behalf of the most desperate. the orphan in uganda, the refugee fleeing george zimmerman. the young woman trafficked into the sex trade in southeast asia. it has been hard. yet, this assistance, together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith has shown the soul of our country. and i know, too -- i know, too that there is a wearyness. i know that it feels as ...

lead. either no one will lead and there will be chaos. or someone will fill the vacuum who does not share our values. my fellow americans, we do not have a choice. we cannot be reluctant to lead and you cannot lead from behind. [cheering] >> mitt romney and paul ryan understand this reality. our well being at home and our leadership abroad are inextricably linked. they know what to do. they know that our friends and allies must be able to trust us,

from israel to columbia, from poland to the philippines, our allies and frens have to know that we will be reliable and consistent and determined. and our foes, our foes can have no reason to doubt our resolve because peace really does come through strength. [cheers and applause] our military capability and our technological advances will be safe in mitt romney's hands. we must work for a global economy and pursue free and fair trade to grow our exports and our influence abroad. if you are worried about the rise of china, just consider this -- the united states has negotiated -- has ratified only 3 trade agreements in the last few years and they were negotiated in the bush administration. china -- china has signed 15

free-trade agreements and is in the progress of negotiating as many as 18 more. sadly, we are abandoning the field of free and fair trade and it will come back to haunt us. we must not allow the chance to attain energy independence to slip from our grasp. we are blessed with a gift of oil and gas resources here in north america and we must develop them. we can develop them sensitively. we can develop them securing our environment. but we must develop them. and we have the ingenuity to develop alternative sources of energy, too. but most importantly, mitt romney and paul ryan will

rebuild the foundation of our strength, the american economy. simulating private sector growth and stimulating small business entrepreneurship. when the world looks at us today, they see an american government that cannot live within its means. they see an american government that continues to borrow money, that will mortgage the future of generations to come. the world knows that when a nation loses control of its finances, it eventually loses control of its destiny. that is not the america that has inspired people to follow our lead. [applause]

after all, when the world looks to america, they look to us because we are the most successful scmk political experiment in human history. that is the true basis of american exceptionalism. you see, the essence of america, what really unites us, is not nationality or ethnicity or religion, it is an idea -- and what an idea it is, that you can come from humble circumstances and you can do great things, that it does not matter where you came from, it matters where you are going. [cheers and applause]

>> my fellow americans, ours has never been a narrative of grievance and entitlement, we have never believed that i am doing poorly because you are doing well. we have never been jealous of one another and never envious of each other's successes. [cheers and applause] no. no. ours has been a belief in opportunity and it has been's constant struggle, long and hard, up and down, to try to extend the benefits of the american dream to all. but that american ideal is indeed in danger today. there is no counselry, no not even a rising china, that can do more harm to us than we can do to ourselves if we do not do the hard work before us here at

home. >> more than at any other time in history, greatness is bolt mobilizing human potentials and ambitions. we have always done that better than any country in the world. people have come here from all over because they have believed our creed of opportunity and limitless horr whereons. they have come here from the world's most impoverished nations just it make a decent wage and they have come here from advanced societies, as engineers and scientists to fuel the knowledge-based rev niewgz losing in the silicon valley of california, in the research triangle of north carolina, along route 128 in massachusetts, in austin, texas,

and across this great land. [cheers and applause] we must continue to welcome the world's most ambitious people to be a part of us. in that way, we stay young and optimistic and determined. we need immigration laws that protect our borders, meet our economic needs and yet, show that we are a compassionate nation of immigrants. [cheers and applause] we have been successful, too, because americans have known that one status at birth is not a permanent condition. americans have believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your

circumstances. and your greatest ally in controlling your response to your circumstances has been a quality education. but today, today, when i can look at your zip code and i can tell whether you are going to get a good education, can i say it doesn't matter where you came from? it matters where you are going in the crisis in k-12 education is a threat to the very fabric of who we are. [cheers and applause] my mom was a teacher. i respect the profession. we need great teachers, not poor ones and not mediocre ones upon we have to have high standards for our kids because self-esteem comes from achievement, not from lack standards and false praise.

we need to give parents a greater choice, particularly poor parents whose kids -- very often minority -- are trapped in failing neighborhood schools. this is the civil rights issue of our day. if we do anything anyless, we create positions of joblessness and hopelessness and life on the government dole. if we do any less, we will endanger our global imperatives for competitiveness. and if we do anything less, we

will tear apart the fabric of who we are and cement the turn toward entitlement and grievance. mitt romney -- mitt romney and paul ryan will rebuild us at home and they will help us lead abroad. they will provide an answer to the question, where does america stand? the challenge is real. and the times are hard. but america has met and overcome hard challenges before. whenever you find yourself doubting it, just think about all those times that america made the impossible scheme inevitable in retrospect. our revolutionary founding against the greatest military power of the time? of civil war, brother against brother, hundreds of thousands dead on both sides. but we emerged a more perfect union. a second founding when impatient patriots were determined to

overcome the birth defect of slavery and the scourge of segregation. a long struggle against communism with the soviet union eventually in collapse and europe whole, free and at peace. and in the aftermath of 9/11, the willingness to take really hard, hard decisions that secured us and prevented the follow-on attack that everybody thought pre-ordained. and on a personal note... [applause] a little grow up in birmingham, the segregated city of the south where he parents can't take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant. but they have her absolutely convinced that even if she can't have a hamburger at the woolworth counter, she could be president of the united states if she wanted to be. and he becomes secretary of

state! [cheering] >> america has a way of making the impossible in retrospect t. took leader help and it took courage and it took belief in our values. mitt romney and paul ryan have the integrity and the experience and the vision to lead us -- they know who we are. they know who we want to be. they know who we are in the

world and what we offer. that's why -- that's why this is a moment and an election of consequence. because it just has to be the freest and most compassionate country on the face of the earth will continue to be the most powerful and a beacon for prosperity and liberty across the world. god bless you and god bless this extraordinary country, this exceptional country, the united states of america! [cheers and applause] >> please welcome governor

suzanna martinez...:ier. >> thank you. and good evening. before i begin tonight, let's keep in our prayers, the families impacted by the storm, affecting the gulf coast. if you haven't done so already, please, donate to the red cross. to find out more about how you can help those affected by hurrican isaac, visit redcross.org/give. i am susana martinez. on behalf of the great state of new mexico, let me express my gratitude for being invited to speak tonight. growing up, i never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. but this is america.

in [speaking spanish] ... my parents taughtny never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever i dreamt it to be. success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear. we grew up on the border and truly lived paycheck to paycheck. my dad was a golden gloves boxer in the marine corps, then a deputy sheriff. my mom worked as an office

assistant. one day, they decided to start a security guard business. i thought they were absolutely crazy. we literally had no savings. but they always believed in the american dream. [cheering] so my dad worked to grow the business. my mom did the books at night. and at 18, i guarded the parking lot at the catholic church bingos. now, my dad made sure i could take care of myself. i carried a smig & wesson .357 magnum. [applause] >> yes, that gun weighed more

than i did. [chuckles] >> my parents grew that small business, from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees, in 3 states. sure, there was help along the way. but my parents took the risk. they stood up. and you better believe -- they built it. [cheering] my parents taught me the courage to stand for something. so i went to law school and i became a prosecutor. i took on a spllt that very few choose to pursue. i prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases, cases that

were truly gut wrenching. but standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. [cheers and applause] sometimes you pay a price for standing up. when i was a young prosecutor, i got called to testify against my boss. i could have backed down. but i didn't. i stood up to him. and he fired me for it. so, i took him on. ran against him for district attorney. and beat him by a landslide!

i fear some of our leers today have lost the courage to stand up, that we have now -- what we have now are politicians, they won't offer real plans and only stand up when they want to blame someone else. and i don't say that just because a democrat is in the white house. i was a democrat for many years. so were my parents. before i ran for district attorney, two republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. and i knew a party switch was exactly what they wanted. so i told chuck, we'll be polite, inti a free lunch and then say goodbye. but we talked about issues. they never used the words republican or democrat, conservative or liberal. we talked about many issues, like welfare, is it a way of life? or a hand-up?

talked about size of government. how much should it tax families and small businesses? and when we left that lunch, we got in the car and i looked over at chuck and said," i'll be damned. we are republicans." [cheers and applause] this election should not be about political parties, too many americans are out of work. our debt is out of control. this election needs to be about those issues. and it is the responsibility of both parties to offer up real solutions and have an honest

debate. in new mexico, i inherited the largest structural deficit in state history. and our legislature is controlled by democrats. we don't always agree but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. [cheers and applause] and we did it without raising taxes. that's not the kind of leadership that we are seeing from president obama. he promised to bring us all together, to cut unemployment. to pass immigration reform in its first year. and even promised to cut the deficit in half in his first term. do you remember that?

[crowd saying "yes"] >> but he hasn't come close. they haven't even passed a budget in washington, d.c. in 3 years! [boos from crowd]. >> if he can take credit for government building small businesses, then he can accept responsibility for breaking his promise and adding $5 trillion to the national debt. [cheers and applause] s because he did build that! [cheers and applause] as the first hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the

grocery store or in the mall. they look and they point and when they get the courage to come up, they ask, are you susana? and they run up and they give me a hug. and i wonder, how do you know who i am? but they do. and these are little girls. it's in moments like these when i am reminded that we each pave a path. and for me, it's about paving a path for those little girls to follow. they need to know no more barriers. [cheering] in many ways, mitt romney and i are very different, different starts in life, different pacts to leadership, different cultures. but we have each shared in the promise of america. we share a core belief that the promise of america must be kept

for the next generation [speaking spanish] it is success. and success is the american dream. and that success is not something to be ashamed of or to demonize. there is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. one leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of america for the next generation and that's why we must stand up and make mitt romney the next president of the united states! thank you. >> today, we take another step

forward in helping restore the promise of america... his leadership begins with character and values. he's a person of great steadiness, whose integrity is unquestioned and whose word is good. he understands the fiscal challenges facing america and the fiscal catastrophe that awaits us if we don't change course. today's a good day for america. and there are better days ahead. >> when i look at all he's done, his life, his wife, his family, i am just so proud. i know his father would be, as well. especially tonight. >> i am so proud to introduce my husband, the next vice-president of the united states, paul ryan! [cheering]

>> hello, everybody. hello, everybody. thank you! thank you. thank you very much. [cheering] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. mr. chairman, mr. chairman... delegate it is, and fellow citizens, i am honored by the support of this convention for

vice-president of the united states. [cheering] i accept the duty tow lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back into prosperity. and i know we can do this. [cheering] i accept the calling of my generation to give our children the america that was given to us with opportunity for the young and security for the old. and i know that we are ready. our nominee is sure ready. his whole life -- his whole life prepared him for this moment. to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. and for four years of getting the run-around, america needs a

turnaround and the man for the job is governor mitt romney! [cheering] i'm the newcomer to this campaign. so let me show a first impression. i have never seen an oppon, so silent about their record and so desperate to keep their power. they have run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they have left. with all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money. and he's pretty experienced at that. [laughter]

you see, some people can't be dragged down by the usual cheap tactibs because their character, ability and plain decency are so obvious. and ladies and gentlemen, that is mitt romney. [cheering] for my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn. it certainly came as news to my family. [chuckles] >> i would like you to meet them. my best friend and wife, jana, our daughter liza, and our boys, charlie and sam. [cheering]

their kids are happy to see their grandma who lives in florida. there she is -- my mom, betty. [cheering] my dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named paul. until we lost him when i was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. i would like to think he would be proud of me and my sister and brothers. [cheering] you know what? i am sure proud of him and where i come from, janesville, wisconsin. [cheers and applause]

i liver on the same block i grew up. we belong to the same parish i was baptized. janesville is that kind of place. the people of wisconsin have been good to me. i have tried to live up to their trust. and now, i ask those hard-working men and women and millions like them across america to join our cause and get this country working again. [cheers and applause] when governor romney asked me to join the ticket, i said, let's get this done. that's exactly what we are going to do. [cheers and applause] president barack obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two.

[chuckles] >> those are very tough days. any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. my own state voted for president obama. when he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it. especially in janesville. where we were about to lose a major factory. a lot of guys i went to high school with worked at that g.m. plant. right there at that plant, candidate obama said, i believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another hundred years. that's what he said in 2008. well, as it turned out... that plant didn't last another year. it is locked up and empty to this day. and that's how it is in so many towns. the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.

right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. 23 million people, unemployed or underemployed. nearly 1 in 6 americans is in poverty. millions of young americans have graduated from college in the obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. half of them can't find the work they studied for or any work at all. so here's the question. without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?! [cheers and applause] the first troubling sign came with the stimulus. it was president obama's first

and best shot at fixing the economy. at a time when he got everything he wanted under one-party rule, it cost $831 billion: the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government. they went to cutches like solyndra, with their gold-plated kecks, subsidized jobs and make-believe markets. the stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst. [applause] >> you -- you the american people of this country were cut out of the deal. what did taxpayers get? more debt! that money wasn't just spent and wasted, it was borrowed, spent and wasted.

[applause] >> maybe the greatest waste of all was time. here we are, faced a massive job crisis so deep, that if everyone out of work stood in single file that, unemployment line would strength the length of the entire american continent. you would think that any president, whatever his party would make job creation and nothing else his first order of economic business. but this president didn't do that. instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care. [boos from crowd] >> obamacare comes to more than

2,000 pages of rule, mandates, taxes, fees and fines that have no place in a free country. that's right. that's right. you know what? the president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. that will come as news to the millions of americans who will elect mitt romney so we can repeal obamacare.

and the biggest, coldest power play of all in obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. you see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with the new law and new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in washington still didn't have enough money. they needed more. they needed hundreds of billions more. so they just took it all away from medicare. $716 billion, funneled on the of medicare by president obama. [boos from the crowd]. >> an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is

being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. [applause] >> the greatest threat to medicare is obamacare. and we are going to stop it. [applause] and congress, when they take out the heavy books and the wall charts about medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on garfield street in janesville. my wonderful grandma, janet, had alzheimer's. she moved in with mom and me. though she felt lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel loved. we had help from medicare. and it was there, just like it's

there for my mom today. medicare is a promise. and we will honor it. a romney/ryan administration will strengthen medicare for my mom's generation, for my generation and for my kids and yours. [cheers and applause] my opponents can consider themselves on notice. in this election othis issue, the usual posturing on the left isn't going to work. mitt romney and i know the difference between precking a program and raiding it. ladies and gentlemen, our nation need this is debate. we want this debate. we will win this debate.

[cheering] obamacare as much as anything else, explains that why a presidency that began with anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close. it began with a financial crisis. it ends with a job crisis. it began with a housing crisis they alone didn't cause. it ends with a housing crisis they didn't correct. [applause]

>> it began with a perfect triple-a credit rating for the you said, it ends with a downgraded america. [boos from crowd]. >> it all started off with stirring speeches, greek columns, the thrill of something new. now, all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired. grasping at a moment that has already passed, like i ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind. [applause] you know, president obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. he said, well, i haven't communicated enough.

[laughter] >> he said, his job is to, quote, tell a story to the american people. as if that's the whole problem here? he needs to talk more? and we need to be better listeners?! [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, these past four years, we have suffered no shortage of words in the white house. what is missing is leadership in the white house. [cheering]

and the story that barack obama does tell... forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. the man assumed office almost four years ago. isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? in this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time. back in 2008, candidate obama called a $10 trillion national debt unpatriotic. serious talk from what looked

like a serious reformer. yet by his own decisions, president obama has added more debt than any other president before him and more than all the troubled governments of europe combined. one president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt. [boos from crowd] he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way and then did exactly nothing. republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. how did the president respond? by doing nothing, nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue. so here we are, $16 trillion in debt. and still, he does nothing!

in europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse. and still, he does nothing. and all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious. they have no answer to this simple reality. we need to stop spending money we don't have. [cheers and applause] >> really simple! not that hard. my dad used to say to me, son, you have a choice. you can be part of the problem. or you can be part of the solution.

and the present administration has made its choices. and mitt romney and i have made ours. before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. [cheers and applause] and i'm going to level with you. we don't have that much time. but if we are serious and smart and we lead, we can do this. after four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get america creating wealth again with tax fairness and regulatory reform. we will put government back on the side of men and women who create jobs. and the men and women who need

jobs. my mom started a small business. i have seen what it takes. mom was 50 when my dad died. she got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to madison. she earned a new degree and earned new skills to start her small business t. wasn't just a new livelihood, it was a new life. and it transformed my mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn't just in the past. her work gave her hope. it made our family proud. and to this day, my mom is my role model. [cheers and applause] it

behind every small business, there is a story worth knowing. all the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, dleeners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores -- these didn't come out of nowhere. a lot of heart goes into each one. and if small business people say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked 7 days a week in their place. nobody showed up in their place to open the door at 5:00 in the morning. nobody did their thinking and worrying and sweating for them. after all that work and in a bad economy, it sure doesn't help to

hear from their president that government gets the credit or they deserve to hear the truth -- yes, you did build that! [cheering] we have a plan for a stronger middle class with a goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. in a clean break, in a clean break from the obama years and frankly, from the years before this president. we will keep federal spending at 20% of gdp or less because that is enough! [cheering]

the choice-- the choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth or hard limes on the size of government. and we choose to limit government. [cheers and applause] i learned a good deal about economics and about america from the author of the reagan tax reforms, the great jack kemp. [cheers and applause] what gave jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibility of free people, in the power of strong enterprise to overcome poverty and despair. we need that same optimism right now and in our dealings with other nations, a romney/ryan administration will speak with

confidence and clarity. whenever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the american president is on their side. instead of managing american decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversessaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the united states is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known. [cheers and applause] president obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record and then calls that

the record. but we are four years into this presidency. the issue is not the economy that barack obama inherited, not the economy that he envisions... but this economy that we are living. [cheers and applause] college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading obama posters and worning when they can move out and get going with life! [cheering]

everyone. everyone who feels stuck in the obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. and i hope you understand this, too. if you're feeling left out or passed by, you have not failed. your leaders have failed you. none of us... none of us should have to settle for the best this administration offers, a dull adventureless journ freone entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free, but us. listen to the way we are -- [cheering]

>> listen to the way we are spoken to already. as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life. victims of circumstances beyond our control. with the government there to help us cope with our fate. it's the exact opposite of everything i learned growing up in wisconsin or at college in ohio. now, when i was waiting tables, washing dishes or mowing lawns for money, i never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. i was on my own path. my own journey, an american journey, where i could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. that's what we do in this country. that's the american dream! that's freedom and i will take ift any day over the supervision and sanctimon of -- sampght

money of the central planners? >> by themselves, by themselves, the failures of one administration are not a mandate for a new administration. a challenger must stand on has own merits. he must be ready and worth tow serve in the office of president. we are a full generation apart, governor romney and i. and in some ways we are different. there are the stongs on his ipod, which i have heard on the campaign bus... and i have heard it on many hotel elevators. he urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies.

i saidings look, i hope it's know a deal breaker, mitt, but my play list starts with ac/dc and ends with zeppelin. a generation apart, a generation apart... but that doesn't matter. it makes us different, but not in any of the things that matter. mitt romney and i both grew up in the heartland. and we know what places like wisconsin and michigan look like when times are good. we know what the communities look like when times are good, when people are working and families are doing more than just getting by. we know it can be that way again. we have had very different careers. mine in public service, his, mostly in the private sector. he turned around businesses. by the way, being successful in

business -- that's a good thing! >> mitt has not only succeeded, but he succeed where others could not. he turned around the olympics in a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad management, overspending and corruption. sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? he was a republican governor of a state where almost 9 in 10 legislators are democrats and yet, we balanced the budget without raising taxes. unemployment went down. household incomes went up and massachusetts, under governor romney saw its credit rating

upgraded! mitt and i also go to different churches. but in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example. and i have been watching that example... [cheering] >> the man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. not only a fine businessman, he is a fine man. worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country. our faiths come together in the same moral creed. we believe that in every life, there is goodness, for every person, there is hope, each one

of us was made for a reason, bearing the image in likeness of the lord of life. [cheers and applause] the greatest of all responsibilities is that of a strong to protect the weak. the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend, or care for themselves. each of these moral ideas, each of these moral ideas is essential to democratic government, to the rule of

law. to life in a humane and decent society. they are the moral creed of our country. as powerful in our time as on the day of america's founding. they're self evident and and sometimes, even presidents need reminding our rights come from nature and god, and not from government. the founding generations secured those rights for us. in every generation since, best among us have defended our freedoms, they're protecting us right now. we honor them and all veterans and we thank them.

the right that makes all of the difference now is the right to choose our own leaders and you are entitled to the clearest possible choice. because the time for choosing is drawing near. here is our pledge. we will not duck tough issues. we will lead. we will not spend four years blaming others. we will take responsibility. we will not try to replace our founding principles. we will reapply our founding principles. the work ahead will be hard. these times demand of best of all of us. all of us, but we can do this. we can do this. together, we can do this. we can get this country working again. we can get this economy growing again. we can make a safety net safety again. we can do this.

whatever your political party let's come together for the sake of of our country. join mitt romney and me. let's give this effort everything we have. let's see this thing all the way through. let's get this done! thank you. and god bless you all. thank you. ♪ [ music ] .

♪ [ music ] . >> congressman paul ryan with his wife, daughter, and boys. his mom, betty. look at the emotional at the start of this. he talked about his dad who died at 16. he talked about his mom, betty wiping away a tear, but then about mid speech seemed he got his stride talked about the president's health care law.

a big applause winner 60 times interrupted for applause throughout the speech. talking about fighting on medicare. a battle romney and ryan want to have. one of the biggest lines after plaus this, one. college graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedroom staring up at obama posters and wondering when they can move out and go on and get their live going and made fun of mitt romney about the songs on his ipod, saying they were elevator music. >> elevator from time to time. and his own began with ac-dc and ended with led zepplin. he tried to acknowledge their age difference and talk about they have some differences and a lot in common. saying ladies and gentlemen these past four years we've suffered no shortage of words in the white house, what is missing is leadership in the

white house, talking about how in his view, they've been shifting blame and its time to take responsibility. focusing on freedom. and talking about how do you want to live in a country where everything is free, but us?. >> the hall was energized throughout this speech. and before that, we heard from former secretary of state couldn't leeza rice who, by the way, did that speech, we confirmed with out a teleprompt ter, but off notes. it did match a previous fund-raiser in utah but she fired thup crowd as well. >> that moment at the end of her speech, she talked about a little girl who grows up in jim crow birmingham. her parents can't take her to a movie theater or a restaurant but make her believe she can become president and she becomes secretary of state. what a moment in this auditorium. everybody rose to their feet.

our viewers at home remember it. >> a ridesing star, new mexico governor martinez got this crowd going. the first hispanic woman female governor in the country. let's check in with our panel now. charles krauthammer, and deputy chief of staff to george w. bush carl rove and brit human. brit, paul ryan. your thoughts? it was thought the first night was to be the night obama had his skin ripped off and the case against him was made well ryan did that to him. the tricky thing he faced is could he deliver a powerful speech where he came acrosses a likeable and trust worthy young man and still deliver a devastating indictment of president obama's administration? my sense about it is that he probably did that job pretty well in the eyes of a great many people across the

country. the speech was interesting, compelling, it had humor and the moment when he mentioned his mother and his pride in her and her being his role model and there is an mazing picture of a granddaughter snuggling up to her, that meant a lot to in that this is a nice young man delivering a lethal shot tonight. >> and a little girl appeared to be friends with one of paul yin's daughters caught herself in the shot and made a run for it. today the obama came yain put out an ad in anticipation of the remarks here calling him among other things out of step and extreme, then describing him as fiercely and harshly antifemale. and do you think the audience walked away with those impressions? >> no. the washington post conducted a poll in which they asked people to describe their

initial impressions and said top nine words used to describe paul ryan, six of them were favorable. and three just sort of factual, and none were negative. think rick was right. he made a pointed, direct, sober and respectful critique of obama, not delivered in anger but with regret and did it expertly. there are two other notes i want to mention. one is conservative populism. this is attack on big government and corruption of the current administration. there is a big note of optimism and condy rice's biggest applause moments were on american exceptionalism and values. >> and charles i should point out you did not get the memo about the blue checked shirt. by your other panelists but go

ahead. >> aren't they adorable? >> i thought the speech by ryan was bold z very strong. and very large in the sense he went way beyond just the attack with like stiletto attacks each a sure jab that there was no elaboration. a agree it was sort of more in sorrow than anger but reminding people that is a line about a faded poster of young people with a poster of obama but won't don't have a job, it reminded people obama had so much promise, and he started with that premise and in the end he said what have they left you with? i thought one of the themes that ran through his speech, condoleezza rice and martinez is that obama is conducting a

war on citi bank. martinez spoke about the success of her parents. they built that. then, ryan, i thought was stem lining in talking about how everything the administration has done is to denegrate what is natural to americans to celebrate suck skpes say romney, success is a good thing. that is very powerful. >> and we want to get now to chris wallace at the podium position near the convention floor in the middle of it all. >> a lot of people think that paul ryan has been the intellectual leader of the republican party. i think you can see that tonight. this is a very bril skbrent very thoughtful man. i want to add to what brit said. this is as coherent and searing an indictment of the obama record as you have heard

from the critics. and it was an indictment with a bill of particulars. and the stimulus. he says to try to supposedly jump start the economy. ended up corruption and corporate welfare, obama care, missed opportunity when the job should have been to resuscitate this economy. we got into an effort to control one sixth of the economy and then, medicare, which i think he stood on its head. a lot of people knew paul yin as the man who pushed granny up a hill, then off a cliff. he said no. the real threat to medicare comes from the obama care and the fact they're rating $716 billion from medicare to pay for obama care. what has the romney ryan team going to do? nothing especially new. he talked about regulatory reforms, about tax reform,

about cutting spending. and it was a sharp contrast as broken promises. one of the powerful parts is when he started talking about the end of the obama presidency as if it were in the past tense. and i just want to make two questions they're going to be brought up over next 24 hours, he talked about gm plant in jamesville shut down after obama came n i'm sure democrats goring to point out it was the president who bailed out gm and he criticized the president for doing nothing about the bow simpson plan. he was a member of the commission and voted against it. >> if you thought that the romney-ryan ticket is not concerned about the mid west, a lot of mid west reverences. >> hello, wisconsin. >> mid western values. ohio, the whole deal. an historic father and son duo, former presidents bush 41 and

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people of wisconsin i tried to live up to their trust. and now... i have those hard working men and women and millions like them across america to join our cause and get this country working again. congressman ryan just moments ago. the crowd here cheered the vice presidential candidate on. how are people reacting across the twitter verse? >> on twitter for those of you who don't follow. i'm thinking of my nana. she does not know what twitter is. it's online. and people use it to communicate. we can bring you the equivalent of a focus group through social immediate yachl we turn to our fox news digital policy center.

chris? >> yes. thank you. during congressman ryan's speech, our partners at twitter have been measuring how positive or negative your tweets about the congressman were to establish a new score for paul ryan on a scale of zero to 100 for your sentiment. let's say if every tweet were positive there would be 100. if negative he'd have a zero. so let's get a base line. take a look at what we can expect in this. and look at how president obama and mitt romney stacked up today. the president has been trailing romney. the gap widened last night after ann romney's blockbuster speech. obama stuck at 32. romney, 60. now, let's take a look at paul ryan ratings before the speech. low, 33. down with the president. but... as we saw with mrs. romney doubled her score with that speech, a big speech can make a big difference. how did congressman ryan do tonight? 37. not a very big bump for the

congressman. what we do know is that there was an incredible volume of tweets out there. more than out for mrs. romney last night. and now the reason the score didn't go up very much may have been a lot of democrats were out there tweeting negative things and republicans tweeting positive things but he got the discussion started tonight. >> chris, thank you. >> and let's head down to the convention floor. martha? >> hi there, bret. standing down here during this speech with condoleezza rice she gave, it was a powerful speech and she resonated with this crowd. for a woman who claims not to like politics very much and speech giving very much she did it without a prompter. it was a solid comfortable performance based on reaction of everybody around us. and she gave a personal story in the speech that really, you

can feel, you know sort of the collective breath taken by everybody in this crowd. she said as a little girl we couldn't go to woolworth's and have a hamburger at the counter in birmingham alabama but my parents convinced me i can become the president of the united states and i became secretary of state. waits a powerful moment. one of the things i'm struck by is this issue of the war on women. how the g.o.p. worked to combat that in the course of these events. condoleezza rice, ann romney, nikki haley, suesana martinez not through handouts but personal strength of we'll see if they're able to close the gap of women throughout this convention. >> we're told that paul ryan's speech was cut down a little bit to make sure there was room for condoleezza rice and governor martinez. >> governor martinez may have had the line of the night talking about she was a democrat then met with

republicans and walked away saying i'll be damned, we're republicans. >> bill hammer is out on the floor with more color for us. bill? >>. >> good evening to you. for hoopla and applause and crowd here, 18,000 people. there was a moment tonight most of that stopped. it was around 8:00 this evening. on a video screen a giant hd screens behind me, president number 41 and 43 appeared on video along with their wives, two former first ladies. you know delegates love that scene. what they talked about in part is how they want history judge each other's legacy. >> they'll remember him for being a good president. he got a lot of things done but thing i take pride in is his integrity. >> history will remember him as a great president.

not only was he well prepared for the job but when unexpected took place he handled it with vision, a clear strategy, and calm nerves. >> it was a moment, too, standing in the delegation with delegates from colorado and missouri this, is a video clip mixed with humor at one point laura bush made a quip about "new york times". you know the audience loved that and ate that up for all that is worth. and when the two former first ladies talked about how they want americans to judge the record of their husbands... >> people will remember george and i think they will for having a determination and toughness and persistence to be able to see us through in our country through such a very difficult time. after the terrorist attacks. >> he's the most decent, honorable, wonderful, nobody

has been as lucky as i've been. i want people to remember this cure ragis, i want them to remember as he is. >> he is 88, george herbert walker bush resting in his home in maine. the first convention he's missed since 1976. his mobility slowed down by a condition related to parkinson's. he's largely in a wheelchair on a day-to-day basis. his son and the former president sending a note here to folks they would not attend. their other son, however, is here, jeb bush filling a void for both of them. on that video clip when george w bush said mitt romney would make a great president this place erupted in a standing ovation. >> thank you. >> and let's check back in with our panel. charles, carl and brit. carl before i ask you about final thoughts that video is

very touching. >> powerful. two great men. a unique moment in our nation's history. only twice have we had a father and son in service as president. john adams and john quincy adams and now, two great men with surrounded, who have two terrific partners. barbara bush and laura bush, two extraordinary first ladies of our country. >> let's talk about tomorrow. mitt romney's challenge. past two days for speeches and today delivered from paul ryan. what does he have to do? >> well, he has to keep it going. this has been building and he's got to keep it building so thifrry and tone and message have got to be powerful. he's got to show people more whof he is. and he's -- people want to know more about it. particularly voters up for grabs want to know more about the man. what makes him tick? what are the values in his heart? he also most importantly wants to tell them what his plan s

people want to know they've made a judgment and want to know what it is you're going to do. how you're going to get it done. >> it's been a year of challenges for mitt romney in which he's had to rise to the occasion. during the primary season he kept falling behind other candidates and rising to the occasion in debates. he was a far more formidable candidate and a better debateor in this cycle tan four years ago. now, the challenge is to be a better speaker. he's not naturally a politician or a great orator. he's going to have a good night. i think he'll have a well written speech. certainly paulin's speech was expertly crafted. the question for him, can he deliver it with the kind of force and affect that i think the occasion will require of him, and demand of him. >> charles? >> i think it's a requirement for rhetoric. i think the main burden is

that he's a serious man. in as we heard in the ryan speech, serious times. he has to show he's a serious plan. no one sells sort of outlined what he wants to do. the kind of thing reagan with a strong defense, he doesn't have to go through a lift he has to give principles. main ideas. once people hear that, they've heard this president has no plan. and has no way to go ahead. how do we believe next four years will be any different from four years before? we have no way of knowing that. when romney has to show is that i know where to lead. i've had history of leading and having success. here is what i'm going to do, it will make sense, he doesn't have to all of the critical stuff. the tremendous affect of this, he has to show something of a person, has to humanize himself. and has to speak plainly, simply about things he believes in. and the things he loves and

cares about. and i think you can go a long way towards winning a election with that speech. i think he's going to have some success in doing that. >> thank you all. so much for help tonight. you know, it was interesting i thought it was a moment when paul ryan made a little fun of mitt romney on the ipod. it did help to make it seem like there was a nice relationship between the two. we'll see whether he take that's opportunity himself tomorrow night. >> lighten the mood that. is it for us. stay tuned for continuing coverage of the republican national convention. >> we'll see you tomorrow night when governor mitt america the beautiful? then you belong at bass pro shops for big savings during our labor day sale. and stop by our hometown festival this weekend for free family activities,@ food and giveaways. bass pro shops. your adventure starts here.

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