It’s become clear in the aftermath of last night’s debate that Governor Sarah Palin did fantastically well in appealing to exactly the voters that the Republican ticket needs to win, even if this nervous observer didn’t fully pick up on the extent of her success last night. If anything, she sounds even better in the sound-bites being played today. She has — again — given John McCain far more than he really had a right to expect, especially from someone brand new to the national scene and with almost no time to adjust to the evil-eyed attention of the liberal media.

It now seems that Palin is on fire, and McCain would be a fool not to utilize her to the nth degree. Give up on Michigan? Sarah says just you wait there a minute!

Sarah Palin criticized John McCain’s decision to pull campaign resources out of Michigan in an interview with FOX News on Friday, saying she and her husband Todd would “be happy” to campaign in the economically distraught battleground state.

The Republican vice presidential nominee, on the heels of her debate with Joe Biden, also took a second stab at questions that seemed to trip her up during recent interviews, declaring that she looks “forward to speaking to the media more and more every day.”

Palin said the decision to pull out of Michigan, which was announced Thursday, was “not a surprise” to her since polls show McCain slipping in the state.

But Palin said that when she read the news, she “fired off a quick e-mail and said, ‘Oh come on, do we have to?’”

“Todd and I, we’d be happy to get to Michigan …We’d be so happy to speak to the people there in Michigan who are hurting,” she said. “Whatever Todd and I can do in realizing what their challenges in that state are …. I wanna get back to Michigan and I want to try.”

She obviously feels liberated by her successful performance last night. Just as it was hoped in a post here a few days ago, she has truly busted-out by means of this debate. She should be out there every day from now on, taking on all comers. The more people see of her — not in these taped interrogations but in spontaneous situations — the more they’re going to love her.

Her performance at Thursday night’s debate was widely viewed as a recovery from her interviews of the past week and a return to the confident persona she projected at the Republican National Convention a month ago.

Asked about claims that she was being sequestered and over-managed by McCain staffers over the past week, she said: “Well I beg to differ with the notion that I was reined in in any way, but if there was any of that, it’s over.”

It better be!

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