So after watching Cindy McCain tote around baby Trig and the ever-present camera pan to the Palin family (zooming in always on the person holding the baby), I got that same feeling I had after watching the Obama girls on stage talking to their daddy via telescreen. Part of Palin's appeal is that she's young and has a big, tight knit family. "We need to get a family like that!" was I'm sure being yelled around the McCain camp after the DNC. I thought she had a lot of meat in her speech, and everyone knows she's not going to be suckered into the Beltway Business. I'm going to try to ignore that I disagree fundamentally with a lot of beliefs and try to look at the speech as a speech. She wasn't nervous, and she can read well off a teleprompter, unlike Guiliani who butchered every other sentence. I did think her tactics were a little low when attacking Obama, basically calling him merely a celebrity. I feel like McCain offers more respect for Obama than that, and last night seemed way too much like a circus with no ringmaster. I look forward to McCain's speech because I hope it will be serious. I don't mean that Palin didn't say anything serious; she certainly did. She made some very valid points-especially about energy conservation and education. But her solid ideas were shadowed by her jokes about the Democrats. I feel like the DNC speakers argued that McCain would perpetuate our current problems, but they didn't attack Republicans. I've talked with many Republicans who said they felt that Obama reached out to all parties in his speech. I certainly did not feel like Palin wants my vote. With a race this close, slamming the door in voters' faces is a mistake.