>> there has been a dust appear over the rules -- up here over the rules. saying it this is a power grab. saying this is hurting the grass roots. the rules you had changed to give the party is a little bit more control or the process here. what is going on there? what you make of sara halen? annan't we talk about romney? [laughter] >> honestly, that as of the campaign's rules. not try to restore control this party? >> i cannot speak to that.

romney comes to a lion's share of the delegates. probably 80% of them. that pretty much determines the course of events. >> this question came in from yahoo news. he wants to know -- obviously every administration is different from each other. how you plan on differentiating your of ministers and from the bushes ministration? >> two very different people with different agendas. different backgrounds, different experiences. mitt romney's biography is unique. he is a leader in business, and the volunteer sector. >> would you see as the differences and policies? >> these are different times. >> different priorities.

the governor will bring with him to the white house a unique set of skills that were acquired over a long career that will help them address the number one issue facing america, which is the bad state of this economy. what is amazing to me is a we have an incumbent president who has no policy agenda at all. in his short list of some ideas that been turned down by congress. he has no willingness to sit down with his party to try to come up with new solutions. mitt romney brought forth a very detailed plan that addresses energy development, tax reform,

strengthening small businesses. education. his lady's plans out for the american people to see. he is running a campaign of destruction and negative attacks better designed to tear down his opponent. >> to survive this summer. where they did work very hard on trying to define romney on their terms. this is the opportunity to spend all that money you're getting and use the convention. how much of that, the definition of mitt romney that the obama campaign has provided -- how much of that is permanent? how much of that remains? is there any sort of lasting impression that you not be able to undo? were you a race at all?

>> i do not think they'd damaged mitt romney. if they had, there would be surging ahead in the polls. the weight on the soldiers and -- on the shoulders of this president is the bad state of the economy. at the end of 2011 there is a good deal of hopefulness. some in the white house, but in the country as well that things had turned a corner. then we came into january and february and march. we began to get reports of a slowdown in retail sales. job gains and narrowing. he had manufacturing used to be the one bright spot that they could point to. it is now slowing down. people have become aware of this. i think there will be voting for

change. >> one last question. can you give us a sense of what happens after thursday? >> i will let that and everybody else speak to it. the money disadvantage those away and we're now the general election phase. we of more dollars than obama. the debates are going to be huge. we welcome those debates. >> have you started preparing for them? >> sure. we started debate prep. thirdly, we have paul ryan. it is allotted to against one. it is to dance to.

>> where you go after friday? >> in general they're going friday. >> where is that? >> ohio. >> that will be fun. >> we are out of time. i want to thank you you for joining us. -- thank you for joining us. >> thank you. [applause] thank you a lot. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> up next on c-span, highlights from the republican national convention. with the roll call of the states and the nomination of presidential candidate mitt romney, the governor's wife, ann romney.

here is a look at tonight's lineup at the rnc convention. after the republicans a gavel and, you hear from some minority leader, mitch mcconnell and a brand paul. senators john mccain and rob portman. atlantic cod, porterage and governor. -- at 9:00, puerto rico governor. fall by paul ryan's vice- presidential acceptance speech. every speech, live here on c- span. >> one of the first acts was to select their presidential nominee. here is part of the roll call of the states that made a trip -- mitt romney their official candidate. >> montana, 26 votes.

>> madam secretary, from big sky country, the treasure states, with our oil and gas fueling america, we test all 26 votes for mitt romney. [applause] >> montana, 26. romney. nebraska, 35 of votes. >> madam secretary, i am proud to be from the cornhuskers states. a red state. the state with the top-rate college volleyball team in the nation. world series.e a state that is the land of the senate sand hills from where our next review and a rancher hales. everynce she's elected,

federal office will be held by republican. a state led by a republican governor who bounce the budget without raising taxes. the brass a task 33 votes for the next president of the nine states, mitt romney. >> nebraska, 33, romney. >> nevada, 28 votes. >> in nevada, freedom is not just a word, it is a way of life. the silver state is well represented here at the national convention. we have delegates here from clark county, home of las vegas, entertainment capital of the world, douglas county on the shores of lake tahoe, elko county, mining capital of the world. six delegates vote to nominate

that champion of the cuts, congressman paul for president of the united states. iowa, minnesota, alaska, virgin islands, oregon, and nevada, and the spirit of freedom that has inspired the founding of our country and in honor of the liberty that has made the united states the greatest country on earth, we proudly cast 17 votes for congressman ron paul, five abstentions, and 54 romney. >> nevada, 54, romney. >> new hampshire. 12 votes.

>> madam secretary, new hampshire, the granite state, where it all begins, where this year not just our leaves will turn color, but the entire state will turn red, new hampshire, home of wolfboro, the next summer white house for the united states of america, new hampshire casts nine votes for mitt romney of massachusetts and 3 for representative ron paul. >> new hampshire, 9, romney. >> new jersey, 50 votes. >> madam secretary, the garden state, the proud owner of tonight's keynote address given by governor chris christie, proudly casts all 50 of its votes for the next president of

the united states, governor mitt romney. >> new jersey, 50, romney. >> she talked about her

husband, their five sons, and their 43-year marriage. this is 20 minutes. >> hello! what a welcome. [cheers and applause] thank you. and thank you, luce. i cannot wait to see what we will all do together. this will be so exciting!

[cheers and applause] just so you all know, the hurricane has hit landfall and i think we shall take this moment and recognize that fellow americans are in its path and just hope and pray that all remain safe and that no life is lost and no property is lost. we should all be thankful for this great country and great hope for our first responders to keep us safe in this wonderful country. [applause] well, i want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not about party. while there are many important issues that we will hear discussed in this convention and throughout this campaign tonight, i want to talk to you from my heart about our hearts. [cheers and applause] i want to talk about not what

divides us, but what holds us together as an american family. i want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us, that one great thing that brings us to our greatest joy when times are good and the deepest solace in our dark hours. tonight, i want to talk to you about love. i want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love i have for a man i met at a dance many years ago. and the profound love i have and i know we share for this country. i want to talk to you about that love so deep, only a mother can fathom it. a love that we have for our children and our children's

children. and i want us to think tonight about the love we shared for those americans, our brothers and our sisters, who are going through difficult times, whose days are never easy and nights are always long and his work never seems done. they're here with us tonight in this hall. they are here in neighborhoods across tampa and all across america. the parents who lie awake at night, side by side, wondering how they will pay the mortgage or make the rent. the single dad who is working extra hours tonight so that his kids can buy new clothes for school, can take a school trip or play a sport. so his kids can feel, you know, just like other kids. and the working moms who love their jobs, but would like to work justin little less to spend more time with the kids, but that is just out of the question with this economy. or how about that coupled with like to have another child but wonder how they will be able to afford it? i have been all across this country and i know a lot of you guys. [cheers and applause]

and i have seen and heard stories of how hard it is to get ahead now. you know what? i have heard your voice is. they have said to me i am running in place and we just cannot get ahead. sometimes, i think that, late at night, if we were all silent for just a few moments and listened carefully, we could hear a collective sigh from the moms and dads across america who made it through another day and know that they will make it through another one tomorrow. but in the end of that a moment, they are just not sure how. and if you listen carefully, you'll hear the women find a little bit more than the men. it is how would this, isn't it? it is the moms who have always had to work a little hardero make everything right. it is the mom's of this nation,

single, married, widowed, who really hold the country together. we are the mothers. we are the wives. we're the grandmothers. we're the big sisters. we are the little sisters and we are the daughters. you know it's true, don't you? [cheers and applause] i love you, women! [cheers and applause] and i hear your voices. those are my favorite fans down there. you are the ones who have to do a little bit more and you know what it is like to earn a little bit harder earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with the book report just because it has to be done. you know what those late-night phone calls with an elderly parent are like. you know what it's like to go to the emergency room and which doctor answers the phone call when you call at night and i know all about that.

you know what it is like to sit in a graduation ceremony and wonder how it was that so many long days turned into years that went by so quickly. you are the best of america. [applause] you -- [cheers and applause] you are the hope of america. there would not be an america without you. tonight, we salute you and sing your praises! [cheers and applause] i am not sure if men really in a stand this, but i don't think there is a woman in america who really expected live to be easy. in our own ways, we all know better. that is fine. we don't want easy. but the last few years have been hotter than they needed to be.

it is all the little things, the price of the pump you could not believe and the grocery store bill that is bigger good all the things that used to be easy, like high-school sports are now one more bill to pay. the little things become the big things. and the big things, the kids going to college and the home you want to buy have become harder. everything has become harder. we are too smart and know that there are no easy answers. but we are not dumb enough to know that there are not better answers. [cheers and applause] and that is where this boy that i met at a high school dance comes in. his name is mitt romney and you should really get to know him. [cheers and applause] i could tell you about him again he was tall and laugh a lot. he was nervous.

girls like that. he was nice to my parents. he was also really glad when they were not around. [laughter] i don't mind that. but more than anything, he made me laugh. some of you might not know this, but i am the granddaughter of a welsh coal miner. [applause] he was determined that his kids get out of the mines. my dad got his first spot in a little village in wales. cleaning bottles. when he was 15, dad came to america. in our country, he saw hope and opportunity to escape from poverty. he moved to a small town in the great state of michigan. [cheers and applause] michigan! [cheers and applause] there he started a business, one

he built by himself, by the way. [laughter] [cheers and applause] he raised a family and he became mayor of our town. my dad would remind my brothers and me how fortunate we were to grow up anyplace like america. he wanted us to have every opportunity that came with life in this country. he pushed us to be our best and to give our all appeared inside the houses that line the streets in downtown, there were a lot of fathers teaching their sons and daughters the same values good one of those ads was my future father-in-law, george romney. [applause] this data never graduated from college. instead, he became a carpenter. he worked hard and then he became the governor of michigan. when we fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in a way of our future. i was episcopalian and he was

morning. we were both in college. -- he was mormon. we were both in college. there were many reasons to wait. but we just didn't care. we got married and moved into a basement apartment. [cheers and applause] we walked to class together, eight a lot of pasta and tuna fish. our dining room table was a pull down dining board in the kitchen. but those were the best days. then our first son came along. all at once, a 22-year-old who was going to business school and law school at the same time, probably like every other girl who finds herself in a new life far from family and friends with a new baby and a new husband, it dawned on me that i had absolutely no idea what i was getting into.

[laughter] that was 42 years ago. i survived. we now have five sons and 18 beautiful grandchildren. [cheers and applause] i am still in love with that boy that i met at a high school bands and he still makes me laugh. [cheers and applause] i read somewhere that mitt and i have a storybook marriage. well, let me tell you something. in the storybooks i read, there never were long, long rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once and the storybooks never seemed to have chapter's called m.s. or breast cancer. this storybook marriage? nope, not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage.

[cheers and applause] i know the good and decent man for what he is. he has tried to live his life with a set of values based on family, faith, and one of service to his fellow man. i have seen him work several of -- several hours. he has been there for late- night calls of panic from a member of our church with a child taken to the hospital. you may not agree on his issues on politics. massachusetts is only 13% republican, so it is not a shock to me. [laughter] but let me say this to every american who is thinking about who should be our next

president. no one will work harder. no one will care more. and no one will move heaven and earth like mitt romney to make this country a better place to live. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] it's true that mitt has been successful at each news challenge he has taken on.

i know that he has been attacked. as a mom, do we want to to raise their children afraid of success? do we send our children out in the world with the advice tried to do okay? >> know! >> and let's be honest. if the last four years had been more successful, do we really think there would be this attack on mitt romney's success? >> no! >> of course not. he would be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. he had to loving parents who taught him the value of work. he had the chance to get the education his father never had. but, as his partner in this amazing journey, i can tell you mitt romney was not handed success. he built it.

[cheers and applause] [chanting] >> let's go mitt! let's go, mitt! >> he stayed in massachusetts and got a job. i was there when he had a small group of friends talking about starting a new company. i was there when they struggled anwondered if the whole idea was just not going to work. his reaction was to work harder and press on. today, the company has become another great american success story. has it made those who started the company successful beyond their dreams? yes, it has. it allowed us to give our sons a chance at good educations and

made those long hours of the reports and homework worth every minute. it has given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. this is important. i want you to hear what i am going to say. mitt does not like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. [cheers and applause] we are no different than the millions of americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. they don't do it so that others will think more of them. they do it because there is no greater joy.

be it and it shall be given unto you. -- give and it shall be given unto you. [cheers and applause] but because this is america, that small company that helped so many lead better lives, the company that grew from the risk, that has helped fund scholarships, pensions and retirement funds. this is the genius of america. dreams fulfilled, help others launch new dreams. [cheers and applause] at every turn in his life, this man that i met at a high school dance has helped lift the others feared he did it with the olympics when others wanted to give up. he did it in massachusetts where he guided the state. the massachusetts school for the best in the nation. the best.

[cheers and applause] he started something that i really love it. he started the john and abigail adams scholarship which gives the top 25% of high-school graduates a four-year tuition- free scholarship. [cheers and applause] this is the man america needs. [cheers and applause] this is a man who will wake up every day with the determination to solve the problems that others say cannot be solved, to fix those who say will be beyond repair, this is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard. i cannot tell you what will happen or the next four years.

but i can only stand here tonight as a wife and a mother and a grandmother, an american, and make you this solemn commitment. this man will not fail. [cheers and applause] this man will not let us down. this man will lift up america. it has been 47 years since that tall, kind charming young man brought me home from their first dance. not every day since has been easy. but he still makes me laugh and never once did i ever have the reason to doubt that i was the luckiest woman tonight. i said tonight that i wanted to talk to you about love. looking to your heart's. -- look into your hearts. this is our country. this is our future.

these are our children and grandchildren. you can trust mitt. [cheers and applause] he loves america. he will take us to a better place, just as he took me home safely from that dance. give him that chance. did america that chance. god bless each and everyone of you and god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] ♪ [playing "my girl"]

♪ >> now the keynote speech by chris christie. they will be speaking of the social security and medicare. this is 25 minutes.

>> this stage and this moment are very improbable for me. from a state with 700,000 more democrats than republicans. a new jersey republican stands before you tonight. proud of my party. proud of my state and proud of my country. now i am the son of an irish father and a sicilian mother. my dad, who i am blessed to have with me here tonight, is a

gregarious, outgoing and lovable. my mom, who lost eight years ago. we all know who set the rules. dad was just a passenger in the automobile of life. now, they both lived hard lives. it dead grew up in poverty. after returning from service, he worked at an ice cream plant. it was bad job and the gi bill. he went to rutgers university at night. he was the first and our family to earn a college degree. our first family picture was on his graduation day with his --

with my mom next to me. she was raised by a single mother who took three different buses every day to get to work. and mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actually raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. she was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. the truth was she could not afford to. she spoke the truth, bluntly, directly and without much garnish. i am her son. [cheers and applause] i was her son as a listened to the darkness on the edge of town with my high school friends on the jersey shore. i was her son when i moved into that studio apartment with mary. i watched with pride as a guard daughters marched with their

soccer teams in the labor day parade -- and i am still her son with the rules the she taught me, to speak from the parts and to stick to your principles. the greatest lesson she taught me was this one. she told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose. between being loved and being respected. she said to always pick being respected. she told me that love without respect was always fleeting, but that respect could grow into real and lasting love. of course, she was talking about women. [laughter]

but i have learned over time that it applies just as much to leadership. in fact, i think that advice applies to america more than ever today. [applause] uc, i believe we have become paralyzed by our desire to be loved. our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing. and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths > the passions and emotions of the times. but our leaders of today have decided to be popular, to say and do what is easy come to say yes rather than to say no when know is what is required -- when no is what is required. [applause] in recent years, we, as a country, have too often chosen the same path. it is easy for our leaders to say not us, not now in taking on the tough issues.

and we have stood silently by and let them get away with it. but tonight, i say enough. [cheers and applause] tonight, i say it together, let's make a much different choice. tonight, we are speaking up for ourselves and stepping up. tonight, we're beginning to do what is right and necessary to make america great again. [cheers and applause] we are demanding that our leaders stop tearing each other down and work together to take action on the big things facing america. tonight, we will do what my mother taught me. tonight, we will choose respect over love. we are not afraid.

we are not afraid. we are taking our country back because we are the great- grandchildren of the men and women who broke their backs in the name of american ingenuity, grandchildren of the greatest generation, the sons and daughters of immigrants, the brothers and sisters of everyday heroes, the neighbors of the entrepreneurs and firefighters, teachers and farmers, veterans and factory workers and everyone in between who shows up, not just on the big days for the good days, but on the bad days and the hard days. each and every day. all 365 of them. you see, we are the united states of america. [cheers and applause] now, it is up to us. we must lead the way our

citizens live, to lead as my mother insisted i live, not by avoiding truth, especially the hard ones, but by facing up to them and being better for it. we cannot afford to do anything less. i know this because this was the challenge in new jersey. when i came into office, i could continue on the same path of wealth and jobs and people leaving our state. or i could do the job the people elected me to do, to do the big things. there were those who said it could not be done, that the problems were too big, too politically charged and two broken to fix. but we were on a path we could no longer afford to follow. they said that it was impossible. they told me that it was impossible to cut taxes where taxes were raised 18 times before became governor, that it was impossible to balance the budget at the same time with $11 billion in deficit.

but three years later, we have three balanced budgets in a row with lower taxes. we did it. [cheers and applause] they said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on the public- sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. but with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers 130 two billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. we did it. [cheers and applause] they said that it was impossible to speak the truth to the teachers' union. [laughter] they were just too powerful. real tenure reform that the man's accountability and and the

guarantee of a job for life regardless of performance, they said it would never happen. but for the first time in 100 years, with bipartisan support, you know the answer. we did it. [cheers and applause] now the disciples of yesterday's politics, they always underestimate the will of the people. they assumed our people were selfish. the difficult problems, the tough choices and the complicated solutions, but they would simply turn their backs.

that they would decide it was every man for himself. they were wrong. the people of new jersey stepped up. they shared in the sacrifice. in what else they did? they're rewarded politicians who led instead of politicians who pandered. [cheers and applause] but you know, we shouldn't be surprised. we shouldn't be surprised did we have never been a country to shy away from the truth. our history shows that we stand up when it counts. and it is this quality that has defined our significance in the world. i know this simple truth and i am not afraid to say it. our ideas are right for america and their ideas have failed america. [cheers and applause] let me be clear with the american people tonight. here is what we believe as republicans and what they believe as democrats. we believe in telling hardworking families the truth about our country's fiscal reality, telling them what they already know, the mass of

federal spending does not add up. with $5 trillion in debt added over the last four years, we have no other option but to make the hard choices, cut federal spending and fundamentally reduce the size of this government. [cheers and applause] want to know what they believe? they believe that the american people want to hear the truth about the state of our fiscal difficulties. they believe the american people need to be coddled by big government. they believe the american people are content to live the line with them. they are wrong. we believe in telling our seniors the truth about our overburdened entitlements. we know seniors not only want these programs to survive, but they just as badly want them secured for their grandchildren. our seniors are not children. [applause] here is what they believe.

they believe seniors will always put themselves ahead of their grandchildren. and here's what they do. they prey on their vulnerabilities and scare them with misinformation for the single cenacle purpose of winning the next election. here is their plan. winslet happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff -- whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff. we believe that the majority of teachers in america know that our system must be reformed, to put students first so that america can compete teachers do not teach to become rich or famous. the teeth because they love children.

[cheers and applause] -- they teach because they love children. [cheers and applause] we believe we should honor and do good for the good ones, demanding accountability, demanding higher standards, and demanding the best teacher in every classroom in america. [cheers and applause] get ready. here is what they believe. they believe the educational savages will only put themselves ahead of children, that self- interest will always trump common sense, they believe in pitting unions against teachers, educators against parents, lobbyists against children. they believe in teachers' unions. we believe in teachers.

[cheers and applause] we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pinnace we see in washington, d.c. we believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for our conservative principles. [cheers and applause] you see, because it has always been the power of our ideas, not our rhetoric, that attracts people to our party. we win when we make it about what needs to be done. we lose when we play along with their game of schering and dividing. [applause] make no mistake about it, everybody. the problems are too big to let the american people lose. the slowest economic recovery in decades, and an education system that is failing to compete in the world. it does not matter how we got here.

there's enough blame to go around. what matters is what we do now. [applause] i know. i know we can fix our problems. when there are people in the room who care more about doing the job they were elected to do than worrying about reelection, it is possible to work together, achieve principal compromise, and get results for the people who give us these jobs in the first place. [cheers and applause] the people have no patience for any other way anymore. it is simple. we need politicians to care more about doing something and less about being something. [applause] and believe me, believe me, if we could do this in a blue state like new dollars a with conserve again -- like new jersey with a conservative republican governor, washington

is out of excuses. [cheers and applause] leadership delivers. leadership counts. leadership matters. and here is the great news i came here tonight to bring you. we have this leader for america. we have a nominee who will tell us the truth and will lead with conviction. and now he has a running mate who will do the same. we have gov. mitt romney and congressman paul ryan to be the next president and vice- president of the united states! [cheers and applause]

i know mitt romney. he will tell us the hard truths we need to year to put this back on a path to growth and create good paying private sector jobs again in america. mitt romney will tell us the hard truths we need to year to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and their earning our economy. mitt romney will tell us the hard truth to end the debacle of putting the hands of the critical care system in the hands of the bureaucrats and putting the bureaucrats between an american citizen and her doctor. [cheers and applause] we ended an era of absentee leadership without purpose or principal in new jersey. i am here to tell you tonight. it is time to end this era of absentee leadership in the oval office and send real leaders to the white house.

america needs mitt romney and paul ryan and we need them right now. [cheers and applause] we have to tell each other the truth, right? listen, there is doubt and fear for our future in every corner of our country. i have traveled all over the country. i have seen this myself. these feelings are real. this moment is real. it is a moment like this where some skeptics wonder if america's greatness is over. they wonder if those who have come before the before us had in the spirit and tenacity could not to look around and say not me, but to look around and say yes, me. i have an answer tonight for the skeptics and the naysayers, the dividers and the defenders of the status quo.

i have faith in us. i know. [applause] i know we can be the men and women our country calls us to be tonight. there's only one thing missing now. leadership. you see, mr. president, real leaders do not follow polls. real leaders change polls. [cheers and applause] and that is what we need. that is what we need to do now. we need to change polls through the power of our principles. we need to change polls through the strength of our conviction. tonight, our duty is to tell the american people the truth. our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless.

we all must share in sacrifice and any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth. [cheers and applause] i think the night of the greatest generation can we look back and marvel at their courage, overcoming the great depression, fighting nazi tyranny, standing up for freedom around the world. now it is our time to hansard -- to enter history as col. -- now it is our time to answer histories call. we assuage ourselves with the creature comforts we have acquired and that someone else will make a different because we cannot. or will they say it was that we stood up and made the tough choices that needed to be made to preserve our way of life. i don't know about you, but i do

want my children and grandchildren to have to read the history books about what it was like to live in an american century. i do not want of an american country that is overtaxed, over borrowed. i want them to live in a second american century. [cheers and applause] a second american century. of strong economic growth for those were willing to work hard, who will have good paying jobs to support their families and reach their dreams, a second american century where real american exceptional was and is not a political punch line, but is evident to everyone in the world just by watching the way our government conducts its business everyday and the way americans live their lives. a second american century where our military is strong, our values are sure, our work ethic is unmatched, and our constitution remains the model for anyone in the world struggling for liberty. [cheers and applause]

let us choose a path that will be remembered for generations to come, standing strong for freedom will make the next century as great an american century as the last one. this is the american way. we have never been victims of destiny. we have always been the masters of our own. [cheers and applause] and i know you agree with me on this. i will not be part of the generation that fails that test and neither will you. [applause] all right. it is now time to stand up and

stand up! everybody, stand up! stand up. because there is no time left to wait. if you're willing to stand up with me for america's future, i will stand up with you if you're willing to fight with me for mitt romney. i will fight with you. if you're willing to hear the truth about the hard road ahead and the rewards for america, i am here to begin with you this new era of truth telling tonight. we choose the path that has always defined our nation's history. tonight, we finally and for me answer the call that so many generations have had the courage to answer before us. tonight, we stand up for mitt romney as the next president of the united states. [cheers and applause] and together -- [cheers and applause] and together, everybody,

together, we will stand up once again for american greatness for our children and grandchildren. god bless you and god bless america. [cheers and applause] >> today on c-span, "washington journal" is next. at 8:00 a.m. we will go to the politico playbook breakfast. we will speak to former mississippi governor. at 6:00 p.m., the convention preview program begins live from tampa. at 7:00 p.m. -- we will review all of the proceedings live. including the vice presidential exception speech. and after the playbook of breakfast, we will return