Since Pablo Fanque, our National Affairs Editor and political whiz is M.I.A.(after promising to live blog the Michigan and Arizona primaries), I wanted to mention a couple of things.
In his speech tonight, Rick Santorum once again shows he has what it takes to connect with the voters. I disagreed with nearly every clause of the speech, but he has a way of reaching out that Mitt Romney will never achieve. Listen to the cadences and delivery of Mitt Romney's victory speech tonight. It sounded like his basic $35,000 speech to an insurance convention.
This should have been Mitt Romney's night. And he blew it. He came from way behind in his home state to triumph. But he never even talked about Michigan, or growing up there, or his deep connection to the people of that state. He didn't mention it at all. There was no real joy in his speech. It felt like a candidate that resented he'd been forced to work so hard to win. He should have laughed and expressed his great delight that his home state pulled through for him. And he did not. I don't think Mitt Romney's a scary guy, but I do think he is seriously out of touch, as we've seen over and over again in his foolish, unscripted, utterances. Mitt needs a new speechwriter. He needs to think about retail politics. He needs to read Chris Matthews's masterful book on political strategy, "Hardball."
Tonight President Obama delivered a masterful speech to the U.A.W. in Washington (the other Washington). It was brilliant, inspiring, and it reached out to the voters. . .and connected. BHO, like Romney, needs to remember to connect. And he can; it's second nature to him. Unfortunately, this is the only clip that's online at the moment. If you get a chance, check out the entire speech. The crux of it was that "you, the American people, did this." He didn't talk about his brilliance as a manager; he talked about how people pulled together. The President is back. Now, it's on to November 6th!
If you get the chance, look for the entire speech...
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