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And: “He also mocked President Obama’s goals, saying to laughter, ‘President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.’”
“In accepting the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday after an eight-year quest for it, Mitt Romney opened a new chapter of his campaign: his closing argument to the American people,” the Boston Globe’s Johnson adds. “Before the largest television audience he has drawn as a political figure, the former Massachusetts governor sought to humanize himself by talking about his family history and personal life."
The AP: “Romney asks US to 'turn the page' on Obama.”
The AP in a separate story: “Social Security. Medicare. Iraq. Afghanistan. Illegal immigration. They’re all costly to taxpayers and the next president presumably will have to address them to one degree or another. Yet GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney made no mention of those issues Thursday in his wide-ranging acceptance speech that closed the Republican National Convention.”
Reuters: “Though U.S. voters may respect Romney, they don't seem to like him much, and the central mission of the Republican convention was to show the personal side of a candidate who has been reluctant to reveal it himself. Romney may never beat Democratic President Barack Obama in a popularity contest, but Republicans hope that voters will at least warm to him enough in the final months before the November 6 election that they can turn the focus back to the sluggish economy and Obama's job performance.”
The New York Daily News: “Mitt Romney accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for President Thursday by declaring that Barack Obama failed to deliver the change he promised — and warned that America’s future greatness is in danger. Romney, in the defining moment of his political career, briefly pulled back the curtain that had long shielded much of his private life from voters, but his main objective was to convince Americans they made the wrong choice in 2008.”
AP: “Mitt Romney promised voters Thursday night that he would cut deficits and put America on track to a balanced budget as president, but he left voters to take it on faith that he could deliver. The details behind that pledge, and the painful spending choices involved, are conspicuously lacking in his agenda.”
The Mormon moment: “It was more than politics,” USA Today writes. “This was the Mormons' moment, like African Americans' in 2008 with Barack Obama and Catholics' in 1928 with Democratic nominee Al Smith and 1960 with John F. Kennedy. … In his campaign this year, the candidate rarely and only vaguely spoke of his role in the church. But in an effort to explain Romney the Mormon, he was preceded on the convention stage Thursday night by other Mormons who told stories about him, his faith and his church work. He was described as a follower of Christ who worried less about theology than serving other people.”
USA Today: “To Democrats who have denounced him as an untrustworthy flip-flopper and Republicans who once derided him as a ‘Massachusetts moderate,’ Mitt Romney finally defined himself this week — as a cheerful conservative capable of rescuing the country from economic collapse. Think Ronald Reagan meets Clint Eastwood, both of whom played key roles — Reagan in a video, Eastwood in person — as the Republican National Convention ended Thursday."
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Thank goodness. Let's get this bumbling idiot Obama out in November!!
No more for 44!!!!!
Come on Mitt, be a man, show us all the jobs you guys a Bain created! Show us all the jobs Ryan created while he was in the US House! Don't hold your breath, cause that is not going to happen because neither created any.
IMO - Mythe has to show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly...yea..you rave about the jobs he created....BUT...now many jobs did he lose and HOW many jobs were shipped overseas? Remember - there are 3 sides to every story...his/theirs/ and the TRUTH....
GNOP - Afraid of the facts...THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
C'mon Mythe - Show us the 1040's! What ARE YOU hiding@?
paul -- so what is the truth? i do expect that you hold obama to the same level of scrutiny?
why did he not close Gitmo? Democrat president, democrat senate, democrat house. was he lying when he said he would close it? i believe the answer is yes. what do you believe the answer to be?
@Union -- I thought there have been 4.5 million jobs created over the last four years. I must have dreamed that cause you didn't know it.
Ah Ben wake up. Union was talking about Willard and Paul not creating any jobs. What's amazing is you admitting President Obama created 4.5 million jobs.
If by lying you mean he didn't even have so much as a plan to do so, other than accuse the Republicans of blocking it (with that perceived supermajority) then yes, the presiden't pants are on fire.
The president doesn't create jobs. Businesses do.
Chef...
Thank you....so many times I hear this President offhandedly say that he "has created" 4.2 million, 4.3 million, now 4.5 million new jobs. I figured the man just snaps his fingers or gives another lame speech and hiring starts picking up all over the place.
Since 2008, our comany has laid off 3 workers, 2 quit for other jobs elsewhere, and one retired. We hired 5 new workers and brought our retiree back out of retirement.
So....that's 6 new jobs at our place, courtesy of the President's efforts...plus the two new jobs found by the people who had quit. And we're not sure where, but at least 2 of the 3 laid off workers must have found work elsewhere by now.
My math tells me that Mr. Obama has thus "created" a total of at least 10 new jobs...possibly 11...just in our little corner of the world. Many kudos for the President's jobs-creating abilities !!!
Hold on....almost forgot that our welder quit last month to take a job at a company 20 minutes down the road. We quickly hired a replacement welder. Hmmmmm. Notch up another two, Mr. President. Now that makes it 12 new jobs "created" by the President...and possibly 13. Which is about the number of people employed here.
Thank you Mr. President...I'll never doubt any of your 'job creation' numbers again.
I am glad your company has been successful in a gloomy economy! But I would assume some 26 million unemployed, under employed and those who have quit looking may have a different story! 4.5 million in 3-1/2 years is not a stellar performance and doesn't even keep up with the number of people entering the job force for the first time! Oh, just for your information, the statement made by Ms. Summer, Obama's deputy campaign manager, said on national tv, that Obama has created more jobs than Reagan in the same time period in his first term...incorrect or a lie, whichever you want to call it! 4.5 million is not larger than 7 million!
union -- the numbers were shown last night regarding some companies in which Bain invested. I imagine you are trying to drive the conversation to the companies that eventually failed rather than the ones that have succeeded and are still in business; Staples and the Sports Authority are resounding successese.
A single member of the House cannot create jobs, an irrelevant and misguided comment.
It doesn't matter what Mitt says, because he's a known distorter and exxagerator. Just ask Santorum. Or Gingrich.
Steve...
Or we can ask President Obama....he know all there is to know about 'distortion' and 'exageration'.
steve -- you are correct. no one on the left will ever believe what romney says or dispute what obama says. so it is the people in the middle that really count.
how about reviewing what hillary and joe said about obama 4 years ago. pretty much the same stuff if you are willing to be honest.
billybob, it you were willing to be honest you'd look at the Tax Policy Center's analysis of Romney's proposed budget. According to them, and giving Romney the beneift of every variable, the plan is mathmatically impossible.
So please explain to me how someone who believes that Romney is qualified to be president based on his business acumen - which seems to be your measure, not mine - puts out a stunning false budget proposal. And why we should trust anything he says.
The TAX POLICY CENTER - a joint venture of two ultra-liberal think tanks, and a study authored by a former Obama administration appointee If you were willing to be honest..there study lacks any credibity and was made on the first Ryan budget that has been revised and updated
No matter which one is elected, the dud or the empty suit, it won't be good for the middle class: US.
www.napoleonliveinfo/politics/bad-candidates-sorry-campaign/
death -- who is your choice to be the President?
wow! wow! wow! this convention was the dullest conventio ever, even the paid cheerleaders had nothing, no thing.
once again a well written speech full of lies and untruths, according to every fact check organization. romneys performance with delivery, grade B(too much posing), convention grade D, best speech delivery, rubio.
Willard gives his acceptance speech.
Next headline in November. Willard gives his concession speech.
So Romney/Ryan is like Peabody/Sherman from the Bullwinkle and Rocky Hour. They want to set the wayback machine to 1985,1962, or 1903 but aren't sure which.
Unfortunately, they'd only need to set the machine back to 2008 so we could re-start the past four years a little differently...and we possibly may end up with better results even if the flying squirrel ends up in charge.
Ahhh yes, the beginning of the Recession, when the banks and businesses took a dive and gas was $4.50 a gallon. You think those were the "good ol' days"? Careful, that kool-aid will stain your lips....
Employees at Staples, among hundreds of others, would dispute your unintelligent statement!