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The Spectacle Blog
I don’t have time to explain or defend these ratings below, for which I apologize (and which also means I will probably get skewered by readers, especially those who disagree), but….
What REALLY WORKED SUPERBLY:
* Two of the personal testimonials about Romney’s decency, from the couple whose 14 year-old son died and from the woman whose prematurely born daughter lived to 26 years old before dying.
* Sen. Rand Paul’s speech
* Artur Davis’s speech
* Condi Rice’s speech
* Most of Paul Ryan’s speech (although there were some holes — still not enough Kemp-like growth emphasis, among them)
* Susana Martinez’s speech
What worked rather well:
* Ann Romney’s speech
* Rick Santorum’s speech (even though the “hands” metaphor was overextended)
* About five of Clint Eastwood’s lines which were TV-ad worthy, even if his overal presentation was a bit odd
* Mike Eruzione’s remarks
* Mike Huckabee’s speech
* Luis Fortuno’s speech
* John McCain’s speech in total effect, even if it wasn’t perfectly delivered
* Scott Walker’s speech
* Nikki Haley’s speech
* Chris Christie’s speech
* John Kasich’s speech
* a couple of the other personal testimonials to Romney’s kindness or competence
What worked just enough and did at least some good, but were nowhere near a home run:
* Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech
* Marco Rubio’s speech
* Jeb Bush’s speech
While I saw MOST of the proceedings, I did not see ALL of them. Out of an abundance of kindness, I will not list which ones I missed vs. which ones I thought bombed; that way, anybody not listed above can assume I just missed them, because I thought only two or three bombed. No need to insult people who tried hard but didn’t deliver; nobody bombed in a way that was obnoxious or discreditable; the bombs were just in the sense of a failure ever to achieve liftoff.
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Interested Conservative| 8.31.12 @ 1:30PM
Clint's alone does the most good. The others combined likely planted enough seeds to ride out the tsunami of messaging ahead, but Clint's will live for a long time. Just think of the billboards/pics/punchlines.
"Gotta let em go". With malice toward none.
Oldefarte| 8.31.12 @ 2:22PM
Per Michael Reagan:
'...Look at what happened when one obscure congressman from Missouri said something insensitive and stupid about rape or pregnancy.The Democrats and their soul mates in the liberal media feasted on it and the Romney campaign had to spend a week denouncing Todd Akin instead of Obama's failed economic policies. That's exactly what Democrats and Obama want Republicans to talk about — social issues.
I am pro-life. But when the GOP insists on putting a hard-line position on abortion into its party platform, all it does is force Republicans to spend time in the media defending the platform instead of debating the economy.If we wanted to be truly Reaganesque this year, we should have used the wording that prefaced the abortion plank in 1980. It recognized that the Republican Party was a big tent, saying that "we recognize differing views on this question among Americans in general — and in our own party."
The 2012 platform's abortion plank brooks no dissent and leaves no room in the tent for pro-choice Republicans like Condoleezza Rice. It takes the position that "the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed." We should let the Catholic Church debate the social issues while Republicans concentrate on debating the economy and jobs. Because that's where we all agree — and that's where we win....'
grant1863| 8.31.12 @ 3:04PM
Clint's speech was given by a 82 year old man and sounded like it. But still a good speech especially when it seem heartfelt and not mean or bitter.
Crassus| 8.31.12 @ 4:39PM
The GOP should have dug up John Barrymore. He would have given a more interesting speech than Clint.
Oldefarte| 8.31.12 @ 5:07PM
Thats okay, the Democrats still have UNCHAIN-MY-HEART-JOE, right??????
rightasrain| 8.31.12 @ 6:40PM
Change Mitt's and Marco's speeches to the what worked rather well category and add Mia Love's to the what worked superbly category and you'd be right.