Romney Will Resonate

 

Erick Erickson: The Next President

What a difference a speech makes. As Ari Fleischer noted on CNN, the same media that was cool with the shallow vapidity of hope and change in 2008 is now demanding specifics from Mitt Romney. Last night in Tampa, he gave the one set of specifics he needed to give — a course correction.

The Democrats are screaming that it is a return to the 1950′s, when unemployment was less than it is now. That is a talking point. Mitt Romney made a very simple case for himself last night: the President promised the oceans and the earth. He’s just promising to help Americans. It was a modest plan with bold implications.

The speech was the best speech Mitt Romney has ever given. The material might not have been the greatest, but Romney himself delivered it with more substance than the text. The story of the rose will resonate. The desire for parents to have their kids piled up back on the bed will resonate. Mitt Romney will resonate.

 

I just have to note that I lifted that photo from CNN, where it appeared under the headline, "Is that the best Mitt Romney can do?"

Just remember what Clint Eastwood said last night: "We OWN this country." Not only does CNN not own it, they don't even speak our language.

So there.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Many things about Romney will resonate, but none more than his essential decency -- which shines through his equally essential modesty -- and his quietly resolute demeanor. The Obama campaign has been reduced to a shambles of bombast and scurrility. My bet is that -- over the next couple of months -- fence-sitting voters will find the decency and resolution preferable to the bombast and scurrility. Something else about Romney will also resonate: his intense American nationalism. The final night of the convention turned into a kind of carnival of old-fashioned American patriotism -- something we don't see much these days, and something that was wondrous to behold. If there's one thing Obama cannot do --- despite his vaunted platform skills -- is American patriotism. That's probably because he's never felt a twinge of American patriotism in his life -- and why, whenever he mouths an occasional platitude about American greatness, it falls as flat as one of Romney's delicious-looking pancakes. If this essential difference between the two candidates emerges in the debates, then -- beyond any doubt -- Obama's goose will be cooked.