McCain's speech

There're some advanced texts available of John's speech tonight. He's going to highlight his patriotism, his maverick credentials and give some specifics about his plans for a McCain presidency. What he will not do is knock on Obama very much. The line out of the McCain camp is that Obama's speech last week was over the top and more befitting of a VP's sort of attack dog style. In a word, McCain is going to try to be Presidential.

Also, look for McCain to go off script at some point, he might even walk around a bit. Regardless of what McCain does this speech is not going to be a barn burner. John will be sure to do himself no harm and to be specific about what he does intend to do. The Republicans are going to try to fight Barack on a progressive agenda and steal, at least some, of the 'change' mantra.

Where Palin's speech was directed at women and Republicans. John will focus on Independents and men.

Here We Go.