Newsmax reports on a Zogby poll showing John McCain for the first time gaining a significant lead in Indiana.

The latest Zogby poll puts McCain at 52.8% to Obama's 42.3%.

A lot can change in the course of a campaign, and this latest big change would seem to indicate Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was right in wanting to fight for Michigan, even though McCain had given up on capturing that state.

Quite frankly, if the Republican Party had 10 or 20 more Palin's on the national front, the GOP would be a very different party indeed. 

Instead of running around with their collective tail between their legs as they have for most of the last 12 years, they'd be winning elections left and right.  They'd also be in the majority in the House and Senate, and possibly even have a super-majority in both. 

And the country wouldn't have many of the problems we currently face, because the GOP would have beaten back the creeping liberalism advanced by the Democrats and the "Democrat-Lites" in the Republican Party. 

You know, creeping liberalism like the drunken-sailor-type spending we saw from the Republicans before they were thrown out in 2006, and the continuation of that since the Democrats took control.  And things like the corruption and mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  And playing around with socialized medicine schemes like SCHIP.  And flirting with amnesty immigration bills.

Yeah, you know exactly the kind of creeping liberalism I'm talking about.

Because "moderates" don't have the kind of courage, gusto and fight that Sarah Palin has.  Only true conservatives have that, because they have the courage of conviction; they don't "lead" by wetting a finger and holding it up to the wind. 

Thanks to Palin, McCain might just pull this thing off on November 4.  And when he does, hopefully he'll learn a thing or two from his spunky running-mate, and apply what he's learned in the White House.

America requires strong, decisive leadership right now. And we don't need it right off the edge of a big-government socialist cliff as the liberals would lead. 

With Sarah Palin in Washington D.C. in the #2 seat, holding McCain's feet to the fire, we just might get it. The Good Lord knows we need it.