dorkyThere were all sorts of high points and low points. For example, actor and director Clint Eastwood made some remarks that some view as amusing and others thought to be rambling, bizarre and distasteful. Perhaps I'm more forgiving because I hope people will tolerate my eccentricities when I turn 80.
Did anyone else catch Marco Rubio's screw up? I think he meant to say "we choose more freedom and less government" but instead he got the two concepts in the reverse order. I'll have to try and find a replay of it it double check if I got that right.
As for Mitt Romney's speech, it had some good lines in it, though I don't think it will go down in history as one of the more memorable speeches, like Ronald Reagan's or Bill Clinton's.
So permit me the obligatory poll for the last day of this convention. I managed to find a transcript of Mitt Romney's acceptance speech and have pulled a few remarks from it as part of the poll. The poll is behind this cut.
Did you watch Mitt Romney's acceptance speech last night?
Yes
1(100.0%)
Some of it
0(0.0%)
Not last night, but I've seen some or all of it since
0(0.0%)
No
0(0.0%)
From what you saw of it, what did you think of Romney's speech?
He knocked it out of the park, it was excellent
0(0.0%)
It was a good speech, but not a great one
1(100.0%)
It wasn't a good speech, but it did what it had to do
0(0.0%)
It was so-so
0(0.0%)
It wasn't very good
0(0.0%)
It was terrible
0(0.0%)
I didn't see any of it so I can't comment
0(0.0%)
Which was the best line from the speech?
The centerpiece of the President's entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression?
0(0.0%)
I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.
0(0.0%)
The president hasn't disappointed you because he wanted to. The president has disappointed America because he hasn't led America in the right direction.
0(0.0%)
Every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a 2nd term could look back at the last 4 years and say: you are better off today than you were 4 years ago. Except Jimmy Carter and except this president.
0(0.0%)
This president can tell us that the next four years he'll get it right. But this president cannot tell us that you are better off today than when he took office.
0(0.0%)
But tonight I'd ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama?
0(0.0%)
President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise is to help you and your family.
0(0.0%)
You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
1(100.0%)
[Obama] had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.
0(0.0%)
But [Obama's] promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something.
0(0.0%)
He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task.
0(0.0%)
Another : tell us which one in a comment
0(0.0%)
Did you watch Clint Eastwood's remarks and if so, which of these statements more closely resembles how you felt about them?
I thought they were funny
1(100.0%)
I thought they were bizarre
0(0.0%)
I didn't see them
0(0.0%)
Who gave the best speech of the night in your opinion?
Mitt Romney
0(0.0%)
Senator Marco Rubio
0(0.0%)
Clint Eastwood
0(0.0%)
Former Lt. Governor Kerry Healey
0(0.0%)
Thomas Stemberg, President of Staples Inc.
0(0.0%)
Former Governor Jeb Bush
0(0.0%)
Craig Romney
0(0.0%)
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich
0(0.0%)
Mr. and Mrs. Oparowski
1(100.0%)
I didn't watch any of it
0(0.0%)
Do you think that this convention will help or hurt Mitt Romney's chances of winning the Presidential Election in November?
Help a lot
0(0.0%)
Help a little
1(100.0%)
Neither help nor hurt
0(0.0%)
Hurt a little
0(0.0%)
Hurt a lot
0(0.0%)
I'd love to hear your comments about what you thought about the speech, what you thought about Clint Eastwood and what you thought about the convention as a whole.
