Mitt the whip makes it easy for Obama to go. Clint Eastwood makes every one's day with his Dirty Harry bit.

Romney_portrait

Mitt Romney had to shake every hand and hug every hugger along the
aisle while Marco Rubio had that awkward moment after finishing his
introduction. I guess the idea of all the handshaking came from a plan
to make Romney look connected to his movement. I felt he was awkwardly
delayed, unable to make people happy with good eye contact. I felt his
wife was watching him, quietly thinking, "Please, Mitt, don't bog down
along the aisle".

Pardon the phrase "Mitt the Whip", but his hand motion with his left
hand seem to be employing an imaginary whip. Those people trying to
keep the ocean low and heal the Great Lakes, watch out for the whip as
Romney puts all to work making smog and producing heat to melt the
polar caps for good.

The speech began, strikingly so, with a compliment to Obama. Every one
was so excited when Obama was elected and now Obama has to go because
he made no progress. Clint Eastwood pretty much got to say, "You're
Fired", instead of Donald Trump.

I am touched by his story of his parents, George and Lenore, and I am
moved that George left a rose on his wife's side table every morning
until the morning when he could not. I would like to know the name of
the florist who handled George Romney's account for roses. Convention
speeches always seem to fail on the detail. Mitt Romney alluded to the
monuments in every town that honor the men and women lost in the line
of duty. However, he could have mentioned one encounter with one of
these great walls. I really would like to know where Mitt Romney
contemplated the Americans who made the greatest of sacrifices.

Ronald Reagan, no matter how much one disagreed with his politics,
never made a speech that lacked literary and philosophical texture.
Mitt's speech didn't impress. Written with a simply vocabulary, Mitt
praised American Exceptionalism without using the word. I had to work
hard to pay attention. I had to reread it to see if it had more
backbone on the page than the speech showed in the delivery.

If this is what Mitt brings to the podium, I am going to miss the
George Bush father and son team. I also expect Barack Obama to score a
technical knock out in the debates to come.