Reactions to Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin's speech last night varied from soaring joy on the right to stomach-chilling dread on the left.  But at least one analyst admitted that it left him weeping tears of joy at finally connecting on a deep, emotional level with a candidate.
 
Noted conservative intellectual and strategist Andrew Sullivan couldn't write enough about the Alaskan governor on his top-rated blog, the Daily Dish, and praised her fulsomely throughout the early morning (direct link not available because of DPUD posting guidelines).
 
"I can't say enough positive things about Sarah Palin," Sullivan wrote.  "She only just started speaking when I felt it deep within my bosom: an undying love for this simple, plain-spoken, latter-day Sarah Plain and Tall.  By midway through I was crying in great gouts for this woman who I love like a sister.  I had to watch the end of the speech on TiVo because my bawling drown out her soaring rhetoric."
 
Sullivan said he connected deeply with her simply story of family values and do-it-yourself Americanism.
 
"I realized that this woman's story is my story.  She fights against corruption, and I fight against corruption.  She sells things on e-bay, I sell things on e-bay.  She has sex with hunky Eskimos, and I often fantasize about having sex with hunky Eskimos.  We are essentially the same person, especially around Halloween when I, too, dress up like a naughty librarian."
 
He said he now regretted his political choices over the past few months and hoped that the Republicans would find room for him.
 
"I'm sorry for my apostasy.  All I can say is that I was gobsmacked by false projection, and that in the future I will offer my most concerted efforts to prevent any further misdirection of my energies.  I am, and always will be, a dedicated conservative.  How could I have ever believed that Barack Obama would be good for this country?!"
 
Sullivan did note that he still had grave misgivings about the Republican platform.
 
"I still don't agree with the party on the Anti-Gerbil plank of the platform, at least not until they add in either a Hamster or Pundit exception. Because I don't want the government prying into people's bedrooms.  "

"Leave. That. For. The. Media."

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