Paul Ryan has just finished addressing the GOP convention as he formally accepted the nomination for Vice President.

Personally I wasn’t real taken with the speech. It was ok but it struck me as pretty standard cookie cutter kind of rhetoric, but then that seems to be pretty much the norm these days. Most of the speeches this week have been so and I suspect most speeches next week will be the same.

I was also struck that he seems to have the same problem that Romney does in appearing to be natural in his speaking style, his hand gestures and even his jokes all felt like they were the result of stage directions rather than real spontaneity.

I’ll be updating this post as reaction comes in from around the web but for now please feel free to chime in with your own views.

Penn Live has gathered some of the social media reactions, from good to bad.

Both Politico and ABC news felt the speech was better than I thought

Perhaps not surprisingly the Huffington Post was not as impressed.

VIDEO OF HIS FULL SPEECH: