McCain's VP:

reports are that McCain does not want to wait.....but he would be a fool to announce before labor day. It would be viewed as an attempt at manipulation of the news cycle.

When Stephen wants an unbiased and honest opinion of how Hillary Clinton’s speech went over with Democrats on Tuesday in Denver, who better to ask than Bill Kristol, right?

COLBERT: “Now, of course, to judge convention speeches, I always turn to Bill Kristol. Monday night he said this about Michelle Obama’s speech.”

KRISTOL: “I thought it was sort of generic.”

COLBERT: “And, as for Senator Clinton’s praise for Barack Obama, here’s how Kristol described that.”

KRISTOL: “Generic. Could have been applied to any other democrat.”

COLBERT: What a wordsmith. Kristol’s description about Democratic speeches are so…. what’s the word? Interchangeable? Non-descript? A kind of cheap knockoff of a brand name product? It’ll come to me.

Since taking office, Palin herself has become the subject of a legislative probe involving a personnel case. The investigation centers on her dismissal of the state's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.

Palin fired Monegan on July 11, saying she wanted to take the department in a new direction. Monegan then alleged that he had been pressured to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was married to Palin's sister and was involved in a contentious divorce, according to the Anchorage Daily News.

Palin has denied any wrongdoing. The state Legislature voted on July 28 to hire an independent investigator to probe whether Palin, her family or members of her administration had pressured Monegan to fire Wooten, according to the Daily News.