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The Unconventional Convention
This morning, a few Ricochet editors — me, Mollie Hemingway, Troy Senik, Diane Ellis, and James Lileks — and special correspondent Mickey Kaus, got on Skype to talk over last night’s speeches, Clint Eastwood’s triumph (Troy dissented), and the weird un-weirdness of Mitt Romney.
It was a very fun conversation.
And it’s here, on the Member Feed.
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I haven’t watched any of the convention speeches since I’ve been away from a TV and off galavanting on an island. If Troy dissented, I’m going to have to go with Troy. He was a speechwriter in the White House. Can’t wait to listen in on your conversation!
Clint said it best: we own this country, not the politicians.
The professional politicians, and those who imagine they’re guiding the professional politicians, didn’t like Clint’s speech.
Says it all.
How do we know Clint’s speech worked? Because it rattled Obama.
William Jacobsen: “This is Not the Tweet of a Confident Man.”
Diane Ellis is married?
William Jacobsen: “This is Not the Tweet of a Confident Man.”
Its the tweet of a Hollow Man.
I partially agree with Troy. I thought that both Ryan’s and Eastwood’s speeches started slow, rambled for a bit, but when they hit their stride, they finished with a bang. It was pretty obvious that it took them both a few minutes to get comfortable.
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Stop just standing in the doorway; come on in and have a seat at the table.
Fantastic that you put this together. I really enjoyed it.
It was interesting how the audience spontaneously laughed when Romney quoted Obama about receding oceans and a healing earth. The pretentious, ludicrous Obama claims are laughed at, not good for a someone needing to show seriousness of purpose in tough times.
And Eastwood, an actor, played the doddering, unkempt (he looked like his hair hadn’t been combed when he got out of bed in the morning) old man with the wisdom of a life. Like Ann Coulter says, “I hate it when they don’t get the jokes.”
And now that I have listened to Eastwood’s speech, I assert my prerogative as a girl to change my mind. I think the speech was effective. I think it could have been more effective with better delivery. But it was effective.