While the media lust for the president has subsided dramatically since Chris Matthews first felt the tingle up his leg, Mark Halperin is still drooling.

After playing a clip of the speech, Matthews merely offered a "That's pretty good" but the Game Change co-author did him one better, going as far to warn any GOP candidate considering a presidential run in 2012 to study the address because it had "a level of sophistication and skill that not one Republican on the field right now can duplicate."