Governor Palin’s acceptance speech sparked numerous posts and commentary, the reactions were strong, both positive and negative.  However, Senator McCain’s speech seems to have passed by without much comment.

Senator McCain’s personal story and heroism in Vietnam is indeed remarkable- as he reminded of us so eloquently last night.  But the rest of his speech and presentation was remarkably unremarkable.  No new ideas and no indication of a real break with the Bush policies of the last eight years.

I thought former Bush speech writer, Michael Gerson summed it up best: