Did you catch Chris Christie’s RNC keynote speech? It looked like Christie wanted to deliver the message that the Republicans are going to win... in 2016... with him as the nominee. Christie spoke for 17 minutes before he even mentioned Mitt Romney’s name. It was almost like he was stalling before he had to spring the bad news on everybody. Eventually, Chistie said that Mitt Romney is the man who will tell America the hard truths. Really, Chris? You want us to believe that Mitt Romney is going to tell us the hard truths? Mitt has been talking for six years, and he hasn’t said anything with a shred of truth in it the whole time. Mitt Romney won’t even tell us what’s in his own tax returns. But then, those are the hardest truths for Mitt Romney to discuss.
If Chris Christie had the keynote slot, Ann Romney had the “my husband is a real human being, honest!” slot. Ann Romney looks a lot more natural than her husband. But then that would also be true of a cardboard cutout of Ann Romney. Ann Romney actually managed to paint a somewhat convincing portrait of her husband a real-life flesh and blood human being… and then Mitt came out at the end of the speech and ruined it all.
Rick Santorum took on the convention job of delivering the most racially-tinged attacks on President Obama. I guess they really like the way Rick Santorum plays the dog whistle. In one sense, it’s a little odd that Rick Santorum would be willing to do Mitt Romney’s dirty work. Rick Santorum hates Mitt Romney. I guess he just really likes doing dirty work. At least Rick Santorum made a strong case for Mitt Romney being the nominee... as opposed to Rick Santorum.
John Boehner’s entire speech was built around him reprising a weird “a guy walks into a bar” theme. John, maybe you shouldn’t be talking about bars and drinking. You didn’t see Chris Christie coming out and talking about donuts.
Finally, Ron Paul’s people caused a big stink—and that’s not easy to do at a gathering that smells as bad as this one. Ron Paul supporters on the convention floor broke into loud booing when the convention adopted a set of rules that... well, that were basically designed to make sure there would never be anything like Ron Paul supporters on the convention floor ever again.
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