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Paul Ryan gave what was, by almost all accounts, the best speech of the convention so far tonight, running longer than 30 minutes - and past the alloted window from the networks - as he talked about himself, his life, his budgetary approach, his mom, and Mitt Romney. 
  
 It was the most attentive the convention hall at this abbreviated convention, and it was a speech that Republicans - and some Democrats, grudgingly - praised as he was delivering it. He came off young, which he is, but generally not so youthful as to seem off; he was emotional but not soft; he was tough on President Obama but not caustic. 
  
 Democrats are challenging some of the facts Ryan talked about, and it remains unclear whether the message about tough medicine and changes to Medicare - even as he used his stump line about preserving and strengthening it - but the problem for Chicago after that speech is whether it resonates with swing voters, who are not checking the details but liked the presentation. 
  
 The Medicare issue, especially is the one Democrats are pointing to, as he accused the president of "raiding" it to support Obamacare. That point is at the heart of a major Romney campaign ad buy, and one that Democrats have disputed for weeks. Democrats also pointed out the GM plant he referenced closing was first put shuttered and put on standby during the Bush era; Obama had, while he was campaigning, said he believed with the right assistance it would be re-opened (it hasn't). And he took votes supporting some of the policies or approaches he criticized (Simpson-Bowles). Again, the question becomes whether Ryan can make himself seem like a credible enough messenger that the factual issues don't get in the way, as Romney's campaign is clearly hoping for by glossing over significant details in a nationally televised address. 
  
 "Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?" Ryan said. 
  
 He talked about his father, but it was his mother who drew the most attention - the crowd cheered for her, and his daughter patted her on the back. 
  
 At another piont, he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House. What’s missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago – isn’t it about time he assumed responsibility?" 
  
 He also talked about Mitt Romney, describing him as a good man, not just a good businessman, and noting that they attend different churches, in keeping with a theme Mike Huckabee touched on. He tied his own experiences as a Midwesterner to Romney's as a Michigan native, a move that may or may not work in terms of extending another dimension to the top of the ticket, but which was a strong note for Ryan. 
  
 It was as much the speech as the delivery, which began a bit rocky, but got stronger and finished that way. The crowd wanted more at the end, underscoring what an ideological speech it was that played strongly to the partisans in Tampa, but also delivered in a non-threatening way. 
  
 It's not a surprise that Ryan ended up as the best-received speech so far - the expectation was that he would stand out. But it went a long way to making a convention that has been troubled a success - leaving the remaining question, is Ryan's brand of tough medicine what the country is ready for. 
  
 * This post has been updated ||||| TAMPA -- The second day (and night) of the Republican National Convention is history. 
  
 The night's speaking program started very slowly but picked up steam as it wore on -- a good thing for Mitt Romney and Republicans since the major national networks only showed the 10 pm hour of the festivities. 
  
 Below is our take on the best and the worst of the night that was. Agree with our picks? Or -- more likely -- disagree? The comments section awaits. 
  
 WINNERS 
  
 * Condoleezza Rice: Rice's speech had it all. She spoke forcefully on foreign policy (no surprise there from a former secretary of state) but also showed that she could speak just as powerfully on domestic issues. Her emphasis on educational reform undoubtedly appealed to the ideological middle of the country. And her personal touches - telling the now-familiar story of growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama - were moving and powerful. With her speech, Rice ensured that the next time the Republican presidential nomination is open, she will be a major player in the race. (If she wants to be, that is.) 
  
 * Paul Ryan: The Wisconsin congressman started very slowly - so slowly that we had begun to put him mentally into our "loser" category. He was halting in his delivery, stepping on applause lines and quotable lines alike. But about halfway through his speech, Ryan found his footing. He made the case against the Obama administration effectively - "They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don't have" - and argued just as effectively for Romney. He spoke eloquently about how he and Romney were of different faiths but, at their core, believed the same things. One other note: Ryan's speech was the best written of any we've heard so far at the convention. It was packed with great lines, most of which - particularly in the second half of his speech - Ryan delivered well. 
  
 * Susana Martinez: Before tonight most people - including most Republicans - didn't know much (if anything) about the New Mexico governor. Martinez changed that with down-to-earth delivery and an ease in the moment that many politicians with much more experience on the national stage would rightly envy. In listening to Martinez, she struck us as the female equivalent of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie - very comfortable in her own skin. The strength of Martinez's speech was, for us, the most surprising thing about the night. 
  
 * The Pauls: The entire first hour of tonight's official program was dedicated to Ron and Rand Paul. First came the four-plus minute video of politicians from Sen. Jim DeMint to Sen. Mitch McConnell (!) praising Paul, a validation of the campaign the Texas congressman has been running for the last five years or so. Then came Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator, who had the Paulites in the convention crowd fired up with his attacks on the constitutionality (or lack thereof) of President Obama's health care law. The idea that a full hour of nighttime programming at a GOP convention would be dedicated to the Pauls would have been unthinkable as recently as a few years ago. Tonight it became a reality. 
  
 * Twitter: How did we cover these convention night speeches without it? And we're not just saying that because we live-tweeted the proceedings. Ok, maybe a little. 
  
 LOSERS 
  
 * Tim Pawlenty: We'll never understand why the former governor of Minnesota fashions himself as some sort of amateur comedian. He opened his speech Wednesday night with 10 minutes of not-so-funny jokes about Obama that elicited as many groans as laughs. Once Pawlenty turned to advocating for Romney and the Republican Party, he did quite well. But that was about three-quarters of the way through his speech. Too little. Too late. 
  
 * John Thune: On paper, the South Dakota senator has it all - conservative bona fides, good looks, Midwestern roots. But in three dimensions Thune is less impressive. He was somewhat flat in his delivery and the crowd seemed largely disinterested. Speaking before primetime didn't help Thune - the crowd is just very dialed in until10 p.m. or so - but he didn't bring the sort of energy and charisma required to leave a major mark on the proceedings. 
  
 * "Interviews" with delegates: In a transparent attempt to break the monotony of speech after speech, convention planners interspersed several live interviews with delegates throughout the program. It didn't work. The interviews felt scripted and wound up sapping some of the momentum and energy from the room rather than building on it. 
  
 * Convention floor dancing: Let's start with this: The Fix is a bad dancer. But, we know well enough not to dance. Not so for many of the convention delegates whose awkward dancing brought the Fix back to his junior high school dance days. And not in a good way. ||||| At the Republican convention, the former secretary of state was graceful and serious. The vice-presidential nominee came off as callow and glib. Reuters TAMPA -- When Paul Ryan was named to the GOP ticket, bolstered by recommendations from conservative elites like The Weekly Standard and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, the idea was that he would bring it gravitas. His charts full of numbers and penchant for policy, the narrative went, would imbue with intellectual responsibility a Romney campaign derided even on the right for its vacuousness and lack of specificity. At the Republican convention Wednesday night, there was indeed a lofty, high-minded speech, one that managed to forcefully articulate a conservative world view without cheap partisan attacks or facts stretched to the breaking point. But it wasn't Ryan's -- it was delivered by Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state. Rice's address had a sophistication, ease, and grace almost never found in modern political speeches. It was a speechwriter's speech, the kind you could imagine reading in a history book. She spoke with a diplomat's formality and the teleprompter turned off, glancing only occasionally at her notes on the podium. 
  
 Most of the speech was a policy argument, starting with foreign policy and moving to economics, but at the end, Rice, more circumspect than emotive, struck a personal note. "A little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham, the segregated city of the south," she said. "Her parents can't take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant. But they have her absolutely convinced that even if she can't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter, she can be president of the United States if she wanted to be -- and she becomes the secretary of state." The crowd, rapt throughout her remarks, came to its feet and roared, and you could practically feel the Condi for President buzz sweeping through the collective hearts of the Republican elites. Being pro-choice, Rice's actual presidential prospects might prove tricky, but that's a matter for another day. For now, she has clearly -- and by no accident -- established herself as a political voice. After another strong speech from New Mexico's governor, Susana Martinez, Ryan took the stage to close the night. He seemed nervous, his eyes wide as a deer's, his Adam's apple cranking up and down in the sinews of his neck. Combined with his too-big jacket and too-wide tie, the 42-year-old vice-presidential nominee seemed like a kid. It quickly became clear that that was the point. Ryan, in his speech, played the part of the glib, ambitious student, his youth underscored with sentimental riffs about his mom and dad and their lives -- there was fairly little about his own experiences -- and references to his buddies from high school. "College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life," he said. Ryan even mocked his running mate's taste in music: "I said, 'I hope it's not a deal-breaker, Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC and ends with Zeppelin.'" The casting of the Romney-Ryan ticket as a father-son pairing rather than a team of equals couldn't have been more explicit. ||||| Tampa, Fla. — The official line is that Paul Ryan spent two weeks preparing for his speech at the Republican National Convention. In the beginning, there were late-night chats about the theme with his speechwriters, John McConnell and Matthew Scully. Later came the practice sessions at a Holiday Inn Express in his hometown of Janesville, Wis., and in the final days, there were frantic editing sessions aboard the campaign plane and inside the Marriott hotel near the Tampa Bay Times Forum. 
  
 But according to sources close to him, Ryan rarely sweated the preparation, even though his Wednesday-night appearance before the cheering throngs of Republican delegates was, in a sense, his national introduction. To the 42-year-old congressman, who was elected to the House in 1998, the speech was always a continuation of an argument he has made since he came to Washington, two decades ago, to write speeches for his mentor, Jack Kemp, the late supply-side Congressman. 
  
 Ryan has accomplished much since he was a twentysomething aide, and his adherence to conservative principles is, evidently, as strong as ever. He took care to cite Kemp tonight, in the biggest speech of his political career, to send a message about who Paul Ryan is as a thinker — to go beyond the anecdotes about his days flipping burgers at McDonald’s or his recent efforts as chairman of the House Budget Committee. 
  
 Standing at the podium, Ryan ably weaved his biography and his political philosophy into a celebration of economic freedom and an articulation of the GOP ticket’s brand, which is a combination of competency and fiscal courage. “My dad used to say to me, ‘Son, you have a choice. You can be part of the problem or you can be part of the solution,’” Ryan said. “Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems.” 
  
 “And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much time,” Ryan said, as the activists nodded. “But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.” 
  
 Since Romney tapped Ryan to be his running mate earlier this month, Ryan has worn many hats on the campaign trail, from attack dog to budget expert. And Wednesday’s remarks had elements of all those roles. There were withering critiques of President Obama’s economic record and a sober discussion about federal spending. Ryan, however, worked to personalize each passage. On Capitol Hill, he often sticks to data-heavy speeches on the House floor, which win plaudits from politicos, but here, speaking to the entire country, he painted his vision with broad strokes. |||||

Paul Ryan made GOPers swoon with what most pundits say was the best speech of the convention so far. He used his regular-guy appeal to clearly set out a case against the Obama administration—but critics are challenging many of his facts. Ryan "came off young, which he is, but generally not so youthful as to seem off; he was emotional but not soft; he was tough on President Obama but not caustic," writes Maggie Haberman at Politico. His speech—ideological but "delivered in a non-threatening way—went a long way to making a convention that has been troubled a success," she writes. "Ryan has worn many hats on the campaign trail, from attack dog to budget expert," and his speech had elements of all those roles, writes Robert Costa at the National Review, likening Ryan's "conservative rallying cry" to those of Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, and Barry Goldwater. "Those men urged Americans to shrink government and empower individuals, and Ryan did just that," he writes. Ryan "played the part of the glib, ambitious student," casting the Romney-Ryan ticket as a "father-son pairing rather than a team of equals," writes Molly Ball at the Atlantic. But the speech was heavy on distorted facts, which seemed intentional, she writes. Ryan "is being positioned as the Republican ticket's gleeful, unabashed attack dog, someone willing to take it to the other side without regard for the sniffing of the poobahs: Sarah Palin in an ill-fitting suit." Ryan's start was a little rocky, but he recovered to eloquently deliver a speech packed with great lines, Chris Cillizza writes at the Washington Post. Ryan "made the case against the Obama administration effectively—'They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don’t have'—and argued just as effectively for Romney."