Yes! You hit it on the head. Mitt did three things, he came across as presidential on stage with the current office holder, he dispelled the image being created by the left/media/hollywood/Obama team of a heartless, worthless, selfish rich guy who doesn’t care, and third (as you said), he gave millions of voters what they needed to finally vote against Obama. Voters have been disgusted for 3.5 years, but they needed to be comfortable with an alternative. Mitt showed leadership, competence, intelligence, and fairness.
This was a huge moment. This thing is far from over, but it could not have gone better in terms of meeting the most important objectives.
And when you look at things now, Obama by lying to us and costing us money for his political gain, OBAMA HIMSELF looks like the heartless one.
It’s somewhat significant that the ilgipper (Illinois Gipper?) wrote what you did, for it was just such a showing of Ronald Reagan to the nation against Jimmy Carter that got people to finally take a real look at RWR. He wasn’t the “crazy cowboy gonna start a war with the commies” that all the democrats had been saying all Summer of 1980.
People needed to see the real Mitt Romney, not the one the democrats tried to make. They did, just like Reagan in 1980, amd I think they liked what the saw, just like in 1980.
I’m praying to Our Father in Heaven to make it so! Please Lord, let it be as in 1980! Amen!