Listening to the speech, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.
Most of McCain's speech was a snooze, delivered in the tone of a kindly old uncle reminiscing about World War II before fretting about how how those pesky Russians are stirring up trouble again.
Tonight, McCain gave us a big dose of Reagan's national greatness flourish in a dignified, genteel and pleasant manner. His speaking style was reminiscent of Reagan -- without the memorable lines.
McCain has no plan to reduce oil imports -- indeed, throughout his career he has explicitly rejected every plan that might reduce oil imports.
Only by attacking McCain's and Bush's policies can Democrats put Palin in a corner and make her prove herself.
If after nine months and hundreds of speeches you are under the impression that McCain is "resistant" to talk about "his time as a P.O.W.," then you are, quite frankly, useless.
We've just seen the end of a four-day orgy of lies and gratuitous, harsh, baseless attacks. Here are fifteen clear, forceful statements Democrats and independents can use to to counterattack.
Obama can be described as many things: U.S. senator, state senator, organizer, author, teacher of law. For the sake of his campaign, he ought to revert distinctly now to the role of explainer.
Before it all goes blurry and fictional in the retelling, allow me to recapitulate my personal list of astonishments from Denver.
If an undecided voter responded strongly to the yelling from Mitt, Rudy and Palin, and then watched McCain, they were probably disappointed and let-down by McCain.
I forget how white Republicans are, and mean-spirited, and thin-lipped. I watch them and I think, is anyone buying this? Does anyone think we're better off today? That we're "winning" the war? Does anyone really think that executive experience trumps wisdom and intellect?
John McCain's nomination speech was so flat, so disjointed, so utterly devoid of any vision or affirmative plan for the U.S. -- it's hard to say much about it, other than it sucked.
A Republican stalwart who played a key role in implementing the Bush agenda, in his speech tonight, McCain attempted to recast himself as an "outsider" eager to clean up the mess he helped create.
