"Howard Dean with medals" - John Podhoretz

... pedestrian address, uninspiring, cliched, and humorless" - Jeff Jacoby

"Kerry, the sultan of Yada.... said absolutely zilch of substance" - Andrea Peyser

"The man has more facets than a disco ball" - Jonah Goldberg

"John Kerry once administered CPR to a hamster. This was one of the poignant vignettes we learned tonight from one of his daughters. Is there some gerbil-loving swing demographic out there we are trying to connect with?" - Barbara Comstock

"What did this man do as an adult? Kerry's biography ends at 24" - Dick Morris

"This isn't your father's JFK" - Jed Babbin