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Okay, so he won me over. So sue me.
This for me was the most striking part of the speech...that challenges are not to be avoided at all cost, but your character is how you respond to challenges.
I thought he gave a very good speech
Great speech. McCain/Palin, a force to be reckoned with.
Who picked Tom Ridge to speak tonight?
I have a couple of killer dogs that would have been warmer than him.
What a contrast between Obama and McCain - one is like a whiny teenager who is mad that the world isn't "fair" - the other is a grown-up adult.
Also — “Do not be distracted by the ground noise and static!”
Standing ovation followed!
The McCain/ Palin ticket is about real change. About changing the nature of government and government programs to match the needs of the 21st century. McCain sharply contasted himself to 0-bama with Mcain/ Palin being leaders of a better tomorrow not just some politician promising to spend and spend and spend our tax dollars.
I will be comfortable in the voting booth this November.
McCain/Palin will be my choice.
Well done Senator (soon to be President) McCain. You are the man!
I think the McCain/Palin ticket will unify the Republican party again after hearing tonight’s speech. The Dems are whining all over the TV & radio!
The great part is that there were no put-downs, just straight talk about who had more actual experience. I think this ticket will bring in a lot of Republican voters who were reticent about McCain a few weeks ago.
McCain’s da man and Palin is the W O M A N
What a team...If they are not a winning team i don’t know what is...I hope they win by a huge margin in November and then surprise Americans by restoring America and the Republican Party to it’s true good roots that benefits all.
Let me just say that McCain was not my first, second, third, fourth, or even fifth choice.
I do not agree with him on a few issues. I am still pissed at him over a few things he’s done over the last 10 years.
But I do respect him and I am willing to trust him.
He won me over for good tonight.
Sarah Palin won me over 3 months ago, while she was just a political fantasy VP pick.
I don’t like some of the things McCain has done. I am still FURIOUS with him over the Amnesty deal.
But, he has seemingly moved to the right. His choice of Palin GREATLY encourages me. Had he picked Ridge or Lieberman, I would have stayed home.
I have changed my mind and I will vote for McCain/Palin.
"We believe everyone has something to contribute and deserves the opportunity to reach their God-given potential from the boy whose descendents arrived on the Mayflower to the Latina daughter of migrant workers. Were all Gods children and were all Americans."
The way I take it, underneath the sugar coating and aside from the intoxicating distraction of adding Sarah to the ticket, he slipped in his intentions to continue his efforts toward shamnesty for illegals.
I'm not happy about that and illegal immigration is still a hot issue in my book. Or did we all forget about it?
He may struggle with the teleprompter but that doesn’t take away from the message that he presented. It was the exact opposite of the Democrats. It showed more pride in self-reliance (not really the word I want but its late. :-))and none of the whining and ‘woe is me’ that we saw last week.
I think I figured out last night why McCain is always trying to "reach across the aisle" to make nice with the Democrats. Because of his POW experience he sees them as Americans first. He refuses to believe that deep down inside any American could be anything but a loyal American - despite differing political views. This is the paradigm he lived with and which sustained him through over five years of awful captivity. It was always "we Americans" against the enemy.
McCain has yet (and probably never will) to flesh out the notion that anyone with American citizenship can be just as much a part of the enemy to his beloved America as his torturers. To him, any American is "one of us". He just has to find the right key to unlock their good will and patriotism and he is more than willing to compromise with them and accept their differences to do so. Just like he had to do in captivity.
For the first time since Fred Thompson dropped out of the race, I am not voting against someone. I am voting for someone. I didn’t plan to like John McCain last night... but he won me over. It was the end of the speech that did it.