Sarah Palin's vice presidential pre-nomination acceptance speech was supposed to excite the base and prove that she can lead our nation.
All she's proven over the last 45 minutes is that she can read off a TelePrompTer for long stretches of time.
Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney ruled this night. Palin should have quit while she was ahead.
The lipstick comment? That was funny.
The endless barrage of Why You Shouldn't Think I Don't Have Experience, Here, Let Me Name Some Foreign Countries And Talk About My Family A Little Bit More talking points has now gone well into the 11 o'clock news and put countless Americans to sleep.
The one thing Palin had going for her -- once you discard the ethics investigation, the pregnant kid, the earmarks, the "Bridge to Nowhere" double talk, the secession talk, her hubby's DUI and other yet-to-be-aired baggage potentially going against her -- was mystique. She's new. She's different. She comes from a place most of us will never visit.
The best way to kill mystique is with overexposure. Congratulations, Team McCain. You poured on the dull and showed America that your trophy vice can talk and talk and talk us all into a haze of dispassion.
