CPAC came to a close this afternoon with none other than Sarah Palin bringing down the house. She began with “Obama has transformed a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship” and never let off the gas.

A brief heckler interruption with that annoying “mic check” thing, but otherwise, as they say, this is what they came to hear:

You’ve gotta laugh at the photo Reuters is running. Obama gets halos, Palin gets this.