I assume you watched Governor Sarah Palin speak last night. My quick review: She nailed it. Her delivery was almost perfect, and her teleprompter malfunctioned. The text of the speech kept scrolling during the applause breaks, many of which were substantial, thus putting the script on the ‘prompter way ahead of where it should have been.

She hit Reagan’s points in a way the Gipper could not, meaning only that she put a woman’s face on words which have been self-evident.

The New York Times‘ Elizabeth Bumiller, who had spent the weekend trashing Palin, was kinder in her coverage this morning:

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska introduced herself to America before a roaring crowd at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night as “just your average hockey mom” who was as qualified as the Democratic nominee, Senator Barack Obama, to be president of the United States.

An hour later Senator John McCain, a scrappy, rebellious former prisoner of war in Vietnam whose campaign was resurrected from near-death a year ago, was nominated by the Republican Party to be the 44th president of the United States after asking the cheering delegates, “Do you think we made the right choice” in picking Ms. Palin as the vice-presidential nominee?

Bumiller, of course, whined that Palin attacked the same media which had attacked her. But Bumiller doesn’t own a rhetorical mirror.