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My personal thoughts about Romney’s speech, it was good, not great.. It did what it needed to do, but it certainly was not the best acceptance speach I’ve ever heard.

However, the entire convention, nearly all the speeches have articulated and pointed out the growing and undeniable gulf between this administration and what they believe, and what american was founded upon.

I know this isn’t popular with some here, but of the speeches I heard and watch, Condi’s stole the show, it was a complete lambasting and repudiation of this administration and its failings and the dangers those failings create. It also articulated the promise and uniqueness of america and contrasted it harshly with what this administration stands for. Sadly it was mostly about foreign policy which most voters ignore.

This was without question the BEST line of any speech given:

“And on a personal note, a little girl grows up in Jim Crow
Birmingham. The segregated city of the south where her parents cannot take her to a movie theater or to restaurants, but they have convinced that even if she cannot have it hamburger at Woolworths, she can be the president of the United States if she wanted to be, and she becomes the secretary of state”

Now, don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed all the prime time speeches. I think Rubio did a fine job, and Ryan did a great job too.

As to Romney’s, I think he did what he needed to do, he showed he was a serious candidate, not the extremist that the left tries to paint him as. I don’t think he elicited the emotional side of the crowd as much as he could have, which is basically saying he didn’t complete the sale in terms of really firing up folks for him, but I don’t think Romney will ever be able to do that. He’s too controlled and methodical for that. There were clearly spots of emotion in his speech, but he’s not going to get or evoke a large emotional response. He did however do what he needed to do.

I’ve always said, and always believed, the election of this emotion is to get rid of Obama, Romney will not be the inspiration.. Its just now who he is. Unlike the pundit’s claim he needs to turn the anti-obama into the pro-romney, I don’t think so. It would be nice if he could, but the reality is, the ANTI-OBAMA is so eviceral that very vew Politicians in the course of US history could turn that pro them as the main argument... Romney is capable, but he’s not that level of a politician, in our entire nations history, I don’t think more than a handful could have pulled that high bar off. However, like I said, unlike some pundits I don’t think he had to.

All he had to do is show, I’m serious, I understand the problems, and I’m not some crazy madman that the Obama camp wants to portray me as.

As for red meat, honestly I thought he entire convention was far more toned down than it could have been given the absolute disaster this administration has been. I think more red meat might have gotten more emotion, but I also understand that it coudl have also turned off voters who voted for Obama last time but now know it was a mistake.

Lets face it, most people are reluctant to admit their mistakes, even when they are in front of them, and don’t like them rubbed in their faces, this group is who most of the prime time was aimed at, and when viewed through that window it did a good job.

I think you will see a polling move toward romney as those in that group basically were pitched, its Okay, you made a mistake... we understand, now its time to fix it instead of continuing it. OF course that depends on how many people were watching, but I would expect numbers to continue to track up in the polls in romney’s favor, from here to election day.. with the only forseeable reverse a brief one after Clinton delivers his speech. I am sure Clinton Nastalgia might give Obama a brief bounce, but it won’t last. Certainly Obama’s speech won’t move him any.