Jonah Goldberg on why the media keeps swinging... and missing... on Palin...

One partial explanation for the feeding frenzy is the bowel-stewing fear among an Obamaphilic press corps that Palin might actually help McCain win.

Gee, you think?

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Jan Crawford Greenburg with a good take on Palin's appeal....

Palin showed last night she can talk to all those people who want to believe in their country’s greatness as they struggle to pay their bills. They may not like George Bush--but they want to believe America is the best country in the world, and they want to sing Toby Keith loud and proud.

On the national stage, Palin presented herself as someone who is perfectly willing to pull out her boot and---well, if you know Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue,” you know where I’m going with this.

So regardless of why McCain picked her and how suddenly he made his choice---because he thought she was a reformer or would appeal to women voters or reinforce his maverick image---he got a candidate who can talk to a large part of America that none of the candidates really have.