Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) “blasted a home run” with her convention speech, recapturing her public image and actually using her tenure as governor to get into policy, which hadn’t been talked much about during the convention up to that point, writes Katherine Miller. Barack Obama may be dismissing Palin’s experience as less extensive than his, but a president needs to make executive decisions on unexpected issues, something that Palin has done as governor, writes Matt Moon.