{"id":3363,"date":"2012-04-14T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/14\/some-thoughts-on-romney-at-annua\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:16","slug":"some-thoughts-on-romney-at-annua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts On Romney At The Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/04\\\/nra-am-12-day-1b.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Mitt Romney spoke before the NRA Annual Meeting Leadership Forum yesterday. It wasn&#8217;t a great speech; it wasn&#8217;t a bad speech. It seemed like it was a variation on his basic stump speech with maybe a few additions for the NRA audience. I would say the overall reception was polite if not enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of Romney&#8217;s speech was freedom which seems to be what we&#8217;ve heard before in his speeches. He spoke about freedom in terms of religion, economics, and limited government. With regard to the NRA, he noted that they were a single issue group. He that they should get &#8220;high praise (for being a single interest group) when the issue is freedom.&#8221; He used this line as the intro into the rest of his speech on freedom.<\/p>\n<p>In what I consider the variations tailored towards the NRA, he acknowledged the role that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in pursuing Operation Fast and Furious. He then acknowledged the NRA for saying that Attorney General Eric Holder should be fired. Both statements brought good applause. He then said &#8220;I will protect the Second Amendment rights of the American people&#8221; which brought a lot of applause.<\/p>\n<p>In general, I&#8217;d say Romney did OK but could have had a speech more tailored to his audience with more memorable nuggets. Overall, it was what it was. The speech won&#8217;t come back to haunt him with the Obama campaign using snippets of it in its ads. However, the speech can&#8217;t be accused of being a rousing stump speech to rally the masses either.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdpower at Days of our Trailers blog did capture some of the misleading tweets from the Brady Campaign and CSGV during the Leadership Forum. You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/nra-am-12-day-1b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the speech for yourself below:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Tinph1gbU0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney spoke before the NRA Annual Meeting Leadership Forum yesterday. It wasn&#8217;t a great speech; it wasn&#8217;t a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3551,3838],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mitt-romney","tag-nra-annual-meeting-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7909,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/7909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}