“When it came to that Bridge to Nowhere, I said ‘thanks, but no thanks.’ If we need a bridge, we’ll build it ourselves.”

So far, in her acceptance speech, I continue to be wowed.

Shout out to Indiana, she entered to the theme music to “Rudy,” a reader tells me, and that sounds right.

The Dayton rally has, by far, the biggest crowd of any McCain event this cycle. The crowd is eating everything up with a spoon, raucous, eager to chant “USA, USA!” I think it’s safe to say that for now, the Palin pick has energized the McCain campaign.

UPDATE: WOW. She just made an explicit appeal to the Hillary voters, saying “as Hillary Clinton said, there are 18 million cracks in the hardest of glass ceilings… Well, the women of America aren’t done yet!”