Over the past weekend, instead of heading over to the massive, completely unreported protest that awaited Sarah Palin's visit to Carson, California -- where footage of the event depicted a humdrum crowd that appeared to be less of an audience for a political darling and more of a Saturday afternoon...

Based on the debate watching parties that I covered last Friday here in the blue bastion of greater Los Angeles, let me caution everyone not to place much stock on Sarah Palin's performance tonight. If she has magically morphed into a master of stateswomanship, that may lift her party's sagging...