Some of my favorite Republicans…
…are speaking tonight.
Kelly Ayotte.
Chris Christie.
Ann Romney.
And a neo-Republican, Artur Davis. Love those changers!
[ADDENDUM: And how could I overlook Scott Walker?]
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Mia Love!
What about John Kasich? One of my favorites.
I’ll see you one Kasich (who I love) and raise you one Scott Walker!
Mr. President, we’re not buying what you’re selling.–Mia Love
I am looking forward to the Chris Christie, uhhh, uhhh, thing. I hope it is awesome and devastating against government spending and dependence. I can’t come up with the right qualifier. I like the hurricane reference one pundit came up with. Strong wind? Earthquake? All of these are destructive which is only applicable for what he hopefully has in store for the illiberals. I like El Nino for the “little boy” and the “Christ child” connotations.
Why couldn’t the first black President be someone like Artur Davis? What a breath of fresh air he is.
Ann Romney is the bomb. I was impressed.
Ann was great.
Christie a great counterweight (heh). Mommy and Daddy party as someone tweeted.
I can’t stop thinking how much class and grace Republican women have compared to Democrat women.
Michelle Obama???
Hillary Clinton???
Nancy Pelosi???
Barbara Boxer???
Debbie Wasserman Schultz???
Compared to…
Ann Romney
Kelly Ayotte
Condoleezza Rice
Sarah Palin
Laura Bush
No comparison…none….zilch.
I was just reflecting on Ann Romney’s speech and thinking that anyone who says nasty things about her or that speech tells us much more about the state of their own twisted souls than about Ann Romney.
The speeches were great! The theme, with Republican governors explaining how they turned their state’s fiscal problems around, was consistent and uplifting.
Ann Romney was magnificent. Her theme of love and admiration for Mitt, for mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and this country really resonated with me. She blew the doors off the place.
Chris Christie has that blue-collar, Jersey attitude that really connects with the average person. He combined that with hitting on the big themes of facing our problems squarely and telling everyone that there’re no easy solutions. Powerful stuff. Some may not like to hear that everyone is going to have to sacrifice, but it’s time that someone brought that up.
Overall I thought it was great stuff. I’m stoked!
Our ideas are right for America and their ideas have failed America.–Chris Christie
Christie’s speech passed from one truth to the next like Hercules completing his labours.
I too want a “Second American Century.”
Thanks for that, Mr. Christie.
Tonight succeeded in making me feel as if our efforts these past three yrs have not been futile.
But why are y’all overlooking Nikki Haley?
IMO Christie’s speech was powerful and to the point, the nail met the hammer and was pounded down. Mia Love caught me totally by surprise as I had no idea she existed. She is a wow factor eclipsing Palin in the days ahead. AR’s speech was middle American ethics but lacked firepower. All in all a great start to the convention.
Yet, this is the most potent thing I experienced today, tomorrow, and many days ahead:
http://tinyurl.com/9qdb725
The people must choose: debt/deficits or responsibility for our children and grandchildren. The people must choose: Melissa Ohden or the murder of uncounted innocents.
RINOism is distressing, but the message of the convention, powerfully, is that RINO, or go along to get along, is no longer an option. Romney’s core appears and that core is good, final, and dispositive.
Romney may not be tea party in appearance, but he is in substance. As Rush Limbaugh would say, “Don’t doubt me on this.”
Romney is true blue. If we can get him elected, he will be the opposite of Mr. golf-playing-campaigning-Mr. Obama!
He will be the real thing.
Just getting to Ann’s speech:
Did she carry it. Did she make the transition from “her love of her man” to why we should love her man?
First, what a bold propisition. She is Washington crossing the Delaware. How dare she equate her love and view of her husband to us all. How dare she! Damn her! I (hate, love, am indifferent) to her.
But OMG, what a powerful intellect. Might I say, I prefer her as President? Okay? With her at Mitt’s side, I feel better, more comfortable, and strangely, protected!
It is a night to remember when the power of her preservation rejoiced!
Make your mark and make that mark good. There often is no second chance. Ann Romney is as good as it gets and if you don’t recognize that, you lack American spirit. Say what you will, the woman who made the man and had and raised his children is as important as the man, and in this case, the woman’s testimony is true, supported by the evidence, and is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L.
Just like Ann.
Ann Romney was magnificent.
In the post-mortem, Juan Williams was his ususa chrurlish self (I guess FNC pays him to be small), then Brit Hume just swatted him away as he usually does. Paraphrasing Brit: “This was the finest speech I have ever heard by a politician’s wife.” Yes, Brit.
Other Pundits have criticized Christie. The idiotic Chris Wallace noted that he did not mention Romney until xxx minutes. I suppose it did not penetrate the fog surrounding Wallace’s head that Christie was pounding on large themes in a way that we seldom, if ever hear, from a Politician.
I though Kasich was superb.
Missed most of the others leading up to Mrs Romney, due to family commitments, but recorded some and will listen later.
Did not listen to any of the other MSM commentators post Ann Romney or Christie. I am sure they came up very small, and irrelevant.
A very good first night
Christie’s speech was a disappointment. I wanted and expected a little more red meat to fire up the base. A grocery list of Obama’s failings and how we cannot afford four more years of this experiment in affirmative action would have been appropriate.
It appears that the RNC and the Romney campaign have made a decision to mute any attacks on Obama directly. Isn’t this the same strategy that worked so well for McCain?
kaba,
I disagree. I was expecting red meat from Christie, but as the speech ended, I could not but be struck by the genius of what he did. He never addressed Obama by name and really never laid out the usual “red meat” faults. This was deliberate and brilliant. Given the Dems gutter campaign so far, Christie was sending a loud and clear message to the American people: we are above such tatics, we hold to higher principles, we will not demean ourselves by stooping to your level. He set the stage for the street sweeper to wash the Dems out of the gutter and flush them down the storm drain where they belong.
Ann? Moms, home and family, in one short speech, became relevant again.
My amazing, non-political wife sat with me through Ann and Christie’s speeches. She’s my unfailing barometer for genuineness, realness and success of message: 2-enthusiastic thumbs up from the Queen on both speeches and the deliverers. She said(and then Megan Kelly of Fox ‘dittoed it)that Ann Romney was about LOVE and Gov.Christie was about RESPECT. “Perfect pitch”, declared my 4’11”, 95-lb, Sicilian ‘BIG Boss’. Works for me.(-:
I’d add that Artur Davis was powerful and I would love to see him out on the Romney-Ryan campaign trail. That he, a black man, seconded Obama’s nomination at the lovefest in Denver 4-years ago adds real pazaaz to the ‘He has failed’ message. Nicky Haley was also zowey-powey as our youngest governor, female and rock-ribbed conservative.
A WONDERFUL kick-off night!!
Maybe I should have listened to the speeches. On the other hand, I haven’t listened to a politician’s speech- as opposed to a soundbite from a speech- for decades. It is faster to read, if I want to.
…follow-up: Just read that MSNBC who has their fecal spoor at the convention, with much coverage & lefty blather, failed to broadcast Mia Love & Artur Davis…2-young, politically engaged, rising black stars in GOPland and–I GASP & rend with shock & surprise–Wretched Madcow & the NBC crew were commentless and broadcastless re-Repub Diversity,’Yo!
I’m guessing that Ann R. has been proud of America all her life unlike she who will remain unnamed.
Ann Romney’s speech hit me in a personal way, as I think it will other women who have been wronged and let down by the men in their lives. She made Mitt sound trustworthy, dependable, hardworking, generous, and honest. What a relief to have someone like that watching out for us! I’m betting some of those single, independent women out there felt it too.
physicsguy,
I truly hope that you are correct about this. My concern is that the msm is acting as partisan propagandist. I am concerned that much of the public is unaware of the plethora of illegitimacies, illegalities, and extra-constitutional acts by the Obama administration.
Four years ago the McCain campaign effectively had a hands-off attitude concerning anything except the mildest of concerns about Obama. There are times when it is not only appropriate but required to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
kaba – I’m sure people don’t know most of the scandals attached to Obama and his cronies. I am working on a series of letters to the editor to get some of that info out there. I plan to keep each to only one subject, and short and to the point so they don’t get edited (I hope). I’ll send one each week or so starting in Sept. or Oct. Stimulus money to green energy cronies, fast and furious, leaked security, New Black Panthers, bankrupt coal industry, etc. I live in PA, and every additional vote will help.
Sure enough, it is pretty much as I imagined in the comment I made above.