Mitt Mash
There’s a reason Mitt Romney didn’t delve into any policy specifics or reach for any grandiose themes during his RNC acceptance speech; actually, there are several reasons, but the main one is the simplest: he didn’t need to.
All Romney needed was to echo the same message that the man he’s trying to replace delivered nearly four years ago:
Romney reiterated that sentiment repeatedly Thursday night, picking up on the faded Obama poster theme that Paul Ryan advanced the previous evening, hammering as hard at the disappointments and ills that Obama has spawned as at any prescriptions Romney would provide. From his speech Thursday night:
This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt, and rolling back massive deficits. This was the hope and change America voted for. It is not just what we wanted, it is not just what we expected, it is what Americans deserved.
I wish President Obama had succeeded, because I want America to succeed.
But his promises gave way to disappointment and division.
This isn’t something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. And with your help, we will do something.
How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America? Many of you thought the way on election day four years ago. Hope and change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I would ask a simple question: if you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now, that he is President Obama?
You know there is something wrong with the kind of job he has done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
Or as Clint Eastwood opined in his strangely rambling but ultimately effective tweak of reality, “When somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”
That’s the bottom line voters are weighing, whether The One should be a one-and-done, more so than the qualifications or capacities of any replacement. It’s why, right or wrong, even folks who generally distrust and dislike Romney are increasingly willing to hold their noses and punch his ticket.
That’s not the most inspiring of messages, to be certain; but barring any horrendous gaffes or missteps between now and November, it’s likely enough to provide Romney a path to victory.
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