Cancel the convention, if you ask me. Just keep replaying tonight and McCain wins. He was serious, self-confident, compassionate. He presented himself as a man who can inspire service.

During the one moment last summer I flirted with the idea of McCain for president, I wrote: “We’re in a war where we’re occasionally asked to shop to help the economy; we’re not hearing a real call to arms. We need one.”

John McCain can do that and it’s an important thing. It was one of the many advantages he displayed tonight. If John McCain keeps this up, he can win.