Sarah Palin's nod for the vice presidency has stirred up all sides of the political arena, and her upcoming speech tonight will be scrutinized like no other. Sponsored Links:

Palin's odd C.V. and extracurricular sports and hunting activities have sparked lots of commentary and provided some great sound bites from some of the top female journalists out there.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd notes Palin's ascendency is like watching a strange chick flick in real time:  "It’s easy to see where this movie is going. It begins, of course, with a cute, cool unknown from Alaska who has never even been on 'Meet the Press' triumphing over a cute, cool unknowable from Hawaii who has been on 'Meet the Press' a lot.

"Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested."  Sponsored Links:

Sarah Palin on Wednesday will own the spotlight with a prime-time speech that will introduce her to American voters and try to present her as the perfect sidecar companion to Senator John McCain.

Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal had her take on the "clear and present danger" that a Palin vice presidency would have on the American left.

Noonan writes, "Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.Sponsored Links:

She could become a transformative political presence...So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick."

Since John McCain selected Palin for vice president, the Alaska governor has had her proverbial kimono ripped open unceremoniously, allowing all to pipe in and comment on her family life, especially regarding her teen daughter's pregnancy and her rigid juxtaposing values that would continue to keep sex education and abortion rights unavailable to those in need.  Evangelical Palin is stalwart in her pro-life views, support of abstinence education and opposition to abortion.

"Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer is also at the RNC saying, “It’s the Olympics of speech making.” As for the Republican vice presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, she declared, “I think we’re playing catch up a lot of the time on who she is because everyone was taken by surprise [that McCain chose her].”

Sawyer told TV entertainment news show “Extra” that she’s exhausted from covering both National conventions. She said, “I'm probably going to fall on my face in the mashed potatoes the day it's [election] over. But until then, I love politics."

When asked if the star celebrity power at the DNC and the lower profile of it at the RNC would impact the election, Sawyer responded, “I think each campaign has its own central identity. It’s very much about the viewer and what the viewer is interested in. And that is to say what the voter is interested in.”

Palin's anti-abortion and pro-gun record already won over the conservatives of the GOP, but tonight will establish (or not) her relationship to the American voters who seem to be neatly split again between the Dems and the GOP in the polls.

Palin reportedly has been preparing for her address with McCain aides including speechwriter Matt Scully, according to AP sources..

With regards to her personal family drama, is unclear what she will directly address tonight

Palin will be joined tonight by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who had a failed bid for the Republican president nomination. He told CBS and other news sources that Palin was ready for the vice presidency.

"I would say Barack Obama has never governed a city, never governed a state, never governed an agency, never run a military unit, never run anything," Giuliani said on CBS's "Early Show."

Last night Fred Thompson, another failed contender for the GOP nod, spoke of Palin.

"The selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment," he said.