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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Jude Marfil
The Republican Party made official on Tuesday nomination of former Gov. Mitt
Romney as its candidate to challenge Democratic President Barack Obama on
Nov. 6, 2012. Tasked with bolstering the GOP candidate were his wife of 43
years, Ann Romney, who talked about his human side; and New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie, who, in his keynote address, argued that his party’s ideas
“are right for America and their ideas have failed America.” Below are
reactions to Gov. Christie’s speech.
At the National Review, Robert Costa says Mr. Christie was statesmanlike in
his keynote speech.
He may be a YouTube sensation, best known for arguing with lefty hecklers,
but Governor Chris Christie’s keynote speech late Tuesday was a temperate
oration, forceful yet muted. …
In front of a raucous crowd of delegates and conservative activists,
Christie weaved personal anecdotes, including a moving tribute to his mother
’s inspiration, with thoughts about his experience in the Garden State,
where he has brokered bipartisan legislative reforms. Since Ann Romney spoke
earlier Tuesday, one GOP official says it was critical to stay close to the
night’s warm but serious theme.
Christie’s approach was a marked departure from previous Republican keynote
addresses, which have often featured a rising politician willing to blast
the Democratic nominee. Christie, for his part, did not once mention
President Obama by name.
Dan Balz at the Washington Post says Mr. Christie’s primetime speech
demonstrates that he “takes a back seat to no one” in the GOP.
The speech was as much about Christie and what he has done in New Jersey as
it was about Romney, his record and his vision. It was also a story many
other Republican governors tell, through their own experiences, as they
provide a model of the kind of conservative governance — cutting spending
and taxes, challenging public employee unions and shrinking government —
Christie said Romney would bring to Washington. …
In so many ways, the New Jersey governor is the antithesis of the Republican
nominee. Christie the politician is the direct opposite of Romney — a
bluff, brash New Jersey prosecutor who likes nothing better than to verbally
attack his attackers. Romney is modest and reserved, and has attacked
rivals in debates but more often shows his sometimes awkward politeness to
the people he meets on the campaign trail.
At Politico.com, Maggie Haberman writes about how Mr. Christie’s 2,800-word
address “lays out the roadmap” for 2016.
Chris Christie introduced himself to the nation Tuesday night, delivering a
Republican National Convention speech that went light on references to Mitt
Romney and instead focused on the New Jersey governor’s tenure in office,
governing philosophy and his belief in the importance of being respected
instead of loved. …
It was a different address than many had been expecting. Christie spent
less time selling Romney as a candidate and a potential president, and more
time defining the way he sees the party’s future — in strokes related to
fiscal conservatism. He mentioned Romney several times in the latter part of
the speech, but not for the first 15 minutes or so. … It was a reminder
that Christie, who many Republicans had hoped would run this time and is a
much-discussed candidate for 2016, is still seen as one of the future
leaders of a party that believes this is a winnable election, but has hoped
for Romney to wage a different, more aggressive campaign.
Ron Fournier at National Journal says Mr. Christie “sounded more like the
nominee than the keynote. He bragged about cutting taxes, battling unions,
and encouraging shared sacrifice.”
Christie, the pugnacious and polarizing New Jersey governor, sought with one
keynote speech to wash away Romney’s reputation for pandering. “We have a
man who will tell us the truth and will lead us with conviction,” he said
to a chorus of cheers from the overflow convention crowd.
After months of pounding by President Obama and his allies—an assault that
defined Romney as a tax-avoiding, job-exporting, middle-class-loathing fat
cat—the newly-minted GOP nominee finally fought back with a counter
narrative.
Christie led the way—with a bulldozer. The governor is blunt, brash, and
self-consciously authentic, the antithesis to what turns off today’s voters
the anti-Romney.
Romney is square-jawed and handsome; Christie is not (just ask him). Romney
measures his words; Christie heaves his. Romney equivocates; Christie eats
“hard choices” for lunch. If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is
three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and
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发帖数: 3803 | 2 Watched this guy on RNC last night.
Heard about him but never saw on TV.
If you judge him by his cover, well,
this must have been likely in your mind:
wow, another heavy-weight potato.
By cover, it's true.
Beneath that, it's up side down.
He is something that Republicans lack in
dealing with toughest time of American
politics. He's aggressive and energetic,
piercing eyes on troubles liberals brought up.
Get on numbers: out of 10 states that have
balanced budgets, 7 are under republican governors.
Gwen's face almost turned purple when Wyoming's
governor spills out the beans. Her late awkward
response to that is: so, who should take credits
for that? Federal? or...
And governor continues with blooming business
in the state of Wyoming, one of lowest unemployment
rate in the nation etc.
Gwen jumps up again: did Fed help all these?
governor: those ranches have existed in hundreds of
years, even before the state....
the joker's disappointment all over her protruding face. |
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