Day #4 Of The GOP Convention: The Donald Speaks

Not much time to go into detail, but I wanted to write while last night's final episode of the GOP Convention was still fresh in my mind.

During the early evening hours, the atmosphere at the Cleveland arena was calm inside.  Music played on and off and various speakers got up and talked, Reince Preibus, Chair of the RNC;  Jerry Falwell, Jr.; Sheriff Joe Arpaio;  Peter Theiel, PayPal company co-founder; Tom Barrack founder of Colony Capital, former Reagan supporter and now head of the pro-Trump super pac titled Rebuild America; were some who took center stage.

All put their two cents in about The Donald and what a wonderful guy he is and how he would be a great president. In between,  a couple of video's  played with one touting the RNC and all it does.

Then Ivanka hit the stage to introduce the Trumpster.

She gave a nice speech and like the rest of his kids, was professional, poised and dressed perfectly for the evening. She introduced The Donald and that's when the night went from blah, blah, blah to electric.

As many of you know I am a Ted Cruz fan. All the way. I voted for him in the primary and was quite disappointed when he lost. I still admire and respect him tremendously regardless of the bashing he's  taking by ALL of the media, including Fox News for NOT endorsing Mr. Trump. As I said in yesterday's entry ... there's more to the situation than meets the eye, but that's a blog for another day. And one I hope to write soon.

So when I say that The Donald hit it out of the ballpark last night, it's not said lightly.

His speech was powerful, seemed to come from the heart, was forceful and I would say, hit every single concern we as Americans have about our country. He talked about terrorism, the borders, the economy, political correctness gone crazy, globalism, immigration, the lack of support for our police and vets. And of course he bashed Hillary. But here's an interesting note in regard to him doing so. He rarely mentioned her by name. He continued to call her 'my opponent' throughout the speech. I wonder why he chose to go that route.

In any case,  though the Trumpster talked about all of the issues mentioned above many times before, never was it as articulate and cohesive as it was last night. No doubt having a speech writer along with most likely,  a lot of practice and a teleprompter helped tremendously.

Of course after defining all our problems, he offered grand statements about how he's going to fix this, that or the other thing. And since he said it with so much force and conviction I found even myself believing he could do it all, turn the country around and make America great again.

Bottom line?

It was one of the best presidential candidate speeches I've ever heard. No doubt the audience at the convention loved it and felt heard for the first time in almost 8 years as the roar, applause, standing ovations, sign waving was non-stop.

As for me? I'm going to try and cast aside all the doubts I've had about Mr. Trump and support him in any way I can. I mean, what other choice do we have? It's either The Donald or Hillary and there's no way I'd ever vote for her. Hell would have to freeze over first.