ANN ROMNEY APPEARS TO APPEAL TO WOMEN ON HER HUSBAND'S BEHALF............

The 10 p.m. hour has arrived on the East Coast, and Hurricane Issac has begun to batter the Gulf Coast off New Orleans, as the Republican nominee's spouse, Ann Romney steps out on the stage of the Republican Convention.  Her speech is going to speak about Love she tells listeners, and the love story of a young man she met at a dance in high school five decades ago.  She continues describing him as someone she loves because of his caring and presence to her and to their family and others and in a direct pitch to women and American voters says "his name is Mitt  Romney, and you should get to know him".  Speaking of references made to their 43 years as husband, wife, and parents, and grandparents, as a "a storybook marriage", she says of having 5 boys in the house on a rainy day, and contending with multiple sclerosis and breast cancer, is not storybook, but that what she and Mitt Romney have is a, "real marriage".  Usually the writer of her own caqmpaign speeches and speaking from her self prepared copy, this speech was written by the campaign staff and she is using a teleprompter, which she has an adeptness with.  Concluding her remarks, she is joined on stage by her husband and they kiss and wave to the applauding and approving Convention attendees......Governor Christie is next with the Keynote Address............tdp