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.

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.

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.

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.

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.