This is Your Life--Clint Eastwod

David Axelrod said that all questions about Clint East wood's performance should go to Salvador Dali. Rachel Maddow was speechless. One tweet said ,"Clint called Obama said,"everything went as planned". Romney's aides grimaced during Clint's statement about how Obama failed to close Gitmo and hasn't ended the war in Afghanistan. He seemed to have gone to the wrong convention. Now conservatives are saying that you know Romney hit it out of the park when tomorrow's press will talk about Eastwood.

Chris Wallace was polite and said Romney's speech was workmanlike. Andrew Sullivan ,who earlier pointed out there had been more diversity on stage than among the delegates, wrote "The Speech: The Huge Lie". 

Maybe I'll get to the content of the speech tomorrow or maybe not it was so forgettable. For some reason, the Republican Convention needed to hear repeated references to 9/11, their greatest national security failure prior to Iraq, which went unmentioned. 

Curious for such a militaristic party that there were not people in uniform there.

I thought Willard's rhythm was off and he stepped on his applause line. He had this mincing walk on the way to the podium, which delayed his speech until he was actually heading to 11PM EST. I thought he rushed his delivery and then when he slowed it ,I thought he was building to something, which never came. He was condescending in tone, something he can't seem to break and still can't tell a joke written for him.

He promised 12 million jobs, which the CBO expects to be created anyway once we are out of the dumps. Remember I warned readers that this was the ticket for Republicans to seal the deal for the future. Both sides know the projections. 

He went on to talk about small businesses, which was a change from the 2008 convention which never talked about small business or the middle class. He promised he would not raise taxes on the middle class unlike Obama who actually has cut them. 

He used the Better off Now than Before question and rolled out Obama as Jimmy Carter. He blamed President Obama for shipping jobs to China, unlike say Bain Capital, repeated his lie about Medicare. You would think Romney was for the poor and seniors, while nothing is like that in reality.

He would restore America and talked about the great days he watched Neil Armstrong on the Moon and thought America was the greatest nation on earth. 

He also pledged to protect the sanctity of life by declaring a new Cold War on Putin and not apologizing like Obama sort of didn't do. Obama threw Israel under the bus, which runs against Israeli military experts' opinions. Romney said he would stand behind Poland on the Missile Defense System that was moved to the Czech republic but he won't tell you. And he said he would handle Iran. And we would once again have the greatest military on earth as if we need to spend more on defense.

The whole day was spent conducting a "This is Your Life" television show"  of a 65-year old man. Did we really need to hear about the Olympics? We don't even know what he did. 

The net effect was to try and mainstream Mormonism and to lay the groundwork for a theocratic authority. I would be like scientologists introducing their first candidate at a convention.