Palin takes center stage (and wows) {updated}

{updated 10:45pm - see below}

I just finished watching Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican National Convention (click here for text).

I was very impressed. She held herself well, came across as confident and forceful, and delivered some of the best one-liners in a night of memorable one-liners. The audience ate it up and couldn't stop cheering. The dems are reaching.

I think she compliments the McCain ticket very well.

What are your thoughts?

update: Joseph Bottum notes the lack of explicit references to abortion in her speech.

update 2: sed contra, Amanda Shaw doesn't think Palin needed to - she showed it.