Canada: Romney as candidate vs the GOP's platform

PJ:  "Truth in advertising" laws really should extend to political campaigns:

"Even so, there was a consistency of message throughout, made explicit by the monoton0us invocation of the phrase We Built It, a reference to President Obama’s supposed declaration to small business people that they “didn’t build that.” (The quote is wildly out of context: the “that” to which he referred was the road that runs by their business.) "


National Post

Andrew Coyne: Romney gives Americans a chance to pick the candidate and skip the party

Andrew Coyne

Even so, there was a consistency of message throughout, made explicit by the monoton0us invocation of the phrase We Built It, a reference to President Obama’s supposed declaration to small business people that they “didn’t build that.” (The quote is wildly out of context: the “that” to which he referred was the road that runs by their business.) Every one of the speakers sang the praises of self-reliance and individual initiative — as distinct, one was made to understand, from the smothering embrace of government. Virtually every one, it should be said, had some story of triumph over adversity — penniless parents, an autistic child — to back it up: these are not your stereotypical country club Republicans. Even Mrs. Romney, she of the two Cadillacs and the Olympic horse, told persuasively of past struggles.

Read it at the National Post:
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/29/andrew-coyne-republican-speakers-skip-red-meat-social-issues-in-tampa/