2012 Conventions live blog
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Ann Romney, perhaps attempting to close the gender gap between her husband and Obama: "If you listen carefully, you'll hear the women sighing a little bit more than the men. It's how it is, isn't it?... We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters." -
by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:17:04 AM
Video wall behind Ann Romney looks like a moving photo album. #gop2012 instagr.am
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Ann Romney has been a powerful surrogate for her husband on the campaign trail. At age 63, she has battled with multiple sclerosis since being diagnosed in 1998. She also described in an interview with CNN in August how she successfully fought an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2008. -
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:18:32 AM
Listening to Ann Romney's speech from VIP box.. Condi Rice #gop2012 instagr.am
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Ann Romney receives a standing ovation: "I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better! And that's fine. We don't want easy. But these last few years have been harder than they needed to be. It's all the little things -- that price at the pump you just can't believe, the grocery bills that just get bigger; all those things that used to be free, like school sports, are now one more bill to pay. It's all the little things that pile up to become big things. And the big things -- the good jobs, the chance at college, that home you want to buy, just get harder. Everything has become harder. We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers."
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by Donna Brazile via twitter 8/29/2012 2:18:34 AM#AnnRomney giving a shout out to women, but more in symbolism not substance. 'you are the hope of America.' -
by Lisa Desjardins via twitter 8/29/2012 2:18:45 AMANN ROMNEY: So far her speech focusing on women, praising them and relating to them. Not so much about her husband yet. Yet. -
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by Gregory Wallace, CNN via I2.cdn.turner 8/29/2012 2:20:16 AM
Ann Romney a few minutes ago, taking to the stage. (Getty Images)
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:21:13 AMAnn Romney said the speech wasn't political but there are a few subtle digs worked in... "A business he built by himself by the way."
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Ann Romney on her early days with Mitt Romney: "When Mitt and I met and fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our life together. I was an Episcopalian. He was a Mormon. We were very young. Both still in college. There were many reasons to delay marriage, and you know? We just didn't care. We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold down ironing board in the kitchen. But those were the best days."
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:23:18 AM"What Mitt Romney and I had was a real marriage." line gets standing ovation from crowd
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by Piers Morgan via twitter 8/29/2012 2:24:36 AMCriticise Romney all you like but he doesn't drink, smoke, take drugs or womanise - and he has a delightful wife & devoted children #GOP2012 -
Ann Romney on the side of her husband which the public might not see: "From the time we were first married, I've seen him spend countless hours helping others. I've seen him drop everything to help a friend in trouble, and been there when late-night calls of panic came from a member of our church whose child had been taken to the hospital. You may not agree with Mitt's positions on issues or his politics. Massachusetts is only 13% Republican, so it's not like that's a shock to me... No one will work harder. No one will care more. No one will move heaven and earth like Mitt Romney to make this country a better place to live!"
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:25:51 AMAnn Romney: "If the last four years had been successful would here be this attack on Mitt's success?"
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by Ari Fleischer via twitter 8/29/2012 2:26:09 AMThis speech was written to be a gender gap closer. And it's a good one. -
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:26:26 AMAnn Romney on husband's firm (not mentioned by name)... "he built it."
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by Gregory Wallace, CNN via I2.cdn.turner 8/29/2012 2:26:43 AM
Photos of Mitt and Ann Romney on the podium screens. (Getty Images)
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by Lisa Desjardins via twitter 8/29/2012 2:28:02 AMBEST LINE so far from Ann: MItt doesn't like to talk about how he helps others, b/c he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:28:07 AMAnn Romney: "Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he helps others because he sees it as a privilege not a talking point."
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by Donna Brazile via twitter 8/29/2012 2:28:39 AMnew spin? “@Nightline: "This man will not fail. This man will not let us down. This man will lift up America!" -Ann Romney #2012GOP”
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Earlier today, Kevin Bohn wrote about Ann Romney's calming presence on the trail.
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Ann Romney on her husband: "At every turn in his life, this man I met at a high school dance, has helped lift up others. He did it with the Olympics, when many wanted to give up. He did it in Massachusetts, where he guided a state from economic crisis to unemployment of just 4.7%."
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:29:02 AMRomney camp really leaning on Ann to sell biz background: "This is the genius of America"
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by Jim Acosta via twitter 8/29/2012 2:30:47 AMAnn Romney: "This man will not fail." gets crowd going "Mitt Mitt"
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by Lisa Desjardins via twitter 8/29/2012 2:30:53 AMANOTHER STRONG LINE from ANN: "This. Man. Will Not. Fail." The delivery was key. Expect to hear that in heavy rotation on the news.
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by Peter Hamby via twitter edited by Steve Krakauer, CNN 8/29/2012 2:31:19 AMMitt Romney will join Ann on stage at the conclusion of her speech -
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