In Tampa, Mitt Romney delivered a 4,000-word acceptance speech and devoted only a sliver of the address to what he would do as president, briefly describing the most generic policy aims: achieve energy independence, promote school choice, improve trade policies, cut the deficit, cut taxes, and kill Obamacare. In a speech mainly designed to re-reintroduce him as a solid business-minded fellow who could be trusted to do fine as an anyone-but-Obama president, Romney provided no details on how he'd do any of this.And senior Democratic and Obama campaign officials believe that Romney’s vagueness has afforded President Barack Obama a significant opening to exploit at the Democratic convention in Charlotte."We've been talking about this all week," Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said on Tuesday, hours before the convention opened. "For months, the Romney campaign said his speech would be when they would introduce Romney and his plans, but there were no specifics… They didn't fill in the holes."
guess they weren't "shovel ready".
With his speech, Romney certainly didn't use policy details to attract voters. And voters, for this or other reasons, did not react strongly. Gallup found that only 38 percent judged Romney's speech excellent or good. This was the lowest mark in years for a presidential acceptance speech (John McCain in 2008, 47 percent; Obama in 2008, 58 percent; George W. Bush in 2004, 49 percent; John Kerry in 2004, 52 percent; Al Gore in 2000, 51 percent; Bush in 2000, 51 percent; Robert Dole in 1996, 52 percent.) Going light on the policy substance didn't seem to help Romney, who appears to have earned no significant boost from his convention
nothing from nothing leaves nothing, and nothing last forever even the right wing Svengali like hold on it's base, they are beginning to open that other eye and seeing their party in stereo.
