I'm listening to the last Alaska governorship debate, featuring the Person Best Qualified to Replace John McCain (link). She's good. She's comfortable in her own skin; she's well-briefed; she doesn't run away from her strong anti-abortion and anti-stem-cell positions, but she's not particularly bellicose or confrontational about them either. Indeed, the most interesting thing about the debate for me was its overall high quality--three candidates, all capable of responding to a range of (seemingly) well-formed questions on state issues which any non-Alaskan is likely to know zilch about.
This says about bupkas on the question of how she would face issues affecting a president, but it certainly counsels that one would be unwise to underestimate her. Anyway, we'd better get used to her; David Frum argues that win or lose, she is going to be around for a while.
In the contest for the palm as best Palin commentary of the day, a surprise winner: David Brooks, for his shrewd appraisal of Palin and also of McCain (link).
Bonus: there's an Intrade contract up on the possibility of a Palin withdrawal; it trades at this moment at 13.9/12. Obama for president is trading at 61.7/61.1.
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