GI John and Superwoman

Senator John McCain accepted the Republican's presidential nomination last at the Xcel Center in St. Paul to thunderous applause. While McCain is no great orator, though he did surpass Lindsey Graham, Tom Ridge, and Tim Pawlenty, his speech was about substance over style. McCain's speech was part Adam Smith, part Edmund Burke, part Milton Friedman, and part Russell Kirk. The speech emphasized free markets and lower taxes, national security and energy independence, choice and personal responsibility, and a conservative framework to unite the party. And make no mistake, the Republicans are united and McCain is leading the charge! "Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big-spending, do-nothing, me-first-country-second Washington crowd: Change is coming." The Republicans have not been this united since 1984 when Ronald Reagan defeated Walter Mondale. It will be interesting to see what kind of bounce McCain gets from the convention. Overall, the Republicans put on an effective convention championing John McCain while attacking Obama led by Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Guiliani, and VP nominee, Sarah Palin.

Check out below what Dick Morris had to say about the Republican convention. You can check out more of Morris' stuff at www.dickmorris.com.

"First, the GOP convention managed to disprove the central premise of the Democratic assault on McCain: that he is a clone of President Bush. The Republicans wisely marginalized Bush to a non-prime-time videotaped speech, and sprinkled disappearing dust on Dick Cheney.

The speeches, and the very fact of the Palin designation, repudiated Washington and focused on how McCain is an agent of change - this ticket is populist, reformist, anti-establishment, grass-roots and anti-corruption.

And McCain last night made the point plain: "Let me offer an advance warning to the old, big-spending, do-nothing, me-first-country-second Washington crowd: Change is coming."

If Bush were the nominee, this campaign wouldn't suffice to push voters away from Obama. But now that McCain has moved decisively away from the administration, Obama's lost much (at least) of his advantage on the issue of reform. Now other doubts about Obama could elect McCain.

The turning point was the designation of Palin and the personal attacks on her. By stirring up a storm, Democrats assured that Palin would speak to 37 million Americans - just a million fewer than watched Obama's acceptance speech.

Anecdotal evidence already suggests that women may have a gut reaction to the establishment's sexist assault on a woman candidate - and flock to McCain. They've seen him stake everything on this one big move of turning toward a woman - in direct contrast to Obama's deliberate decision not to name a woman.

They've seen the media and Democrats gang up on her and do their worst. And they've seen Palin stand up and stuff the challenge right back down the establishment's throat. All this may have created an entirely new dynamic in the race.

Now the Republicans must battle to underscore the threats this country faces, economically and internationally, and that we can't let an ingenue take over. They must capitalize on McCain's aggressive determination to bring reform to Washington and to emphasize Obama's inexperience and failure to grasp how to change Washington.

But it was McCain's gutsy selection of Palin that opened the door to victory."

There are 61 days until the presidential election. And, it's been 2,748 days since there's been a terrorist attack on US soil. Good day and God bless!