Peggy Noonan says "It's over."

Wow! Former McCain adviser Mike Murphy and conservative columnist Peggy Noonan trash McCain, his choice of Sarah Palin, and his chances in the election over an open mike on MSNBC. Here's a transcript.

(Definitely brings up the question of what's being said over the air versus what's being said to reporters in private.

Maybe that's why the media are grilling the McCain campaign over vetting and experience, because that's what they're hearing off the record from other Republicans.

One of the goals of a convention is to trap the media figures in a city and flood them with "off the record" message from just one party. From this, it sounds like Republican surrogates aren't delivering that unified message of victory.)