HOW EFFECTIVE WAS GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS ?............

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who followed Ann Romney last night at the Republican National Convention to deliver the Keynote Address, set up a strange contrast between his speech and Mrs. Romney's by saying his was not about Love, but Respect; after she had proclaimed her speech was about Love.  Seeking respect, not love, is what Christie says his mother taught him.  Christie's Keynote speech was some 2,600 words.  It was much less about Mitt Romney, than about Chris  Christie, as he used the pronouns "I", 47 times; and "Me", 11 times; while referring to Romney. 8 times only in the entirety of the sppech.   Five of those mentions were in one paragraph of the saddress, while he made 62 references to his own record  as Governor of New Jersey throughout the oration.  Christie spoke over seventeen hundred words before he mentioned Mitt Romney by name.  Missing was any mention of President Obama by name, although he did address him by declaring what we are lacking is leadership.  Governor Christie said, " You see, Mr. President, real leaders do not follow polls.  Real leaders change polls".   Speaking in broad themes and delivering the speech from the teleprompter, made it more a staid and standard-like speech, than the in your face, outspokem., and combative, speaker  he is known to be personally and politically.  A newspaper story on Monday in the New York Post reports that Christie declined to accept the vice presidential nod this year because he thinks Romney is going to lose.  Were that true, Tuesday night's speech could be the potential springboard for Christie to the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, just as U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's 2004 Keynote Address at the Democratic Convention in Boston catapulted him into a successful campaign for the White House in 2008............tdp