Ann Romney was greeted by applause when she appeared on the Tampa stage
The wannabe First Lady appeared delighted by the applause she received
‘When Mitt and I met and fell in
love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our
life together,' she said earlier. ‘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.
Mrs Romney's aim was to help voters see the human side of her husband of four decades
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. Those were very special days.’
Mitt Romney took the stage at the end of his wife's speech her and embraced her
She said: ‘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
‘It has been 47 years since that
tall, kind of charming young man brought me home from our first dance,’
she said. ‘Not every day since has been easy.
‘But he still makes me laugh. And
never once did I have a single reason to doubt that I was the luckiest
woman in the world. I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love.
Look into your hearts.
'When I met him as a
teenager, he was the life of the party. And yet, he is also a very
serious person and an accomplished person. And I think a lot of times,
people see him in the debate setting.’
Mrs Romney practiced what she had been preaching in a warm moment with her husband
Public display of affection: Mrs Romney's description of her love for her husband was effusive
on Tuesday night
The Romneys were married in 1969, when they were both just college students
Women, she said, bore the brunt of
the tough economy and the hardships families experience. ‘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?
‘It's the moms who always have to
work a little harder, to make everything right. It's the moms of this
nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country
together.
Mrs Romney, like First Lady Michelle Obama, is personally very popular
‘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.
‘You know it's true, don't you?
You're the ones who always have to do a little more. You know what it's
like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you
deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which
just has to be done.
‘You know what those late night phone
calls with an elderly parent are like and the long weekend drives just
to see how they're doing.
‘You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and which doctors actually answer the phone when you call at night.’
‘You know what it’s like to sit in
that 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.
You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.'
But Mrs Romney took pains to stress that both her family and her husband's come from humble
Mrs Romney was surrounded by images of her life with her husband as she gave her speech
Delegates packed the Tampa Bay Times Forum to hear Mrs Romney's biggest speech so far
‘I read somewhere that Mitt and I
have a
“storybook marriage”. Well, in the storybooks I read, there were
never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys
screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters
called MS or Breast Cancer.
Ann frequently talks about how Mitt has nursed her through periods of illness
‘A storybook marriage? No, not at
all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage. I know this good
and decent man for what he is - warm and loving and patient.
‘He has tried to live his life with a
set of values centered on family, faith, and love of one's fellow man.
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.’
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