• Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
    McCain gets through it

    ST. PAUL—Eight years after he first ran for president, Senator John McCain of Arizona accepted his party’s nomination Thursday night with a speech that touched necessary bases, but was considerably less well received than the one his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, delivered the night before.

  • Joe Conason - New York Observer
    Is Palin a tax-slashing conservative? Or a big-spending socialist?

    Ad libbing as he warmed up the Republican convention crowd for their vice presidential nominee, Rudolph Giuliani quipped: “She got an 80 percent approval rating. You don’t get those kinds of numbers in New York!” Of course, getting those numbers would be just as easy for a New York mayor or any other mayor or governor if they were able – like the charming hockey mom -- to send $1200 to every man, woman and child in their jurisdiction thanks to a windfall profits tax on the oil industry.

  • Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
    Why do football coaches hate Democrats?

    ST. PAUL, Minn. -- One constituency in particular has proven especially fruitful for the Republican Party through the years: Prominent football coaches. For whatever reason - a natural sympathy for autocratic leadership, perhaps? - the G.O.P. has had no shortage of sideline generals to showcase through the years, a tradition that the party renewed when former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs addresses the Republican National Convention.

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