David Warren of The Ottawa Citizen selects Sarah Palin as man of the year.

And indeed, she was the better "man" in all our choices in 2008. With any luck, she'll be at the top of a Conservative ticket in 2012.

My selection for "Man of the Year 2008" is: Sarah Palin.

The citation reads: "For a politician of real accomplishment and promise, who has somehow managed, for the first time since Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, to cut through the verbiage and posturing of an election campaign, and look an electorate in the eye; a politician whose policy instincts are sound, whose wits are sharp, and whose moral vision is unclouded -- who drives all the right people crazy, across party lines."