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09/01/2004 Archived Entry: "Day 2 of the RNC"

Posted by steve @ 12:23 AM EST [Link]

LUCKY FOR 2008 PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS THAT ARNIE CAN'T RUN: Well, it appears the big hit so far at the RNC are the moderates. Arnold Schwarzenegger channelled some Ronald Reagan tonight and did what I thought was a damnably good job promoting the idea of optimism and the war against terrorism. I think, however, that Arnold needs to lay off the movie taglines. I wasn't counting but I think he referenced his movies three times during his speech. And Richard Nixon was the reason Arnold became a Republican? Weird. That said, I think Der Governator has made the best speech at the RNC. We'll see if Zell Miller can top him Wednesday night.

I'm going to cut the Bush daughters some slack. At 22 I would have been a sweating, stammering moron while speaking at a nominating convention so I'll go easy on the ladies' speech. They tried to be funny but with a conservative crowd you aren't exactly going to go Don Rickles on people. Still, they had some good lines and set it up nicely for their mother. Professor Glenn has some links to varied opinions on their performance.

Laura Bush had a tough act to follow after Arnie but I think she did a nice job. ABC says she polled well among women and that never hurts a Republican candidate. A man could do so much worse than Laura Bush as a wife.

Ann Althouse has a roundup of Day 2.