McCain has shredded his once heroic status and descended into the Rovian slime that he once abhorred. He looks like Mr. Magoo on a bender.

Although he may now be performing back flips and calling his more angry supporters out, it's WAY too late to kiss and make up. In the meantime, besides Palin, he's sent another manicured Barbie out to take up the sleazy slack -- Cindy, his suddenly vocal wife. YIKES! I find her absolutely frightening.

McCain needs to look up the meaning of the word "accountability." He made the decision to cynically choose Sarah Palin as his VP. He made the decision to surround himself with the lowest of the low of political operatives. To put it simply, he sold out.

He will reap the filth that he has sewn on November 4. And then we can all take a long, hot shower.

I agree with you 100%.

Sarah Palin won't have to worry about Biden at the VP debate -- judging by her abysmally naive performance with Charles Gibson, she is more than capable of destroying herself with no outside help.

For a moment I thought I was watching Tina Fey rehearsing for "Saturday Night Live"...but then the truth hit me like a ton of lipstick.

The horror, the horror.

I will always adore Camille Paglia even when she makes me furious.

I knew Paglia on Palin was coming...but I had hoped that Hurricane Camille would see beyond the phony facade of Palin's cliched Frontier Woman persona and peer into the depths of the Rovian mind-set behind the tinted glasses. Palin is playing McCain and the old white Republican fossils like a Stradivarius. Show the cleavage...drag out the kids...cock the rifle...cook up some moose mousse...it's like a bad cable TV series starring Jane Seymour and Charlton Heston. Of course, Americans love it because she's exactly like THEM. This is the huge problem with identity politics and it's one of the reasons we have had to endure George W. Bush's Cowboy diplomacy for the past eight years.

Palin may be charismatic and attractive -- but she is hardly a feminist like Madonna, who changed global culture nearly singlehandedly with her taboo-trashing sexual persona. Palin is a reactionary prude with zero vision regarding the future of feminism -- or for the country. She's as retro as a bustle.

She's been on the national stage for 5 minutes...she has 10 minutes left before her 15 minutes run out. One can only hope Americans see through the Ronald Reagan in drag act before November 4.

Palin is Eve Harrington in stilettos. Clever, cunning and altogether Machiavellian, she has more in common with Dick Cheney than the Material Girl from Detroit who brought joy to the world so many Presidents ago.

After last night's bubbly coming out party for Sarah, tonight felt like the hangover has already begun.

McCain's speech was the equivalent of watching paint dry. I bet 90% of the delegates wish they could flip the ticket...but they're stuck with Geriatric John and I suppose they'll live to froth at the mouth another day.

McCain blew it -- and I think he also blew the election.

Sarah Palin gave a classically scabrous Bush/Rove speech this evening and she undoubtedly fired up the base. But that's about it.

I think Mrs. Palin should enjoy her moment in the partisan sun...because it's going to be all downhill from now. The outright lies her speech contained this evening will surely be dissected by the press and while the conservative base couldn't care less, millions of other voters won't fall for the vacuous propaganda.

Cynical, snide and disingenuous, Sarah Palin is nothing more than Dick Cheney in lipstick, to use the operative word of the night.

If Americans fall for her pump and pony show, they'll get what they deserve. Nothing.

I felt like I was watching "The Twilight Zone."

The 50's time-warp feel was so banal that I turned it off after Fred Thompson made a fool of himself pretending to be Ronald Reagan.

Poor Laura Bush. She looked like she had been lobotomized.

If this is the party of the "mavericks," count me out. These people are utterly clueless and complete embarrassments to the nation at large.

Well, of course it's tokenism -- of the most egregious kind. What's worse, it shows a bottomless well of flat-out stupidity on

McCain's part.

Picked soley to shore up the right-wing base, how could the moldy "Maverick" possibly imagine this pro-life, anti-environment, pro-creationism, anti-gay lightweight as someone the Hillary camp would support? Is this what he thinks of women? That they purely vote for gender, irrespective of their policies? I'm surprised he didn't pick OJ as VP with that kind of thinking.

If John McCain wins in November, America gets what it richly deserves -- that is, nothing.

As someone who has never liked HRC, I have to hand it to her -- tonight was a triumph not only for her but for the Democratic party as a whole. If she was faking it, she's truly on an acting par with Helen Mirren, but I don't think she was. I heard the emotion in her voice. She believed what she was saying. She has laid down the challenge to her supporters -- now we will see if they can rise above the disappointments of the past and move on. It seems to me that Hillary certainly has.

Now, of course, we cut to Bill. Perhaps we shouldn't. His strange comments yesterday about candidates promising the world and then not delivering coupled with the news that he's skipping Obama's speech seems so childish and petulant compared to Hillary's attitude. If he spends the majority of his speech tonight trumpeting his own administration, it will be a mistake. If he is truly concerned about the accusations of racism that have been leveled at him, he would be wise to heap a little praise on Obama before basking in his own spotlight.