Republican hopes have been riding high that the speech by Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s wife Ann Romney would help Romney make up for some problems he has with women voters, and display a more human side of the nominee. Partisan reaction will be predictable (on most websites you know what they’ll say before they say it).
Here’s an interesting reaction from CNN’s David Gergen, who has served President of both parties, on Twitter:
In 2004, Barack Obama was born as a national star at the Democratic convention. Tonight it was Ann Romney’s turn. #CNN
Indeed: if Mitt Romney loses is there a political future for Ann Romney?
Here’s her speech so you can judge for yourself and make up your own mind:
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.