This is an interesting piece, because Frum, a Republican speechwriter, asks his fellow party members and conservatives to seek information on Palin, rather than to accept her nomination blindly. Frum is a writer on the right I admire. Whether you agree with him or not, he provides insight and writes clearly. This piece is especially balanced because it is a dialog consisting of his response, interspersed w. a letter from his reader Eric Hosemann, who supports Palin. And because, while he now suports Bush, he raises questions about what his relative lack of experience meant to the country: "George W. Bush had very slight executive experience before becoming president. His views were not well known. He won the nomination exactly in the same way that Palin has won the hearts of so many conservatives: by sending cultural cues to convince them that he was one of them, understood them, sympathized with them. So that made everything else irrelevant in 2000 - as it seems again to be doing in 2008. I do credit George W. Bush with great feats of leadership. In particular, I think his refusal to quit Iraq in 2005-2006 when everybody was urging him to, his insistence on fighting through to success, will be seen as a triumph of strength and conviction that saved the US from potential disaster. But he lacked other important aspects of leadership which is how we got into the mess from which he needed to rescue the country and himself. "