Conforming to his maverick image, John McCain has picked the first female Vice President, a slightly controversial person in her own right, Sarah Palin. Lots of attention was focusing upon Palin herself rather than McCain. Her lack of experience, a 17-year-old pregnant unmarried daughter, and who the hell was she anyway? A governor of Alaska, of all places!Fortunately for the Republicans she turned out to be the darling of the convention, firing up the party faithful using her humble origins, humor and stilettos to attack the Democrats. Yet McCain still had plenty to do, he is the party’s nomination after all.
McCain needs to distance himself from Bush and the fact that he didn’t show up at the convention can only have been a good thing for McCain. Would McCain just be more of the McSame? The attacks on his rivals were effective and overall the speech ticked most of the boxes and contained few to no surprises. However, as expected, he never set the convention on light with his rhetoric. He filled in some details on economic policy and his biggest theme was to regain the trust in the American people.
McCain didn’t set the tone with his speech but more so with the choice of his running mate. This race is by no means over before it has started. Polls for the last couple of months have consistently put the two candidates’ neck-a-neck. One recent poll even put McCain ahead for the first time. Time will tell how this one will pan out.
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