From Rice to Ryan a winning night for GOP

John Podhoretz:

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The oratory was dazzling, as was the delivery — her voice trembled with nerves but she spoke her words with the fluency of a classical pianist playing octave runs. Most important, the speech was elevating, a call to national purpose — and a clear indication that Condoleezza Rice will soon re-enter public life in a big way. 

There was no way Ryan’s speech could match Rice’s for dramatic effect. Fortunately for him, Ryan wasn’t aiming for uplift and he wasn’t swinging for the fences. This was a painstakingly designed effort to plant the flag of the Romney-Ryan ticket as close to the political center as possible. 

He sought to make his conservative Republican political approach resonate with the undecided and independent voters who are clearly willing to give Mitt Romney a chance. 

At the speech’s start, he made it clear he understood and sympathized with those swing voters who thought voting for Obama in 2008 was a good idea. 

His hometown of Janesville, Wis., was on the verge of losing a GM plant, and they all knew it. “Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, ‘I believe that if our government is there to support you . . . this plant will be here for another hundred years.’ That’s what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. 

And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.” 

Ryan was speaking to the sorts of workers who voted for Obama in 2008 and haven’t seen their lives improve — and telling them to give the other guy a chance to make things better. 

The central charge against Obama was that rather than focus his presidency on job creation, he turned away from it after his stimulus passed, and spent a year fighting to pass ObamaCare — a program that cuts $700 billion from Medicare specifically to pay for other aspects of the bill. It was, he said, “the biggest, coldest power play of all. . . The greatest threat to Medicare is ObamaCare, and we’re going to stop it.”
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The theme of convincing Obama voters it is OK to change their vote this time continues.  It seems to be a message the Republicans are reading from the polling in looking for a way to lead people to a better way of dealing with our current problems.

I find it hard to believe that such people can't see the obvious failure of Obama and eagerly embrace change.  I guess people like myself who can't wait to vote against any and all Democrats and especially Obama and his failed agenda will have to go along with the gentle persuasion of the those who are slow to catch on.