RNC Convention Finale – US Olympians To Join Romney
Posted by Andrea Ryan on Thursday, August 30, 2012, 12:08 PM
The powerhouse speaker line-up continues at the 2012 RNC Convention.
U.S. Olympic champions will show their support for Romney at tonight’s finale. Among the 11 Olympians appearing, hockey gold medalist Mike Eruzione, speed skater and world record holder Derek Parra, and five time consecutive skeet champion Kimberly Rhode will speak about Mitt Romney’s brilliant leadership during the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. What better witness than the Olympic athletes to tell the story of how Mitt Romney stepped into that crumbling, corrupt, and indebted disaster, saved it, then turned the event into an organized, outstanding success. Exactly the sort of leader our country needs right now.
The Wall Street Journal reports,
Mike Eruzione … The captain of the U.S. Olympic “Miracle on Ice” hockey team from the 1980 Lake Placid Games is among 11 Olympians expected to appear on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., before Mitt Romney’s speech to accept the party’s nomination for president.
…Eruzione and Romney first met through the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, which were marred by a bribery scandal related to the bidding process and massive financial shortfalls — problems that came before Romney was hired to lead the organizing committee in 1999. …
“It’s the first time anybody’s ever asked me to be part of something so big,” said Eruzione, who scored the goal that put the U.S. ahead to stay in its fabled 4-3 upset of the Soviet Union in 1980. “I’m not going to get up there and talk about Medicare or job opportunities. I’m going to talk about my relationship with him and Salt Lake City and what I thought was an absolutely incredible job to pull those games together. It could have been a disaster.” …
Many of the Olympians invited to the convention have ties to the 2002 Olympics.
Five current or former members of the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation are to appear Thursday, which is no coincidence, Parsley said.
“I think 2002 was a breakout year for our federation,” Parsley said. “We owe a lot to Mitt Romney and the staff that he put together to pull those Olympic Games from the brink of disaster. The Olympic Games were in question and he really came in and put together a staff of people who did the job and turned it into a huge success. If he had not done what he did, we would not have done what we did.”
Here is a Romney ad highlighting his accomplishment of restoring the 2002 Olympics.
When Mitt Romney took over “he faced a $400 million budget deficit and turned that around to a $100 million surplus” and, as Derek Parra said, “allowed athletes like myself to realize our dreams”.
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bg commented:
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Paul Ryan Speech
Dana Show
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Condoleezza Rice Speech
more here..
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Thank You Mr. Romney!!
Thank You Olympians!!
God Bless America!!
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all you need is Ann Romney..
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Ghost commented:
“It’s the first time anybody’s ever asked me to be part of something so big,” said Eruzione, who scored the goal that put the U.S. ahead to stay in its fabled 4-3 upset of the Soviet Union in 1980.
He never played in the NHL because he said he could never top the Olympic triumph. We remember him too from the Opening Ceremonies at Salt Lake City. For him to say this (above) is almost absurd for a guy with his accomplishment, remember he was the Captain of that team.
Never a bad word about him since. What a Great Guy!
Mike Eruzione entered the American Hall of Fame in one magnificent moment.
For the Ages (:39)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fizFHcnfjZo
The Watcher commented:
What, no McKayla Maroney?
Come on, guys…I don’t think she’ll feel like this.
Peggy R commented:
He’d better do something about his recent statements on abortion. This is very problematic.
http://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=398
He’s pretty much espousing Roe.
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Ryan said nothing last night, save a vague reference to protecting the weakest. Ryan, a Catholic, was mum on the HHS mandate.
They’d better do more to get the Catholic & evangelical votes.
RealMc commented:
I wonder…….would Condi be up to a second stint as Secretary of State……….??
Ghost commented:
#10 – NO
but, Governator of MexiKallyfornia?
L'il Red commented:
Getting the Catholic and Evangelical vote for Romney is Obama’s job, and he’s actually quite good at it.
dwd commented:
Can you even IMAGINE what an Obama Chicago Olympics would have been like?!
Kathteach commented:
What a great group of incredible Americans – our Olympic athletes – to bring in to finish off a victorious GOP Convention campaign launch.
Remember foks – the convention is the official launch.
Now we all have to get to work – ask our kids to foregoe a pizza or two and keep flooding the Romney-Ryan team with small but important donations.
And then – vote and take your neighbors and senior citizen friends and as many others as you can to go vote legally in November.
Behind every blade of grass in America – a voter in November.
Tim in Cali commented:
I’ve been waiting for them to tout what he did to save the Olympics
Prooves his crisis management skills
And this qualifies as a crisis..in America
Kathteach commented:
Do ya’ll remember when Obama made fun of his bowling skills – calling them “Special Olympics”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E-EdGul8nI
His controversial joke hadn’t even aired yet when President Obama got on the phone from Air Force One Thursday night to apologize for comparing his notoriously bad bowling skills to the Special Olympics.
“He expressed his disappointment and he apologized, I think, in a way that was very moving,” Tim Shriver, the chairman of the Special Olympics board, told “Good Morning America” today.
“He expressed that he did not intend to humiliate this population, certainly didn’t want to embarrass or give anybody any more reason for pain or just suffering, I would say,” said Shriver, who received the call from Obama as the president was flying back to Washington.
“He was very sincere, expressed an interest and an openness in being more engaged in the movement, and said he was a fan of the movement and I think, importantly, he said he was ready to have some of our athletes over to the White House to bowl or play basketball or help him improve his score.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7129997&page=1#.UD_ipsVdC7s
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