[HighlyOpinionated]

What planet is this writer living on? News flash two: Your party’s on life support. You got your heads handed to you by a first-term senator who out-messaged you, out-organized you, ran roughshod in your once-red states, stole all your issues and made you come across as a combination of big-business apologists, oil company and lobbyist stooges, tax-hikers, foreign policy Wrong-Way Corrigans and racist, Christian Right kooks. And that was on your good days. OBviously not the one most of us are on.

The MSM chose our "candidate" but he chose an unknown, Gov. Sarah Palin, for a running mate and she spurred on the GOP and drew larger crowds than their GOP Presidential choice. Gov. Palin infused the GOP with fresh faces of younger Republicans. We can at least thank the MSM and McCain for that.

[TomGuy]

chose an unknown, Gov. Sarah Palin, for a running mate and she spurred on the GOP

And she sent panic and fear through both the mainstream media and the staunch good-ole-boys club Republicans.

They know she is 'real' because she, unlike them, is untainted by the Washington establishment.

That makes her formidable. She connects with the average person -- whom the Washington establishment has made careers out of hoodwinking.

She is dangerous -- to the Washington establishment. No wonder she is getting all the "INCOMING!". She is a real threat to the Washington establishment.