Posted on 07/22/2016 8:33:21 AM PDT by mandaladon
The Republican National Convention came to a close on Thursday night after a dramatic week marred by a plagiarism controversy involving Melania Trump and a surreal scene in which Ted Cruz was shouted off the stage.
GOP nominee Donald Trump’s critics have seized on the unrest to paint a picture of an amateur campaign struggling to unite a divided party.
But Trump’s supporters are confident they’re leaving Cleveland in better shape than when they arrived.
“The bottom line is, there is no question we have more unity, more unanimity of thought, more enjoyment, more camaraderie, and the progression is peaking perfectly,” said Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin. "If I had to imagine what he's thinking and wanted, he got pretty much everything he wanted."
Here are five ways Trump supporters believe the convention was a net positive for them.
The Finale
The final night of the convention was drama-free and sent the party off on a high note.
The evening kicked off with a five-year old girl named Heavenly Joy bringing the crowd to its feet with a singing voice that sounded as if it belonged to a full-grown woman.
Influential Christian leader Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, followed that act by finally announcing his endorsement for Trump. Perkins’s support could go a long way in helping the nominee rally the social conservatives who have remained on the sidelines.
The Trump campaign put on a display of diversity with a fiery performance from black South Carolina pastor Mark Burns, gay Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, and Dr. Lisa Shin, who is Korean.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka set her father up with a string of personal stories about him, and Trump followed with a red meat speech that electrified the crowd.
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Even the plagiarism kerfluffle was a success.
It filled one full news cycle with side-by-side comparisons of Melania Trump and Michelle Obama. One that reflects very favorably on Mrs. Trump.
Ending up with the candidate very magnanimously allowing some grunt speechwriter to keep her job.
Mr. Trump, knowing in advance what Cruz was going to say, simply let him go on stage and commit political seppuku before a prime time crowd.
#1 reason: There were no riots in the streets outside the convention hall, and no wide-scale assaults with Black Lives Matter agitators roaming the streets, torching police cars and businesses.
There were at times perhaps MORE cops on patrol than there were demonstrators. Whatever the overtime and per-diem had to be paid for this overlay of police protection, it was money well spent.
I think Trump scored a lot of point with “heartland” blue collar types with this speech, many of them Dems. He really spoke to their concerns of manufacturing, loss of wages/jobs, and their “forgotten” status amid the Left’s celebration of illegal immigration.
That is what I took away as his most important point, and I’m a social conservative. He is going to get what have been referred to as the “Reagan Democrats”. These people are hurting where it counts, paying their bills and supporting their families. Obama and his minion Hillary promise them more of the same, or worse.
They will be “Trump Democrats” after this election.
The most important thing was that the media
had no protest violence to focus on.
The focus was on the failure of the democrat
party and leadership and the change that is
finally going to come.
Just have to wait till next week for the protests and
disturbances, the visuals and the violence.
And the funny thing will be that they will be
coming from their own astroturf apparatchniks.
Oh, I suppose we will hear the same old meme
that it’s because of Donald’s violent supporters
but WE and the American people will know better.
Nothing like Mitt’s boring acceptance speech that put the room to sleep in 2012.
The fact the MSM is going into overdrive to discredit Trump shows the convention was a resounding success.
Hillary has her hands full managing the lunatic Left in Philadelphia next week.
And Trump is free of the #NeverTrump baggage.
Also destroyed was the silly notion that the US should bear the full costs of worldwide security and that those who benefit from our Friendship can continue to take advantage of our good will.
But perhaps most importantly this convention and nomination burst the "Bubble of Shame" that has held down middle America.
From the left, admonitions on race, language, and welcoming ever more needy from foreign cultures that want to kill us...when we cannot feed all who are here now including ourselves.
And especially from the Conservative Orthodoxy Right...that we MUST fight to the death over who uses what bathroom. That we MUST see Homo Marriage as an immediate and existential threat. That we MUST fight foreign wars over issues like national pride compassion. Free Trade is always good. Open borders are compassionate. There's nothing we can do to stop the essential cultural transformation...and any objection comes with the racist label ratified by the right.
Conservative Orthodoxy has become a whore, drunk on our blood and travails.
And last night we kicked that b!tch to the gutter where she belongs.
We're free to think again, and suddenly realize some of the underlying forces and deceptions that have kept us moving, ever so slowly and deliberately, to destruction.
I saw 75 percent of the convention, and I saw nothing that would detract from it being considered a great success. The media people so idolized in the USA had already prepared the “dark” analyses last week.
I know they recognized Dole, but I didn’t see that except one brief time. It was good for him to show up when none of the other elders would. It was good to see the Bushes AWOL. I didn’t see Santorum either: was he there?
“Lunatic left”: the mouthpiece of the American people and their media
That’s a very good point.
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