Getting a Grip on McPalin

So I went to the McCain-Palin rally down in Lancaster, PA last week, and it was....interesting. I was among the X,000 folks who either arrived too late or didn't have Official Republican Tickets (in my case, both), and so didn't get into the rally before the fire marshals stopped letting people in. (Not a problem McCain encountered much before he proposed to Palin.) But there was a silver lining: The rest of us got to greet McCain as he left the auditorium, and, well, I got awfully close to the man. In person, he's small and feisty-seeming; I liked his handshake, and afterwards, even I felt a little bit of a "Palin Bounce."