Sarah Palin the target:

“Democrats dare not issue [Sarah] Palin a pass — she’s too dangerous a foe. Normally vice presidential candidates fade into the background. Nobody is expecting that with Palin; indeed, her newfound celebrity has made even Obama look dull. [Italics added]

The usual rule is that voters don’t trust attacks from people they don’t know, but Palin is turning the adage on its head. Democrats are determined to attack her credibility, even if it gives her more visibility. ‘We’ve got to go after her, and fast,’ a top Democratic strategist, who asked for anonymity when discussing strategy, told me”

That’s Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, in the latest issue.

In post-speech comments, one of the non-Fox cable stations had full-bore analysis of whom Palin was aiming for with all those small-town-culture references, as if demographics were her concern.  They don’t get it, do they? 

It’s the culture part, stupid, where traditional values hold forth, not only in small towns but in big-city neighborhoods.  Or they get it but resist it, because it gets right at something they won’t admit — how far removed they are from the American Majority.