I watched all of the speeches. The worst delivered I felt was Ron Paul, followed closely by Thad McCotter and then sadly Michele Bachmann. I think the Three best speeches of the day were by Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and even though it pains me to say it....Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty gave the speech of his life and I think he knew he had to.
Up until today I would have sworn the man was an automaton created in the labs at Disney.
I hope the 1, 2, 3 of the poll goes Cain, Santorum, Bachmann but we cannot have everything now can we? I fear that Ron Paul will finish strongly and thus we shall be stricken with the little creep for the duration.
Thanks for the assessment.
Cain did very well. Going last, he could benefit the most from the people that went and listened to everyone before making up their minds.
I’m suspect of Pawlenty’s “enthusiastic” supporters at the front of the stage.
Bachmann needs to transition from the personal story to the more “substantive” speeches. But they know the IA voters better than I do, seems like everyone was over-touting the social issues ad nauseum. Disappointed she didn’t even mention repealing Obamacare (I thought Steve King had set her up nicely in his speech with the whole inaugaration thing).
Ron Paul is a lunatic like normal, but his crowd didn’t look as large and rowdy as I thought it would be.
I just damn near had the wife throw me out the door and my 90 year-old mother-in-law almost had a heart attack when I told them that if Rommney/and/or Perry are on the ballot in 2012 I’m voting democrat. I’m serious. I’m a former liberal and these two bozo’s are RINOS.
I think Herman Cain gave the most compelling speech. He’s what this country needs right now. And he’s not afraid to tell the truth.