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This morning’s Times Online:

Overheard comments [in one of many sports bars the British media have gleefully sent correspondents for colourful "background"] included: “I was on the fence and now I’m blazing the McCain trail” (a middle-aged woman) and “I wasn’t excited until this, now I’m all fired up” (a grey-haired man). Meanwhile, at a table directly underneath one of the TVs, Lu Sackett, 70, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of a grizzly bear and a floppy hat decorated with flag pins waved his burger in appreciation when Palin laid into the Democrats’ tax plans.

“She’s like a moose going after a cabbage,” he marvelled.

Heheh.

And this just amuses me:

And Mark Steyn:

I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn’t worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.

Well, maybe for the rest of the world, but were they even watching? I would have said the expectations were, like, super, super high after all the what’d-you-say-about-my-girl?! raptures about her. I was afraid she’d come out and be all, “Uh, here I am,” and an entire convention full of people would have to grit their teeth, grin, and tell some interviewer “wasn’t she wonderful?”