is connecting with ordinary people. He can certainly appreciate the sheer artistry of another politician practicing their  craft. And for another, he perhaps doesn’t think it a good career move to tell the American people that their eyes, ears and hearts deceive them. (The MSM might mull that over.)

Brown doesn’t offer any suggestions about what the Democrats should do (other than worry, I suppose), but I will offer one: ignore her and focus on John McCain. Every day spent on Palin and every joke or barb thrown her way reminds voters how much they like her. And right now they like her an awful lot.