Republican convention

[rlg94086]

I should say not…good bet. Personally, I think it will be very close barring any major missteps by one or the other candidate.

John

Exactly. I’m not certain Romney will win, but I am hopeful and know it will be close barring a catastrophe on one side. At worst, I lose $100 on the deal.

 

[rlg94086]

lol… if someone’s still devoted to Obama at this point, I can’t imagine anything else he could possibly do that they wouldn’t bend over backwards to defend. So I really doubt some movie would suddenly awaken them.

Agreed. Besides, their presence would dampen the enjoyment of the other moviegoers. It would be very difficult to watch a movie next to someone with their eyes closed, yelling “LALALALALALALALALALALA” to avoid being exposed to a different viewpoint.

 

[ishii]

I believe it will be close, but I really don’t see Romney winning.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here. I just really don’t believe he has captured the American consciousness. He needs that “spark”. It’s just not there.

I support Obama and I see him winning a second term. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong.

In any case I will either eat humble pie like a grown up or I will goat a bit on Nov. 7th. when I log onto CAF.

Interesting - thanks for responding. Romney has been criticized before for being sort of stiff and not very charismatic - no spark and all. But I think what he has in his favor is the substance of his experience and the fact that so many are still unemployed and hurting. Obama’s soaring rhetoric and greek columns - healing the planet - will not do it this year. What will do it is a plan to revive the economy. If more Americans believe Romney will deliver on jobs/economy then I think he has a good chance of winning. Really, what does Obama have to offer other than more of the same?

Ishii

 

[Robert_Bay]

LAST WARNING

PLEASE charitably discuss the issues and not each other.

If you cannot or will not abide by this direction you will find your account suspended or closed

 

[Et_Cetera]

Silly Matt I’m going to find out where he lives and tie him down…

No I pointed out that a faithful Catholic cannot in good conscious vote for Dr Death. Obama is the most militant pro abort elected official in history. He is not pro choice, he is pro abortion. Add that to the war he’s waging on the Church and if any practicing faithful Catholic thinks it’s OK to vote for him well it’s your soul not mine that will suffer.

Lisa

This is literally nonsensical. What are you talking about?

 

[rlg94086]

Interesting - thanks for responding. Romney has been criticized before for being sort of stiff and not very charismatic - no spark and all. But I think what he has in his favor is the substance of his experience and the fact that so many are still unemployed and hurting. Obama’s soaring rhetoric and greek columns - healing the planet - will not do it this year. What will do it is a plan to revive the economy. If more Americans believe Romney will deliver on jobs/economy then I think he has a good chance of winning. Really, what does Obama have to offer other than more of the same?

Ishii

I agree. I don’t think Romney is as lacking in charisma as many say, but I would take an actual automaton with his experience over a skilled orator with Obama’s inabilities.

 

[ishii]

. Clinton when campaigning was just an obscure governor from Arkansas and benefitted with his opposition flopped. I will say he developed a boyish charm when in office but as a candidate he looked like a corndog with hair.

Lol. In 1988 Clinton gave the most long-winded, boring speech and the convention. He definitely benefitted from Ross Pelot splitting the GOP vote in 1992. Bush was weak, the economy was in recession, and Clinton still needed help from Perot. He lost the congress and lucky for him he took Dick Morriss’ advice and moved toward the right in order to win in 1996.

Romney came off what he is, a man of ability and integrity. When you’re dying of cancer do you want the doc who lets off one liners or the one with a good pair of hands? I’m betting the American people won’t get fooled by that stuffed shirt a second time.

Lisa

I think Americans in the end will vote for ability and integrity over superficial rhetoric. Maybe we can postpone healing the world in favor of getting the economy back on track.

Ishii

 

[CaptFun]

Agreed. Besides, their presence would dampen the enjoyment of the other moviegoers. It would be very difficult to watch a movie next to someone with their eyes closed, yelling “LALALALALALALALALALALA” to avoid being exposed to a different viewpoint.

:clapping: hilarious mental image.

 

[austenbosten]

My take tonight

Wow Taylor Hicks can sing and entertain a crowd!

Romney gave a really great speech, though could have done without the constant pause for applause

Rubio…sorry, I don’t see what so great about him. His speech sounded like the 15 other speeches I heard every other Republican give this week at the RNC. “America is great…when my daddy came here…looked for a better life…immigrants…immigrants…my mom and dad worked hard…gave me a better life…that’s the American Dream…must fight for it…God Bless America!” — Sorry but YAWN I heard that from Cruz, Santorum, and all the others…have anything that’s different. Also Rubio really annoyed me with the constant pausing looking for approval.

NOTE TO SPEAKERS: STOP LOOKING FOR APPLAUSE AND TAKE THEM AS THEY COME, QUIT TURNING YOUR SPEECH INTO 5 SECOND SOUND BITES!

As for Clint Eastwood, wow finally someone who actually has the gall to after the President who accused Gov. Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer. Many will say his speech was awkward and a failure, I think you will find that a lot of us Conservatives will disagree. We are tired of this droning of “Obama’s a nice guy, he’s a nice guy but he can’t do the job.” — I’m sorry, but:

• The guy who told business owners “You didn’t built that.”
• The guy who trashes and blames George W Bush for everything under the sun, including failures that Obama has multiplied under his administration (Obama had the US involved in more foreign conflicts than Bush, has gutted Medicare more than Bush and has added far more to the National debt than Bush)
• The guy who accuses Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer
• The guy who decided to gut $719 Billion dollars from Medicare in order to pay for a Healthcare law that was rammed down the American people’s throats without telling them what was in the bill as Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill in order for you to know what’s in it.” which has led a massive increase in people’s premiums and has led to a brain drain with doctors leaving the field and on top of that, punishes those who cannot afford Health Insurance with a massive fine, not to mention adds punitive taxes on health equipment in which the people have to pay…kinda makes you think what good did come out of this besides allowing 26 yros be allowed to stay on mom and dad’s insurance.
• The guy who used more pronouns to describe the Bin Laden raid
• The guy who sicked his DOJ on the Catholic Church and basically told them to sit down, shut up and pay for contraceptives
• The guy who was responsible for allowing Operation Fast and Furious to happen which saw American firearms be given to cutthroat Mexican drug cartels who decided to use it to murder hundreds of innocent Mexican civilians and allow a US Border Patrol agent to get killed destroying thousands of lives and hundreds of families
• The guy who stood in to defend his AG who was directly responsible for the atrocity of Operation Fast and Furious
• The guy who decided to shut down the XL Keystone pipeline, thus preventing jobs from being created
• The guy who decided to ignore his own committee on easing the tax burden on all Americans and make the system simpler and fairer, so he can go on using the rich v poor as a political tool
• The guy who said the Cambridge Police Department “acted stupidly”
• The guy who signed the NDAA, which allows the President to assassinate or detain indefinitely without habeas corpus or reason any American citizen.
• The guy who attacked Arizona for trying to resolve it’s illegal immigration problem without trying to work with them to solve the situation
• The guy who strong-armed Gov Jan Brewer just this year
• The guy who championed the Arab Spring, which has led to the radical Muslim Brotherhood take power
• The guy who also stood by and did nothing when Iranians were protesting against Mahmudenijad
• The guy who lambasted Israel and told them they should return to the '67 Borders
• The guy who dissed the UK by deciding to side with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

Page after page, I could write an epic on all of the examples that prove the opposite of what the RNC and Romney are trying to pitch. Obama is not as nice as the media, Democrat Party, GOP and Romney make him out to be and I am getting tired of the GOP and Romney pulling the same old John McCain 2008 playbook that lost them the election because they were too afraid to go after the President and the Democrat Party who attacks the GOP and Romney relentlessly with: throwing grandma off of a cliff, Republicans want dirty and dirty water, they favor the rich, Romney gave a woman cancer…blah blah…Those baseless attacks and the short-list record I laid out is most certainly not something any nice guy would do. Now Republicans don’t have to do a character assassination on Obama as his campaign is trying to do with Romney, but let’s just drop the “nice guy, in over his head” attitude. Just point out Obama’s record that’s all you need to do, nothing more.

Eastwood was the only one that had me awake. Now like I said a lot of people might be turned off by Eastwood’s performance, but I will assure you, a lot of us Conservatives who were responsible in getting the Republican Party the majority in the House back in 2010 and saved the GOP from the brink…and were shut out in the convention were pleased…we finally got some red meat…was it a little weird sure, but the guy’s what? 85yro give him a break.

And by the way say what you want…but at least it was not Palin…even though that’s what us Conservatives really wanted.

All in all I thought the Convention was overall pretty weak, nothing that rallied the Conservative base too much, nothing that explained the GOP plan (only Romney seemed to actually lay that out) and frankly pretty lackluster. It seemed like a giant 3 days of “Hi, I’m a Republican…and I’m human.” In my view Gov. Romney really did save the Convention tonight.

 

[CaptFun]

Well, maybe on guy - mayor of Newark? By contrast - our leaders are governors and senators who are touted for possible vice presidency. One Democrat I sort of liked and thought had a future was Harold Ford Jr. He’s no longer in politics - maybe he wasn’t liberal enough for the Democrats.

Ishii

He appeared on Fox programs. May still be in Democratic Quarantine.

 

[ishii]

My take tonight

Wow Taylor Hicks can sing and entertain a crowd!

Romney gave a really great speech, though could have done without the constant pause for applause

Rubio…sorry, I don’t see what so great about him. His speech sounded like the 15 other speeches I heard every other Republican give this week at the RNC. “America is great…when my daddy came here…looked for a better life…immigrants…immigrants…my mom and dad worked hard…gave me a better life…that’s the American Dream…must fight for it…God Bless America!” — Sorry but YAWN I heard that from Cruz, Santorum, and all the others…have anything that’s different. Also Rubio really annoyed me with the constant pausing looking for approval.

NOTE TO SPEAKERS: STOP LOOKING FOR APPLAUSE AND TAKE THEM AS THEY COME, QUIT TURNING YOUR SPEECH INTO 5 SECOND SOUND BITES!

As for Clint Eastwood, wow finally someone who actually has the gall to after the President who accused Gov. Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer. Many will say his speech was awkward and a failure, I think you will find that a lot of us Conservatives will disagree. We are tired of this droning of “Obama’s a nice guy, he’s a nice guy but he can’t do the job.” — I’m sorry, but:

Page after page, I could write an epic on all of the examples that prove the opposite of what the RNC and Romney are trying to pitch. Obama is not as nice as the media, Democrat Party, GOP and Romney make him out to be and I am getting tired of the GOP and Romney pulling the same old John McCain 2008 playbook that lost them the election because they were too afraid to go after the President and the Democrat Party who attacks the GOP and Romney relentlessly with: throwing grandma off of a cliff, Republicans want dirty and dirty water, they favor the rich, Romney gave a woman cancer…blah blah…Those baseless attacks and the short-list record I laid out is most certainly not something any nice guy would do. Now Republicans don’t have to do a character assassination on Obama as his campaign is trying to do with Romney, but let’s just drop the “nice guy, in over his head” attitude. Just point out Obama’s record that’s all you need to do, nothing more.

Eastwood was the only one that had me awake. Now like I said a lot of people might be turned off by Eastwood’s performance, but I will assure you, a lot of us Conservatives who were responsible in getting the Republican Party the majority in the House back in 2010 and saved the GOP from the brink…and were shut out in the convention were pleased…we finally got some red meat…was it a little weird sure, but the guy’s what? 85yro give him a break.

And by the way say what you want…but at least it was not Palin…even though that’s what us Conservatives really wanted.

All in all I thought the Convention was overall pretty weak, nothing that rallied the Conservative base too much, nothing that explained the GOP plan (only Romney seemed to actually lay that out) and frankly pretty lackluster. It seemed like a giant 3 days of “Hi, I’m a Republican…and I’m human.” In my view Gov. Romney really did save the Convention tonight.

Interesting comments, Austenboston. I agree with your take - I thought Romney did a pretty good job - solid, if not soaring speech. No one will remember it, but is was straightforward. I agree with you on Rubio, except that I think part of his deal was to introduce Romney, not overshadow him. He is the best Republican communicator, and he did a good job introducing Romney. Saw Eastwood the 2nd time - at first I thought his speech was a bit strange, but the at 2nd glance it was pretty funny and effective. Nice to have a legend up there speaking to support Romney.

Ishii

 

[austenbosten]

Ah geez I forgot to put the last thing in.

I thought Cardinal Dolan’s prayer was great! Was happy to pray with him, though I thought John Boehner was slightly rude to him, since His Eminence sort of stood there then quietly walked off without a proper farewell.

 

[austenbosten]

Interesting comments, Austenboston. I agree with your take - I thought Romney did a pretty good job - solid, if not soaring speech. No one will remember it, but is was straightforward. I agree with you on Rubio, except that I think part of his deal was to introduce Romney, not overshadow him. He is the best Republican communicator, and he did a good job introducing Romney. Saw Eastwood the 2nd time - at first I thought his speech was a bit strange, but the at 2nd glance it was pretty funny and effective. Nice to have a legend up there speaking to support Romney.

Ishii

Yeah that’s what I took Eastwood’s speech as, something of a comical relief. But I did love the “This is not the Politicians country, this is your country.” was nice to hear that, something I didn’t hear too much from the GOP speakers…but considering what they did the first day with the shut out…I’m not all that surprised.

I also get it with Rubio, he can’t steal Romney’s thunder as some people thought Christie did the other night (though I can’t see it, Christie is all gas and no roast for me) so I guess it was a good speech, but like I said I heard the same speech from Cruz and Santorum and 15 others…and it all boiled down to sounding like “Hi, I’m a Republican…and I’m human.”

 

[oldcelt]

He appeared on Fox programs. May still be in Democratic Quarantine.

We don’t use quarantine anymore. Our scientists came up with a disinfectant spray…followed by heavy re-education.

John

 

[_Abyssinia]

Interesting comments, Austenboston. I agree with your take - I thought Romney did a pretty good job - solid, if not soaring speech. No one will remember it, but is was straightforward. I agree with you on Rubio, except that I think part of his deal was to introduce Romney, not overshadow him. He is the best Republican communicator, and he did a good job introducing Romney. Saw Eastwood the 2nd time - at first I thought his speech was a bit strange, but the at 2nd glance it was pretty funny and effective. Nice to have a legend up there speaking to support Romney.

Ishii

Think Romney did an excellent a job. He is a straightforward business guy. People fell for the Obama soaring rhetoric 2008 and they will not again. Speeches have to turn in to action. Romney is not a poet, but he can turn the economy around and uphold the sanctity of life as he said in his speech

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family

Clint Eastwood was funny

Marco Rubio was fantastic as always

 

[ishii]

I think Romney did an excellent a job. He is a straightforward business guy. Enough of the Obama speeches and soaring rhetoric which have turned in to failed promises, Romney is not a poet, but he can turn the economy around and uphold the sanctity of life as he said in his speech

Clint Eastwood was funny

Marco Rubio was fantastic as always

Agree. Eastwood was funny. Romney will uphold the sanctity of life - a point that is often lost on the “true believer” crowd. I think overall we have a great ticket - one to be proud to support enthusiastically. Go for it, Mitt!

Ishii

 

[_Abyssinia]

Washington post

Romney’s best moment (to our mind) was when he talked wistfully (and emotionally) about missing the joys of raising kids — a genuinely human moment that almost anyone, no matter their party registration, could relate to. Romney also did well in casting himself as the anti-Obama. Where Obama lacked business experience, Romney has it in spades. Where Obama made sweeping promises, Romney made simple ones. (The most quoted line of the speech will almost certainly be this one: ‘President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise…is to help you and your family

washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/30/republican-national-convention-night-3-winners-and-losers

Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo: Romney Is Killing It. Strong Speech. Crowd Can’t Get Enough

twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/241370895283793920

Reuters

Romney Makes Appeal To Americans Disillusioned With Obama

reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-campaign-idUSBRE87P01H20120831

The hill

The speech electrified an eager crowd of delegates packed into the Tampa Forum, who rose repeatedly to their feet to cheer and applaud the GOP nominee while waving signs that exclaimed ‘Mitt!’ and ‘Believe!

thehill.com/conventions-2012/gop-convention-tampa/246845-romney-what-america-news-is-jobs-not-hope-and-change

 

[CaptFun]

My take tonight

Wow Taylor Hicks can sing and entertain a crowd!

Romney gave a really great speech, though could have done without the constant pause for applause

Rubio…sorry, I don’t see what so great about him. His speech sounded like the 15 other speeches I heard every other Republican give this week at the RNC. “America is great…when my daddy came here…looked for a better life…immigrants…immigrants…my mom and dad worked hard…gave me a better life…that’s the American Dream…must fight for it…God Bless America!” — Sorry but YAWN I heard that from Cruz, Santorum, and all the others…have anything that’s different. Also Rubio really annoyed me with the constant pausing looking for approval.

NOTE TO SPEAKERS: STOP LOOKING FOR APPLAUSE AND TAKE THEM AS THEY COME, QUIT TURNING YOUR SPEECH INTO 5 SECOND SOUND BITES!

As for Clint Eastwood, wow finally someone who actually has the gall to after the President who accused Gov. Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer. Many will say his speech was awkward and a failure, I think you will find that a lot of us Conservatives will disagree. We are tired of this droning of “Obama’s a nice guy, he’s a nice guy but he can’t do the job.” — I’m sorry, but:

• The guy who told business owners “You didn’t built that.”
• The guy who trashes and blames George W Bush for everything under the sun, including failures that Obama has multiplied under his administration (Obama had the US involved in more foreign conflicts than Bush, has gutted Medicare more than Bush and has added far more to the National debt than Bush)
• The guy who accuses Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer
• The guy who decided to gut $719 Billion dollars from Medicare in order to pay for a Healthcare law that was rammed down the American people’s throats without telling them what was in the bill as Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill in order for you to know what’s in it.” which has led a massive increase in people’s premiums and has led to a brain drain with doctors leaving the field and on top of that, punishes those who cannot afford Health Insurance with a massive fine, not to mention adds punitive taxes on health equipment in which the people have to pay…kinda makes you think what good did come out of this besides allowing 26 yros be allowed to stay on mom and dad’s insurance.
• The guy who used more pronouns to describe the Bin Laden raid
• The guy who sicked his DOJ on the Catholic Church and basically told them to sit down, shut up and pay for contraceptives
• The guy who was responsible for allowing Operation Fast and Furious to happen which saw American firearms be given to cutthroat Mexican drug cartels who decided to use it to murder hundreds of innocent Mexican civilians and allow a US Border Patrol agent to get killed destroying thousands of lives and hundreds of families
• The guy who stood in to defend his AG who was directly responsible for the atrocity of Operation Fast and Furious
• The guy who decided to shut down the XL Keystone pipeline, thus preventing jobs from being created
• The guy who decided to ignore his own committee on easing the tax burden on all Americans and make the system simpler and fairer, so he can go on using the rich v poor as a political tool
• The guy who said the Cambridge Police Department “acted stupidly”
• The guy who signed the NDAA, which allows the President to assassinate or detain indefinitely without habeas corpus or reason any American citizen.
• The guy who attacked Arizona for trying to resolve it’s illegal immigration problem without trying to work with them to solve the situation
• The guy who strong-armed Gov Jan Brewer just this year
• The guy who championed the Arab Spring, which has led to the radical Muslim Brotherhood take power
• The guy who also stood by and did nothing when Iranians were protesting against Mahmudenijad
• The guy who lambasted Israel and told them they should return to the '67 Borders
• The guy who dissed the UK by deciding to side with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

Page after page, I could write an epic on all of the examples that prove the opposite of what the RNC and Romney are trying to pitch. Obama is not as nice as the media, Democrat Party, GOP and Romney make him out to be and I am getting tired of the GOP and Romney pulling the same old John McCain 2008 playbook that lost them the election because they were too afraid to go after the President and the Democrat Party who attacks the GOP and Romney relentlessly with: throwing grandma off of a cliff, Republicans want dirty and dirty water, they favor the rich, Romney gave a woman cancer…blah blah…Those baseless attacks and the short-list record I laid out is most certainly not something any nice guy would do. Now Republicans don’t have to do a character assassination on Obama as his campaign is trying to do with Romney, but let’s just drop the “nice guy, in over his head” attitude. Just point out Obama’s record that’s all you need to do, nothing more.

Eastwood was the only one that had me awake. Now like I said a lot of people might be turned off by Eastwood’s performance, but I will assure you, a lot of us Conservatives who were responsible in getting the Republican Party the majority in the House back in 2010 and saved the GOP from the brink…and were shut out in the convention were pleased…we finally got some red meat…was it a little weird sure, but the guy’s what? 85yro give him a break.

And by the way say what you want…but at least it was not Palin…even though that’s what us Conservatives really wanted.

All in all I thought the Convention was overall pretty weak, nothing that rallied the Conservative base too much, nothing that explained the GOP plan (only Romney seemed to actually lay that out) and frankly pretty lackluster. It seemed like a giant 3 days of “Hi, I’m a Republican…and I’m human.” In my view Gov. Romney really did save the Convention tonight.

:yeah_me:
Colossal! Stupendous! Laughed at your take on the "obligatory up-from-poverty my Dad was an immigrant " speeches. Gasped at the litany of social atrocities fired in broadside.

One of the most astounding sustained assaults on the left since Rush Limbaugh aired “the poem” back in 1991 (BEFORE the “other Bush” took office). :knight1::knight2:

I will have to re-read this. As a sometimes reluctant Republican (I prefer conservative - though when times are sane and not so unbalanced - everything doesn’t HAVE to be local, and Government helping the helpless and truly needy is OK with oversight) I have some of the same critiques of “my party” (by default).

The “poem” - (a dizzying display of political images) reminded me of your take just now.

groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/iJStSXra7Rs

 

[_Abyssinia]

Cardinal Timothy Dolan at RNC

youtube.com/watch?v=F6-SaIhpqeM

 

[meltzerboy]

My take tonight

Wow Taylor Hicks can sing and entertain a crowd!

Romney gave a really great speech, though could have done without the constant pause for applause

Rubio…sorry, I don’t see what so great about him. His speech sounded like the 15 other speeches I heard every other Republican give this week at the RNC. “America is great…when my daddy came here…looked for a better life…immigrants…immigrants…my mom and dad worked hard…gave me a better life…that’s the American Dream…must fight for it…God Bless America!” — Sorry but YAWN I heard that from Cruz, Santorum, and all the others…have anything that’s different. Also Rubio really annoyed me with the constant pausing looking for approval.

NOTE TO SPEAKERS: STOP LOOKING FOR APPLAUSE AND TAKE THEM AS THEY COME, QUIT TURNING YOUR SPEECH INTO 5 SECOND SOUND BITES!

As for Clint Eastwood, wow finally someone who actually has the gall to after the President who accused Gov. Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer. Many will say his speech was awkward and a failure, I think you will find that a lot of us Conservatives will disagree. We are tired of this droning of “Obama’s a nice guy, he’s a nice guy but he can’t do the job.” — I’m sorry, but:

• The guy who told business owners “You didn’t built that.”
• The guy who trashes and blames George W Bush for everything under the sun, including failures that Obama has multiplied under his administration (Obama had the US involved in more foreign conflicts than Bush, has gutted Medicare more than Bush and has added far more to the National debt than Bush)
• The guy who accuses Mitt Romney of giving a woman cancer
• The guy who decided to gut $719 Billion dollars from Medicare in order to pay for a Healthcare law that was rammed down the American people’s throats without telling them what was in the bill as Nancy Pelosi said “We have to pass the bill in order for you to know what’s in it.” which has led a massive increase in people’s premiums and has led to a brain drain with doctors leaving the field and on top of that, punishes those who cannot afford Health Insurance with a massive fine, not to mention adds punitive taxes on health equipment in which the people have to pay…kinda makes you think what good did come out of this besides allowing 26 yros be allowed to stay on mom and dad’s insurance.
• The guy who used more pronouns to describe the Bin Laden raid
• The guy who sicked his DOJ on the Catholic Church and basically told them to sit down, shut up and pay for contraceptives
• The guy who was responsible for allowing Operation Fast and Furious to happen which saw American firearms be given to cutthroat Mexican drug cartels who decided to use it to murder hundreds of innocent Mexican civilians and allow a US Border Patrol agent to get killed destroying thousands of lives and hundreds of families
• The guy who stood in to defend his AG who was directly responsible for the atrocity of Operation Fast and Furious
• The guy who decided to shut down the XL Keystone pipeline, thus preventing jobs from being created
• The guy who decided to ignore his own committee on easing the tax burden on all Americans and make the system simpler and fairer, so he can go on using the rich v poor as a political tool
• The guy who said the Cambridge Police Department “acted stupidly”
• The guy who signed the NDAA, which allows the President to assassinate or detain indefinitely without habeas corpus or reason any American citizen.
• The guy who attacked Arizona for trying to resolve it’s illegal immigration problem without trying to work with them to solve the situation
• The guy who strong-armed Gov Jan Brewer just this year
• The guy who championed the Arab Spring, which has led to the radical Muslim Brotherhood take power
• The guy who also stood by and did nothing when Iranians were protesting against Mahmudenijad
• The guy who lambasted Israel and told them they should return to the '67 Borders
• The guy who dissed the UK by deciding to side with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.

Page after page, I could write an epic on all of the examples that prove the opposite of what the RNC and Romney are trying to pitch. Obama is not as nice as the media, Democrat Party, GOP and Romney make him out to be and I am getting tired of the GOP and Romney pulling the same old John McCain 2008 playbook that lost them the election because they were too afraid to go after the President and the Democrat Party who attacks the GOP and Romney relentlessly with: throwing grandma off of a cliff, Republicans want dirty and dirty water, they favor the rich, Romney gave a woman cancer…blah blah…Those baseless attacks and the short-list record I laid out is most certainly not something any nice guy would do. Now Republicans don’t have to do a character assassination on Obama as his campaign is trying to do with Romney, but let’s just drop the “nice guy, in over his head” attitude. Just point out Obama’s record that’s all you need to do, nothing more.

Eastwood was the only one that had me awake. Now like I said a lot of people might be turned off by Eastwood’s performance, but I will assure you, a lot of us Conservatives who were responsible in getting the Republican Party the majority in the House back in 2010 and saved the GOP from the brink…and were shut out in the convention were pleased…we finally got some red meat…was it a little weird sure, but the guy’s what? 85yro give him a break.

And by the way say what you want…but at least it was not Palin…even though that’s what us Conservatives really wanted.

All in all I thought the Convention was overall pretty weak, nothing that rallied the Conservative base too much, nothing that explained the GOP plan (only Romney seemed to actually lay that out) and frankly pretty lackluster. It seemed like a giant 3 days of “Hi, I’m a Republican…and I’m human.” In my view Gov. Romney really did save the Convention tonight.

Rubio seemed nervous and definitely underperformed with regard to both the delivery and the coherence of his speech. He became more self-assured toward the end. Romney, on the other hand, overperformed. However, I didn’t care so much for the foreign-policy part of his speech and his tough remarks with respect to Iran and Russia’s Putin, although I’m sure the audience at the convention liked it. At least he gave Obama credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden. Clint Eastwood was attempting to mix no-nonsense criticism of Obama with humor, but it didn’t come off too well. Ordinarily I have a sense of humor about this kind of stuff, yet the shtick he performed I thought more appropriate for “America’s Got Talent” than a political convention.