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After yesterday predicting that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would implode in the vice presidential debate, the moderate-conservative Republican blogger is pleased with her performance last night: "Sarah Palin delivered. Delivered as in RFD, as in Mayberry, as in shuckins ma I got a cast iron stomach. The Republican Panic is over and the GOP is feeling way better today in the lee of the debate than when we did upwind of it. No implosion. Just Palin. My overall take is that anybody who has paid attention to the issues learned very little from the debate. There was nothing to suggest a reframing of the issues. Red is still red and blue is still blue and I think we're all getting used to that. Nevertheless I have a number of observations and take-aways from last night's imperfect storm, as well as my radio show this morning. Palin's biggest unchallenged assertion was that Obama-Biden wants to increase the federal budget by 1 Trillion dollars. I expected they would increase spending but I had no idea it was that much. That's an expansion of 30%. HUGE!."

He continues his commentary about the debate: "It is my observation that Joe Biden never once turned to the people of America and asked them to do anything but vote for him. And I suppose the biggest point I can make about the difference between the two campaigns could be organized around this matter, but I'll leave it to the context of the debate. Palin, as I mentioned on the Barbershop this morning, talked to the working class of America and asked them to pledge that they would never again be duped by deceptive financial practices, that they would not drink the poison koolaid of Wall Street. When McCain was asked why Palin hadn't made more interviews he responded that given a choice between spending a day with American votes in their hometowns or spending an hour with some reporter on TV, he'd choose the former. Palin did in fact dismiss at least one of Ifill's questions to speak beyond her to working class American people."

Cobb zeroes in on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's agenda: "There are plenty of reasons to worry about what happens if the President of the US dies in office, and succession is one of them. I can't imagine which would be worse between Palin Pelosi or Biden Pelosi. Nothing ends well with Pelosi. But Palin did give us an idea what she would focus on as VP and I was quite satisfied with her three point program of pushing for energy independence, checking government and Wall Street corruption and attending to special needs children. It's not Cheneyesque and I'm confident she could handle such a charge. I have to laugh at Bill Handel this morning on his Right radio show, who is a huge skeptic about Palin - he's a sharp and cantankerous attorney - noticed how she did several Ronald Reaganesque 'there you go again' kind of remarks. We're the mavericks was pounded home without saying what exactly that meant. So when Biden quizzed her on differences between a McCain and the Bush Administrations, she gave up no details. Which means that Palin was not handed any iron-jawed scripts carrying the supporting messages of the campaign that she could drill into Biden's ample forehead. But she's a maverick who is all about reform and looking forward to the future."

My response: Robert George and E.B. White, other black moderate-conservative Republicans, provide their opinions on the debate. So do Bob Parks, Conservative Black Woman, and The Dillard Doctrine, who are conservative Republicans.