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>> i wonder if mr. egan wrote this about barack obama's hope and change speech four years ago in denver colorado, that had all the substance of selling soda to america, hope and change. what did you think, margaret? >> you know, i don't think the people in the hall or at home wanted, you know, specifics. >> right. >> it's a moment to, you know, stir people and, you know, at least in the hall he definitely did that. what i think is the huge loss from last night was that video was almost as good, maybe as good as the man from hope, and it was lost. there was not that moment when he's on the stag...

Ethnic minorities and others as well. >> there was an interesting philosophical tension in the speech too because that line about how, you know, i want to help you and your family, it's kind of in counterpoint to i want to get the government off your back. so i want to help you, i want to leave you alone, essentially. that's a tension that's obviously there philosophically in the republican party. but i thought maybe that was the reason he didn't build on that theme, on that well-delivered line he didn't build on. >> especially when your audience of swing voters who may want more government --...

Pageantry of this convention too much when we talk about clint eastwood and when we put a big question mark over marco rubio introduced himself to america after 10:30 at night? >> sure we are, joe. what people care about as far as november 6th is mitt romney last night. there have been good, there have been bad speeches before, that haven't had any consequences, nonpresidential acceptance speeches. bill clinton gave one of the worst speeches ever given. >> terrible. >> 8,000 minutes long. >> it wasn't a career record for him. too often we seize on obama's fable keynote speech in 2004 and say t...

It was about mitt romney. i mean he -- >> put it this way -- >> lavishly praised mitt romney. >> i wanted to know more about mitt romney. i was on a roll, listening thinking this is really working and then i was completely distracted by very strange and often disrespectful moments. >> i do agree that, you know, video, fade to black, romney. that's the proper sequence. rubio before that maybe and eastwood -- >> i'm in trouble -- >> we can read all these tea leaves all we want here. micro manage what happened and what didn't happen. it's big impressions that are left the next day and they're goi...

>> thank you. >> the chairman of the mississippi republican party, joe nosef. >> governor, what a speech. by -- >> clint eastwood. >> yeah. i didn't get the empty chair, but i thought it was a go ahead night for our -- good night for our side. >> how about mitt romney? >> you forget how good he is. i think ann romney set him up perfectly after her speech the other night and her command of the stage, commanding silence, using silence as a weapon almost. all he really had to do was be genuine, be himself and he was. you know, i think he's so good that people forget how good he is. >> he's a good...