TAMPA, Fla. — Isaac did the Republican National Convention one big favor: It gave organizers a good reason to move Ann Romney’s speech from Monday night, when the broadcast networks weren’t planning to cover it, to Tuesday night. The candidate’s wife will address the convention on national TV, just before New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers the official keynote address.
Christie, one of the GOP’s most ferocious attack dogs, probably seemed a natural choice to play the traditional keynoter’s role of firing up the delegates. But that was before last week, when Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin made his infamous comment about “legitimate rape,” the party’s platform endorsed a constitutional amendment banning abortion in all cases, and Democrats intensified their accusations that the GOP is waging a “war on women.”
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The President runs the Executive, not the Vice President, and certainly not the First Wife. Same with Obama. While Michelle and Ann may be nice to look at, don't get caught up in a bait and switch.
Perhaps she can ride her horse on stage like Annie Oakley! Her million dollar freakin horse.
I've met Ann Romneny when her husband was the outgoing governor of Massachusetts. She was so disinterested in everyone at the reception ... I tried to say that she was having an off day perhaps related to her health but I truly was left with another opinion. She like her husband are users .... if you can help them achieve what they've desribed as "their turn" then she/he are more than gracious. They do not have a birthright to the White House .... They who act like they are better than the rest of us have no God given right. Even though we have been very successful I cannot forget where my family came from .... and I cannot forget that we all have an obligation to help those less fortuante. The Romney's have forgotten that lesson. We cannot go back to the failed economic and diplomatic policies of the Bush era. Romeny will get us back into another senseless war.
To the column, featuring her is iffy. She has been showing her arrogant, rich-person self in interviews. Sure, her party is almost entirely white and its support is heavily male, but the us v. not-us is so like the stereotypical British U v. non-U attitude. I can easily see even GOP voters feeling marginalized and patronized. Mitt is so kind (and pious). We are so generous to our church. We're rich and very, very comfortable with it. That could well turn off many.