[patriciaruth]

Thanks, FRiend.

I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was. He and his advisors don’t have a clue about how to connect with the undecided, the moderates, the young.

BTW, the United We Stand banner was signed by a Stryker Brigade at Mosul and sent to all of us from our adopted soldiers.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I know im my heart that Reagan, Snow, Nixon, Goldwater,Ford,and the many others that have left us were at that convention tonight watching together.

[sam_paine]

I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was.

It was that bad.

[meandog]

Thanks, FRiend. I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was. He and his advisors don’t have a clue about how to connect with the undecided, the moderates, the young.

I couldn't disagree more! You Bushbots just don't get it and apparently never will! The countrty is fed up with No. 43 and is yearning for someone who has proven time and again that he will put his nation and its people before conservative politics (the proof is in Presdient Bush's current approval polling). John McCain went after the Democrat moderates and independents who loved Ronald Reagan and elected him twice; and he got them!

[Corin Stormhands]

I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was. He and his advisors don’t have a clue about how to connect with the undecided, the moderates, the young.

You've got to be FReepin' kidding me.

I was one of the last to jump on the McCain train. And quite frankly it wasn't really solidified until he chose Sarah Palin to run with him.

But tonight, yes I thought his initial delivery was slow. But when he told (not Fred, not the video, not anyone else), when he told the POW story, I was in tears.

And by the end, I was ready to scream along with the crowd.

Do I agree with him on every issue? Of course not.

But tonight, I love John McCain.

[Mr. Silverback]

I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was. He and his advisors don’t have a clue about how to connect with the undecided, the moderates, the young.

I disagree, but let me remind you of something: The acceptance speech is not where things are won or lost.

Remember how good Dubya's 2004 speech was, and the 14 point bounce he got...and also recall how terribly he did in the first debate with Kerry. Yet he came roaring back in the last few weeks.

I this campaign is going to begin taking Obama apart in the next few weeks, exposing him for what he is:

"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1735)

[Antoninus]

I’m just depressed by how awful that speech was.

I don't like McCain much and I thought the speech was fine. He's not a great orator and nothing will make him one. He is what he is.

That said, I heard something today on the radio here in Philadelphia that should make a lot of you happy. The #1 rated sports-talker who is a long-time dyed-in-the-wool democrat endorsed McCain today and smacked Obama around. His callers were in total freak-out mode. A guy like him dissing Obama will give a lot of blue-collar Democrats in Philly the cover they need to vote for McCain.

I foresee McCain taking PA in two months...