Before this thing gets started, and we are either hoarse from cheering or blind from sobbing, let me expound for one moment . . .

You know how I would have handled Sarah Palin? I would have had her do interviews for CBS and NBC all right . . .

But I would have had her do them with the affiliate in Des Moines, or Grand Rapids, or Bakersfield, or Sarasota. The networks would have gotten their feeds and their interviews, but Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson wouldn’t have gotten SQUAT.

I would have sent her out into the heart of America, where she would have been interviewed by anchors enough on the spot to ask some tough questions, but not so imperial that they would assume that were going to determine who the next President would be.

Anyway, here we go!