A Terrible Resolve

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com North of the Border, Andrew Coyne at Macleans isn't necessarily predisposed to liking Palin, but he admits he href="http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/09/03/the-best-natural-speechmaker-since-reagan/">witnessed something very impressive, calling her "the best natural speechmaker since Reagan": It was that good. No, she’s not qualified, and the substance was thin, but my God — that was perhaps the greatest bit of political theatre I have ever witnessed. Her critics in the media and in the opposition may regret having piled on quite so enthusiastically, and with so little heed for who they hurt — or angered. Watching the tumultuous, ecstatic reaction in the hall, I was reminded of the famous words of the Admiral Yamamoto after Pearl Harbour: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve."