No, not the ones from conservatives, the ones from the MSM! Mark Halperin gave it an A+ and Tom Shales (yeah, I was shocked too) thought she did pretty good job (though he threw in a couple whoppers):

If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night — the night that John McCain’s brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech wasn’t brilliant rhetoric, and she’s not entirely accomplished as a public speaker, but she put herself over with slick, self-assured skill. To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, a self-described “hockey mom” whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive.
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She proved herself in the great arena; that’s what counts politically. Nobody could watch that speech and still consider her a joke, no matter how flimsy her credentials and qualifications may seem on paper. The joke, it seems, is on those who’d been laughing at her. Last night the laughing ended — and the cheering began.

I think it was clear last night why McCain selected her and as I predicted he is having the last laugh!!!
The whoppers? How about the fact that Reagan had a “virtual love affair with the press.” Anyone who actually lived through the Reagan years like I did is probably laughing their head off over that one (sorry if anyone was drinking their morning coffee when you read that whopper). Reagan was clearly hated by the press and ridiculed almost daily (usually they accused him of being senile). Total rewrite of history there.
Here’s another:

Jeffrey Toobin, one of the most valuable of CNN’s army of guest commentators, said last night that he found it “ironic and rather unbecoming” that John McCain, who has enjoyed “adoring” treatment from the news media, should choose to be part of this kind of demagoguery.

If you want to talk about “unbecoming” you should start with the MSM’s treatment of the candidate. That was “unbecoming.” And I guess it’s OK for you guys to beat up Palin, call her an unfit mother, imply that she shouldn’t have brought her son into the world when she found out he had downs, accuse her of faking her pregnancy, say she had an affair with her husband’s business partner, called her a hick, laughed at the news of her selection by McCain, state that she isn’t a credible choice, etc. but when she says anything about the treatment, you whine like a little girl. Time for the MSM to learn to take what they dish out. The whining is really unbecoming 🙂

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