Given how the Democrat propaganda machine is reacting, apparently it worked. It was not a speech for a “conservative” audience. It did not reach me but then I am all ready voting against O not for Romney.
I thought it was a good speech, well I liked them all. I wasnt really a Romney man before, but i have grown to like him. He seems like a very decent person, unlike Zero.
Seems he knows what he is doing biz wise, which is what is really needed now.
But i cant shake the strange sensation that zero will win again... I sure hope I am wrong. My state is very red so it wont matter as much.
looking fwd to eating LOTS of crow :)
Since the media is going nuts, I say yes.
The Romney speech and everything leading up to it this week was inspiring. I believe we’ll have a landslide win in November. :) Paul Ryan’s speech though... to me, was the best speech of the week.
He wasn’t Reagan, or even Rubio, but I thought he did a very good job. I was actually amazed that he seemed to hit all the right points.
Now I know every line is rinsed through focus groups, and I personally remain concerned that Romney will lapse back into a solid RINO mode, but last night certainly sold me. Romney loves America and he is a man of chracter.
The contrast between Romney and Obama is now even more stark then ever.
All of Obama’s self declarations that he understands and loves America are completely hollow to me. Obama’s actions over the last four years demonstrates that. Obama can telepromt whatever he wants, but fundamentally, deep down, Obama just does not really understand America. To me, this was made crystal clear last night.
I think Romney struck the right tone and gave swing voters a reason to abandon Obama this time around.
I believe if he had launched a direct, hard hitting attack on Obama he would have triggered a defense response with those who voted for him in 2008 but are disappointed in his performance.
Romney showed tham an alternative without making them feel as if they were foolish in supporting Obama the last time around.
I believe his speech was ever so more effective by what he didn't say. Though, with this being said, I was very pleased with the speech as a whole. .....I will help you and your family. What more needs to be said.
This convention has to package for the independents. It did that well.
The left made the mistake of setting a low bar for Romney. All he had to do is come out and 1) not be evil 2) not be a rapist.
He did that. He spent alot of time talking about women, which should undo this ‘war on women’ nonsense.
I think the most important part was explaining what Bain Capital is....and expressing bewilderment at Barry’s attack lines about Bain. Bain is an American success story...why does Barry dislike that so much?
I think it was the best Romney could do...one thing I did notice, as I flipped through ABC/NBC/CBS....CBS and NBC had the crowd noise turned down, to make it seem more like a funeral than a rally.
Absolutely. And today he gets it right by going to New Orelans. Obama = talk. Romney = action.
Big time.
As the poster down thread said, it was a home run over the fence.
It was a Babe Ruth home run.
The effect it had on me was it made me go from not liking him to liking him a great deal.
The other 3 points I didn't see as having a big impact on the economy. #4 is the logical outcome if you fix the structural issues in the economy.
By the way, was it my imagination or did Rubio get tongue twisted and say we choose big government over freedom. Maybe there was a negative in his statement that I missed but it didn’t seem to flow with the rest of the speech.
Romney was not my first choice. He was not even my last choice. But, to paraphrase Rumsfeld, he’s what we got. And to be honest, Romney’s speech last night made me feel really good. Really good like I haven’t felt in a very long time.
It certainly was better than Bush I and II’s , Dole’s and McLame’s.
I am reserving all my comments about Romney for November 7.
It’s going to be hard enough to vote for him November 6, I don’t plan to make it any harder by obsessing over, well, you know, EVERYTHING.
Romney did VERY good, much better than I had expected.
I am beginning to get the ‘feeling’ (I generally don’t like that word) that Romney is going to win the election and rid us of Empty Chair Obama.