While I do believe Rudy's speach was productive on that front, Miller and Schwarzenegger both gave incredible speaches. I can't imagine Rudy make more converts than those two.
Laura Ingraham said she had a number of women say to her, that they loved Miller's references to Bush policies and their impact on their children's safety.
I think Zel hit a home run. He also put Chrissie on notice. Gotta love that.
LOL!
"Guns or knives, Butch, guns or knives?" - Big Harvey from 'The Hole in The Wall Gang' challenging Butch in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
:-)
Macon: I didn't know you were the Sundance Kid when I said you were cheatin'. If I draw on you, you'll kill me.
Sundance: There's that possibility.
Butch: No, you'd be killin' yourself. So why don't you just invite us to stick around? You can do it, and easy. Come on. (coaxing) Come on.
Macon: (blurting out a subliminal apology) Why don't you stick around?
Butch: Thanks but, hah, we gotta get goin'. (He scoops up the Kid's winnings into his hat.)
Macon: (watching as Sundance strides out) Hey Kid! (louder) Hey Kid! How good are ya? (Sundance dives, whirls around, fans his gun and fires, demonstrating his lightning-fast draw. He detaches the gunman's gunbelt from his waist and sends his gun skittering and spiraling across the floor.)
Butch: (to Sundance as they both leave) Like I've been tellin' ya, over the hill.
These were the rankings (the Newsweek poll was before GWB's speech):
25% Laura Bush
24% Giuliani
22% Arnold
21% Zell
20% McCain
19% Dick Cheney
If Dickie Morris is to be believed, Bush's big weakness earlier in the year was that he framed all the War on Terror stuff in "masculine" terms and needed to come up with phrases that put it in a way mothers could understand as protecting children. Perhaps Zell did exactly that.
All of the speeches were excellent but I loved the anger Zell spilled all over the dims. That is the same anger I feel for them. I could relate.
Maybe it's because Rudy went first.
I know of one flaming lib who watched Arnold and liked what she heard. I thought, after hearing her account, that of all the speeches she might have watched that would be of benefit, Arnold's was best suited to influence her.
But people are different and different things speak to people, depending on their biases. I can see how Giuliani's speech would influence a lot of people, but it's difficult for me to grasp how someone who wasn't influenced to vote GOP after 9/11 and George W. Bush's performance since then would be influenced by Rudy's speech to do so.