He made the case for why he and not Obama is the correct choice to bring change to DC and to be Commander in Chief.
He isn't the orator that Obama or Palin are, but he was genuine and was speaking primarily to the voters in the red states who love their country. My guess is it served its purpose very well.
You’re fooling yourself. He just threw away any hope of a decent convention bounce by rambling clueless about things that we already know without explaining what his vision is and how he intends to get there.