Sarah Palin, America's Sweetheart, Readies for Prime-Time

Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is scheduled to give her prime-time acceptance speech tonight to the Republican National Convention at St. Paul, Minnesota.

The stakes are sky high for America's Sweetheart!

Unlike any previous vice-presidential nominee, Palin faces an all-out assault from every corner of the political universe. The nihilist leftosphere led the way with sleazy allegations of a teen-pregnancy cover-up. The feminist left has attacked Palin with a zeal unmatched since the Clarence Thomas nomination in 1991, with the latest smears alleging she's a bad mother. Breathless stories of Alaskan political scandals have splashed the front pages of newspapers nationwide, and this morning we're greeted with the tabloidization of Sarah Palin, at the National Enquirer and US Magazine.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton remains on the sidelines, refusing to speak out in praise of Palin's historic achievement.

Kathleen Parker puts the Palin phenonemon in perspective:

Did someone switch the Kool-Aid?

Palin is everything liberals have always purported to want for women—freedom to choose, opportunities for both career and family, a shot at the top ranks of American political life. With five children and an impressive résumé, Palin should be Miss July in the go-girl calendar.

But note Victor Davis Hanson, who argues that Palin will be vindicated in the court of all-American public opinion:

Palin's symbolism is the antithesis of the metrosexual wind- or body- surfing politican, and hair-plugged, neurotic TV pundit So at this time, right now, millions apparently like Palin's atypical 19th-century profile. Again, it's a pleasant change of pace from Harvard Law School, DC politics, "community organizing" and the can't-do, 'they raised the bar on me' collective complaint.

If she can beat off the frothing Newsweek/MSNBC/New York Times inbred rabid wolves, and do it with the grace she has shown so far, she will fill a deep yearning among Americans for someone like her. A lot of Americans, if they watch reality shows, prefer truckers on ice or Bering Sea crab fishing to endless psychodramas of thirty-something suburban whiners.

So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.

Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so.

No, those in the anti-Palin attackocracy have no clue.

Tonight the nation will tune-in to the real Sarah Palin, America's Sweetheart.