Traditionally – that is, for the last 50 or so years – Labor Day is considered the “official” start of the Presidential campaign. Since Labor Day is today t’s OK to pay attention now. The Democrats meet in Charlotte, North Carolina for their convention this week of which, I suppose, more later.
I wrote a column on Romneypalooza in Tampa for the Scotsman. Here’s the guts of it:
No-one will ever be inspired by Romney, but the convention did its best to present him as a real-life, honest-to-goodness actual human being. This unpromising project was more successful than seemed plausible before the convention began. The week’s most moving moment came when two of Romney’s fellow Mormons recalled how Romney had visited and comforted and inspired their sick children. Romney, who has hither to shied from making an issue of his religion, was revealed as a bigger, more decent, man than many of us had previously known or even suspected.
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