Sarah Palin!

I have never been so excited about politics in my life. McCain's VP pick is better than I could have ever hoped. Young, accomplished mother of five who just had her last four months ago, a reformer type willing and able to make things happen, economically and socially conservative—she's absolutely unbelievable.

I've never given a lot of credit to feminists. For a long time, I thought that all the 1970s really served to do is make chivalry and common courtesy seem sexist, foisting not only the household duties but also a lot of the income-gaining onto women as well. I still think there's something to that, but I've also come to realize that feminism and Christianity are not mutually exclusive. I mean, Phillip had four daughters who prophesied and Paul was declaring that in Christ there is neither male nor female, thousands of years before we could vote. I haven't climbed far enough to hit that glass ceiling, and now that there are 18 million cracks in it, maybe I never will.

When I look at her, I see a little of myself. It finally occurred to me how much it matters, that I have never been truly represented by a leader of our country. It strikes me in that deep, internal way that a superb piece of fiction does—that this is right, this is true, this is beautiful. A smart, driven woman could be vice president of the United States.