RNC Convention Night Four

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Simply awesome night!

The most impressive political fireworks display most will recall ever seeing on their TV sets finished President Donald Trump’s address at the close of the four-day Republican National Convention Thursday evening, wrapping up the party’s rallies, energizing the president’s supporters, and changing the convention genre forever.

Just one week after a physically isolated, professionally awkward, and visually timid Democratic National Convention finale featured Joe and Jill Biden walking down an empty hallway to a cute fireworks display while socially distanced cars honked their horns in a Delaware parking lot, the Washington sky was alight and a live concert played while hundreds of attendees applauded on the White House’s South Lawn.

The president’s speech began and finished with American history, distilling the platform he ran on and the accomplishments of his administration into an hour-long address focused on “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” Its themes included industry and fairer trade deals versus outsourcing and China; law and order and police versus lawlessness, murder, and defund movements; and late-term abortion versus the innocent unborn and a moral America.

Characterizing former Vice President Biden as a weak betrayer of the American worker, the president said, “For 47 years, Joe Biden took the donations of blue-collar workers, gave them hugs and,” drawing laughter, “even kisses… And told them he felt their pain – and then he flew back to Washington and voted to ship their jobs to China and many other distant lands.”

“How,” he asked at another point, “can the Democrat Party ask to lead our country when it spends so much time tearing down our country?”

“Joe Biden claims he has empathy for the vulnerable – yet the party he leads supports the extreme late-term abortion of defenseless babies right up to the moment of birth,” Trump reminded attendees. “Democrat leaders talk about moral decency, but they have no problem with stopping a baby’s beating heart in the 9th month of pregnancy.”

As the evening progressed, the howls of the churning left-wing mob outside grew in intensity, with the sirens and screams long audible on the South Lawn eventually even coming across home television sets. In Lafayette Park, a guillotine with a Trump effigy was mock executed (facing toward the blade, in an unintentionally ironic nod to the leader of the French Revolution, who was supposedly executed by the mob in that same manner), and a white-haired man was assaulted when he reportedly came down to watch the fireworks.

While the RNC spent good money to paint “TRUMP 2020” and “USA” in the sky in pyrotechnics, no amount of spending could have painted a more stark contrast on the ground than an audience that included suited seniors, first-responders, elected American leaders, and others, including the widow of Capt. David Dorn (a black, retired officer murdered during a Black Lives Matter riot), exiting into screams, spit, and threats in the streets of the capital.

The president’s speech closed out the second remote convention in American history and marked the first done right.

Such a huge difference between the Democrats pathetic excuse for a convention to this one:

For the third straight night, the Republican National Convention (RNC) gave the stage to regular Americans to tell the stories so many of us live but so few of us hear from a clucking corporate media. From tears to triumph, three nights of speakers have shared uncomfortable stories and made bold statements that are unprecedented in the modern age of televised political conventions, pointing to what political outsiders can achieve when not hobbled by conventional wisdom.

The evening closed with the president and first lady’s appearance to salute the flag and meet the cheering crowd after the vice president’s speech at Fort McHenry. The most powerful men in America taking pictures with veterans in the front line stood in complete contrast to the media-praised DNC finale, which saw a Democratic candidate afraid to shake hands with his own running mate before exiting down an empty convention hallway.

While everyday speakers once again dominated the evening, professional politicians from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to Rep. Dan Crenshaw to the vice president didn’t squander their energy, using their speeches to express party unity, and keeping the evening going ’til country star Trace Adkins’ delivery of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Sister Dr. Deirdre Byrne, a warzone-tested surgeon in the black habit of her Catholic order, spoke calmly and firmly in defense of the unborn. She called Trump the most pro-life president in American history, Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris “the most anti-life presidential ticket ever,” and promised we can find the Catholic nuns “here, with our weapon of our choice, the Rosary.” The DNC, by comparison, featured a plain-clothed celebrity “bus nun” praying to an “O divine spirit.”

Football legend coach Lou Holtz followed, cracking jokes before pointedly accusing the Democratic nominee of being “Catholic in name only.” NFL player Jack Brewer recalled a youth spent fighting for his life against racist skinheads and called out Black Lives Matter for its radicalism and the media for calling the president racist when they don’t even know what that is.

An elderly widower choked back tears, and told us of the morning he heard the car horn sound as his wife was murdered in their driveway. Ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg remembered his grandchildren’s eyes as they said goodbye to their military parents, and called out decades of globalists’ unwinnable wars. Former Amb. Richard Grenell condemned not just the foreign policy follies of the Barack Obama administration, but those of their Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.

This, he said, “tells you all you need to know: The D.C. crowd thinks when they call Donald Trump a nationalist, they’re insulting him as if the American president isn’t supposed to base foreign policy on America’s national interests.”

We’ve seen national conventions before, but never anything like this. Why not? Starting with 2016’s RNC, the party bosses who negotiate and sell off the speaking slots to burnish peoples’ party credentials aren’t calling the shots. Even the candidates who once spoke at this sort of thing were swing-state moderates, carefully vetted to deliver meaningless, feel-good platitudes designed to “reach the middle.”

He highlighted the many differences between the two candidates, pro-life being one

as well as education:

Trump described the stark difference between his education policy and that of what is planned by Biden and the Democrat Party, who are supported by teachers’ unions.

“Biden … vowed to oppose school choice and close down charter schools, ripping away the ladder of opportunity for black and Hispanic children,” the president said, adding:

In a second term, I will expand charter schools and provide school choice to every family in America, and we will always treat our teachers with the tremendous respect they deserve.

Trump also observed that “Joe Biden is weak”:

He takes his marching orders from liberal hypocrites who drive their cities into the ground while fleeing far from the scene of the wreckage. These same liberals want to eliminate school choice while they enroll their children in the finest private schools in the land.

The president has consistently supported education opportunity for every child.

Finally I’ll leave you with this great synopsis of the final night:

The Republican convention has ended. Winter has come. Truth will not again be broadcast in primetime on CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, and CNN for the next four years, except when air time is purchased from them. But what a splendid eight hours of prime time it was!

1. The Quality of Production

The Democrats and leftists control Hollywood and “The Movies.” Just read the next day’s coverage of the Oscars. (It now has become much too awful to watch.) They control television “entertainment.” Just read the next day’s coverage of the Emmys. (It also has become much too awful to watch.) They control Broadway and “The Theatre.” Just read the next day’s coverage of the Tonys. (It now has become irksome to watch, except for the segments where they have the live nominated musical numbers.) The Republicans are portrayed in the media as the “Rubes”: coal miners, farmers, assembly-line workers, truckers, welders, steelworkers, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, the “uneducated.” Even though it is the Democrats who now are led by Old Uncle Joe, who’s movin’ kinda slow.

Either the Democrats ran their convention as well as could be conceived in a coronavirus/Zoom era — and the Republicans then broke the mold and went into the stratosphere. Or the Republicans ran their convention as well as could be conceived in a coronavirus/Zoom era, while the progressives put on a high school play.

All politics aside (but not for long), the difference in the production qualities of the Democrat convention and the Republican convention was night and day. The Republican convention was so well done. A great stage and setting for speakers, with a great walk-in to stirring music. After each speech, a cut-away to a ready-made short and gripping film, and then back to the stage as the next speaker was arriving at the podium. The camera angles during the speeches moved very deftly from face-forward to side angles and back to face-front, conveying the impression they were addressing a larger audience. Except for Kimberly Guilfoyle’s SHOUTED-SO-VERY-LOUD speech — the text of it was great, but many viewers possibly considered that they had not been shouted at for that long since their previous marriages — the speeches were delivered fabulously, sometimes with spirit, sometimes with emotion, sometimes with exuberance, sometimes with pathos. Almost every speech connected.

By contrast, the Democrats seemed so certain of their superiority that the arrogance came across on screen. Just put a pretty TV face on screen the first night as your hostess, and let it flow. I dunno, but it did not work for me. I care more about the emotional words spoken by the wife of a retired police captain whose execution by Leftists and anarchists was live-streamed on social media and seen by his grandson, and by the husband of a woman who randomly was shot dead in her garage by criminals, than I care about someone who played a “Desperate Housewife.” I care more about a stream of many incredibly impressive next-generation and last-generation Black American leaders ranging from Sen. Tim Scott, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and Democrat Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones … to former NFL stars Herschel Walker, Jack Brewer, and Burgess Owens … to a guy, Clarence Henderson, who risked his all at the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960, than I care about what Julia Louis-Dreyfus thinks.

The Republicans figured out how to deal with the transition from the massive auditoria of conventions past; the Democrats were fixated on Zoom. Thus, major Democrat speakers were followed by a pathetic wall of Zoom boxes reminiscent of “The Hollywood Squares,” where some of the Paul Lynde–Dom DeLuise–George Gobel–Rose Marie stand-ins clapped while others were caught napping. It really was a bit pathetic, like when a whole couch of four were closed-eyed and contemplating their navels while the cameras shifted to them, waiting for them to clap. By contrast, the Republicans threw caution to the wind by staging major outdoor speeches in places like Ft. McHenry, where the “Star-Spangled Banner” was composed, and the White House, with very jam-packed live audiences in attendance. Those in attendance cheered enthusiastically, often with standing ovations. The contrast in dynamism was profound.

Although the left media talking heads gushed over Michelle Obama’s taped speech — taped so much in advance that she did not even mention the vice presidential candidate because none yet had been named — Melania Trump was notably live. We saw her walk a distance to the podium and address a live audience. That was a big thing: As an overriding general feeling, the Republicans were so much more live and alive, while the Democrats seemed so much more taped and tapped out. While the Republicans had that live-audience impact and dynamic feedback during their major speeches, the Democrats seemed like they needed desperately at least to pump in an old 1960s-type laugh track. No one needed a laugh track more than did Julia Louis-Dreyfus, about whom we discovered, for the first time, that she has a very wanting sense of humor. She tried so hard but could not tell a single joke well, and those she tried to tell fell painfully flat. She was dying out there and, if not a Desperate Housewife, nevertheless desperately needed Larry David to save her by writing her some lines on a Dummy Card. No Soap Radio for you.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in his “personal capacity,” was in Jerusalem, overlooking the Temple Mount. Vice President Mike Pence at Ft. McHenry. Trump at the White House. By contrast, Biden was on a stage that was OK, but kind of seemed set up more for the final round of a regional high school debating championship. Maybe that is the most they could offer a guy who has been based in his basement for so long that he seems like Garth Algar, the sidekick in the old recurring Wayne’s World skit. By contrast, there was Trump on the jam-packed South Lawn in strength with a live response to his comments. When he finished, he was followed by a rousing mix of patriotic American songs followed by tenor Christopher Macchio singing everything from Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” to Giacomo Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” aria from Turandot.

By contrast, Biden’s speech ended with this weird thing. Y’know how politicians, when they finish their speeches or even when they step on stage to begin, then point to people in the audience and smile at them as though to say, “Hi, Sven, I see you, and you are my best friend in the world!”? Four years ago Hillary Clinton did that with annoying falseness, but they all do it. Well, at the Democrat convention, after Biden’s speech, he and Jill walk towards the Zoom/Hollywood Squares wall and start waving at the squares and then even start pointing to some of the squares. It really was pathetic. And weird.

Even the grand finale, the fireworks. A week ago I wrote that I actually felt bad for Biden. He has been running for president for 32 years, and now when he finally gets his moment, he has to go to a backyard parking lot and watch a middling-quality fireworks display evocative of a Memorial Day tribute at a Sonic drive-in lot where the carhops roller-skate the burgers and shakes to your car. It really was lame. By contrast, Trump’s speech was followed by an A-1 top-of-the-line fireworks display that lit up the sky, even with kitschy stuff, like fireworks that spelled out “TRUMP” and then “2020.” It was the kind of stuff that put the icing on four days of exceptional production quality.

Either the Democrats ran their convention as well as could be conceived in a coronavirus/Zoom era — and the Republicans then broke the mold and went into the stratosphere. Or the Republicans ran their convention as well as could be conceived in a coronavirus/Zoom era, while the progressives put on a high school play. Either way, if I were a Democrat Party official, I would look for the people who put their convention together — and for the people who selected them for that task — and I would banish them all to spend a month among Portland’s peaceful protesters or, perhaps out of mercy, to the Gulag.

2. Closing Thoughts

I listened to and watched Ann Dorn, wife of that murdered hero, the retired Black St. Louis police captain, 77-year-old David Dorn, who answered the call to stop a looting at a pawn shop during the George Floyd “peaceful protests.” Later there were Marsha and Carl Mueller, parents of Kayla who was grabbed by ISIS, raped repeatedly through her 18-month ordeal by Abu Bakhr al-Baghdadi, and ultimately was killed. Alice Johnson, the Black woman whom President Trump gave a second chance to live her life. We heard from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and from Patrick Lynch, president of that city’s Police Benevolent Association, about how New York City had been a crime haven under Democrats, then was cleaned up under Republicans and became America’s safest major city, and now has reverted to crime and mayhem under Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio. There were other excellent speakers — the guy who heads the UFC, the Utah Attorney General, a female Wisconsin small business owner whose foundry manufactures cast bronze architectural hardware, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Sen. Tom Cotton, Ivanka Trump, and the president.

In any authentic democracy, where people are offered a binary choice, at least 35 to 40 percent will go each way. We sneer and snicker at dictatorships where a Stalin or Mao, a Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, win 98 or 99 percent of the “free election.” So in any truly free election, the fight is over the 20 to 30 percent who are “independent” or “undecided.” After watching these two weeks of conventions, listening to the speeches, the arguments, the substance, it just seems very hard to understand how the middle 20 to 30 percent conceivably would align mostly with the Democrats over Trump. If nothing else, the takeaway from the two alternate universes would seem to be that Trump is handling COVID at least as well as Biden could, if not profoundly better, and certainly no worse. When we come out of COVID, we are going to need a great business leader to rebuild the economy. Even those Independents and Undecideds who hate Trump or his tweeting or his whatever acknowledge that he rebuilt and then forged the strongest economy in American history, stopped only by a once-in-a-century pandemic. For people who eat food from time to time, that economic focus and strength will matter more in their lives than almost anything else. Biden has proven over 47 years that he is not up to that once-in-a-century task. He simply is not. And even if he suddenly has gained economic wisdom at age 77 — which he surely has not — he has not proven it and has offered only the same promises that politicians like him always make. Meanwhile, he is under a death grip by the radical left of his party, and he has promised to roll back tax cuts and work to replace fossil fuels, a combo that has “RECESSION” written all over it. Are Independents really ready to risk losing everything just as Trump’s economy is starting to gain new momentum?

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5 star Trump and patriots vs Rusty lunchbox Joe and cast off rinos
As Trump was spelled out in fireworks sweetie turned to me and said there goes our donation, I hope Greg got his moneys worth with Joe trying to spell his name out with a sparkler in hand. 😉

The military outfit Melania wore on Day 2, the fushia with velvet 1/2 bow cocktail dress on Day 3 and the beautiful green pleated dress on Day 4 knocked me out!

Compare with Michelle’s yellow dress with the gold glitter thigh-high boots. Yeah, on the skinny model, it looked good.

@Nan G: The challenge is to find an outfit that Melania looked bad in.

@kitt: #3
I don’t much care how she looks. Yes, she’s beautiful in anything, but she is also classy, graceful, intelligent, tough, assertive, and kind. It’s about time that we had a First Lady who embodies the best qualities of being a woman, who expresses those qualities so well.

Well at least Antifa/BLM did,nt try and shut it down no Riots,Looting or Arson