Posted on 09/02/2012 9:32:27 PM PDT by deek69
Did Mitt Romney make the economic sale at the Republican National Convention? Did he convince people who are living at the margin or unemployed and discouraged that he has the answers to the economy? Frankly, I don’t think so.
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“If we don’t win both houses, you can kiss repeal goodbye. Ried would never let it come to the floor.”
I know that, dear...and feel pretty good about our chances. ;o)
Nonsense. Any "independent" that doesn't know the choice by now is NOT going to be swayed by details. Romney simply has to avoid scaring them.
BTTT!
Romney largely skirted the question of tax reform. By contrast, in his 1980 acceptance speech, Ronald Reagan mentioned taxes 20 times (by James Pethokoukis's count). And Reagan took the opportunity to explain to the voters why low taxes promote growth and jobs.
That's basically Kudlow's criticism. He went into detail on his Saturday morning radio program[116 minutes, 106 mb].
Your post is giving me Hope for Change.
(I just had to say that.)
I was around, and very politically aware, during both of Reagan’s presidential runs. I, literally, got out of a sick bed to go vote for Reagan in 1980. We didn’t know until the election results that evening what a great day that was.
That was then...this is now.
Very different times, politically.
R&R DO discuss specifics, but the Convention Speech is not the place to inundate people with facts and figures and bore them to death, it’s meant to energize people.
Romney and Ryan hit Obama on jobs, promise tax cuts
Did Romney make the sale that we need to make a change? Yes.
Did Romney make the sale that he can fix things? Maybe.
That is, maybe if he also makes the sale that it's either Obama or him; that the time to talk about alternatives is over, and it's now Obama or Romney to fix things.
Choose one or the other to go forward.
I think Romney made the sale that it would be crazy to not choose Romney.
Now we have to see what Obama does. Romney's pitch is made. Now Obama has to counter. Then let the two of them engage at the debates.
I predict that Obama will collapse under the weight of his own lies and incompetence, when contrasted against Romney in one-on-one debates.
-PJ
” Hope for Change.”
Okay...that’s where I draw the line.
Stop it! ;o)
Frankly, Romney and Ryan have laid out a plan that reminds me very much of Reagan’s plan.
Read some Milton Friedman (”Free To Choose” comes to mind) and you will get the drift of Reagan’s and Romney’s plans.
Not that anyone asked for my opinion (that has never stopped me from proffering it), but I will list, in order of brilliance, and just IMO, the top five speeches given at the Tampa event.
The order or even the inclusion of certain speakers does not mean I agree with their dogma. I am referencing the oratorical flourish displayed.
Condi Rice - by far the best
Paul Ryan
Artur Davis
Susanna Martinez
Mitt Romney
Haley and Rubio did well, also.
Clint caused some heads to explode, so kudos to him.
All in all it was a great convention, and I have seen many.
Personally, I really missed Sarah.
That was my general impression from viewing various pieces of the convention. But, when I came across Kudlow's assessment, I took a break from my euphoria and hearkened back to the general tone of this forum on WMR these past many months — you know, the usual cast of morons declaring they will sit out the election because there is no difference between WMR and BHO.
IOW, I think Kudlow's worries will prove groundless, BHO will be history next January, and the US will return to greatness under WMR and PDR (2012-2020, 2020-2028). But who knows ...
I think he made the case.
For those with open minds and who are not die hard liberals and leftists.
The problem is that many who know Mitt is capable and Obama is incompetent are still in love with Obama and the ideas of his “Hope and Change”.
They never had a clear idea of what he meant by those promises and still don’t.
But they cannot accept that he is a communist and is destroying the country intentionally, not by accident.
It is hard to accept the fact you have been duped and made a fool of.
‘________that little whistle sound when he pronounces his ‘s.’
Yeah, the ‘s’ whistles. Don’t know if a speech therapist can fix that (probably).
Re. the sound of his voice: - - -
By Aug. 2009, I was aware how often BHO was hollerin’ at me/us. On the TV constantly from inauguration. Always yammering about something. So unpresidential - sounding like a dictator.
Now, as for Mrs. Obama - I can’t stand when she says ‘shh’ in words beginning with ‘s t r.’
Like shhhtruggle, shhhtrong, shhhtrive, shhhtrange.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeee
A very bad habit. Can she be that ignorant of how all those words are pronounced???
‘_______the top 5 speeches given at the Tampa event.’
Agree with your list. I put Haley near the top - - style and substance.
Any opinion about the presentation in Spanish given by Craig Romney?
His Spanish was impressive, to be sure.
Ahh - the missing Sarah. . . .
Remains to be seen how and where she puts her energy between now and November.
I am really getting tired of Larry Kudlow. I’ll never forget him declaring with authority that John McCain was going to be our next president.
Is Kudlow trying to go George Will? He sounds more like he’s trying to boost his relevance than offering a considered evaluation.
So; FOUR MORE YEARS of OBAMA? Yep. That’s it. When something’s not working - double down on it. That’ll do it.
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