Listening to some of the after speech analysis, I heard a guy from the Clinton administration being interviewed by Chris Wallace. Not sure who it was. After a few minutes of praising the speech and Gov. Palin, Chris reminded him that he was there to criticize her.
The guy then said something like, "well, I didn't agree with anything specific that she said. And then continued praising the speech.
Another interviewee on BBC summed it up this way. "Gov. Palin is impossible to dislike."
She hit the best home run of the night. Baseball not withstanding.