Lots of people will write and talk about what Sarah Palin did last night, but what she didn’t do is just as important. She didn’t cower; she played the traditional role of the VP — zinging the opposition — showing that attacks on her won’t dissuade her from doing her job. She didn’t hide her family or her son-in-law to be. She said it clearly: through ups and downs they are a family. She didn’t try to demonstrate too much national security  expertise; it would have come across as phony. (She stuck to what she really knows and understands better than the Democrats: energy and the importance of Russia’s invasion of Georgia.)

Not bad for an unqualified, unprepared hick from Alaska who has no business running for VP.