Even the conservatives think this is madness.

From Ramesh Ponnuru of the Corner/National Review:

(On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)

If the right-wing punditry is making jokes like this it can’t be good for McCain/Palin.

Wow, she sounds like a student government president.

Also, it seems like she’s setting the ticket up as a status quo shake-up. Even though, of course, they’re running to preserve the status quo. She’s not really saying anything that reveals the ticket’s conservative bent. She sounds like a Democrat, in fact, I think they’ve lifted just about everything from Obama’s speech (though somewhat inelegantly).

Will it work? Will the media come to her rescue when Biden wipes the floor with her in the debate?

Listening to Sarah Palin, I’m reminded of Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy.”  The focus of her speech is her family, her kids, her husbands, etc. and not politics.  And she sounds like a mom — she doesn’t sound like a politician.  Which could be good, I suppose, except I’m not sensing a lot of confidence from her.

“Wow,” I’m sure people are thinking.  “She’s just like me!”

But is she really qualified to be Vice President?  Jesus.

Did McCain just hand Obama the election?

Wow, it turns out Palin is under investigation for having fired her ex-brother-in-law as a result of a custody battle between him and his sister.

This is truly crazy.  I was depressed when I woke up this morning, but man did this news cheer me up.

Obama’s speech was moving, exhilarating and in many ways a relief. The theory that Obama has been playing rope-a-dope now appears to be correct. Let McCain attack, let the pundits lower their expectations and then … wham! Knock him back back into ropes where he belongs.

Politico’s Roger Simon said it best:

“Obama’s speech soared many times, but it always came back to earth. And it usually came back to earth on John McCain’s head.”

You can watch the whole thing here: