On the other hand, Palin comes across as much more of a self-actualized version of a regular person than most politicians. She isn't a lawyer, she didn't go to Yale, and she isn't rich. However, she's an attractive woman with a big family and a cool husband. She's a hunter and she started out as a PTA mom and worked her way up to the governorship of Alaska. I think for the average person, that's a much more comforting picture than, say -- got a law degree, served as a community organizer, hung around with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Tony Rezko -- then voted the liberal line in the Senate for two years before starting a run at the presidency.

#5) She is from outside of Washington: Given that the American people are deeply unhappy with the performance of Congress, it's ironic that 3 of the 4 candidates in the race serve in that same unpopular Congress. So, is it really surprising that a governor who hasn't been serving in the D.C. cesspool seems like a breath of fresh air?

#6) She's our chance to be "first:" Liberals love nothing better than to play identity politics and have attempted to define womanhood in a way that makes it impossible for conservative women to be feminists. Along the same lines, they regularly claim that conservatives are sexists almost by default.

So conservatives -- who don't believe we're sexist at all and think Sarah Palin is much closer to the feminine ideal than Gloria Steinem or Naomi Wolf -- love the idea of walking the walk on this issue while liberals only talk the talk. Hillary may have gotten 18 million votes, but that apparently wasn't even enough to qualify her to be vetted by Barack Obama while it's the Republicans, whom Democrats mocked as a straight white male party, that have a woman on the ticket.

Just as conservatives love to be able to say that Colin Powell was the first black Secretary of State and Condi Rice was the first black woman to be Secretary of State, we'd also love to be able to throw "Vice-President Sarah Palin" back in the faces of liberals who falsely claim we're sexists.

#7) The Left’s hate and fear of Sarah Palin: From practically the moment John McCain selected Sarah Palin, the American Left (the mainstream media included) went absolutely insane and began an unprecedented smear campaign against her. Dozens of bizarre rumors sprang up overnight. Liberals launched crude, condescending, sexist attacks against her; they went after her children. Numerous lies and fake scandals sprouted up each day; there were false pregnancy rumors, faked bikini shots. The venom was almost unbelievable, even after hearing comparisons between George Bush and Hitler for eight years.

Conservatives were outraged to see an avalanche of blatantly unfair attacks launched not just at one of their own, but at a conservative woman, and it caused the Right to rally behind her. There are undoubtedly countless voters, myself included, who will be voting for the Republican ticket in November as their own personal way of paying back the Left for their over-the-top attacks.