The best speech of the GOP convention?
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Which speech this week would you rate the best? I have to give my vote to Marco Rubio. Friends in Florida have frequently told me that he’s over-rated, but he certainly wowed last night. He was funny, engaging as he talked about his family and he just has the instinct for setting the right tone and pace for a good speech.
I’m not the only one who reached that conclusion. Mark Warren, executive editor of Esquire says the same thing on the magazine’s blog. While acknowledging the power of Rubio’s speech, Warren also does a decent job of questioning some of Rubio’s themes.
How can Rubio say that “America’s prosperity didn’t happen because our government simply spent more money”? By ignoring Social Security, Medicare and other programs that allow millions to live comfortably, if not extravagantly.
And when Rubio goes on to say broadly of programs like Obama’s stimulus bill that “these are tired and old big government ideas, ideas that people come to America to get away from,” he makes a mistake that is as stupid and lamentable as it is understandable: Having come from the prison of Castro’s Cuba, his family and families like his vowed to banish communism from the earth forever. And in their zeal they sometimes seem to find communism everywhere, including Washington. And after three and a half years of Obama, in this hall in Tampa, through this looking glass, for the assembled delegates and luminaries of the GOP, it has become an article of faith that Barack Obama is a socialist, maybe even a communist. (A communist running like hell for reelection, as they have throughout history.) There is a good and necessary and vigorous argument to be made against President Obama’s reelection, but this is not it. It is absurd, and does a grave injustice to communism’s true victims.
Which speech would you rate the best? As for the worst, I’m going with Clint Eastwood.
August 31, 2012 - 10:48 AM
Maybe it is a woman thing, but Gov. “I’ll be damned” Susana Martinez was the one that stood out for me. Rubio was less than billed IMO, but he was certainly good. Neither of them offered overtly factual, unfiltered prose, but they were genuine and appealing.
I liked Rubio the best but the empty chair was a close second. At least the chair didn’t say anything proven to void of facts!
i think the chair was the best speaker
The last speaker was the best (whoever that was…), because it signaled the end to LieFest 2012.
So Social Security is a “program” that “ALLOWS” US to live comfortably? This “program” was set up as a supplement to other monies we might save as individuals. It was set up to return to the individual that which WE PAID INTO PROGRAM…not ensure a comfortable living spending money we didn’t earn. Folks it’s time to be truly concerned when some people think the government is “ALLOWING” US TO HAVE OUR OWN MONEY!
The empty chair was definitely the star of the show and told the fewest lies. I wish that Clint Eastwood had gone rogue and ripped all of the right wingers for their ludicrous remarks about his Super Bowl ad.
I have tried, and I cannot think of a time when a celebrity made such an unexpected spectacle of themselves and whomever he/she was trying to support. I mean, Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Janeane Garofalo, Jon Voight, Craig T. Nelson, Donald Trump, Hank Jr., Borat… you expect them to be a joke, tell a joke that isn’t, embarrass themselves and others, but Eastwood? Never. That was Jerry Lewis meltdown territory. Sad. And worse, all a lot of people are talking about.
Well, all but the callers and writers who believed every lie told about Obama the non-American who has desecrated the White House, robbed the nation, refuses to allow job creation, has raised taxes, spent 14 trillion dollars, is killing their middle class, is causing a civil war and is plotting with the UN for a takeover and a Muslim national regime. They thought he was a riot and have been cheering ever since. Way to go Clint. That’ll learn ‘em!
Bring Holy Water, Bishop Romney!
They sure kept FactCheck busy!
http://factcheck.org/
Wow.
FactCheck is just getting warmed up for this week’s convention. They’ll probably have to hire extra staff.
#9, indeed FactCheck will be busy with the Democratic Convention, no doubt about that. They won’t have to hire extra staff, though, because the troops they brought in for the GOP/NFR Convention are still living at the office!
Fact Check will take the week off…Lefties from the Annenberg Foundation don’t want OBama and Co. looking worse than they are.
Oh yeah, they only catch the TP/GOP lies because they are all “Lefties”. Denial is more than a river!
#11, bud, lol, have you even looked at FactCheck.org? They call Obama and Co. out as much as the GOP/NFR. Oh, but that doesn’t fit your NFR vision of the media and the world, does it? sigh.