It was the last and hopefully final day of the Repub convention. After Gramm spoke and all the surrogates had sat down, McCain came to the podium for his acceptance speech.

This speech fizzled. We know all about his maverick status and he talked about it, but it was all about the past not the future. Yes, Irene, he mentioned that he had been a POW. It was as usual all about the problems with the country and no solutions. So he and his running mate are pretty much on the same Republican page. There was nothing innovative about the speech, nothing that would show he was going to change anything in Washington.

Maybe he should have had the same person that wrote Palin’s speech write his. Hers moved the base, his snoozed the base. He has a Bush-esque grin when he is pleased with anything he has said.  It is the same smile a used car salesman has when he has you bent over the hood of a lemon.  He also recycled a Bush slogan that education is the next civil rights issue.

All in all, McCain’s speech was uninspiring and pretty much old hat. No substance, just a list of problems and a review of his past. But I guess if that is all he has, he just has to run with that ball and pray that the American people are swayed by a compelling story and not issues.

Did anyone see or hear anything in this speech that sounded like a promising future awaits us?