I think I speak for most Conservatives when I say that watching the Vice-Presidential debate last night was like waking up from a bad dream and finding the real world right as rain. Not only did Sarah Palin reverse the absurd image that Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have constructed of her, but also won a clear, ringing victory over the insipid and defensive Senator Joe Biden. While it may be too little too late for the White House contest at large, it was, without a doubt, exactly what America needed to hear from the Republican ticket.

As Rush Limbaugh said this morning, “For the media to pretend that the debate last night resulted in anything but Sarah Palin mopping the floor with Joe Biden is just delusional.”

And that's not just partisan spin. Sarah indisputably brought everything which McCain failed to bring to the table last week. She was genuine and well-spoken. Unlike McCain and Biden, she looked into the camera and spoke directly to Americans. She addressed and rebutted Biden's statements (the fourteen lies), and unlike McCain himself, who pretended he wasn't in a debate, Sarah looked at Biden, spoke directly to him and called him out on his baloney talking points. She refused to let him pin the economic crisis on the Republican party and even brought up John McCain's prophetic efforts to rein in Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae back in 2005.

Among Palin's strongest moments were lines which will no doubt resonate deeply with most American voters:

"I will tell Americans straight up that I don't support defining marriage as anything but between one man and one woman."

"Your plan is a white flag of surrender in Iraq and that is not what our troops need to hear today, that's for sure. And it's not what our nation needs to be able to count on. You guys opposed the surge. The surge worked. Barack Obama still can't admit the surge worked."

"Darn right it was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception there, and there was greed and there is corruption on Wall Street... I think we need to band together and say never again!"

She is more skilled, more genuine, a better debater, funnier, lovelier and all around more appealing than John McCain. It's almost as if our Republican presidential candidate has given up while his vice-presidential nominee continues to fight and win hearts. At the news that McCain was pulling his campaign out of Michigan today, Sarah Palin said:

"Todd and I, we'd be happy to get to Michigan ...We'd be so happy to speak to the people there in Michigan who are hurting. Whatever Todd and I can do in realizing what their challenges in that state are .... I wanna get back to Michigan and I want to try!"

This is why, according to CNN, last night's clash was the highest-rated political debate in more than sixteen years! Who among us thinks that all those people tuned in to watch Joe Biden? The difference between cold, jaded compromise in John McCain and fiery, spirited fortitude in Sarah Palin is astonishing. She is what renewed the campaign last month, her perceived gaffes are what has brought it down, and I am convinced that her renewed exposure and excellent performance last night will be what saves McCain and propels him to the White House if anything now can. She is truly a Conservative, she is one of us, and she is what average Americans have been longing to vote for since this agonizing campaign season began almost two years ago.