Taking the primetime stage during the first night of the three-day Republican National Convention Tuesday was Ann Romney, wife of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
"I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us … Tonight I want to talk to you about love," Ann Romney said. "I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago. And the profound love I have, and I know we share, for this country."
Later keeping with the love theme, Christie announced: "Tonight, we are going to do what my mother taught me. Tonight, we are going to choose respect over love."
Tuesday sealed the deal for Mitt Romney being the first Mormon to be nominated for president by either political party.
There was high energy amid the roughly 20,000 delegates and supporters at the Tampa Bay Times Forum as they listened to four hours worth of speakers. Many speculate that Ann's speech was the most important when it comes to her husband's bid for the nation's top elected post.
Romney, a 65-year old former governor of Massachusetts, is trailing President Obama among women voters, especially in critical swing states like Ohio and Virginia. Romney also is not personally popular, even if more voters trust him on key issues like the economy and jobs.
"It's the moms of this nation—single, married, widowed—who really hold this country together," Ann Romney said. "We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, and we are the daughters."
On Wednesday night, Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, will give the prime time speech, and on Thursday, Romney will end the convention.
And that folks is the real shame. Black Republicans on Twitter are banding together to form a support group to let each other know they are not alone. If you are curious on Twitter use the hashtag #BlacksForRomney
No, it did not change my opinion. As much as I don't like the job Obama is doing/has done, I can't find anything worthy in Romney to vote for him. Repeating lies enough I guess will make it sound true, and that seems to be a great bit of what I hear from the republican party. If nothing else, the entire campaign has made me sour on politics and feel we need a 3rd party choice that is viable to keep both parties in check. I am of the opinion that politics as a career is wrong, ANY and ALL lobbyist groups should be barred, so laws and bills are passed for the people, not to benefit some company.
I did not say she could not post, that maybe she "should" not post because of her use of the English language or the lack thereof.
Both parties put out trash but what I hear are more out and out lies by Obama's people. IE. That Republicans are going to cut Medicare to seniors, which could not be further from the truth. It is Obamacare that is going to take care of that by taking 719 billion dollars from Medicare and pay for healthcare for 600,000 new people. I agree with you that politics should not be a career which there are way too many in that role right now. They have not done anything else but hold a public office. That is why I think that we need to make term limits on Senators to 1 - 6 year term and 2 - 2 year terms for Congress and you had to wait 2 elections before you could run again.
As terrified as Americans are about being put in a box & labeled, there are no truly independent political thinkers...NONE. & as much as Americans would like to believe that politics in this country is a dichotomy between republicans & democrats, it just aint so. There are many parties & many schools of political thought, & there is sufficient overlap between them. There is no more territory on the political landscape to discover. Nobody's planting a flag anywhere. Whether you like or not, everyone fits into a box...everyone. That said, as claustrophobic as being put in a little box can be, you don't have to put the lid on. You can live in your box and think outside of it. You don't have to subscribe to every tenet of a political platform to identify w/the party. "Independent" is merely a 4 letter word that means that you lack conviction, & are either afraid or ashamed to directly voice your beliefs. It doesn't matter though, ones beliefs are always revealed in the opinions you have & positions you take.
As far as the whole rich man poor man argument, I never got a job from a poor man and I find it real insulting to hear from multi millionaire entertainers about how rich businessmen are somehow evil but they aren't. But you keep believing nothing politicians do affects you directly.
& our political divide has so little to do w/labels. We've had labels for our entire history, & in that time we've come further & gone farther than any country on the planet. Our problems today stem from polarization due to vastly different political & economic ideologies. The divide between left & right used to be so small that you could easily reach across the aisle, but now that divide is so expansive that it's next to impossible to come together. Heck, the divide w/in the parties themselves is almost getting to that point. PS -- you can't have diversity w/o labels. W/o labels all you're left w/in the melting pot is a bland, homogeneous stock w/no identity.