I’m not sure if I can handle this. Before McCain, we’ve got Tom Ridge and Cindy McCain — brutally bad speakers. I might not make it. I feel convention fatigue setting in.

Distract by this Blogginghead diavlog.

All this talk about the torture of John McCain, brings this to mind.

John McCain says that when he takes office, after the other guy leaves, he’s going to set up a system of school vouchers. Yeeeah, no he’s not. Even if the national government was able to take over the education system which is run by state and local government, Republican voters don’t want school vouchers. It’s just never going to happen. So, when McCain says he’s in favor of school vouchers, that really means he has no plan for schools.

Man, he is wooden.

I’m glad that his mom finally stood up and waved. I have to admit that whenever they showed her on the TV yesterday, either Steve or I muttered, "where am I?"

Oh, that was difficult to watch. He repeated the same tired lines over and over. The strangest disconnect is when he talked about reforming Washington and change. How can a guy who has been part of the Washington establishment and who has had a fellow Republican in the White House for eight years even make statements like that with a straight face?

McCain’s in a tough spot. I think he really wants to say that the Bush administration was a cluster-fuck and he needs to fix things. But he can’t go there. Instead, he’s just pretending that Bush doesn’t exist.

Steve and I are debating whether Palin is going to lead the pack in 2012 or she’s a flash in the pan.