MCCAIN ACCEPTS NOMINATION, SAYS HE’LL BRING CHANGE

The Arizonan accepts the Republican nomination for president with "gratitude, humility and confidence." "Let there be no doubt, my friends, we’re going to win this election." "I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not." Also plays up his maverick image. "I don’t work for a party. I don’t work for a special interest. I don’t work for myself. I work for you." Ends with energetic riff, driving the crowd wild: "Fight for what’s right for our country.... We never hide from history! We make history!" Read prepared remarks here. Disrupted two or three times by protestors. Responds by saying "please don't be diverted by the ground noise and the static." Obama response: McCain "didn’t mention that he’s been a Bush partisan 90% of the time, that he’s run a Karl Rove campaign, and that he wants to continue this President’s disastrous economic and foreign policies...."