My friends, this speech sucks

And the bad reviews for McCain's abysmal performance last night keep pouring in - from his own side:

FOX News and National Review's Fred Barnes:

“It’s kind of painful, at least tonight, to listen to McCain.”

Michelle Malkin:

McCain still talking and plodding along. Fox is the only one of the networks still carrying the speech. It’s pedestrian–and even McCain seems to have lost interest in his text.

Television psychic Bill Kristol:

“I’ve got to say, however, watching that speech, I don’t think it was successful speech.”

FOX News' Mort Kondracke:

MORT KONDRACKE: Well, John McCain had better start working on his speechmaking and learn how to use a teleprompter. I mean, the gap, the rhetorical gap between this speech and...Oratorical gap between this speech and John McCain’s was vast. John McCain sounded old. This sounded fresh and new and exciting and visionary. And he was enlisting the country to join him in a great cause. This is our moment, all of that.

National Reviews Amy Holmes:

McCain's speech was creaky, ungracious, and unnecessary. I never understand why politicians don't take the opportunity, when so easily presented, to simply be gracious and hold their fire. Watching McCain, I couldn't help but think of the astonishing contrast Barack's triumphant speech to a massive and adoring crowd will be. It was not a comparison McCain should have invited.

Wingnut radio's Mark Levin:

Not to offend those who might be offended, but this speech is a mash and tough to digest.