What goes up........

It's been a remarkable week for Sarah Palin. Last Wednesday she was in Arizona, regaling John McCain with stories of independence and character building forged by a lifetime of mini-van shuttling to hockey practice. The other night she was in a hockey arena telling 15,000 Republican faithful that she's one of them, but with carefully crafted wit, along with hair and make-up.

The question is, where will she be next week?

Her meteoric rise to near the top of the Republican party (it's still a glass ceiling if you are not the top dog) has been the talk of the convention, as well as most every household and workplace in America.

But there's some basic physics at play here, which we will see played out over the next few days, and possibly few weeks.

The faster and higher you rise, the faster and deeper you fall.

She certainly seemed to deliver with her prime time speech in St. Paul. Crafted and constructed for maximum impact, she got the job done. But what about the areas she didn't discuss. What about the economy. What about education. What about housing. What about banking. What about the environment. What about transportation. What about health care, social security, literally every other domestic issue you could name, and some you probably couldn't. None of these were discussed by Palin, but they will be issues that will be raised before her quite soon.

Let's start an office pool and see how the rollout goes. For her big national television interview, will she start on Larry King, or on one of the morning shows. Or will the team play safe and keep her in the family over at FOX? Olbermann is out, no doubt, but what about Katie Couric over at CBS? Wouldn't that be smart.

The clock is ticking, and like a new car that loses value the minute those tires hit the street, this candidacy will be coming down from the atmosphere the moment the gavel comes down in St. Paul.