The Morning After The Morning After…

I’m pressed for time again so this is going to be short and ugly… Overall I think John McCain delivered a great speech last night. Unfortunately the under card left a lot to be desired… I knew it would be hard to top or even match Wednesday night’s lineup but jeez, I just about fell asleep waiting for the main event!

The one thing I didn’t hear last night that I was hoping he would touch on is correcting Bush’s poor monetary policy. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday morning:

In debates over the Bush economic record, the dollar’s decline and its companion rise in prices are the great missing links. Democrats don’t mention it because they’d rather indict the Bush tax cuts as a way to justify a huge new tax increase. Wall Street and big business don’t talk about it because they’ve been complicit in urging devaluation. And the media mostly ignore it because so few of them even think about monetary policy. The mystery is why more Republicans don’t regret it because the political consequences have cost them dearly.

I was hoping McCain would seize on the dollar’s troubles… It would have allowed him to draw a clear policy distinction between himself and Bush it have and highlighted one of the chief causes of our economic problems.

Ed Morrissey has a good analysis of McCain’s speech here and a convention recap here.

For videos and transcripts see here.

The Morning After…

I’m pressed for time this morning so I’ll keep this short… If you’re like me you watched Sarah Palin’s speech last night with a critical eye. Personally, I thought she knocked it out of the park. She showed why grassroots conservatives love her and why smart liberals are worried or even scared… The dumb ones though are still clinging to the “she’s just a small town hick” meme and offering insightful commentary like “someone wrote that speech for her”.

Ed Morrissey has more here.

Side notes…

Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee, Linda Lingle and Rudy Giuliani all hit home runs with their speeches last night. Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina and Mitt Romney also gave great speeches but they didn’t quite connect with me for some reason.

Videos, bios and transcripts are available here.