in as we heard in the ryan speech, serious times. he has to show he s a serious plan. no one sells sort of outlined what he wants to do. the kind of thing reagan with a strong defense, he doesn t have to go through a lift he has to give principles. main ideas. once people hear that, they ve heard this president has no plan. and has no way to go ahead. how do we believe next four years will be any different from four years before? we have no way of knowing that. when romney has to show is that i know where to lead. i ve had history of leading and having success. here is what i m going to do, it will make sense, he doesn t have to all of the critical stuff. the tremendous affect of this, he has to show something of a person, has to humanize himself. and has to speak plainly, simply about things he believes in. and the things he loves and cares about. and i think you can go a long
aren t they adorable? i thought the speech by ryan was bold z very strong. and very large in the sense he went way beyond just the attack with like stiletto attacks each a sure jab that there was no elaboration. a agree it was sort of more in sorrow than anger but reminding people that is a line about a faded poster of young people with a poster of obama but won t don t have a job, it reminded people obama had so much promise, and he started with that premise and in the end he said what have they left you with? i thought one of the themes that ran through his speech, condoleezza rice and martinez is that obama is a
in as we heard in the ryan speech, serious times. he has to show he s a serious plan. no one sells sort of outlined what he wants to do. the kind of thing reagan with a strong defense, he doesn t have to go through a lift he has to give principles. main ideas. once people hear that, they ve heard this president has no plan. and has no way to go ahead. how do we believe next four years will be any different from four years before? we have no way of knowing that. when romney has to show is that i know where to lead. i ve had history of leading and having success. here is what i m going to do, it will make sense, he doesn t have to all of the critical stuff. the tremendous affect of this, he has to show something of a person, has to humanize himself. and has to speak plainly, simply about things he believes in. and the things he loves and
in the eye of the beholder. in that room you re not going to sit there and get into the details of a specific policy. you re laying out broad themes. and so obviously from the left and from the obama administration, particularly the campaign, they want to go back and say, but you didn t say this, you didn t talk about that. that s not what last night was about. just as we ll see next week. there ses going to be a whole lot of detail and specific facts left out of obama s narrative about what he s done over the last four years. so last night was about broad themes. last night was about setting up tonight for mitt romney and bringing down the hammer at some of the headlines have said this morning on the obama administration. so i thought for paul ryan it was a wonderful coming out party if you will. it was a great way for him to inject a new kind of energy into this campaign at a different level, at a different speed. i thought he did a masterful job with it. chairman steele, that spee
play to the strength. that s what you do. don t create something that is a weakness. expectations, dana is right. expectations for this guy giving a speech that is good is low. andrea: don t you think ryan raised the bar? last night, everybody is talking about him. andrea: he can get better. a different speaker. eric: take a listen to a piece of sound from paul ryan last night. we have had different careers. mine mainly in public service. his, mostly in the private sector. he helps start businesses and turn around failing ones. by the way, being successful in business, that is a good thing! [ applause ] eric: we were talking about that convention hall last night. when paul ryan started to talk, you could hear a pin drop. everyone was watching. everyone was listening. he did a fantastic job. what did you think? greg: he set the bar so high joe biden gets a nose bleed thinking about it. pulling about the remaining