The GOP has experienced a "cheap thrill" with their Palin "bounce"

[kid a]

The thrill is gone, the lights are up, and the reviews are in.
It was fun while it lasted..

OK...enough cliches - buts its so easy.

[TlalocW]

1. The bloom is off the rose

The lipstick is off the pig.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke using 9 stitches while Rome burns without calling the kettle black.

TlalocW

[symbolman]

2. Well she got her

"Dead Moose" bounce..:)

[Marsala]

3. Let's be realistic

It was a convention bounce. A perfectly standard, normal, ordinary, convention bounce. Maybe it wouldn't have happened without Palin re-energizing the party, but it still looked normal.