Tina Fey was very funny as Sarah Palin on SNL last night. She captured the Democratic/media caricature of Palin as a ridiculously stupid, vapid and inept ditz perfectly.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that Palin is every bit the sharp, tough, vindictive pol we've come to expect to run for national office. (Blogger Tom Smith is horrified to learn such things.)

Prediction: Palin will appear on SNL herself soon to show that she too has a pretty good sense of humor.

UPDATE: The prospect of a Palin Presidency has NYT's former theater critic Frank Rich soiling himself along with his paper's OP-ED page.

UPDATE II: New link to the SNL video above.