Christie's Unforgettable Keynote Speech

I doubt that I am alone when confess that tonight I am absolutely, stupendously, and redundantly overwhelmed. What a cast! This is not the Republican Party I knew yesterday. This evening was like watching an all star game where every batter hits a home run. The Republicans have put together a superb rookie team with each member being far and away better than anyone on the opposing team. Yet to earn a starting position Mia Love, Ted Cruz, and Artur Davis each amazed, amused, and inspired us with what in another country would be an epic feat to reach the level of success they have archived yet here in the USA we see it happens everyday. It's very natural for the sons and daughters of Haitian and Cuban immigrants to aspire to public office. Rookie Governors Haley, McDonnell and Walker (Kasich is a returning veteran) along with rookie Senator Kelly Ayotte and Ann Romney were nothing short of spectacular but rookie Governor Chris Christie delivered the best keynote speech in the modern history of the Republican Party.
Christie eviscerated Obama without ever mentioning his name and simultaneously elevated the level of political discourse. Never a touchy feely guy, Christie eschewed caring and compassion in favor of respect and honesty.

"Tonight, we choose respect over love.

We are not afraid. We are taking our country back.

We are the great grandchildren of men and women who broke their backs in the name of American ingenuity; the grandchildren of the Greatest Generation; the sons and daughters of immigrants; the brothers and sisters of everyday heroes; the neighbors of entrepreneurs and firefighters, teachers and farmers, veterans and factory workers and everyone in-between who shows up not just on the big days or the good days, but on the bad days and on the hard days.

Each and every day. All 365 of them.

We are the United States of America.

Now we must lead the way our citizens live. To lead as my mother insisted I live, not by avoiding truths, especially the hard ones, but by facing up to them and being the better for it.

We cannot afford to do anything less. "

Christie is blessed with a facility for understated eloquence. He speaks polite, simple, direct, no nonsense, blue collar, New Jersey English. He likes action verbs and avoids flowery adjectives.

"I know this simple truth and I'm not afraid to say it: our ideas are right for America and their ideas have failed America.

Let's be clear with the American people tonight. Here's what we believe as Republicans and what they believe as Democrats.

We believe in telling hard working families the truth about our country's fiscal realities. Telling them what they already know - the math of federal spending doesn't 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 government.

They believe that the American people don't want to hear the truth about the extent of our fiscal difficulties and need to be coddled by big government.

They believe the American people are content to live the lie with them.

We believe in telling 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.

Seniors are not selfish.

They believe seniors will always put themselves ahead of their grandchildren. So they prey on their vulnerabilities and scare them with misinformation for the cynical purpose of winning the next election.

Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power."
 
His message is, We'll tell you the truth and we know you will make the right decisions because we believe in you. You can read the whole speech here.  It was a very good evening!