buzzed about on twitter. she got a standing ovation after telling the story of a man, a marriage and a family. i love you women! and i hear your voices. i read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, let me tell you something. in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. and those storybooks never seemed to have a chapter called m.s. or breast cancer. a storybook marriage? nope. not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. new jersey governor chris christie followed ann romney on that stage. dished out plenty of red meat rhetoric in his keynote address. i know the simple truth.
neil: so how do you feel? people have been keep. i am looking forward to the speech tomorrow, i loved ann romney last night. a good week for the republican party. neil: any word back from the congressional black caucus? when people start a conversation saying we never liked you, you do now worry. and to third of the caucus did not sign on. what do you make of that? guest: the other to thirds were probably traveling around and could not be found. the congressional black caucus i was the most conservative member, i was attacked for being the most conservative member and now people express amazement i would take conservative positions. funny how the world works. neil: very good to see you, congressman. be good.
we can do this in a blue state like new jersey with a conservative republican governor, washington, d.c., is out of excuses. more about doing something, less about being something. i don t know. mixed message there because he was definitely doing something for himself there last night. if you are mitt romney and you make this early appearance on that convention floor to thank ann for her speech and then you have to sit there and watch chris christie and the cutaways. did you guys notice the cutaways? he looked heavyhearted and in pain at times in a room that was supposed to be full of love for him. what did you think of chris christie s speech? well, it was an interesting juxtaposition. i thought ann romney did a really good job. i think she gave a great speech. then you go to christie where he talks about himself. he didn t get the memo his job was to go there and talk about mitt romney. very self-serving speech. and to be honest, when you look at the message, the part about the l
polls on election day. and so we re here asking where the hard truths. we ve heard about hard truths. will congressman ryan look students in the eye tonight and tell them that it will be harder to get a loan if governor romney and congressman ryan are elected? will he look seniors in the eye and tell them they ll be paying thousands more out of pocket for their health care costs if they re e lected. you talk about the fact the right has not put out specifics, most importantly about the economy and how they d get people back to work. what specifically is the president saying to get people to believe he can do that especially if the record over the first four years isn t providing that going into the next? well, the president has a jobs act that s been on the table since last fall that would create a million jobs right now. it s filled with ideas that democrats and republicans have supported in the past. governor romney has opposed it and congressman ryan has obstructed it. he s outl
commitment. this man will not fail. the biggest question now, can mitt romney outshine his biggest fan? we want to say good morning to meghan mccain, daily beast columnist and daughter of former republican presidential nominee senator john mccain. she joins us from tampa. your thoughts. did she give her husband a tough act to follow for tomorrow night? the only down side of her speech last night is that she is ghif giving her husband a very tough act to follow. there wasn t one woman, democrat or republican out there that didn t find her appealing and warm and just, you know, quite frankly looking like the next first lady. she s got a lot of gravitas. what was the atmosphere like in the convention center? lawrence o donnell noted he didn t think that ann romney s speech drew the same reaction that sarah palin s did in 08, but do you think that s comparing apples to oranges? oh, i think that s a completely unfair comparison. ann romney last night was going