You know what they say about opinions; everybody's got one:

  • Roger Simon says that Joe Biden will look like hackopathropus erectus next to Palin. (I would have said 'antediluvian apparatchik', for the alliterative effect, but that's me.)
  • Katherine Miller at The Next Right has a comprehensive but concise overview of the speech.
  • Ed Morrissey liked the speech.
  • John Fund at the Wall Street Journal writes that Palin may be a "future Margaret Thatcher", which I suppose isn't as bad as people saying that Barack Obama is the second Abraham Lincoln. Considering that 600,000 Americans died in a civil war during the administration of the first Abraham Lincoln, I'd just as soon not be around for his second coming.
  • The Washington Post looks to have pretty good coverage of the speech. I only read the first page, though.
  • Oh, and the Boston Herald doesn't like the way Sarah Palin does her hair.

Update: Michael Tomasky gives a fair take from the left at the Guardian (!), and then faces cuticle-bursting rage from the commentariat. To quote one of the enlightened, "As for Palin, she is a bell weather [sic] for the mental state of America. If she helps win the Presidency for McCain, then America gets the trailor-trash [sic] hick veep it deserves. Its [sic] not as if its [sic] the first time America has had a really nasty, unpleasant, and intolerable woman in high office." Or married to someone in high office, I might add - there does seem to be a fair amount of projection being directed at Palin.