In the end the Republican Convention came down to two lines: Clint Eastwood saying, “When somebody doesn’t do the job, you gotta let ‘em go.”   And Mitt Romney saying, “Obama wants to save the planet – I want to help your family.”   All the rest – the political rhetoric – was window dressing.…

It’s odd: Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio didn’t fret the liberal pundits much at all but in twelve minutes Clint Eastwood sent them into orbit. After Eastwood’s speech Andrea Mitchell at NBC looked so shocked it seemed she was about to have a stroke.   Twitter and the e-world exploded with…

Most of the politicians at the Republican Convention stood up talked about what ails America: Too much government. Too much spending. Too much debt.   Except Chris Christie.   Instead of what’s wrong, Christie talked about why it’s wrong.   He began with a story of his Sicilian mother, who’d been raised by her own…

The first night of the convention the Romney campaign set out to ‘humanize’ Mitt and after living with Mitt Romney for thirty years Ann Romney surely knew his virtues but by the same measure also knew his warts – which created a conundrum for Romney’s campaign staff.   I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of…

One minute you’re standing on solid ground and the next the trap door springs open and you’re falling through mid-air.   Last week, the New York Times reported Republican political consultants made a startling discovery: They discovered swing voters have a stubborn affinity for Barack Obama and President Obama’s economic failure is not enough to elect…