You're getting used to this aren't you? Well, don't. Dang, I'm tired. My hits are slowing a bit because Google and the guys (probably girls, too) searching have ostensibly figured out that there aren't naked pictures of Sarah Palin here (and by here, I mean my blog MelissaClouthier.com, or anywhere. Believe me, when they show up, they will be here with bells on.

8:06 PM Lindsey Graham

.... is boring. His hair part has me distracted. We won in Iraq. Boring delivery. Boring. Boring. Boring. "I'm not saying that Barack Obama doesn't care, I'm saying he doesn't get it."

Instead of talking about him, let's talk about music. Since you guys think I need an education about country music, let's get started here and now. What music should be playing at the convention, because my opinion is that has been terrible. Tonight, they were playing music from Top Gun, Fall in to the Danger Zone. What the heck?

8:15 PM Tom Ridge

So I take it that tonight is boring night. No Rudy. No Mitt (although he was kinda boring). I'm also thinking that it was a good thing that none of these guys were chosen for VP. Whew.

8:18 PM Not a lot of claps for much of anything. I hope McCain himself is less boring than his buddies because good grief, this is painful. I find me distracted by Tom Ridge's orange looking make-up.

Maybe the strategy is to pick the most boring speakers so that McCain looks like a firebrand. That shouldn't be too tough, at this point. Phew. And evidently, during the commercial there was a great video of Sarah Palin and it brought the house down, but we missed it. Stink. Waiting for YouTube. Is it there yet?

8:25 PM Video about Cindy

MA in Special Ed--She's first person in her family to get degree.

Had her kids. Organized American Medical Team. Now her work overseas. It's weird. What about her mom? There's all this talk about her dad. Her father is her inspiration. John McCain helped her find her path, but it is Cindy McCain who accomplishes life-changing things around the world. Her father told her to leave the world a better place than it started. That was a weird video.

Now Cindy!

Now introducing America to seven kids. She looks glamorous. Long, flowing blond hair and a teal suit. She looks soft. Her eyes sparkly bright. "This campaign is not about us, it's about our exceptional country." She strikes me as somewhat like Laura Bush, in being shy. And it looks like they're having trouble with the teleprompter again.

If nothing else, the speakers tonight have demonstrated how remarkable Sarah Palin was last night. It is no easy thing to give a speech like this.

"I hit a home run in John McCain" Huh. I'll let that go. He's a good father. His example of honesty and honor. "John showers us with unconditional love and support, that every family dreams of." I think McCain demonstrated a sense of this commitment with the Palins. Speaking of.....Palin is getting the biggest cheers.

She'll be a good First Lady. Like her husband, lots of experience and lots of service.

UPDATE: 9:04 PM

McCain video. Meanwhile, we're having technical difficulties. It's getting fixed right now. Stick around.

When you've lived in a box....Fred Thompson narrating.

"John McCain abhors waste." "He has seen too much, to think petty. Country first." When you've lived in a box....Fred Thompson narrating.

Here's John McCain:

Gold tie. Dark gray suit. Looks good. Crowd is wild. McCain is standing on the end of a runway and looks like he's right in among the people. He looks presidential. Ann Althouse is right, though, wow, women have an advantage with HDTV because of make-up. It's hard for these guys to look "natural".

He accepts with gratitude, humility and confidence.

Why kelly green behind him? "She's more my inspiration, than I am hers." "I know that she will make a great first lady."

9:22 CST Now the crowd is getting into it. "We're going to win this election." Another Code Pink lady causing a fuss. And now everyone chanting "USA"! "Don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static" he says laughing. The crowd is going crazy. "Americans want us to stop yelling at each other, okay?" Off script, he's better. More interruptions.

"I'll stand on your side and fight for your future. And I've found just the right partner to help shake up Washington, DC, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska." Huge cheers. "And I want to thank everyone here and all around America for giving her such a warm welcome last night." Now he's listing her accomplishments. John McCain is very glad he picked her for running mate, I think. "I'm very proud to introduce her to the country, but I can't wait to introduce her to Washington." "Let me just warn ....change is coming."

10:32: "Melissa is a little under the weather and I am taking over at this point." -- John Hawkins

10:33: McCain started slow and seemed like the protesters got him a touch off of his game, but now he's back on his game. I am not a huge fan of these anecdotal stories, but it's part of McCain's mavericky bipartisan game.

10:35: Republicans lost their trust. Corrupt Republicans. We valued power over principles. We're going to change that. Good stuff!

10:36: We believe in hard work, risk takers, and letting people keep their fruits of their accomplishments, culture of life, etc, etc. Good line.

10:40: Now he's drawing distinctions between him and Obama. Very general, very basic. Good basic, stump speech stuff, but nothing really cutting so far.

10:41: He ran through the conservative agenda stuff and now he's hitting more material designed to appeal to middle of the road voters.

10:42: Education is the civil rights issue of this century.

10:44: McCain vs. Obama on education. Stumbling over a few words here.

10:46: Now he moves on to energy. Obama wants energy independence without more oil and nuclear power. We need to show how Americans lead.

10:48: Now Johnny Mac is getting on to foreign policy.Al-Qaeda is still out there. We need to support Georgia. We can't turn a blind eye to lawlessness. I'm not afraid of them. I am prepared for them

10:51: I hate war. It's terrible beyond imagination. I will work to build a stable and lasting peace.

10:52: We need change things and fight the partisan rancor in DC. I will reach out to anyone to get the country moving again. I have that record and Senator Obama does not.

10:54: He will get independents and democrats in his administration. He doesn't who gets the credit, as long as it gets it done.

10:55: McCain gets back to military service. It's good to hear talk about that, but they have hit that too hard at the convention.

10:57: I really don't think a lot of prisoners who lived had it a lot worse than McCain despite what he said.

11:00: I wasn't my own man anymore, I was my country's. Good line. I almost wish he would have ended with that.

11:02: Beatiful, subtle jab at Obama.

11:02: I will fight for you every day. Fight with me. Fight for what's right for our country. Stand up to defend our country from it's enemies. Stand up and fight. We are Americans. We never hide from history, we make history -- and that's it. Good note to end on.

Summary: McCain, famously, is much better working off the cuff than from a teleprompter. So, perhaps not surprisingly, he didn't toss off a lot of great lines. Furthermore, the speech was, like Barack Obama's speech, overly long.

My guess is that a lot of pundits will not like this speech because it doesn't have great lines, it didn't tear down Obama, and it wasn't really designed to appeal to conservatives.

However, despite the fact that he lacked Obama's eloquence, I'd say McCain gave a better political speech than Obama did for one, simple reason: he walked out there with one goal, which was to do a speech that appealed to undecided voters -- and his speech was effective on that level.

Grade: B