McCain’s Kinder and Gentler (and Tighter Spending) America

Arizonan has to give the speech of his life -- à la Bush 41 in 1988.

New York Times: As McCain accepts the nomination, he "stands at the pinnacle of a career defined by a singular ambivalence about his own ambition, and success."

Washington Post: "McCain will seek to recast the Republican Party's brand in his own maverick image, staking his claim to the presidency on a depiction of himself as a political renegade."