I posted this on another thread, but here’s how I think Ann Romney “slipped the knife” to the Obama campaign. I take comfort in the fact that the NYT felt the need to disparage this speech......
As someone who was for Sarah Palin, then Herman Cain, then Newt Gingrich, and I even liked Rick Santorum over Romney, I’m beginning to think we may have gotten lucky to end up with Romney-Ryan.
Getting Obama out has trumped all other considerations for me.
I think the Ann Romney speech may be a game-breaker. First of all, she managed to put me more at ease with Mitt Romney, no small task.
When she walked out on stage, I said to myself “Wow, she is so beautiful”. I felt it was critical that her speech would provide a great contrast to Michelle Obama. I think she accomplished much, much more than that.
Ann Romney’s words, actions, and tone on that stage provided a stark contrast with all liberal women, without a disparaging word. Ann Romney was at once a throwback to a time that many women now are longing for, and a call to what the future could be for all women.
At first, I saw some giddiness, and some girlish laughter that I wasn’t sure I liked. Then, as the speech went on, I realized her femininity was becoming, refreshing, apropriate, and exciting to see on that stage.
Contrast the vibe you got from Ann Romney with the angry, women-as-victims tone from the women of the left. If you haven’t seen this speech, please try to watch it and while watching it, think of the chasm between Ann Romney and Hillary Clinton.
If you’ve seen the speech, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
If this speech was designed to get women out there to re-think their support for the Democratic Party as surrogate husband, then I think she may have gotten some converts. Therein lies the power in Ann Romney’s speech.
Therein lies the reason the NYT thought this speech something to fear.
I'm still recovering from the same 3 beat downs, same order, received during the primaries.
However, with Ryan on the ticket and last nights convention I am now all in it to win it!
I think Ann coulter made a better point about single mothers voting for Obama- she said “How are you gonna get your child support if your ex-husband does not have a job”
THAT was slipping the knife into Obama’s campaign much more than anything Ann Romney said.
I was hoping she would have said “I have ALWAYS been proud of my country” (unlike some other first ladies)- but that would have been the only thing the libtard press would have yakked about for weeks.
My thoughts exactly.
In very short order, I liked this woman.
I, too, followed your progression of supporting candidates. My only hope was that we could elect enough conservative Congressmen/Senators to hold Mitt's feet to the fire.
I thought Ann Romney's speech was brilliant on so many levels. She managed to show that the Romney's were "real" - as real as people of their socioeconomic class can be. It was refreshing to see her say that the first apartment times were "the best".
She managed to relate to women on so many levels - caring for your children, your parents, picking up and moving to support your husband and having to make a new life for yourself and your family, starting a new business - not knowing if it was ever going to succeed, working harder and moving on because that's what you do, living the American Dream - "being successful beyond their dreams". (How did we get to the point where doing what Bain did is something to be ashamed of?) She reminded us of what our parents/grandparents struggled to give us, their conviction that in this country, hard work would be rewarded. I LOVED that she said, "As a mom of five boys, do we want to raise our children to be afraid of success? Do we send our children out in the world with the advice, “Try to do... okay?”
She appealed to the best in us, not the worst. She was unashamed of the success that risk and hard work brings. She actually gave us "hope", not just as a slogan, but to the great nation that we can once again become. While I'm sure the militant feminists were not impressed, I think middle America was.
As to the knife comment, I take it as a compliment. It was delivered with beauty, grace and a smile too!!!