[Professor S]

Germ, you make good points, but I think Palin's hand was forced by the media that went into overdrive digging up dirt on her. Quite honestly, Obama and Co. don't need to sling mud, CNN and MSNBC will do it for them. They dug up more on Palin and her FAMILY who are not pulic figures in 3 days then they did on Obama in a year. I never want to hear that media bias is a myth ever again. It looks like the media's coverage is backfiring on Obama, though, lookig at the latest polls. They're dead even again according to Rasmussen.

For content, I really liked Fred Thompson's speech when he discussed the economy in simple terms and I think McCain's was spot on.

EDIT: Sorry, those weren't good points. Palin has a tax surplus as Governor of Alaska and has been a great reformer of that state. And you make a big deal of $9,000 of debt? Seriously? Shit, I'll lend it to them. That affects your opinion of her ability to lead a city?

As for earmarks, Mayor and Governor are very different. When your a mayor, you're silly not to take them when they are offered, and she did come around on the bridge to nowhere well before her national career goals came about.

As for John McCain, you can say what you like about him being a "ggod ol' boy", but fortunately for him he has a record that states otherwise. He has rebutted his fellow republicans MANY times, but her does agree more often then not because philosophically he is a conservative when it comes to finances and many social issues. Just because he voted like e republican more times than not doesn't disqualify him as a independent thinker.