Sometimes you just know

Michael Gerson called her “a mix between Annie Oakley and Joan of Arc.”

Fred Barnes was wowed: how smart Palin was, and how unusually confident. Maybe because she had been a beauty queen, and a star athlete, and succeeded at almost everything she had done.” It didn’t escape his notice, too, that she was “exceptionally pretty.” ...Barnes was dazzled by Palin’s handling of the hundred or so mineworkers who gathered to meet the group. “She clearly was not intimidated by crowds—or men!” he said. “She’s got real star quality.”

With reviews like that it's no wonder John McCain picked his running mate after spending less than three hours with her.