Posted on 07/21/2016 9:17:54 PM PDT by MNDude
Of course we all loved it, but how do you think it'll effect voters?
Independents, anti-Trump Republicans, evangelicals, other needed voting blocks?
The speech will connect with everyone who understands that we are indeed living in a dark dystopia — the Supreme Court legislates, the Legislature cowers, and the People are ruled by a lawless caudillo via executive orders. Awfully hard to present that reality with a happy face.
Some say too long? I say I didn’t want it to end!
CNN did a quick poll. 75% had a positive reaction to the speech. 56% said it could affect how they vote.
Apparently it went over quite well, even CNN found the majority liked it and more likely to vote Trump. Only 10% less likely.
WOW
He certainly mentioned constitution in the most effective form...nominating justices for SCOTUS who will respect constitution.
The abortion issue will never get changed due to oratory from POTUS candidate or elected POTUS. It is entirely dependent on SCOTUS.
God & religion are personal issues, and in spite of that I favor Trump over Hillary on that issue.
Make no mistake, I have been a Trump supporter since he first announced. Took a lot of heat from DW, but she has slowly become convinced.
To me the convention was great. Made me want to become a part of his extended family.
I firmly believe he is the candidate who can bring the USA back from the brink.
There were more negatives about Hillary than positives about what he is going to do, although there certainly were some.
Just not quite the enthusiastic delivery I expected, especially the first half.
CNN and dems (same thing) keep saying it was all lies and specifically that crime is going down. Hmm. They seem to cite crime since 1996. How about recently?
That's been used in speeches before; he'd be accused of plagiarism.
Yeah the CNN Lib talking heads were shocked!
It was the best political speech I’ve heard. I absolutely LOVED IT.
The only criticism I had is that I wish he would have mentioned the unborn and the sanctity of human life. I feel that is so important.
One area that may have needed a little more elaboration (not for us), although the speech was already very long, he could have added just a little more of what he would do to improve healthcare by repealing Obamacare (I say that for the Bernie voters and independents who like Obamacare he is reaching out for). That’s kind of me picking at straws, though.
I’ll tell you this. I put CNN on after. They truly are the Clinton News Network. Ana Navarro the Republican whined he didn’t speak about legal immigrants (because there is no problem with legal immigrants, dope). Van Jones was hyperventilating that he was watching a dictator ascend, that Trump is racist towards black people.
I was so dejected that I switched over to Fox. I saw on Twitter that there was a panel on CNN where the people who watched didn’t hate it like their pundits spun it. Fox had a Frank Luntz panel, and Trump’s speech had sold 7 people in the room (maybe 1/3). No one came away liking Hillary.
I then switched back to CNN and saw poll results came in:
Impression:
57% positive
24% negative
Right direction or wrong:
73% right direction
24% wrong direction
18% (I didn’t get if that was undecided or neutral)
Before the convention, 60% said right direction. Trump upped it 13% points.
More or less likely to vote:
56% more likely to vote for him
32% no effect
10% negative
That drove a nail through CNN’s coverage. Now they are attempting to moderate a bit. Wolf seemed a bit bewildered that people saw the speech so favorably. It gave me hope that people aren’t buying the media spin.
Trump did say he will un-muzzle the pulpit that they will not lose their tax exempt status. They will be able to speak their minds.
Leave Mark alone, he’s busy eating his crow dinner
THAT WAS AN AWESOME SPEECH! THE BEST IN MY LIFETIME!
No convention has ever had so many INCREDIBLE speeches.
“I liked it, but it did not really sizzle.”
It turned out, the speech was the longest acceptance speech in modern history, I think it went 1 hr and 20 minutes. When asked about this, his speech writer said by words, it was no longer than the standard speech; it went so long because of the crowd ranting and the standing ovations.
Activity oriented. Not traditionally “conservative” but as long as it’s REFORM minded - I give it a B+
I loved it. It was like floating to heaven. Then I saw on CNN (still glancing at it) that so many people were insulted by it (because their skin color or culture wasn’t mentioned, their asses were not kissed) and others are just knee jerk critical.
I don’t think we can ever bridge this gap.
In my sixty years of listening to acceptance speeches of the GOP nominees, this is the first where the nominees did not end with “God Bless America”.
I bet Hilliary will even mouth it but Trump didn’t bother...
In other words, an Executive speech. A general's speech. THAT is what a CEO does, and any executive does, including a President. He or she defines the mission. Then hires the best talent to implement it.
We have our leader, ladies and gentlemen.
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