The Weekly Standard moved fast and they have Sarah Palin on the cover of their new issue. Playing on the Obama catch-phrase from some months ago (which he probably wouldn’t dare use now for fear of being laughed into oblivion) the story by Fred Barnes asks “Is she the one we’ve been waiting for?”

Palin is a different kind of Republican. She’s a conservative reformer who, somewhat like McCain but more like Ronald Reagan, is forever poised to challenge the sluggish (or corrupt) Republican establishment and shake up the status quo. “I didn’t get into government to do the safe and easy things,” she declared after McCain introduced her as his running mate. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is built.”

She brought down Alaska’s governor, attorney general, and state Republican chairman (see my “Most Popular Governor,” July 16, 2007). She killed the “bridge to nowhere.” She used increased tax revenues from high oil prices to give Alaskans a rebate. She slashed government spending. She took on the biggest industry in Alaska, the oil companies, to work out an equitable deal on building a new gas pipeline. Obama can’t match even one of these accomplishments.

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With Palin on board, the change issue is no longer Obama’s exclusive possession. She and McCain are more likely to clash with special interest groups than are Obama and Biden, who have yet to buck a single liberal pressure group. Palin and McCain are more likely to produce both “change we can believe in” and “change we need.”

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