{"id":15641,"date":"2012-08-27T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15641"},"modified":"2012-08-27T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T23:29:35","slug":"romney-convention-speech-could-be-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15641\/romney-convention-speech-could-be-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Convention Speech Could Be Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2012\/08\/27\/more-interest-in-gop-platform-than-romneys-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pew Research poll<\/a> shows more Americans interested in the Republican Party\u2019s convention platform than in presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p>But an interview Romney gave to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/80166.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> indicates those who watch Mitt\u2019s speech Thursday night might be in for something good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His language, his approach, his mannerisms convey: I am not asking you to trust me to see into your soul, or to feel your pain, or bring you hope and fuzzy change. I will bring you concrete, measurable, profitable change \u2014 the kind you can authentically take stock of, and even measure in your family\u2019s bank account.<\/p>\n<p>Romney, who this week watched Obama\u2019s 2008 convention speech again, said the lofty, theatrical address loaded with promises never kept provides the perfect device for juxtaposing his leadership style with the president\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Romney\u2019s point: You had love, you had hero worship, you had emotion. How did that work out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pew Research poll shows more Americans interested in the Republican Party\u2019s convention platform than in presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s acceptance speech. But an interview Romney gave to Politico indicates those who watch Mitt\u2019s speech Thursday night might be in for something good: His language, his approach, his mannerisms convey: I am not asking you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,3518,160,1425],"class_list":["post-15641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-convention","tag-mitt-romney","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15645,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15641\/revisions\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}