The vast majority of the speeches, though they were good, were delivered by people who do not represent the grass roots of the Party. The collection averaged out as pro-death, anti-marriage, pro-illegal, or just plain crazy, with a few token Conservatives tossed in to keep those troublesome TEA Partiers happy. As I said, as good as the speeches were, having them delivered by the likes of John McCain, C. Rice, Mitch McConnell, and Tim Pawlenty leaves them feeling hollow. Of course, to those who believe in the magic middle, like the GOP-E, it was a troubling convention as they would believe this knocks out Obama’s advantage.
You don’t win elections preaching to the choir.
Holy smoke, guy. The next time there is a mine cave-in or an earthquake in China, I’m not calling you to talk it over.
I’m from Minnesota and I am tired of people dissing Tim Pawlenty. He was a very GOOD governor for our state. He was governor in a liberal state where the House and Senate were in the control of the DFL (Democrat-Farm-Labor) party. It’s been that was ever since in about 1968 the state changed from identifying candidates as Conservative or Liberal (when conservatives were winning control) to identifing candidates as Republican or DFL. Go figure. I know good people who voted for conservative candidates until they changed the party designation, and then they began voting for the DFL candidates. Go figure.
Happily in 2010, the conservatives in MN finally reversed that record, we took control of both the House and the Senate!!!!
Tim Pawlenty single handedly protected the state of Minnesota from bankruptcy. He vetoed lots of pork barrel projects. For his efforts he was chastised repeatedly by the usual suspects: the unions, the news media, the education industry, etc.
I did NOT support Tim for the presidency. He is not flashy enough, not charismatic at all, not a great orator, but he is a good man, and he comes from genuine middle class roots. He is a social conservative as well as a fiscal conservative. To remain such when governing a state like Minnesota, is remarkable. He disappointed me with a few of his decisions - like his endorsement of John McCain in 2008, and his short dalliance with global warming (which he has since recanted), but he is a good man with good conservative instincts.
This is just my two cents worth.
Folks, when a Republican becomes governor of a liberal state (like Minnesota or Massachusetts) we cannot expect him/her to be able to walk on water, lower the rise of the oceans,heal the planet (like Obama promised he would do), etc. We need to be realistic.
Finally, there are few politicians with the courage and resolve of Scott Walker. That is why he is so admired today! Although we wish all our candidates had such tenacity and moral convictions, alas it is unreasonable to expect our entire lineup to match his record. But we can HOPE, can’t we?
After last night, I feel really encouraged. There were times when I felt that my beloved Mother was looking down and thinking, “YES! My country can be healed”. Or perhaps the ghost of Ronald Reagan???
So, with the help of Almighty God, and the hard work of us all, we can win this election, not just at the top, but all the way down the ballots!!!!
You were never going to listen with an open mind to anything the GOP did in Tampa so your opinion here is worth then useless.
You are merely desperately failing around for something to validate your per-conceived emotion based opinions.
When you lie about your real agenda like this to try and give your commentary a fake gloss of credibility, you have lost the debate.
Squealing the lie louder and more shrilly doesn’t change your fiction to fact, it merely exposes your lie to a wider audience