Republicans set Romney on road to White House
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August 30, 2012, Thursday
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REPUBLICANS handed their presidential nomination to Mitt Romney, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman as their hope for removing Barack Obama from the White House and ushering in a new era of small-government conservatism.
"It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House," said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, delivering the Tampa, Florida, convention's keynote address on Tuesday night. "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America."
With Romney's nomination now official, and Obama's assured at next week's Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, US voters will face a clear-cut clash of ideologies.
Romney, conservative on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, favors cutting taxes, slashing the government and repealing Obama's signature health care overhaul - even though it was modeled after one of his own programs as governor.
Obama is liberal on social issues, wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and sees government as a potential force for good.
Romney was affirmed as the nominee in a suspenseless roll call of state delegations. He received 2,061 votes to 190 for Texas Representative Ron Paul.
Paul, who has a passionate following but never won a primary race, did not go so quietly, or at least his supporters didn't. They chanted and booed after the convention adopted rules they opposed but were powerless to block. "Shame on you," some of his supporters chanted from the floor.
The highlights of Tuesday's session were the keynote address by Christie, a star of the party seen as a likely future presidential candidate, and the speech by Romney's wife, Ann.
Christie issued a broad indictment of Democrats as "disciples of yesterday's politics" who "whistle a happy tune" while taking the country off a fiscal cliff.
Ann Romney's speech was meant to cast her husband, lampooned by comedians as robotic and denounced by Democrats as lacking compassion, in a soft and likeable light.
Mitt Romney remains largely inscrutable, a man in a business suit whose core remains a mystery to most Americans. And he consistently lags behind Obama among women voters in polls.
His wife described him as a man who wakes up every day determined to solve the problems that others say can't be solved.
"This man will not fail," she said. "This man will not let us down."
While Republicans gathered in Florida, Obama summoned a large campaign crowd of his own, 13,000 on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and tried to convert their boos for the Republicans into Election Day results for him. "Don't boo, vote," Obama said when his reference to the Republican agenda brought derision from the crowd.
"It's time to end this era of absentee leadership in the Oval Office and send real leaders to the White House," said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, delivering the Tampa, Florida, convention's keynote address on Tuesday night. "Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to put us back on the path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in America."
With Romney's nomination now official, and Obama's assured at next week's Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, US voters will face a clear-cut clash of ideologies.
Romney, conservative on social issues such as gay marriage and abortion, favors cutting taxes, slashing the government and repealing Obama's signature health care overhaul - even though it was modeled after one of his own programs as governor.
Obama is liberal on social issues, wants to raise taxes on the wealthy and sees government as a potential force for good.
Romney was affirmed as the nominee in a suspenseless roll call of state delegations. He received 2,061 votes to 190 for Texas Representative Ron Paul.
Paul, who has a passionate following but never won a primary race, did not go so quietly, or at least his supporters didn't. They chanted and booed after the convention adopted rules they opposed but were powerless to block. "Shame on you," some of his supporters chanted from the floor.
The highlights of Tuesday's session were the keynote address by Christie, a star of the party seen as a likely future presidential candidate, and the speech by Romney's wife, Ann.
Christie issued a broad indictment of Democrats as "disciples of yesterday's politics" who "whistle a happy tune" while taking the country off a fiscal cliff.
Ann Romney's speech was meant to cast her husband, lampooned by comedians as robotic and denounced by Democrats as lacking compassion, in a soft and likeable light.
Mitt Romney remains largely inscrutable, a man in a business suit whose core remains a mystery to most Americans. And he consistently lags behind Obama among women voters in polls.
His wife described him as a man who wakes up every day determined to solve the problems that others say can't be solved.
"This man will not fail," she said. "This man will not let us down."
While Republicans gathered in Florida, Obama summoned a large campaign crowd of his own, 13,000 on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and tried to convert their boos for the Republicans into Election Day results for him. "Don't boo, vote," Obama said when his reference to the Republican agenda brought derision from the crowd.
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