Peggy Noonan's WSJ OP Blog

[SugarShack]

The opportunity Ann Romney missed was to provide first person testimony that is new, that hasn’t been spoken, that hasn’t been in the books and the magazine articles. She failed to make it new and so she failed to make it real.

Chris Christie played the common man Tuesday night he beautifully skewered the hypocrites and reactionaries in the teachers’ unions, they are all about pensions and bennies, not about students, and if you don’t like the longterm cost of the deals they make with pols you can just avoid the property taxes by selling your house and going to rent somewhere. They don’t care where because there will be a teacher’s union there, too.

I want to tell you they marched out of the hall Tuesday night on fire for their side. But I was there and they did not. They walked out like people who weren’t quite sure what to think or how to feel but were hoping for the best because they love their country.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/?mod=WSJ_topnav_na_opinion

The Tampa Bay Times has a pic of Condi with Ann and Mitt in the stands after the Christy speech and she doesn't look real happy either. I have four teachers in my family.
There is also a pic in that rag today of Tag sitting with John Bolton.

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1. Kick if you can for teachers!

[randome]

2. To be fair, Condi NEVER looks happy.

But Noonan's review sounds accurate.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Barney Frank, Peggy. He is who you are trying to think of.

"But you know, this is how the Republican base feels: No one classy and admired like Chris Christie has ever taken it to Obama and been as tough a partisan as, say, Joe Biden, or as amusing and pointed as — well, actually, I can’t think at the moment of a truly pointed and funny Democrat, but whoever that person is would be is the person I mean."

And you are right. Republicans have no one like him.