[God luvs America]

many Freepers will whine and moan about this but the fact is 1) Christie’s speech at the Reagan library was SECOND to none from anything we’ve heard from the GOP in a long while 2) people will whine he’s a RINO yet too bad more GOPers don’t speak their mind about obama as does Christie...

terrific choice for a national stage....

[Timber Rattler]

...people will whine he’s a RINO yet too bad more GOPers don’t speak their mind about obama as does Christie...

Yeah, he sure does.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

I couldn’t agree more.. Christie will blow the lid off the convention center.. great choice

[SamAdams76]

Here is a link to the speech Christie gave at the Reagan Library last year. If Christie gives a similar speech at the RNC next month, I think we are in for a real treat.

Remember that the role of a keynote speaker is to establish the theme of the event at hand and get people in the audience pumped up. Another purpose of the keynote speaker with respect to political conventions is to draw people in and get them interested enough to want to hear the content of other speeches to follow.

I think Christie would be a lousy VP candidate but he can be an effective keynote speaker.

Now Sarah Palin would also make a great keynote speaker for the same reasons stated above. However, she has not yet come out and endorsed Romney in the strong manner that Christie has. I believe a strong endorsement of the nominee is a pre-requisite to being named keynote speaker and that fact alone has likely prevented Palin from being considered for this key role by the Romney camp.