Sarah Palin has been pulled off the shelf. Version 2.0 is presently being tooled for a big rollout tonight.

The new updated version will shed a tear artfully for the invasion of her family's privacy, will be dressed demurely yet will raise her chin and fist defiantly in defense of all mothers who try to do it all. She will say she is their champion as both a tough career woman and a loving mom who will show the world what American woman can do. She will wink and say we all know who the stronger sex really is and that Putin and the like won't know what hit them when she steps onto the world stage. (A reference to Obama's measured and thoughfully approach will come out as as a mocking: "some people don't know how to take the fight to the bad guys like John and I do.)
Her ultra conservative religious views will be visible only in coded words.
She will tout herself as the truest outsider in the race because she is woman and not of Washington.

And then she will disappear again into closely controlled situations. No Meet the Press. No 60 minutes. Not even a Katie Couric interview.

The Obama campaign has their work cut out for them and their strongest argument, one that they must pound out 24/7, is the same team that has brought you the last 8 destructive years has a new cheerleader but the same old players planning on doing the some old policies in the same old way with the same old results.
I think Americans are now comfortable Obama can do the job they just need to not be distracted by bright glittery objects and the dump truck full of sh*t the Republicans will now unload.