NYT: Post Convention Bump, Romney Draws Huge Crowd In Cincinatti

A crowd of thousands cheered Mitt Romney at a rally here during the opening leg of a cross-country campaign swing on Saturday, testing for the first time whether he can sustain political momentum coming out of the Republican National Convention.

A line of people that stretched for five city blocks awaited Mr. Romney as his motorcade pulled into the Union Terminal. Inside there were so many people that the campaign had to redirect a few hundred of them into a small overflow room, where they crammed in shoulder to shoulder.

Mr. Romney has often failed to spark much of a connection with his audiences, and enthusiasm for him along the campaign trail has often been in short supply.

But inside a soaring Art Deco-styled rotunda here, the candidate, joined by Senator Rob Portman and Representative John Boehner, the House speaker, delivered a vigorous and sharply focused speech that sent the audience into ear-splitting roars.

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In a Post-Convention Bump, Romney Draws Huge Crowds in Cincinnati - NYTimes.com

the gray lady (nyt) once more demurs before the undeniable

ryan, the scintillating young disciple of the great qb jack kemp, was not there, he was 100 miles north in columbus watching ohio state take on his alma mater miami of ohio

ohio is football mad this time of year, romney: coach obama's record is 0 and 23 million, time for a new coach

i saw him on fox, red hot, dramatically more animated and impassioned than he's been

aside him in cincy were boehner, rob portman (romney's debate coach, an omb) and baby faced josh mandel, war hero and fundraising magnet, who has precipitously risen some 12 to 15 points in the last month into a tie with incumbent sherrod brown, rumpled radical, present day huey long

romney hammered on his newest theme---obama holding teachers unions ahead of our struggling, deeply encumbered kids

the education issue, pushed by obama all last week, has become central to the american voters' definition of forward, and they will decide

interrupted by 30 second long eruptions of mitt! mitt! mitt! he railed against obama for working to raise taxes on jobs creating middle class small business

he lashed the gutless unleaderly-like law professor for the trillion dollar defense cuts hanging over defense contractors coast to coast, scheduled to take effect jan 1

3 weeks ago, the senate by voice vote and the house by a tally of 414-2 compelled the president to fulfill his constitutional responsibilities and itemize exactly where these draconian reductions are to fall

there are, they say, 100,000 defense related jobs in virginia, surely concentrated in norfolk/hampton roads, enough conceivably to turn the commonwealth, perhaps the entire election

when the sequester went down, escape hatch from the debt ceiling debacle, whitehouse.gov triumphed: "a win for the economy and budget discipline"

Fact Sheet: Bipartisan Debt Deal: A Win for the Economy and Budget Discipline | The White House

orwell, anyone?

on july 31, however, labor secty hilda solis advised defense contractors not to send out pink slips mandated by the workers adjustment and restraining act, which requires 60 days notice for govt contracts

White House to defense contractors: Don't Send Pink Slips

and since 60 days before jan 1 falls just a mere, few days before the election...

a depressing contrast to romney's rousing exhibition was the stubborn and stony silence that met obnoxious obama at fort bliss near el paso where the clueless commander in chief went on friday (while romney was in new orleans expressing thanks to the responders) to celebrate the exit from iraq

the unpopular president tried to amp up the crowd, twice calling out, i hear you

but there was very little to hear, the select soldiers on the risers behind him, visible on cnn and msnbc before they cut away, were statue still and staring

obama threw out some obvious applause lines---reduced tours, more time with family...

their silence was defiant

today an internal poll done by the army of its active duty officers found that only 26% approve of "the direction the military is headed," compared to 38% opposed, a record low and drop of 7 points this year

Internal Army Poll: Only 26% of Officers Say Army Headed in Right Direction--'Political Correctness' Cited | cnsnews.com

prime sources of officer disaffection were the sequester cuts, which leon panetta has said repeatedly will devastate our military capacity

also concerning to those surveyed was the bend-over-backwards culture of pc denial they say they see

they can't be happy with the 40 assassinations of americans in afghanistan this year, 10 this month, by the "allies" we arm, train and fund in this sudden and scarly spike in green vs blue violence

they may resent the pentagon's effort for the last year to bury its head, its directive to troops at kabul isaf to check their weapons so as not to make our "friends" question our trust in them

this dangerously absurd order was reversed just last week after 4 americans were shot, 2 killed, in 2 separate incidents on the same friday, aug 17

First on CNN: All troops now armed at NATO HQ in Kabul – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

general john allen's insistence that all these greens on blues are NOT taliban directed, that instead they are some more natural consequence of "personal grievances, stress from an increased tempo of operations and the daily pressure of having to fight while fasting for the muslim holiday of ramadan" may not sit well

Insider Attacks Don't Threaten U.S. Strategy, Allen Says - Businessweek

either way, the utter unreliability of the afghans we are fighting beside certainly and centrally undermines obama's fundmanental strategy of afghanization

another rub for the officers offended could well be the hush hushing and whitewashing that accompanied and actively enabled major nidal hasan's odd and twisted journey which directed him ultimately to the soldier readiness center at fort hood, texas

in january of 2010, the pentagon published its final report on the fort hood shooting, 86 pages with no mention of hasan or islam

Fort Hood Report: No Mention of Islam, Hasan Not Named - TIME

no wonder the soldiers at fort bliss are so stony

it's the same reason romney's redhots roar

stephy's intro this morning on abc's this week: "romney's crowds yesterday in cincinatti and jacksonville were huge"

fyi

"Cincinnati" has two Ns and one T. :2razz:

President McCain and Vice President Palin also got a similar if not larger bump in the form of increased and louder audiences in 2008.

haymarket said:

President McCain and Vice President Palin also got a similar if not larger bump in the form of increased and louder audiences in 2008.

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They also got a financial collapse that sealed the deal for Obama.

washunut said:

They also got a financial collapse that sealed the deal for Obama.

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YES, and that came later.

haymarket said:

YES, and that came later.

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By later, I guess you mean after the convention, yes I agree. Not sure what the point is though.

washunut said:

By later, I guess you mean after the convention, yes I agree. Not sure what the point is though.

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the point is that McCain and Palin got the expected post convention bump. And they lost. Looking at crowd excitement right now is rather meaningless based on that precedent.

tell it to the soldiers at fort bliss