John Cole, lapsed Republican, has the best summary of tonight I’ve found:

The best thing about the night- as the press is dissecting Obama’s masterful performance, I flipped to a panel on PBS about the speech. Dolores Kearns Goodwin was talking at length, in the shadow of the Obama speech, that McCain needs to show he can use a teleprompter.

They are so well and truly f****d, and they deserve it.

Seriously, I was thinking about this while watching Obama. If McCain can make it through his speech without 5 awkward grins, I’ll be impressed. And that’s a pretty damn low bar after watching Obama, Kerry, Gore, and (unbelievably good) Clinton.

The second observation: I mentioned to Heidi that Obama still wasn’t quite as good as Bill Clinton yet. The thing is, I don’t remember Clinton being as good as Obama is now at the start of his first term. Does anyone remember his convention speech? I don’t think I watched it, being a Republican back then…

Update: Who is this man and what have you done with Pat Buchanan:

Um, wow and wtf.