After my cataract surgery, I was told that reading might be hard, but that I should be able watch TV. As if that was supposed to make me feel better! So while convalescing I caught up on Netflix and then finally slipped back into my long-held tradition (or is it betrayal) of watching the political conventions. (My custom, engrained into me from childhood, is that I should watch both of them.) So last night I tuned into the GOP speeches.
Quick review, because I can’t see very well to type: The speech by Ohio’s Rob Portman was not very good–he would have been a disaster as the vice presidential candidate, as he was widely expected to be. Mike Huckabee did well. Then Condoleeza Rice gave an outstanding seminar on our foreign policy woes. Followed by New Mexico governor Susana Martinez, the Hispanic woman who acquitted herself well as a rising star in the Republican party. Finally, vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan gave an outstanding speech, showing strong promise as a campaigner, as well as an intellectual bright light. (The vice presidential debate between him and Joe Biden should be especially fun.)
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