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September 1, 2004
Night Two at the RNC
When the list of speakers was first announced some time ago, there was much dissatisfaction on the right. The prime-time speakers were all moderates, with the most conservative being a Democrat, Zell Miller.
I, too, was concerned by this. I also remembered Pat Buchanan's fire-breathing speech in 1992 that received so much criticism. The lesson of that convention is that you need in setting the tone of the speeches. Buchanan came across then as radio talk-show host Michael Savage comes across today; angry, not hopeful. Anger is fine for editorials, not for prime-time speeches. The real audience is not the delegates, it is the millions of Americans sitting at home, many of whom are undecided.
Arnold knocked them dead last night. Of all the speeches he may have converted more undecideds than anyone. Laura Bush was heartfelt and direct. She is the perfect person to speak to the average family in America. The daughters...well they need new speechwriters.
It should be apparently by now to all that the GOP is now the "big tent" party. The Democrats enforce ideological rigidity, and woe be it to anyone to deviates from the official orthodoxy. Newt Gingrich discussed this in a book of his, when he wrote about the differences between the two parties in the House. Although this somewhat-new "diversity" in the party may be occasionally annoying to conservatives like me, I believe that in the end it will help us maintain and even increase our election chances at all levels.
Posted by Tom at September 1, 2004 10:03 AM
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