Mitt Romney le conservateur

 Beaucoup de réactions ce matin au discours de Mitt Romney. Pour ma part je n'ai pas été très impressionné par le volet "humain" de sa performance, le candidat républicain ne me semblait pas particulièrement à son aise dans cet exercice. Par contre, la teneur de ses propos a probablement rassuré une base républicaine qui doute depuis longtemps de ses convictions conservatrices. La soirée laisse l'impression d'un parti républicain unifié dans sa lutte contre Barack Obama. Il reste à voir si ce sera suffisant pour influencer le résultat dans les "swing states". Pour couvrir la majorité des réactions, je vous propose le site Real Clear Politics: http://realclearpolitics.com/

 "To Democrats who have denounced him as an untrustworthy flip-flopper and Republicans who once derided him as a "Massachusetts moderate," Mitt Romney finally defined himself this week — as a cheerful conservative capable of rescuing the country from economic collapse.

Think Ronald Reagan meets Clint Eastwood, both of whom played key roles — Reagan in a video, Eastwood in person — as the Republican National Convention ended Thursday. After 5½ years of campaigning for president, Willard Mitt Romney took his most important step toward telling the American people who he is and what he stands for.

 In doing so, he appeared to unify a Republican Party that had doubted both his record and his resolve. It helped that he brought his new best friend, a rock-ribbed conservative running mate named Paul Davis Ryan, along for the ride. If there are any misgivings remaining among the party faithful, their determination to run President Obama out of the White House in November may be incentive enough to join the Romney-Ryan bandwagon.

 "Everybody's together on this," says former Virginia governor James Gilmore, president of the Free Congress Foundation, who ran for president as a conservative in 2008. "I'm not hearing any sense of rebellion at all against the Romney candidacy." Maybe not — but it took years for Romney to earn the embrace he finally received at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Thursday night. He was from the liberal state of Massachusetts. He had worked with Democrats, even on a state health insurance program that became the model for what he now calls "Obamacare."

 http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-08-30/romney-speech-analysis/57460884/1