We’ve seen this played out over and over again in Hollywood movies and epic novels time and again by authors who try to make it new and fresh to an audience who will eat it up as readily as they did the first time they saw or read it, me included.

What’s even more fun is when we can see this battle played out, not on the silver screen or the pages of ridiculously thick books where half the words have to be created out of thin air, but on our television screen during the verbal sparring match between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden.

Anyone reading this, of either side, might have some sort of idea of which roll either person is filling in our epic standoff. Senator Joe Biden, Washington insider for over 30 years with the full force of the MSM (read: Main Stream Media), the rhetorical grace of a lame llama and bathed in the incandescent glow of Senator Obama’s ego came at this debate secure in the knowledge of his upper hand. After all, who hasn’t seen the Couric and Gibson interviews of Sarah Palin? What’s there really to be afraid of?

And that’s when Sarah Palin came on stage, asked him politely if she could call him Joe (a courtesy that Obama couldn’t seem to muster when debating Senator McCain) and proceeded to run ever increasingly faster circles around him until all he could do is sigh, shake his head, and get mad, while claiming to spend hours at The Home Depot.

We come to the hero of our story, the Governor of Alaska and political outsider, Sarah Palin. All by her lonesome, walking onto that stage with a smile and a wink, battered by the MSM all the way up to this point with expectations so low for her that as long as she came on stage and managed to breathe properly they’d call it a pretty good night. Ignoring the fact that she’s a very successful debater, as shown during the Alaska political debates, she came on the stage as a mouthpiece for Joe Everyman. The outsider who won’t put up with Washington doublespeak and calling Joe Biden on it whenever he tried to weasel his way out of the choices that he made in the past. I’d call it a slam dunk, but whenever she really got on him and Joe became flustered, we’d have the ‘Moderator’ Qwen Ifil run interference for the Gaffable Senator, but that’s another column.

So who won? I completely agree that Senator Biden held his own – he toned himself down, stuck to his outline (assuming he had one) and gave a strong performance. However, when Palin walked onto that stage, being the citizen-politician that our Founders intended broke through the rhetoric, through the doublespeak and spoke her points straight to the American people, the winner became obvious.

Multiple things lead to this victory: the skill of Sarah Palin as a debater, the annoyance of Joe Biden at Palin as she ran circles around him, and the anger and attacks upon Governor Palin by the radical Leftist Blogosphere and the MSM. Every attack which lowered the expectations of her has only served to make her more powerful when she speaks, uniting people behind her as the contempt by the Left is seen for what it truly is: an attack on all those like her: the pro-life, God fearing, gun owning people of this country who are sick of listening to the empty words of Obama and seeing the empty suit of Biden.

And that, folks, is change we can believe in.