Did Palin hit it out of the park? You Betcha

More so than Big Papi did at least. I just want to say a solemn prayer for the Sox this season. Ya done good kids, and I still love ya. 

So I missed the live airing of Saturday Night Live this weekend so that we could watch two boring innings of the Sox wining game 6 of the ACLS. Even though the Sox fans who refused to change the channel for 3 minutes to see Palin do the opening sketch were outnumbered by people interested in seeing Palin, they were obnoxious and vocal enough to leave the channel unchanged at a party we went to. 

Regardless, I stumbled in around 3:00 in morn to catch some Palin/Fey/Poehler action on Hulu.com, one of my favorite website. Like many Americans I've been equally charmed and repulsed by the creature that is Sarah Palin and also like many Americans, I've been obsessed with Tina Fey's portrayals of the GOP VP Nominee (given the rhyming amazingness of this phrase, how did I not guess they were going to do a rap?) 

While you all may boo me, I went to bed with a newfound respect for Mrs. Palin. It takes a lot of courage to go into the lion's den - 30 Rock - bastion of the "liberal media elite" to face down your dopellganger with a smile. It found it interesting that Fey and Palin shared only a split second of screen time as they quickly passed each other during a mock press conference. Perhaps this was one stipulation of the McCain campaign, although I find it equally bizarre that Palin and Alec Baldwin shared over a minute of awkward screen time (Baldwins wins worst cameo of the night with a telepromptered-in performance). 

To me, Palin seemed comfortable, for the most part. Its got to be weird for ANYONE to do a live sketch with Lorn Michaels, Marky Mark and Alec Baldwin, let alone let alone someone who must've known a least 2 out of the 3 of those people were certainly NOT voting for her, to put it mildly (I heard Michaels has donated money to McCain). While in the opening sketch Palin survived, in the Weekend Update "Palin Rap," she shone like a star. In my view Palin looked beautiful, projected confidence, spoke well, and gosh darn it if she didn't raise the roof as well as any urban types out there, I'll eat my foot. The rap was almost mesmerizing to watch. Seeing her groove in synch with Seth Myers while Poehler rapped "shoot a mother-humping moose eight days of a week" was one of the most surreal things I've seen in a while. And I truly give mad props to a lady who can throw their hands up to "all the mavericks in the house put your hands up." She truly was the definition of being a good sport. P.S. Check out how gay Todd Palin looks during the sketch. Brilliants. 

While I think overall Palin improved her image overall due to the performance, I think its far too little too late, and I find it was kind of sad that she let Baldwin call her "that horrible woman" basically to her face. I guess it was soft of  touche for McCain's "that one" during the debate. Still, my fascination with the VP nominee was reinvigorated by the SNL skits and somehow she has managed continue charming me. Even though she stands against pretty much everything I believe in, there is really no way I can find to hate her and a secret part of me even likes her! I suppose this is what McCain saw in her in the first place. 

As Alessandra Stanley suggested in the New York Times, I find it highly feasible should Palin  lose the election (please God oh please) she could pull a reverse Ronald Regan and turn her newfound celebrity wattage towards entertainment or television journalism, should she so desire. She's already got a signature sign-off, which, like everything else about her, I find oddly endearing, so much so that I'm going to use it now:

Good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow.