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!!!
Oh, yes! Nice pickup. Very, very powerful.
Perhaps this is why the NYT is saying this morning, that Ann Romney "slipped the knife" to the Obama campaign?