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ROMNEY: Hallo! Wat 'n verwelkoming.
Dankie. En dankie, Luce. Ek kan nie wag om te sien wat ons almal saam gaan doen nie. Dit gaan so opwindend wees!
Net sodat julle almal weet, die orkaan het aan wal gekom en ek dink ons moet hierdie oomblik neem en erken dat mede -Amerikaners in die pad is en net hoop en bid dat almal veilig bly en dat geen lewe verlore gaan en geen eiendom verlore gaan nie. Ons moet dus almal dankbaar wees vir hierdie wonderlike land en dankbaar vir ons eerste reageerders en almal wat ons veilig hou in hierdie wonderlike land.
Wel, ek wil vanaand met jou praat, nie oor politiek nie en nie oor partytjie nie. En hoewel daar vanaand baie belangrike kwessies is wat ons tydens hierdie byeenkoms en gedurende hierdie veldtog bespreek sal hoor, wil ek uit my hart met u praat oor ons harte.
Ek wil praat oor nie wat ons skei nie, maar wat ons as 'n Amerikaanse gesin bymekaar hou. Ek wil vanaand met u praat oor die een groot ding wat ons verenig, die een groot ding wat ons die grootste vreugde bring wanneer die tye goed is en die diepste troos in ons donker ure.
Vanaand wil ek met jou praat oor liefde. Ek wil met jou praat oor die diep en blywende liefde wat ek het vir 'n man wat ek baie jare gelede by 'n dans ontmoet het. En die innige liefde wat ek het, en ek weet dat ons vir hierdie land deel. Ek wil so diep met jou praat oor daardie liefde, net 'n ma kan dit verstaan. Die liefde wat ons het vir ons kinders en ons kinders se kinders. En ek wil hê ons moet vanaand dink oor die liefde wat ons deel vir die Amerikaners, ons broers en ons susters, wat deur moeilike tye gaan, wie se dae nooit maklik is nie, nagte altyd lank is en wie se werk nooit lyk nie. Hulle is vanaand hier onder ons in hierdie saal. Hulle is hier in woonbuurte regoor Tampa en regoor Amerika. Die ouers wat saans langs mekaar wakker lê en wonder hoe hulle die verband kan betaal of die huur kan maak. Die enkelpa wat vanaand ekstra ure werk sodat sy kinders nuwe klere kan koop om skool toe te gaan, 'n skooluitstappie kan neem of 'n sport kan doen, sodat sy kinders kan voel, net soos ander kinders.
En die werkende ma's wat lief is vir hul werk, maar net 'n bietjie minder wil werk om meer tyd saam met die kinders deur te bring, maar dit is net buite die kwessie met hierdie ekonomie. Of wat van die egpaar wat graag nog 'n kind wil hê, maar wonder hoe hulle dit sal bekostig? Ek was oral in hierdie land en ek ken baie van julle. En ek het verhale gesien en gehoor van hoe moeilik dit is om nou vooruit te gaan. Jy weet wat? Ek het jou stemme gehoor. Hulle het vir my gesê, ek hardloop in plek en ons kan net nie vorentoe kom nie. Soms dink ek dat ons laat in die nag, as ons almal net 'n paar oomblikke stil was en aandagtig geluister het, 'n gesamentlike sug kon hoor van die mammas en vaders in Amerika wat dit deurdring, en weet dat hulle dit sal doen dit deur 'n ander een môre. Maar aan die einde van die dag weet hulle net nie hoe nie. En as u mooi luister, hoor u hoe die vroue 'n bietjie meer sug as die mans. Dit is hoe dit is, is dit nie? Dit is die mammas wat nog altyd 'n bietjie harder moes werk om alles reg te maak. Dit is die ma's van hierdie nasie, ongetroud, getroud, weduwee, wat die land regtig bymekaar hou. Ons is die moeders. Ons is die vrouens. Ons is die oumas. Ons is die groot susters. Ons is die klein susters en ons is die dogters.
Jy weet dit is waar, nie waar nie? Ek is lief vir julle, vroue!
En ek hoor jou stemme. Dit is my gunsteling aanhangers daar onder.
U is 'n bietjie meer, en u weet hoe dit is om 'n bietjie harder te verdien, verdien die respek wat u verdien by die werk, en dan kom u huis toe om te help met die boekverslag, net omdat dit gedoen moet word . U weet hoe die telefoonoproepe met 'n ouer ouer in die nag lyk, en die langnaweek ry net om te sien hoe dit met hulle gaan.
U ken die vinnigste pad na die plaaslike noodkamer en watter dokters die telefoonoproep beantwoord as u snags bel, en ek weet terloops daarvan alles. U weet hoe dit is om in die gradeplegtigheid te sit en wonder hoe dit was dat soveel lang dae in jare verander het wat so vinnig verbygegaan het. Jy is die beste van Amerika. Jy ... Jy is die hoop van Amerika. Daar sou nie 'n Amerika wees sonder jou nie. Vanaand groet ons u en sing u lof! Ek is nie seker of mans dit regtig verstaan nie, maar ek dink nie daar is 'n vrou in Amerika wat regtig verwag dat haar lewe maklik sal wees nie. Op ons eie manier weet ons almal beter. Weet jy wat, en dit is goed. Ons wil nie maklik hê nie. Maar die afgelope paar jaar was moeiliker as wat hulle moes wees. Dit is al die klein dingetjies, die prys van die pomp wat u nie kon glo nie en die kruideniersware wat net groter word, al die dinge wat vroeër gratis was, soos skoolsport, is nou nog 'n rekening om te betaal. Dit is al die klein dingetjies wat die groot dinge word. En die groot dinge, die goeie werk, die kans op universiteit en die huis wat u wil koop, word net moeiliker. Alles het moeiliker geword. Ons is te slim en weet dat daar geen maklike antwoorde is nie, maar ons is nie dom genoeg om te aanvaar dat daar nie beter antwoorde is nie.
En dit is waar hierdie seuntjie wat ek by 'n hoërskooldans ontmoet het, inkom. Sy naam is Mitt Romney en jy moet hom regtig leer ken. Ek kon jou vertel waarom ek op hom verlief geraak het; hy was lank, het baie gelag. Hy was senuweeagtig. So meisies. Dit wys dat die man effens geïntimideer is. Hy was vriendelik teenoor my ouers, maar hy was ook baie bly toe hulle nie daar was nie.
Ek steur my nie daaraan nie. Maar meer as enigiets het hy my laat lag. Sommige van u weet dit miskien nie, maar ek is die kleindogter van 'n Walliese steenkoolmyner. Hy was vasberade - hy was vasbeslote dat sy kinders uit die myne sou kom. My pa het sy eerste werk gekry toe hy ses jaar oud was in 'n klein dorpie in Wallis (onhoorbaar). Skoonmaak van bottels by die (onhoorbaar).
Toe hy 15 was, het pa na Amerika gekom. In ons land het hy hoop en 'n geleentheid gesien om uit armoede te ontsnap. Hy verhuis na 'n klein dorpie in die groot deelstaat Michigan. Michigan!
Daar het hy terloops 'n besigheid begin, een wat hy self gebou het.
Hy het 'n gesin opgebou en hy het burgemeester van ons stad geword. My pa het my en my broers gereeld daaraan herinner hoe gelukkig ons was om oral soos Amerika groot te word. Hy wou hê dat ons elke geleentheid wat met die lewe in hierdie land gepaardgaan, moet kry, en daarom het hy ons gedwing om ons beste te wees en alles in ons vermoë te gee. Binne die huise langs die strate in die middestad was daar baie vaders wat hul seuns en dogters dieselfde waardes geleer het. Ek het dit toe nog nie geweet nie, maar een van daardie pa's was my toekomstige skoonpa, George Romney. Mitt se pa het nooit die universiteit voltooi nie. In plaas daarvan het hy 'n timmerman geword. Hy werk hard en word die hoof van die motoronderneming, en daarna die goewerneur van Michigan. Toe Mitt en ek mekaar ontmoet en verlief raak, was ons vasbeslote om niks in ons toekoms te laat staan nie. Ek was Episkopaal, hy was 'n Mormoon. Ons was baie jonk, albei nog op universiteit. Daar was baie redes om die huwelik te vertraag. En weet jy wat, dit het ons net nie omgegee nie. Ons het getrou en in 'n kelderwoonstel ingetrek.
Ons het saam klas toe gegaan, die huishouding gedeel, baie pasta geëet en Tuna vis. Ons was net 'n deur op saagperde, ons eetkamertafel was 'n opvoubare strykplank in die kombuis. Maar dit was die beste dae.
Toe kom ons eerste seun. Op een slag, 'n 22-jarige met 'n baba en 'n man, wat terselfdertyd na die sakeskool en die regskool gaan, en ek kan jou vertel, waarskynlik soos elke ander meisie wat in 'n nuwe lewe ver van familie en vriende met 'n nuwe baba en 'n nuwe man, dat dit by my opgekom het dat ek absoluut geen idee gehad het waarin ek besig was nie. Dit was 42 jaar gelede. Ek het oorleef. Ons het nou vyf seuns en 18 pragtige kleinkinders.
Ek is nog steeds verlief op die seuntjie wat ek by 'n hoërskooldans ontmoet het en hy laat my nog steeds lag.
Ek het iewers gelees dat ek en Mitt 'n storieboek -huwelik het. Wel, laat ek jou iets vertel. In die storieboeke wat ek gelees het, was daar nooit lang, lang, reënerige wintermiddae in 'n huis met vyf seuns wat tegelyk skree nie, en dit lyk asof daar nooit 'n hoofstuk met die naam MS of borskanker was nie. 'N Verhaalboek -huwelik? Nee, glad nie. Wat ek en Mitt Romney het, is 'n regte huwelik. Ek ken hierdie goeie en ordentlike man vir wat hy is. Hy is warm, liefdevol en geduldig. Hy het probeer om sy lewe te lei met 'n stel waardes wat gesentreer is op familie, geloof en liefde van 'n ander. Sedert ons die eerste keer getroud was, het ek gesien hoe hy talle ure spandeer om ander te help. Ek het gesien hoe hy alles laat val om 'n vriend in die moeilikheid te help, en ek was daar toe daar laat in die nag oproepe van paniek kom van 'n lid van ons kerk wie se kind na die hospitaal geneem is.
U stem dalk nie saam oor Mitt se besluite oor kwessies of oor sy politiek nie - terloops, Massachusetts is slegs 13 persent Republikein, so dit is vir my nie 'n skok nie. Maar - maar laat ek dit sê aan elke Amerikaner wat dink oor wie ons volgende president moet wees. Niemand sal harder werk nie. Niemand sal meer omgee nie. En niemand sal hemel en aarde beweeg soos Mitt Romney om van hierdie land 'n beter woonplek te maak nie.
Dit is waar - dit is waar dat Mitt suksesvol was by elke nuwe uitdaging wat hy aangepak het. Weet u wat, dit verbaas my eintlik om te sien hoe sy geskiedenis van sukses aangeval word. Is dit werklik die waardes wat ons land groot gemaak het? (PUBLIEKLID): Nee.
Wil ons as ma van vyf seuns ons kinders grootmaak om bang te wees vir sukses?
Stuur ons ons kinders na die wêreld met die advies om dit goed te doen?
En laat ons eerlik wees. As die afgelope vier jaar meer suksesvol was, dink ons dan regtig dat hierdie aanval op Mitt Romney se sukses sou plaasvind?
Natuurlik nie. Mitt sou die eerste wees wat vir jou gesê het dat hy die gelukkigste man ter wêreld is. Hy het twee liefdevolle ouers gehad wat hom sterk waardes gegee het en hom die waarde van werk geleer het. Hy het die kans gekry om die opvoeding te kry wat sy pa nooit gehad het nie. Maar as sy lewensmaat op hierdie wonderlike reis, kan ek u vertel dat Mitt Romney nie sukses behaal het nie. Hy het dit gebou. Hy het na die nagraadse skool in Massachusetts gebly en werk gekry. Ek het die lang ure gesien wat met die eerste werk begin het. Ek was daar toe hy 'n klein groepie vriende gehad het wat praat oor die begin van 'n nuwe onderneming. Ek was daar toe hulle sukkel en wonder of die hele idee nie werk nie. Mitt se reaksie was om harder te werk en voort te gaan.
Vandag het die onderneming nog 'n groot Amerikaanse suksesverhaal geword. Het dit diegene wat die onderneming begin het, suksesvol gemaak bo hul drome? Ja dit het. Dit het ons in staat gestel om ons seuns 'n kans te gee vir goeie opvoeding, en die lang ure van die verslae en huiswerk was elke minuut werd. Dit gee ons die diepe bevrediging dat ons ander kan help op maniere wat ons ons nooit kon voorstel nie. Dit is belangrik. Ek wil hê jy moet hoor wat ek gaan sê. Mitt praat nie graag oor hoe hy ander gehelp het nie, omdat hy dit as 'n voorreg beskou, nie as 'n politieke gesprekspunt nie.
Ons is nie anders as die miljoene Amerikaners wat rustig hul bure, hul kerke en hul gemeenskappe help nie. Hulle doen dit nie sodat ander meer van hulle sal dink nie. Hulle doen dit omdat daar geen groter vreugde is nie. Gee en vir julle sal gegee word.
Maar omdat dit Amerika is, het die klein onderneming wat gegroei het soveel mense gehelp om 'n beter lewe te lei, het die werk wat gegroei het uit die risiko wat hulle geneem het, universiteitsopleiding en eerste huise geword. Dié sukses het beurse, pensioene en aftreefondse gehelp. Dit is die genie van Amerika. Drome vervul, help ander om nuwe drome te begin.
By elke draai in sy lewe het hierdie man wat ek by 'n hoërskooldans ontmoet het, gehelp om ander op te hef. Hy het dit met die Olimpiese Spele gedoen toe baie wou opgee. Hy het dit in Massachusetts gedoen, waar hy die staat van ekonomiese krisis tot werkloosheid op slegs 4,7 persent gelei het. Onder Mitt, Massachusetts se skool vir die beste in die land. Die beste. Hy het iets begin waarvan ek regtig hou. Hy het die John en Abigail Adams-beurs begin, wat die top-25 persent van die gegradueerdes van die hoërskool 'n vierjarige studiebeurs gee. Dit is die man wat Amerika nodig het.
Dit is 'n man wat elke dag wakker sal word met die vasberadenheid om die probleme op te los wat volgens ander nie opgelos kan word nie, om op te los wat ander sê onherstelbaar is; dit is die man wat harder sal werk as enigiemand sodat ons 'n bietjie kan werk minder hard.
Ek kan nie vir jou sê wat oor die volgende vier jaar gaan gebeur nie. Maar ek kan net vanaand hier staan as 'n vrou en 'n moeder en 'n ouma, 'n Amerikaner, en u hierdie plegtige toewyding maak. Hierdie man sal nie misluk nie.
Ann Romney sê vir vroue dat haar man 'ons nie in die steek sal laat nie'
Ann Romney doen namens haar man 'n direkte beroep op Amerikaanse vroue.
Ann Romney se beste oomblikke: ɾk is lief vir jou vroue! '
TAMPA, 28 Augustus 2012 - Ann Romney, die vrou van die Republikeinse presidentskandidaat, het vanaand vir Amerikaners gesê dat hulle haar man kan vertrou en in 'n stomp beroep op vroue gesê: 'Hierdie man sal ons nie in die steek laat nie.'
'Soms dink ek dat ons laat in die nag, as ons almal net 'n paar minute stil was en aandagtig geluister het, 'n groot gesamentlike sug kon hoor van die mammas en vaders regoor Amerika,' het mevrou Romney gesê. 'En as u mooi luister, hoor u hoe die vroue 'n bietjie meer sug as die mans.'
'Dit is die ma's van hierdie nasie - ongetroud, getroud, weduwee - wat hierdie land regtig bymekaar hou,' het sy gesê, 'n paar oomblikke voordat sy na die byeenkomsvloer kyk en huil: 'Ek is lief vir julle, vroue!'
Sy het oor haar man gepraat en belowe: "Hy sal ons na 'n beter plek neem, net soos hy my veilig van die dans af huis toe geneem het" waar hulle meer as vier dekades gelede die eerste keer ontmoet het.
'Hierdie man sal nie misluk nie,' het Ann Romney gesê. "Hierdie man sal ons nie in die steek laat nie."
Mevrou Romney gooi ook 'n paar skerp elmboë en voer 'n saak aan teen die kritiek wat haar man tydens sy tyd in die private sektor met Bain Capital, 'n private -ekwiteitsfirma, beleef het.
"Dit is waar dat Mitt suksesvol was by elke nuwe uitdaging wat hy aangepak het. Dit verstom my om te sien hoe sy geskiedenis van sukses werklik aangeval word. Is dit werklik die waardes wat ons land groot gemaak het?
'En laat ons eerlik wees,' het sy voortgegaan, 'as ons die afgelope vier jaar meer suksesvol was, dink ons regtig dat hierdie aanval op Mitt Romney se sukses sou plaasvind? Natuurlik nie.'
Toe die Romney se vyf seuns na hul ma kyk, het verskeie duidelik trane in hul oë gehad.
Mevrou Romney het breedvoerig gepraat oor haar lewe met die man met wie sy getroud was op 19 -jarige ouderdom, 'n man wat sy gesê het mense nie werklik verstaan nie.
'Ek het êrens gelees dat ek en Mitt 'n' storieboek -huwelik 'het. In die storieboeke wat ek gelees het, was daar nooit lang, lang, reënerige wintermiddae in 'n huis met vyf seuns wat gelyktydig skreeu nie. En die storieboeke het nooit hoofstukke met die naam MS of borskanker gehad nie, 'het sy gesê met verwysing na siektes wat sy het oorleef. "'N Verhaalboek -huwelik? Nee, glad nie. Wat ek en Mitt Romney het, is 'n regte huwelik."
Nadat sy haar toespraak voltooi het, is mevrou Romney deur die kandidaat op die verhoog begroet. Hulle het afstand gedoen van die skare, voordat hulle by hul seuns aangesluit het om die hoofrede van die president van New Jersey, Chris Christie, te sien.
Mevrou Romney se toespraak was bedoel om 'n unieke insig te gee in die lewe en persoonlikheid van haar man, wat die kiesers moontlik nie ken nie - veral diegene wat nog nie 'n besluit moet neem tussen hom en president Obama nie. Die veldtog het gehoop dat mevrou Romney, soos hulle graag wil sê, hul 'geheime wapen' sou wees, die beste kans om 'n meer vleesgetinte en vleiende portret van die kandidaat voor die verkiesingsdag te skilder.
Ure voordat sy op die verhoog was, het mev. Romney aan Diane Sawyer, ABC News, gesê dat sy senuweeagtig was.
'U weet, ek was 'n bietjie bewerig toe ek die eerste keer uitkom. asof ek goed gevoel het, het ek regtig goed gevoel, ”het mevrou Romney gesê.
Op die vraag of haar man vir haar raad het, het mevrou Romney gesê dat hy haar aangeraai het om 'net te kyk asof iemand se gesig daar is, asof jy met iemand praat'.
Op hierdie dag in die geskiedenis, 28 Augustus
Die historiese toespraak wat 'n oproep was om rassisme in die Verenigde State te beëindig, is gehou tydens die Lincoln Memorial tydens die Maart in Washington, 'n politieke byeenkoms wat deur mense- en politieke regte -groepe gereël is. Meer as 200 000 mense het in Washington DC vergader om werk en gelykheid vir Afro-Amerikaners te eis. Die I Have a Dream -toespraak van dr. King het 'n simbool geword van die Amerikaanse burgerregtebeweging en is een van die mees herkenbare toesprake in die opgetekende geskiedenis.
1963 Immergroen brug maak vir die eerste keer oop vir verkeer
Die langste drywende brug ter wêreld, die Evergreen Point -brug of die goewerneur Albert D. Rosellini -brug, is op roete 520 in die deelstaat Washington. Dit is gebou aan die Washington -meer en verbind Seattle met die stad Medina. Die brug is 4 750 meter lank, waarvan die helfte oor die water lê.
1955 Emmett Till word vermoor in Mississippi
Die 14-jarige Afro-Amerikaanse seuntjie is wreed vermoor deur wit mans nadat hy na bewering 'n dag tevore met 'n wit vrou geflirt het. Till, wat van Chicago was, het 'n besoek aan die gesin in Money, Mississippi, besoek toe hy ontvoer, vermink en sy liggaam in die rivier gestort is.
1937 Toyota Motor Corporation gestig word
Die motoronderneming is vir die eerste keer in 1933 gestig as 'n filiaal van die Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd.
1845 Eerste uitgawe van Scientific American verskyn in die kiosk
Die wetenskapstydskrif is gestig deur die Amerikaanse uitvinder en kunstenaar Rufus M. Porter. Die tydskrif begin as 'n weeklikse nuusbrief en is nou die oudste tydskrif wat gereeld in die Verenigde State gepubliseer word.
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Op 14 Augustus 2009 het die Republikeinse Nasionale Komitee 'n terreinkeuringskomitee van agt lede aangewys om die proses te begin om 'n gasheerstad vir die byeenkoms van 2012 te kies. [6] Nuusberigte vroeg in 2010 dui aan dat Tampa, sowel as Salt Lake City, Utah en Phoenix, Arizona, gekies is as finaliste vir die byeenkomsterrein. [4] [7] [8] Die besluit is op 12 Mei 2010 aangekondig, toe Tampa as die gasheerstad gekies is. [9]
Gasheerkomitee Wysig
Die gasheerkomitee van Tampa Bay in 2012, 'n 501 (c) (3) nie-winsgewende organisasie, was die amptelike en federale aangewese gasheerkomitee van die presidensiële byeenkoms vir die byeenkoms, wat verantwoordelik was vir die insameling van die nodige fondse om die byeenkoms te hou. [10] Die gasheerkomitee bestaan uit 10 prominente sakelui in Florida, burgerlike leiers en ander gemeenskapsleiers. Al Austin was voorsitter en Ken Jones was die president en hoof uitvoerende beampte. [11] [12] Die gasheerkomitee het op 27 Augustus 2012 sy geldinsamelingsdoelwit bereik, nadat hy meer as $ 55,000,000 ingesamel het om die 2012 Republikeinse Nasionale Konvensie aan te bied.
Doelwitte en temas Redigeer
Die byeenkoms se tema was "'n beter toekoms". [13] Elke dag het ook sy eie tema: Maandag se was "We Can Do Better" Dinsdag was "We Built It" Woensdag was "We Can Change" en Donderdag was "We Believe in America." Benewens hierdie daaglikse temas, het die Republikeinse Nasionale Komitee aangekondig dat hy 'n reeks beleidswerkswinkels sal aanbied wat aangebied word deur die voormalige Speaker van die Huis, Newt Gingrich, genaamd "Newt University". [14] 'n Hoofdoel van die konvensie, wat beide beskryf is as Romney se "grootste verkiesingshindernis" en as Romney se "dringendste taak" wat die grootste Republikeine bekommerd was, was om pogings om hom as 'n out-of-touch-elitis uit te beeld, te weerstaan en herstel die beeld van sy sakeloopbaan. [15] Die byeenkoms het van 27 tot 30 Augustus 2012 geduur. Volgens die byeenkomswebwerf het dit 2 286 afgevaardigdes, 2 125 plaasvervangers en 15 000 personeellede van die media gehuisves. Die uitvoerende hoof was William D. Harris. [16] Verskeie noemenswaardige Republikeinse figure verkies om nie die byeenkoms by te woon nie, insluitend oudpresidente George W. Bush en George H. W. Bush, en voormalige vise-president Dick Cheney. 'N Video -huldeblyk aan George W. Bush, wat buite die politieke arena gebly het sedert hy drie jaar tevore die amp verlaat het, is egter Woensdagaand tydens die byeenkoms vertoon waarin Bush se familielede hom geprys het. In die huldeblyk het Bush se pa, George H.W. Bush, het oor George W. Bush gesê: "Daar was nooit 'n skandaal rondom sy presidentskap nie. En ek dink ons vergeet die belangrikheid daarvan." [17]
Sekuriteit Redigeer
Die konvensie is aangewys as 'n nasionale spesiale veiligheidsgebeurtenis, wat beteken dat die uiteindelike gesag oor wetstoepassing na die geheime diens en die departement van binnelandse veiligheid gegaan het. [18] Die federale regering het $ 50 miljoen vir konvensiesekuriteit voorsien. [19] Baie van die geld het gegaan om addisionele polisie te deputeer. Ander uitgawes sluit in uitgebreide toesigstegnologie en 'n gepantserde SWAT -voertuig. [20] [21] Tampabaai het spesifiek bekend gemaak dat dit $ 1,18 miljoen aan videoverbindings tussen grondpolisie en helikopters bestee het. [22] [23] [24] Die stad het $ 16,500 aan die Florida State Fairgrounds Authority betaal in ruil vir die polisie se gebruik van plaaslike kermisgebiede as 'n bevelsentrum. [25]
Dani Doane van die Heritage Foundation beskryf die teenwoordigheid van die polisie as 'ontstellend' en 'soos 'n polisiestaat'. [26] [27] Ander het berig oor 'n stil week met klein protesoptredes en min arrestasies. [28] [29] Die polisie het tydens die geleentheid [30] bottels water uitgedeel en op 'n stadium betogers 'n middagete bedien. [31]
Platform wysig
'N Komitee, onder voorsitterskap van die goewerneur van Virginia, Bob McDonnell, het in Tampa vergader om 'n partyplatform op te stel. Op 21 Augustus 2012 het die komitee 'n dokument van 60 bladsye vir goedkeuring tydens die byeenkoms vrygestel. Die platform is entoesiasties goedgekeur tydens die byeenkoms op 28 Augustus. [32] [33] Beleide sluit in: [34]
- 'N Wysigingswet op die menslike lewe wat aborsie verbied (met uitsonderings, indien enige, wat deur die kongres bepaal moet word) [35] en wetgewing "om duidelik te maak dat die beskerming van die veertiende wysiging van toepassing is op ongebore kinders." [36]
- 'N Grondwetlike wysiging wat die huwelik definieer as die vereniging van een man en een vrou. Die reg van die federale regering en elke staat om wettige erkenning aan huwelike van dieselfde geslag te weier. [32]
- Vir Medicare: verhoog die ouderdom om in aanmerking te kom en skuif na 'n plan vir omskrewe bydraes waarin die regering 'n vaste bedrag betaal eerder as om 'n individu se koste te dek. [37]
- 'N Nuwe "gaswerker" -program [38] langtermyn-aanhouding vir "gevaarlike, maar nie-deporteerlike vreemdelinge". [39]
- Onthouding behoort die enigste vorm van gesinsbeplanning vir tieners te wees wat deur die regering gefinansier word. [37]
- Verhoogde deursigtigheid van die Federale Reserweraad via oudits en ondersoek die lewensvatbaarheid van terugkeer na 'n vaste waarde geldeenheid. [40]
- Beëindig die federale inkomstebelasting deur die sestiende wysiging te herroep as die huidige belastingstelsel aansienlik verander word. [41]
- Verset teen regulasies oor sake om klimaatsverandering te bekamp, die mag van die Environmental Protection Agency in te kort en 'privaat bestuur van die omgewing' te bevorder. [42]
Nominasies Redigeer
Volgens Fox News [43] en projekte van die afgevaardigdes van Associated Press, [44], het Mitt Romney, voormalige goewerneur van Massachusetts, op 29 Mei 2012 die Republikeinse presidensiële benoeming in die Texas -voorverkiesing behaal en die party se veronderstelde benoemde geword. [45] Twee weke voor die byeenkoms, op 11 Augustus, kondig Romney Paul Ryan aan as sy hardloopmaat. [46] Die besluit het Ryan die eerste vise -presidentskandidaat van die groot party uit Wisconsin gemaak. [47]
Rick Santorum en Newt Gingrich het hul afgevaardigdes formeel in die week voor die byeenkoms vrygelaat en hulle aangemoedig om vir Romney te stem. Ron Paul het sy afgevaardigdes behou as deel van 'n algemene strategie om die party te beïnvloed. Die finale samestelling van verskeie afvaardigings was onderhewig aan uitspraak van die komitee vir wedstryde.
Die tradisionele oproep van die state, wat afgevaardigdes in staat stel om hul tuisstate te bevorder, het op Dinsdag 28 Augustus 2012, die eerste volle dag van die byeenkoms, plaasgevind.
Paul Ryan is deur stemme genomineer vir vise -president.
Sprekers Redigeer
Die oorspronklike plan het Maandag toesprake vereis, maar as gevolg van die tropiese storm is Isaac die grootste deel van die Maandagprogram gekanselleer en is al die hoofsprekers herskeduleer om later tydens die byeenkoms te spreek. [48] [49]
Ron Paul het 'n toespraak gekry, onder die voorwaarde dat die Romney-veldtog sy opmerkings vooraf kan hersien en dat hy Romney ten volle sal onderskryf. [50] Paul het die aanbod van die hand gewys en gesê dat hy 'n 'onbesliste kieser' bly. [51] Paul verduidelik dat "dit nie my toespraak sou wees nie. Dit sou alles wat ek die afgelope 30 jaar gedoen het, ongedaan maak. Ek onderskryf hom nie ten volle as president nie." [50] In plaas daarvan is 'n huldigingsvideo aan Paulus tydens die byeenkoms vertoon. [52]
Die kongresvrou Cathy McMorris Rodgers was die amptelike konferensie -gasheer en het aan die begin van elke aand van die byeenkoms gepraat om die tema van die toesprake vir elke aand te lewer. [53]
Die mees gesogte spreekplek wat bedoel was om die program van die byeenkoms Maandagaand af te sluit, sou na Ann Romney, Mitt Romney se vrou, gaan. Maar aangesien die groot televisienetwerke hulself uitgesluit het van Maandag se primêre dekking (voor Maandag se kansellasie van aktiwiteite), is haar toespraak na Dinsdag 28 Augustus na 22:00 EDT verplaas, toe uitsendingsnetwerke begin het, met 'n inleiding deur Lucé Vela Fortuño, die presidentsvrou van Puerto Rico. [54] Ann Romney se taak in haar toespraak is beskryf deur Lois Romano van Politiek as "om te probeer bereik wat die skerpste gedagtes in die Republikeinse politiek nie kon doen nie: stel haar stywe en ongemaklike man voor as 'n aangename man." [55]
Ander sprekers van 28 Augustus was die goewerneurs John Kasich (Ohio), Nikki Haley (Suid -Carolina), Bob McDonnell (Virginia) en Mary Fallin (Oklahoma). [56]
Maandag, 27 Augustus Wysig
As gevolg van die tropiese storm Isaac, is die geskeduleerde aktiwiteite Maandag uitgestel of gekanselleer. Die voorsitter van die RNC, Reince Priebus, het die byeenkoms Maandag om 14:00 bestel en 'n skuldklok in die arena begin, voordat die byeenkoms om 2:10 in reses gebring word. pm. [57]
Dinsdag, 28 Augustus - Ann Romney en Chris Christie Edit
Dinsdagmiddag het die grootste deel van die Maine -afgevaardigdes uit die byeenkoms gestap uit protes teen die besluit om 10 afgevaardigdes van Ron Paul te vervang deur 10 afgevaardigdes van Romney. [58] Hierdie optrede deur die RNC kom in reaksie [ mislukte verifikasie ] tot 'n oorname van Maine se Republikeinse Staatsbyeenkoms deur Paul -ondersteuners, wat daartoe gelei het dat Paul se persentasie afgevaardigdes verdubbel het bo die persentasie afgevaardigdes waarop hy geregtig sou gewees het deur die koukusstemme [ mislukte verifikasie ] die bykomende tien afgevaardigdes het ten koste van Romney gekom. [59]
Ann Romney, wat oorspronklik sou praat tydens die sluiting van die program van Maandagaand, het op Dinsdag 28 Augustus 2012 voor die Republikeinse Nasionale Konvensie gepraat. Romney het begin deur te sê dat haar toespraak nie oor politiek of party gaan nie, maar oor liefde. Sy het gepraat oor haar man, Mitt Romney, in 'n poging om haar man as aangenaam en verwant aan te dui, en gedeeltelik gereageer op die uitbeelding van sy teenstanders van hom as 'n out-of-touch elitis. [60]
-Ann Romney se RNC -konvensietoespraak in 2012
Die sprekers vir die dag was:
- , mede-rabbyn van die gemeente Kehilath Jeshurun in New York en direkteur van die Yeshiva Universiteit se Straus-sentrum vir Torah en Westerse denke, medevoorsitter van die Republikeinse Nasionale Komitee. , Demokratiese burgemeester van Tampa.
- William Harris, uitvoerende hoof van die Republikeinse Nasionale Konvensie.
- Al Austin, voorsitter van die Tampabaai -gasheerkomitee. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die 32ste kongresdistrik van Texas
- Ricky Gill, Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die 9de kongresdistrik in Kalifornië. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die 23ste kongresdistrik van Texas.
- Andy Barr, Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir Kentucky se 6de kongresdistrik. , lid van die Noord -Carolina Senaat vir die 12de distrik en Republikeinse kandidaat vir die Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die 7de kongresdistrik van Noord -Carolina. , Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die 8ste kongresdistrik van Noord -Carolina. , Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die 11de kongresdistrik van Noord -Carolina. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir Michigan se eerste kongresdistrik.
- John Archer, Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die tweede kongresdistrik van Iowa. , voormalige Republikeinse lid van die Indiana House of Representatives vir die 21ste distrik en Republikeinse kandidaat vir die Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir Indiana se 2de kongresdistrik. , Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir die groot kongresdistrik van Montana. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die derde kongresdistrik van Utah. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die eerste kongresdistrik van Suid -Carolina. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir Wisconsin se 7de kongresdistrik. , Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir Pennsylvania se vierde kongresdistrik. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir Arkansas se 2de kongresdistrik. , lid van die Nebraska -wetgewer vir die 43ste distrik en Republikeinse kandidaat vir die Amerikaanse senaat uit Nebraska. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die groot kongresdistrik van Noord-Dakota en 'n Republikeinse kandidaat vir die Amerikaanse senaat uit Noord-Dakota. , lid van die Virginia House of Delegates vir die 34ste distrik.
- Rae Lynn Chornenky, president van die National Federation of Republican Women.
- Alex Schriver, nasionale voorsitter van die College Republican National Committee. , Republikeinse burgemeester van Oklahoma City.
- Chris Fussner, globale voorsitter van Republikeine in die buiteland en uitvoerende hoof van TransTechnology.
- Lisa Stickan, voorsitter van die Young Republikeine. , Amerikaanse senator van Noord -Dakota. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die 7de kongresdistrik van Tennessee. , Speaker van die Huis van Verteenwoordigers van die Verenigde State. , Voorsitter van die Republikeinse Nasionale Komitee. , Burgemeester van Saratoga Springs, Utah en Republikeinse kandidaat vir Amerikaanse verteenwoordiger vir Utah se vierde kongresdistrik. , aktrise en Tea Party -aktivis. , kandidaat vir luitenant -goewerneur van Delaware. Verander plekke met Rick Santorum in vergelyking met die gepubliseerde volgorde van sprekers. , Verteenwoordiger van die Verenigde State vir die vyfde kongresdistrik van Washington. , Amerikaanse senator van New Hampshire, vergesel deur Jack Gilchrist, eienaar van Gilchrist Metal Fabricating. , Goewerneur van Ohio. , Goewerneur van Oklahoma. , Goewerneur van Virginia, vergesel van Bev Gray. , Goewerneur van Wisconsin. , Goewerneur van Nevada.
- Phil Archuletta, sakeman van New Mexico. , voormalige Amerikaanse senator van Pennsylvania en presidentskandidaat in 2012. , voormalige prokureur -generaal in Texas en 'n Republikeinse genomineerde van 2012 vir die Amerikaanse senaat. , voormalige verteenwoordiger van die Demokratiese Verenigde State van Amerika vir die sewende kongresdistrik van Alabama en die demokratiese kandidaat van 2010 vir die goewerneur van Alabama. , Goewerneur van Suid -Carolina. , First Lady van Puerto Rico. , voormalige presidentsvrou van Massachusetts en vrou van die Republikeinse genomineerde Mitt Romney. , Goewerneur van New Jersey - hoofspreker. [5]
Woensdag 29 Augustus - Paul Ryan Edit
Wednesday saw a speech from vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. [61] The accuracy of some of Ryan's statements was widely challenged by the media, fact-checkers, and political opponents. [62] [63] The Associated Press criticized Ryan for taking "factual shortcuts", [64] and the speech was criticized in other outlets for being "misleading" [65] [66] and "dishonest". [67] [68] The most widely challenged portion of Ryan's speech occurred when Ryan criticized Obama for supposedly claiming, at a 2008 campaign appearance at a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin (which was slated for closure), that he (Obama) would keep that plant open if he became president. [69] GM began a phased plant closing for the Janesville facility during the 2008 presidential campaign, laying off nearly all of its 1,200 workers on December 23, 2008. 57 workers remained employed at the plant during final assembly and another 40 to 50 in the decommissioning of the plant. [70] [71] On September 19, 2011, GM reported that the Janesville plant was on standby status, as part of a contract between itself and the UAW. [72]
The speakers for the day were:
- , Republican Minority Leader of the Senate. , United States Senator from Kentucky. , Salt Lake City Gold Olympian alpine ski racer, and Jeanine McDonnell , U.S. Senator from Arizona and 2008 presidential nominee. , Attorney General of Florida, and Sam Olens, Attorney General of Georgia. , Governor of Louisiana. (Cancelled due to Tropical Storm / Hurricane Isaac) , U.S. Senator from South Dakota.
- Yash Wadhwa, Wisconsin civil engineer.
- Tad True, vice president of a pipeline company in Wyoming.
- Michelle Voorheis, Michigan businesswoman. , U.S. Senator from Ohio.
- Steve Cohen, CEO of Screen Machine Industries in Ohio. , Governor of Puerto Rico. , former Governor of Minnesota and 2012 presidential candidate. , former Governor of Arkansas and 2008 presidential candidate. , former U.S. Secretary of State. , Governor of New Mexico. , U.S. Representative from Wisconsin and nominee for Vice President of the United States. [5]
Thursday, August 30: Eastwood, Rubio and Romney Edit
Actor and director Clint Eastwood made a planned surprise appearance at the convention, speaking at the top of the final hour. He spent much of his speech time on a largely improvised routine addressing an empty chair representing President Obama. In at least two instances, Eastwood implied the President had uttered profanities directed both at Romney and Eastwood. [73] Eastwood's remarks were well-received within the convention hall, but responses were mixed in the media. [74] Film critic Roger Ebert commented "Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him". [75] Comedian Bob Newhart, who had popularized empty-chair interviews in the 1960s, tweeted in his deadpan humor style, "I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit". [76]
Thursday night concluded with Romney's acceptance speech. He announced that if elected, a Romney administration energy policy would take "full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables". [77] Romney also joked about the Obama administration's policies on climate change, saying "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet", a line which elicited laughter from the convention audience. [78] By way of contrast, Romney continued "MY promise. is to help you and your family."
Thursday's speakers included:
- , United States Representative from Florida's 14th congressional district and 2012 Republican nominee from Florida for U.S. Senate. , former Republican Speaker of the House and 2012 Presidential candidate & his wife, Callista Gingrich.
- Craig Romney, son of Mitt Romney. , former Governor of Florida accompanied by teacher Sean Duffy and former student Frantz Placide. , United States Representative for Washington's 5th congressional district.
- Grant Bennett, CEO of CPS Technologies and former consultant of Bain Capital.
- Ted and Pat Oparowsky and Pam Finlayson from Mitt Romney's former congregation , chairman of Romney for President campaign. , founder of Staples Inc.
- Ray Fernandez, owner of Vida Pharmacy , former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts.
- Jane Edmonds, former Massachusetts Secretary of Workforce. , actor he was confirmed to be the "mystery speaker" that had been subject of media speculation since the opening day of the convention. [79] , United States Senator from Florida. , former Governor of Massachusetts and nominee for President of the United States. [5]
Invocations and blessings Edit
Besides Rabbi Soloveichik, another five religious leaders were scheduled to provide blessings or invocations, including the Rev. Sammy Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference Ishwar Singh of the Sikh Society of Central Florida Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Ken and Priscilla Hutchins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (to open [80] ) and Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan. [81] Dolan gave the closing prayer.
In October 2011, Tampa city officials began planning for anticipated protests, and discussions centered around small prior protests by the Occupy movement. According to former Tampa City Council member John Dingfelder, then the senior staff attorney for the mid-Florida office of the American Civil Liberties Union, the convention should expect to draw far more protestors and the city should plan on up to 10,000. Dingfelder encouraged the city to be proactive regarding where protests could occur and protestors could sleep. Tampa's Mayor Bob Buckhorn's response was "If they want a place to sleep, they can go home or to a hotel. Just because they want to occupy something doesn't mean we are obligated to provide them with an opportunity to camp out in a public park or on a sidewalk." [82]
The city of Tampa has banned puppets from downtown during the convention, a decision which some puppet-makers say violates their civil liberties. Police claimed that puppets could be used to conceal weapons—at the 2000 RNC, police charged a group of puppet-makers in Philadelphia with conspiracy to resist arrest. [83]
On August 4, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) held a forum addressing what would be considered free speech during the Convention. [84] [85]
In early August, the city announced plans to provide delegates and protestors alike with water and portable toilets. [86]
Various groups began demonstrating on July 27 in Tampa and Tallahassee as part of a one-month countdown to the convention, calling for "good jobs, healthcare, affordable education, equality and peace." [87]
Fact-Checking Ann and Mitt Romney's Hardknock Early Years
If you didn't know much about Mitt and Ann Romney's biography, you might have gotten the impression from Ann's speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night that they were once two crazy kids in love just scraping by in a sad little slum.
If you didn't know much about Mitt and Ann Romney's biography, you might have gotten the impression from Ann's speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday night that they were once two crazy kids in love just scraping by in a sad little slum. There's no doubt the Romneys were very much in love, but their youthful real estate experience wasn't typical of impoverished college students, or even middle class ones. They lived off stock options.
Like Ann Romney, Chris Christie talked about his hardscrabble early years, when he and his wife moved into a "studio apartment," as if it's the norm of a young married couple to move into a suburban McMansion straight out of college. Let's go through the lines of Ann Romney's speech to see where the cute-poverty rhetoric doesn't quite match up with history:
Their first apartment
Ann Romney Tuesday: "We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish."
Ann Romney in 1994: When Mitt Romney was running for Senate in 1994, his wife gave a candid interview with Jack Thomas of Die Boston Globe, published October 20, 1994. She told Thomas that after their Hawaii honeymoon, Mitt transferred to Brigham Young University. Back then, she still thought of that time as tough. But she wasn't as good at describing it, suggesting that it was rough living off stock options:
"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income. Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time."
Furnishings
Ann Romney 2012: "Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold down ironing board in the kitchen. Those were very special days. Then our first son came along."
Ann Romney 1994: "We had our first child in that tiny apartment. We couldn't afford a desk, so we used a door propped on sawhorses in our bedroom. It was a big door, so we could study on it together. The funny thing is that I never expected help." [Most college students would consider investment income help, right?]
Whether Mitt was 'handed success'
Ann Romney 2012: "Mitt will be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. He had two loving parents who gave him strong values and taught him the value of work. He had the chance to get the education his father never had. But as his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success."
Ann Romney 1994: "Remember, we'd been paying $ 62 a month rent, but here, rents were $ 400, and for a dump. This is when we took the now-famous loan that Mitt talks about from his father and bought a $42,000 home in Belmont, and you know? The mortgage payment was less than rent. Mitt saw that the Boston market was behind Chicago, LA and New York. We stayed there seven years and sold it for $90,000, so we not only stayed for free, we made money. As I said, Mitt's very bright.
"Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted."
The risk at the start of Mitt's career
Ann Romney 2012: "I saw the long hours that started with that first job. I was there when he and a small group of friends talked about starting a new company. I was there when they struggled and wondered if the whole idea just wasn't going to work. Mitt's reaction was to work harder and press on."
The Real Romney, by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman: At Bain & Company, founder Bill Bain treated Romney "as a kind of prince regent at the firm, a favored son." He selected Romney to start and run Bain Capital. "It would be Romney’s first chance to run his own firm and, potentially, to make a killing," they write. "It was an offer few young men in a hurry could refuse. Yet Romney stunned his boss by doing just that." They continue:
He explained to Bain that he didn’t want to risk his position, earnings, and reputation on an experiment. He found the offer appealing but didn’t want to make the decision in a “light or flippant manner.” So Bain sweetened the pot. He guaranteed that if the experiment failed Romney would get his old job and salary back, plus any raises he would have earned during his absence. Still, Romney worried about the impact on his reputation if he proved unable to do the job. Again the pot was sweetened. Bain promised that, if necessary, he would craft a cover story saying that Romney’s return to Bain & Company was needed due to his value as a consultant. “So,” Bain explained, “there was no professional or financial risk.” This time Romney said yes.
Accuracy in Media
Chris Matthews, who has been on a rampage this week in trying to label the Republican Party as racist, switched gears last night after Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention and used the opportunity to attack Mitt Romney directly.
Matthews complimented Ann Romney for a speech that he said was personal and made her look good, and then turned his attention to Mitt Romney’s appearance on the stage at the end of her speech.
But then he came out at the end, and he almost looked like he came out on wheels And he almost looked like he came out on wheels, like he’s not real. That person who came out there like that, almost a statue of a person. His odd animation — his odd lack of animation. The way he moved in the room at the end was strange. She’s a real person trying to advertise him as a real person. But she really advertised a Mr.-Fix-It.
Matthews continued with his attack by referencing Romney’s wealth and calling him a “conehead” who doesn’t quite seem like an Earthling, adding that Ann Romney had to make Mitt seem like a real human being and not a “wooden like-figure.”
I’m not really sure how Romney was supposed to look last night in that very brief appearance. He kissed his wife and waved to the crowd, before departing with her, hand in hand.
Apparently that wasn’t sufficiently human for Matthews.
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Ann Romney needles convention planners, promises "heartfelt" speech
Ann Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hands out cookies during a flight to Tampa, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. AP Photo/Evan Vucci(CBS News) TAMPA, Fla. - A spirited Ann Romney arrived in Tampa late Tuesday morning, expressing excitement at her opportunity to introduce her husband to millions of Americans - and humorous surprise at adviser Stuart Stevens and other planners over their strong interest over what she'll wear for her convention speech.
"Frankly, I didn't realize that Stuart had to weigh in on this - or my husband," she told reporters on a charter flight from Bedford, Mass., to Tampa. "It was going to be like my wedding night I wasn't going to let him know what I was going to wear. But now they have opinions."
Offering a glimpse at the message she hopes to portray in her speech, Ann Romney said it will be "heartfelt." She said she hopes voters will consider "how important this election's going to be, and how important it's going to be for them to consider the right things to make their right decisions."
She frequently introduces her husband on the campaign trail. But tonight she will use a teleprompter to deliver her remarks, something she acknowledged not being entirely comfortable with.
Republican Convention 2012
"This is a unique experience for me, to actually have something written because I've never used it," she told reporters. "No one has ever written a speech for me, no one has ever, I've never given anything off a sheet . so I had a lot of input in this, I must say. And a lot of tweaking where I felt like I was getting what I really wanted to say from my heart."
The presumed Republican nominee and his wife both spent the past two days practicing their speeches at a New Hampshire prep school. Ann Romney joked that she had practiced her speech enough recently that it had been "reduced to a tweet," and so decided to take time to do something she loves - baking.
"These are my grandmother's recipe, Welsh cakes," she explained as she passed a red tin of the round pastries among the press corps. "The funniest thing is my one grandmother was a great cook, the Welsh grandmother was a terrible cook, and I never liked her Welsh cakes growing up and I've learned how to make them in such a way that they're much more moist and delicious."
First published on August 28, 2012 / 3:55 PM
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August 28, 2012
Partially reflected in a glass shelf, journalists cover a news conference of members of Syrian opposition groups presenting the program &lsquoThe Day After: Supporting a Democratic Transition in Syria&rsquo, in Berlin, Germany. (AP)
A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA&rsquos Curiosity rover. The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the rover&rsquos eventual science destination. This image is a portion of a larger image taken by Curiosity&rsquos 100-millimeter Mast Camera on Aug. 23, 2012. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
An Albanian boy uses a branch in an effort to put out a blaze raging near the city of Memaliaj. Albania has battled multiple forest fires since June after several heat waves and months of drought. (AFP)
Many residents leave the New Orleans area in anticipation of tropical storm Isaac, which is expected to make landfall on the Louisiana coast as a hurricane in Kenner, Louisiana. (AP)
A clown performs during a media preview of &lsquoSlava&rsquos Snowshow&rsquo at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. The show was created by renowned Russian clown Slava Polunin in 1993. (AP)
A Chinese fisherman is rescued by South Korean coast guard officers, unseen, from a Chinese ship in Jeju, South Korea. A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain. (AP)
A Gulf Air jet arrives over the top of houses to land at Heathrow Airport in west London. Britain&rsquos transport minister said she would probably resign if the government gave in to pressure to expand London&rsquos Heathrow airport. (Reuters)
Afghan locals gather at the site of a bomb blast in Kandahar province. The chief of police in Kandahar province survived the insurgent truck-bomb attack that killed four civilians, a spokeswoman for NATO-led forces and Afghan officials. (Reuters)
Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep. Paul Ryan, center, R-Wis., works on the speech he will deliver at the Republican National Convention, with senior adviser Dan Senor, left, and senior aid Conor Sweeney during the campaign charter flight from Wisconsin to Tampa, Florida. (AP)
Ann Romney’s speech will evoke her heart and family ties
TAMPA, Fla. -- As expected, the speech that Ann Romney is to deliver this evening is heavy on appeal to emotion, based on her role as Mitt Romney’s wife, the mother of his five sons and the grandmother to his 18 grandchildren.
In an excerpt released by the Romney campaign several hours before she was to take the stage around 10 p.m. EDT on the first full day of the Republican National Convention, the aspiring first lady invoked her family, their strong bonds and her husband’s generosity of spirit.
“Tonight I want to talk to you from my heart about our hearts,” the 63-year-old wife of the Republican nominee will say. “I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an American family. I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us, that one thing that brings us our greatest joy when times are good, and the deepest solace in our dark hours. Tonight I want to talk to you about love.”
Her speech contains a paean to her father-in-law, George Romney, to whom she grew close when he helped oversee her conversion to Mormonism at a time when her future husband was away, first at college, then on his two-year mission to France: “Mitt’s dad never graduated from college. Instead, he became a carpenter. He worked hard, and he became the head of a car company, and then the governor of Michigan.”
The Romneys, who have been married 43 years, have often been described as having a strong marriage, but Ann Romney will seek to correct misperceptions as she alludes to some of her well-known health struggles: “I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a ‘storybook marriage.’ Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer. A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.”
People often say that Ann Romney is her husband’s best character witness. This evening, her speech will seek to convey the sense that Mitt Romney has spent a lifetime helping others.
“At every turn in his life, this man I met at a high school dance has helped lift up others,” she will say. “He did it with the Olympics, when many wanted to give up.”
Ann Romney, who said earlier today she was nervous about using a prompter for the first time, will close with an appeal to voters: “This is the man America needs. This is the man who will wake up every day with the determination to solve the problems that others say can’t be solved, to fix what others say is beyond repair. This is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard.
“I can’t tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment: This man will not fail.
Ann Romney’s Love Story
Ann Romney told the Republican National Convention that she had come to talk about love—“from my heart, about our hearts.” She had been sent to make people love her husband, or to like him, or at least to “humanize” him. Love is useful that way it is, as she said, a force that “unites us,” a passion, in some hands, that can turn into a broad embrace. And yet, she insisted more on modesty, restraint, and a certain measure of defiance. “This is important. I want you to hear what I am going to say. Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he helps others, because he see it as a privilege, not as a political talking point.” What kind of political love affair is this?
When Ann entered, dressed in red, the frames on the convention stage filled up with pictures of her as a teen-ager and a young mother. For most of the speech, the pictures never showed her getting much older than that: there were her children, as babies or as preschoolers there she was, in a Peter Pan collar. Neither, rhetorically, did her husband age much. She said that for her he was still “that boy I met at a high-school dance,” and her memories seemed to get vaguer as Mitt got older: she talked about the business he started, but not what kind of business it was. She also mentioned, several times, how he made her laugh. (No examples were forthcoming.) “You can trust Mitt,” she said. “He will take us to a better place, just as he took me home safely from that dance.” A “better place” might not have been the best phrase there was already something stultifying about the frozen way we were asked to look at set pieces from their marriage without inquiring too much.
Does love mean not having to talk about politics, or about money? Ann’s contradictions in this respect are not new, but they are revealing, both about her and about her husband’s political program. She has opened up more about what might be seen as intensely personal matters—talking about her illnesses, and, Tuesday morning on CBS, about a miscarriage she had in her forties. (Mitt looked surprised at one point, and, asked about it, said that he hadn’t known how much the loss had upset their youngest son until hearing it then.) But the closer that Ann gets to matters that are properly public—like her husband’s wealth and financial connections, and how they might affect his policies as President—the more insistent her claims to privacy become. Her line about Mitt not liking to talk about how he helps others is baffling on its own—shouldn’t someone who is running for President give us a hint?—and also echoes the shameless explanation that she and her husband gave, in an interview with Parade, for not releasing their tax returns: that it would embarrass them by revealing just how charitable they were, and even impinging on their faith: “One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church,” Mitt said.
Ann was the most on edge—after a relaxed, genial opening—when she began to talk about her husband’s “success,” as she put it, and what she all but called other people’s jealousy. “You know what, it actually amazes me to see his history of success being attacked,” she said, and asked if we wanted our children to be “afraid of success,” and said that if President Obama had been successful he wouldn’t be “attacking” success. She acknowledged that her husband had started life on firm ground—she mentioned “values” and education, not that he was the son of a governor, auto executive, and Presidential candidate--and then said, “I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success—he built it!”
“He built it”—maybe this had to be said. A variation on the line was in pretty much every Republican speech, and written on signs all over the convention hall: “We built it.” It is remarkable to see how much can be made of a misquotation. The reference is to President Obama saying, not that business owners didn’t build anything, but that there were things that helped them, like roads and schools, that no one person can build alone. What is interesting is why the words have such rhetorical force. Part of it is the idea of Obama as a hater of private enterprise the other, though, is in the “we”—and the character of the implied “they,” the non-builders. In this telling, America is something that was built by people about whom Barack Obama knows and understands nothing. The most remarkable, and dubious, achievement of the Republican convention so far has been to make “we,” the most inclusive word in the English language, into an exclusionary one. The same might be said about love, which in the Romney story acts as a door that closes.
Another apparent rhetorical directive was to mention not just small businesses but “family businesses,” as often as possible. (Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire was especially good at that.) The phrase came up so deliberately and repetitively as to imply a patriotism of inheritance, something that should not be confused with a patriotic heritage.