Did You Like Ann Romney's Speech at the Republican convention?

An elderly friend of ours asked my husband what he thought of Ann Romney's speech. 

"It's what you'd expect," Jim said. "A wife wouldn't throw her husband under the bus. She likes him."

"Eva Braun liked Hitler, too!" Mary from Iowa City snapped.

Personally, I was embarrassed for Ann Romney. I met and talked to Ann Romney at Hamburg Inn 2 in Iowa City in 2008. I liked her. A woman shouldn't have to prostitute herself to make sure her husband gets what he wants.

In an interview on TV or radio, I think it was National Public Radio, Mrs. Romney expressed some frustration with how Republican operatives edited her speech down to "a tweet." She said she doesn't like reading off of a teleprompter, but her husband's advisers left nothing to chance. She read off of a teleprompter.

Ann Romney is positive that her husband will not fail the country. He hasn't failed to buy her two Cadillacs. They have five sons together, and he has supported her through her bouts with multiple sclerosis and breast cancer, so it's clear that she doesn't feel he's failed her. Maybe it's clear to her that he hasn't failed his private equity company, Bain Capital, either. Private equity companies are known for enriching themselves at the expense of others. They also pay low taxes.

Mitt Romney has walked off with gobs of money, some of which is sheltered in Swiss bank accounts, the Cayman Islands, and a shell company in Bermuda for the purpose of evading federal taxes in the United States. He paid between 13% and 15%, tops, in federal taxes with the money he has recklessly parked in his own country.

Just so you know where Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan stand, they stand for granting more tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. Whose hides do you think those tax cuts will come out of? The middle class and the working poor.

That's why it was appropriate that protesters set up a sign made of ice cubes spelling out the disappearing "MIDDLE CLASS." You know those ice cubes melted in Tampa as convention delegates gathered to confer the mantle of nominee on Mitt Romney and his "intellectual" side kick.

Well, let me rephrase that. All of the delegates who were allowed to enter and participate in the convention conferred that mantle. I hear that Ron Paul's delegates were not allowed to participate in what is allegedly a democratic process.

You know that stomping on the Ron Paul delegates will just stir the pot. Sometimes I think the Republicans who stifle dissent are as dense as the moribund Catholic hierarchy that squelches dissent from their humanitarian nuns. Those polite but firm nuns seem to have remembered what being Christian means but have forgotten their place. Ron Paul's supporters apparently forgot theirs.

Republicans for Mitt and Catholic bishops will be playing whack-a-mole within their ranks for some time to come as dissent continues to rear its head. 

Remember the movie "Caddyshack," when Bill Murray set off explosives to kill the gopher who dared to dig holes in a rich man's golf course? Spoiler alert: the gopher survived. 

It'll be like that. I can't wait to watch.