Okay, it’s almost three in the morning here in Minneapolis and I am  about as dog tired as I have ever been, but I couldn’t resist putting in my two cents on Sarah Palin’s performance tonight, since I saw it live.  In all my years writing movies, going to drama school, etc., I have almost never seen anything so dramatic.  It was the rebirth of Frank Capra for our times – Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington.  This woman is a star and a star of the American kind we have not seen for years.  She really is born live from a Capra movie, from the days Hollywood told stories about the greatness of our country.  I don’t agree with her about everything but so what?  I don’t agree with anybody about everything except, luckily for me, my wife.  But Sarah Palin is a force of nature. Like a Jimmy Stewart character channeled by Claudette Colbert.

The big losers tonight are obvious:  Joe Biden, who will look like hackopathropus erectus next to her, a dinosaur out of the Washington everybody hates, and Hillary Rodham Clinton who, I would bet anything, was staring at her television set in horror tonight at the possible first woman president of the United States – and it’s not her!

UPDATE:  For the record, I didn’t write this drivel ^[1].