Live-Blogging John McCain
FINAL THOUGHTS: John McCain looked like a man reflecting on a distinguished career and life of service, not like a man embarking on his greatest life challenge. This was less of a convention and more of a retirement party.
Any momentum Sarah Palin gave them last night has been violently halted dead in its tracks. No matter the excitement surrounding Palin, the fact of the matter is that John McCain is the nominee, not Sarah Palin. She’s exciting and galvanizing for the Republican base — that cannot be denied — and she very well may be the future of the party, but she’s not the party right now. John McCain is the tired face of the Republican party and they will have to live with that for now.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is being buried by balloons.
According to Liz, McCain said the word “fight” 25 times in his speech, but she didn’t learn anything else.
Who wrote this fucking country song? Raising McCain?
Using community colleges to train people to find good jobs in their communities — isn’t that community organizing.
“She’s [Sarah Palin] worked with her hands and her nose.” WTF?
What the hell is going on? Some woman just went nuts in the crowd. And McCain said “my friends” two more times.
“My friends.” I wonder how many times he’ll say that in the next twenty minutes?
So this is what Facism looks like: war heroes, cloaked in the American flag.
Cindy McCain scares me. Not as much as Sarah Palin, but she still scares me. What is it with McCain and beauty pageant contestants?
Birth defects! I wonder why he said that.
McCain should avoid talking about wives and marriages. Most people don’t realize what happened to his first wife.
Maybe we’ll see some more 9/11 imagery tonight.
They put McCain in front of a green backdrop again. How awful.