Sarah Palin seemed to not move much off the GOP talking points.  (We got the "maverick" thing on the first two passes; we didn't need the other multi-dozen.)

She seemed over-coached, over-handled, and under-prepared.  This was not the "Sarah Barracuda" that I was expecting.

She missed several easy kill shots.  For example, exactly how does rewriting the principal on a mortgage work?

Yeah, Biden did a great job of finger-pointing and making it look like Obama was running against Bush's record.  But that was to be expected.  Palin didn't do a very effective job of getting McCain out from under that shadow.