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Roundup of Reactions to Palin Speech
The Anchoress — ... Also, Anderson Cooper said something about how Obama has “run his campaign” and employed several thousand people, so there you go. Ready for the Oval Office. Palin’s 8 years as a Mayor and 2 years as Governor don’t amount to a hill o’ beans in this crazy world… Press headlines: Palin Mocks… . Palin Casts Herself as Washington Outsider . Casts herself? Um…. Lorie Byrd: So Much for the Redneck Beauty Queen Mayor of a Pissant Town Michael Crowley: My liberal friends are panicked Betsy Newmark: Wow! Glenn Reynolds many links I didn’t hear ...

"Alarmingly Strong"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] That's how Michael Crowley described Palin's performance over TNR : Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing few if any would ever vote for McCain but all agree that Palin was very strong. The more liberal among them are a little panicked. I completely misjudged how negative she would be. Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. But she's a far better messenger than an angry white man. ...

Reactions from the left
QandO — Some reaction to Palin’s speech from the left. Here’s Michael Crowley at TNR’s "The Stump": ...

Waaah! CNN's Schneider Whines Over Giuliani Speech
JammieWearingFool — ... and I wonder whether that’s appealing to voters. I really think this tone is going to turn a lot of voters off – it’s ugly, it’s bitter, it’s nasty. There is a bullying tone to this speech , and to Romney’s speech, and I just don’t think it works. Even less appealing: “When they gave up on Iraq, they gave up on America”? Now that’s insulting . No, Bill, it's the truth. I knew watching Giuliani these media relics would whine like little bitches. They're so predictable. More whining here on how mean Giuliani and Mike Huckabee were. Labels: ...

Riveting, One Way or Another
Opinionator — ... will be satisfied with his performance to date, and some won’t. But he at least has approached his job interview with the public with the respect and seriousness the job warrants. Wednesday night was the beginning of Sarah Palin’s job interview. But it didn’t sound like she was applying for a position which requires a readiness to be Commander-in-Chief. It sounded like she was applying for a radio gig after this campaign is done in November. If so, Mission Accomplished. Closer to center (and, the Opinionator suspects, to use one of the left’s favorite terms, “reality”) is ...

"Several moderate-Democrat friends of mine have been emailing--few if any would ever vote for McCain--but all agree that Palin was very strong."
Althouse — Writes TNR's Michael Crowley, adding that "[t]he more liberal among them are a little panicked." Crowley also talks about how "negative" she was, which he "completely misjudged," which makes me wonder why he made the judgment he did. Because Sarah Palin is female? Because she's a socially conservative female? Her lines about Obama were brutally cutting and possibly over the top in places. When a man agonizes that a woman is "brutally cutting," I reach for my Freud text. IN THE COMMENTS: Doyle writes: It was definitely ...

Focus Grouping
Comments from Left Field — ... over a quick post over at the Stump for understandable reasons.  When someone writes at The New Republic that their “focus group” of a few emails from Democratic women indicates that Sarah Palin was “alarmingly strong”, it would appear as though the frantic spinning that Palin is someone to be feared has caught on. ...