Palin bringing them in

60,000 showed up at the Villages in central Florida to see Sarah Palin. That is the largest crowd of the year for the Republicans. She has real star power and has energized Republicans in a way not seen in quite some time.

In '04 fear motivated the Right. They felt Kerry would make us velnerable. Now it is clean house in Washington and Sarah is leading the way. There is something about her "frontier woman" appeal that is contagious. It is a Obamamania in reverse. She is bringing new life to a discouraged party. As things settle down with the economy, expect to get a huge amount of Sarah news floating around. People just want to see her.

In many respects Obama is old news, Sarah is new news. The things to watch are an October surprise of news that hurts her or the possibility that people are bored of her by election time. We'll see. I'm guessing that she isn't boring.

It ain't over till it's over

Congress is starting to get political again (surprise). The Dems and the President may not see eye to eye on the bailout.

We'll see how things go tomorrow, but hold on to your wallets.