Ann Romney's speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night was fantastic.
She was terrific. She seemed so comfortable. Her delivery was as impressive as the content of remarks. She was engaging. She was sincere. She spoke from the heart. It was clear that she believed every word she said.
Here's video:
Ann Romney hit the Democrats' War on Women BS head-on. She saluted the women of America.
It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters.
You know it’s true, don’t you? You’re the ones who always have to do a little more.
You know what it’s like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which just has to be done. You know what those late night phone calls with an elderly parent are like and the long weekend drives just to see how they’re doing. You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and which doctors actually answer the phone when you call at night.
You know what it’s like to sit in that graduation ceremony and wonder how it was that so many long days turned into years that went by so quickly.
You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.
Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.
I’m not sure if men really understand this, but I don’t think there’s a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!
And that’s fine. We don’t want easy. But these last few years have been harder than they needed to be. It’s all the little things — that price at the pump you just can’t believe, the grocery bills that just get bigger; all those things that used to be free, like school sports, are now one more bill to pay. It’s all the little things that pile up to become big things. And the big things — the good jobs, the chance at college, that home you want to buy, just get harder. Everything has become harder.
I love that!
I can relate completely.
The fact is the War on Women in America is the result of Obama's disastrous economic policies.
He and the Democrats are waging war against us.
But the real War on Women is not about having the "choice" to slaughter the unborn, or leaving a helpless baby who survived a botched abortion to die. It's not about access to "free" birth control.
Obama's colossal economic failures have left women reeling. Obama's mandate infringing on our First Amendment rights, forcing religious institutions to subsidize procedures they find morally repugnant, is an attack on one of our most precious freedoms.
Republicans respect women and value their contributions to society and the family. They don't treat women like children, in need of government to take care of us. They also want to protect future generations of women, now being discarded, unborn females tossed out like trash.
Ann Romney gets it and she communicated it very well.
I thought this was a great line:
"We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers."
YES!
Ann Romney was also strong on the "We built it" theme.
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.
He built it.
He stayed in Massachusetts after graduate school and got a job. 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.
Today that company has become another great American success story.
Has it made those who started the company successful beyond their dreams?
Yes, it has.
It allowed us to give our sons the chance at good educations and made all those long hours of book reports and homework worth every minute. It’s given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we’re no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don’t do it so that others will think more of them.
They do it because there IS no greater joy.
“Give and it shall be given unto you.”
Yes, Leftists, Mitt Romney was not handed success. He worked to achieve it.
His success is to be admired, not mocked.
I like the way she noted that millions of Americans "quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities." We live our values every day. We don't need government bureaucrats to confiscate our money and spread it around. We do what's right, helping others, because we want to care for others in need. It's a responsibility we embrace. It's who we are.
Ann Romney concluded her speech with direct, clear, straightforward statements to the American people.
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.
This man will not let us down.
This man will lift up America!
...You can trust Mitt.
He loves America.
THIS MAN WILL NOT FAIL.
Wow. Very powerful.
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Complete transcript here.
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Juan Williams: Ann Romney a "corporate wife."
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