Oh, my.  Here's an actual, full post from the blog of right wing pundit Ramesh Ponnuru:

"Wassila turns out to have more people than Delaware—and it has been growing fast. (I can't get the links to work right now but it's easy to look up.)"

The reason that the links may not "work right now" is that the statement is completely absurd on its face.  The "Wasilla" he refers to must be Wasilla, Alaska, the small town that Sarah Palin was mayor of just eighteen months ago.  According to Wiki, the small town of Wasilla has a whopping 8,471 residents, while the State of Delaware has 843,524.

P.S.  Perhaps I shouldn't be too hard on Ponnuru, as he is one the right wing pundits with enough intellectual honesty to know that John McCain made a terible choice for Veep.

John McCain showed incredibly bad judgment in putting someone on his ticket with absolutely no foreign policy or national security experience, and just a year and a half removed from being a small town mayor.  Even intellectually honest conservatives agree it is a terrible choice:

David Frum:  Here's I fear the worst harm that may be done by this selection. The McCain campaign's slogan is "country first." It's a good slogan, and it aptly describes John McCain, one of the most self-sacrificing, gallant, and honorable men ever to seek the presidency.  But question: If it were your decision, and you were putting your country first, would you put an untested small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?"

Charles Krauthammer:  "The McCain campaign is reveling in the fact that Palin is a game changer. But why a game changer when you’ve been gaining? To gratuitously undercut the remarkably successful 'Is he ready to lead' line of attack seems near suicidal." 

McCain's bad judgment in picking Sarah Palin:

Josh Marshall:  "Whatever you think of Barack Obama's qualifications to be President, Palin is manifestly less qualified. And that undermines the central premise of McCain's campaign."  Link. 

Kos: 

"The Sarah Quayle Palin pick is an abandonment of the "Obama is not ready to lead" attack lines. Those are dead, and to be honest, while that line didn't work for Hillary and it had limited traction for McCain, it still had some traction. That attack line is gone.

Quayle Palin is also a an ideologue, on choice, on the environment, on energy -- all the way down the line. This an ideological pick in an election where self-identified Republicans are a dying breed and Democratic self-identification is skyrocketing. McCain has abandoned any notion of playing for the center. He's looking to shore up his right flank and hoping that the Evangelical Right can somehow drag McCain over the line."  Link.

Last night's speech by Barack Obama was a grand slam home run.  Only the most die hard Bush-McCain supporters could have been failed to be moved by it -- and even some of them (Pat Buchanan, Bill Kristol) admitted it was great!

Now, John McCain has apparently picked Governor Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) for Veep, who (1) is a completely typical Bush-McCain Republican, in a year when that label is an extreme drag; (2) is manifestly not ready to be Commander in Chief; (3) has some serious ethical issues, from a state that has been in the spotlight for extreme political corruption.

The election is all but over.  Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the next President and Vice President of the United States.

Governor Sarah Palin's record.  Link.

Barack Obama's speech was nothing short of the best political speech I have ever heard.  Congrats, Iowa Dems, as together we picked a real winner.  A true fighting progressive, who delivered, big time, in a night for the history books.  Really, nothing short of perfect.  "A new politics for a new time."

Best.  Political.  Speech.  Ever.

What more needs to be said?

Ben Smith of Politico has major excerpts of Obama's speech, here.

Even the most die hard of the die hard HRC supporters are coming around!  See here.

Andrew Sullivan nails it, IMHO, in this post:

"I guess some of the McCain team believe that announcing his veep choice tonight as a way to step on Obama's acceptance speech is brilliant politics. I'm not sure that denying the first black candidate a clear shot at making his case on the anniversary of the March on Washington is such a great idea. It just looks cheap and a little desperate; and it robs the next morning of any real drama. But it wouldn't surprise me, given the immature mood-swings of the McCain camp so far. McCain is not acting like a statesman these days - more like a Yaffer of old.

Obama's speech will be the story tonight regardless. Smarter not to step on it. Unless McCain's polling is showing a bigger Obama bump than we are currently aware of."  Permalink.