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2012 Republican National Convention
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2012 Presidential Election
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Nominees
Romney and Ryan
Convention
Date(s) August 27–30, 2012
City Tampa, Florida
Venue Tampa Bay Times Forum
Keynote Speaker Chris Christie[1]
Notable Speakers Rick Santorum
Ann Romney
Rand Paul
John McCain
Condoleezza Rice
Susana Martinez
Tim Pawlenty
Rob Portman
Jeb Bush
Clint Eastwood
Marco Rubio
Candidates
Presidential Nominee Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (MA)
Vice Presidential Nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (WI)
Voting
Total Delegates 2,286[2]
Votes Needed for Nomination 1,144 (absolute majority)
Results (President) Romney (MA): 2,061 (90.16%)
Paul (TX): 190 (8.31%)
Santorum (PA): 9 (0.39%)
Results (Vice President) Ryan (WI): 100% (Acclamation)
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The 2012 Republican National Convention was a gathering held by the U.S. Republican Party during which delegates officially nominated Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for President and Vice President, respectively, for the 2012 election. Prominent members of the party delivered speeches and discussed the convention theme, "A Better Future."[3]

The convention was held during the week of August 27, 2012, in Tampa, Florida,[4] at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. The city, which expected demonstrations and possible vandalism, used a federal grant to bolster its police force in preparation.

Due to the approach of Hurricane Isaac, convention officials changed the convention schedule on August 26, 2012; the convention came to order on August 27, 2012 and then immediately recessed until the following afternoon because of the risk of Isaac hitting Tampa.[5]

Contents

Background [edit]

Host Committee [edit]

RNC banner in Tampa

On August 14, 2009, the Republican National Committee named an eight member Site Selection Committee to start the process of selecting a host city for the 2012 convention.[6]

News reports in early 2010 indicated that Tampa, as well as Salt Lake City, Utah, and Phoenix, Arizona, had been selected as finalist candidates for the convention site.[4][7][8] The decision was announced on May 12, 2010, when Tampa was selected as the host city.[9]

The 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, was the official and federally designated presidential convention host committee for the convention, charged with the task of raising the necessary funds to hold the convention.[10] The Host Committee was composed of 10 prominent Florida business executives, civic leaders, and other community leaders. Al Austin was chairman and Ken Jones served as the President and Chief Executive Officer. J[11][12]

The Host Committee achieved its fundraising goal as of August 27, 2012, having raised more than $55,000,000 to host the 2012 Republican National Convention.

Objectives and themes [edit]

See also: You didn't build that

The convention theme was "A Better Future".[13] Each day also had its own theme: Monday's was "We Can Do Better"; Tuesday's was "We Built It"; Wednesday's was "We Can Change It"; and Thursday's was "We Believe in America." The choice of theme for Tuesday, "We Built It", has drawn comments as the Convention is being hosted in an arena that was built with public funds.[14][15][16][17] In addition to these daily themes, the Republican National Committee announced that it would present a series of policy workshops to be hosted by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called "Newt University".[18]

A primary objective of the convention, described both as Romney's "biggest election hurdle" and as Romney's "most urgent task" of concern by top Republicans, was to counter efforts to portray him as an out-of-touch elitist and to rehabilitate the image of his business career.[19]

The convention lasted from August 27 to 30, 2012. According to the convention website, it hosted 2,286 delegates, 2,125 alternates, and 15,000 credentialed members of the media. The convention CEO was William D. Harris.[20]

Several notable Republican figures chose not to attend the convention, including former presidents George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush, and former vice-president Dick Cheney. However, a video tribute to George W. Bush, who has stayed out of the political arena since leaving office, was shown at the convention on Wednesday night, in which Bush's family members praised him. In the tribute, Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, said of George W. Bush: "There was never a taint of scandal around his presidency. And I think we forget the importance of that."[21]

Security [edit]

Police surround protestors during a nighttime demonstration on August 30

The convention was designated as a National Special Security Event, which meant that ultimate authority over law enforcement went to the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security.[22] The federal government provided $50 million for Convention security.[23] Much of the money went to deputizing additional police. Other expenses included expanded surveillance technology and an armored SWAT vehicle.[24][25] Tampa Bay disclosed specifically that it had spent $1.18m on video linkages between ground police and helicopters.[26][27][28] The city paid $16,500 to the Florida State Fairgrounds Authority in exchange for police use of local fairgrounds as a command center.[29]

Dani Doane of the Heritage Foundation described the police presence as "unnerving" and "like a police state".[30][31] Others reported a quiet week with small protests and few arrests.[32][33] Police handed out bottles of water during the event[34] and at one point served protestors a box lunch.[35]

The convention [edit]

Platform [edit]

A committee, chaired by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, met in Tampa to draft a party platform. On August 21, 2012, the committee released a 60-page document for approval at the convention. The platform was enthusiastically approved at the convention on August 28.[36][37] Policies include:[38]

  • A Human Life Amendment banning abortion (with exceptions, if any, to be determined by Congress)[39] and legislation "to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."[40]
  • A constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The right of the federal government and each state to deny legal recognition to same-sex marriages.[36]
  • For Medicare: increase the age of eligibility and a shift to a defined contribution plan in which the government pays a fixed amount rather than cover an individual's costs.[41]
  • A new "guest worker" program;[42] long-term detention for "dangerous but undeportable aliens".[43]
  • Abstinence should be the only form of family planning for teenagers that is government funded.[41]
  • Increased transparency of the Federal Reserve via audits and investigating the viability of returning to a fixed value currency.[44]
  • Ending the federal income tax by repealing the Sixteenth Amendment if the current taxation system is significantly changed.[45]
  • Opposing regulations on business to curb climate change, curtailing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, and promoting "private stewardship of the environment".[46]

Nominations [edit]

Main article: Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012

According to Fox News[47] and Associated Press delegate projections,[48] Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, clinched the Republican presidential nomination in the Texas primary on May 29, 2012 and became the party's presumptive nominee.[49] Two weeks before the convention, on August 11, Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate.[50] The decision makes Ryan the major parties' first vice presidential candidate from Wisconsin.[51]

Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich formally released their delegates in the week before the convention and encouraged them to vote for Romney. Ron Paul retained his delegates, as part of an overall strategy to influence the party. The final composition of several delegations was subject to ruling of the Committee on Contests.

The traditional roll call of the states, which permits delegates to promote their home states, took place on Tuesday, August 28, 2012, the first full day of the convention.

Republican National Convention Presidential nominee vote, 2012
Candidate First Ballot Percentage
Mitt Romney 2,061 90.16%
Ron Paul 190 8.31%
Rick Santorum 9 0.39%
Michele Bachmann 1 0.04%
Jon Huntsman 1 0.04%
Buddy Roemer 1 0.04%
Abstain 13 0.57%
Unknown/Not Announced 8 0.35%
Uncommitted 1 0.04%
Undecided 1 0.04%
Totals 2,286 100.00%

Paul Ryan was nominated for vice-president by voice vote.

Speakers [edit]

Tampa Bay Times Forum during the RNC

The original plan called for speeches on Monday, but due to Tropical Storm Isaac most of the Monday program was cancelled and all the main speakers were rescheduled to speak later at the convention.[52][53]

Ron Paul was offered a speech slot, under the conditions that the Romney campaign could pre-review his remarks and that he would fully endorse Romney.[54] Paul declined the offer, saying that he remained an "undecided voter".[55] Paul explained that "It wouldn’t be my speech. That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president."[54] Instead, a tribute video to Paul was shown at the convention.[56]

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers served as the official convention host, speaking at the start of each night of the convention to provide the theme of the speeches for each evening.[57]

The most coveted speaking slot that was intended to close the Monday night program of the convention was scheduled to go to Ann Romney, Mitt Romney’s wife. But since the major television networks had opted out on Monday's primetime coverage (prior to Monday's cancellation of activities), her speech was moved to Tuesday, August 28 after 10:00 pm EDT, when broadcast networks began coverage, with an introduction by Lucé Vela Fortuño, the First Lady of Puerto Rico.[58] Ann Romney's task in her speech was described by Lois Romano of POLITICO as "to try to accomplish what the sharpest minds in Republican politics have failed to do: present her stiff and awkward husband as a likable guy."[59]

Other August 28 speakers included Governors John Kasich (Ohio), Nikki Haley (South Carolina), Bob McDonnell (Virginia), and Mary Fallin (Oklahoma).[60]

Monday, August 27 [edit]

Due to Tropical Storm Isaac, the scheduled activities on Monday were postponed or canceled; RNC Chairman Reince Priebus called the convention to order at 2:00 pm on Monday and started a debt clock in the arena, before putting the convention into recess at 2:10 pm.[61]

Tuesday, August 28 - Ann Romney and Christie [edit]

Ron Paul supporters protest outside the convention

On Tuesday afternoon, the bulk of the Maine delegates walked out of the convention in protest of the decision to replace 10 Ron Paul delegates with 10 Romney delegates.[62] This action by the RNC came in response[not in citation given] to a takeover of Maine's Republican State Convention by Paul supporters which resulted in Paul's percentage of delegates being doubled over the percentage of delegates to which he would have been entitled by the caucus vote count[not in citation given]; the additional ten delegates came at the expense of Romney.[63]

Originally scheduled to speak at the closing of Monday night's program, Ann Romney spoke in front of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, August 28, 2012. Ann started off by stating that her speech was not about politics, not about party, but about heart, about love. Ann starts off by using emotions to appeal to her audience by showing her audience what she has come to realize about the economic problem in the country. In this, she relates to the average American and more importantly, to women.

In the second portion of her speech, she talks about her husband, Mitt Romney, in an attempt to present her husband as a likable guy, due to recent attacks by the Obama Campaign, by trying to make the audience relate to her and Mitt's personal lives; the struggles that they had to go through, the success that they built by working hard.[64]

The single dad who's working extra hours tonight so that his kids can buy some new clothes to go back to school, can take a school trip, or play a school sport, so his kids can fee, you know, just like other kids.[64]

-'Ann Romneys 2012 RNC convention speech
Ann Romney
Mia Love

The speakers for the day were:

Wednesday, August 29 - Paul Ryan [edit]

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Wednesday saw a speech from vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.[65] The accuracy of some of Ryan's statements was widely challenged by the media, fact-checkers, and political opponents.[66][67] The Associated Press criticized Ryan for taking "factual shortcuts",[68] and the speech was criticized in other outlets for being "misleading"[69][70][71] and "dishonest".[70][71][72] Fox News columnist Sally Kohn wrote that the speech "was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."[73][74] According to Salon, a progressive online magazine: ’’Paul Ryan’s speech was so shamelessly dishonest that it seemed designed not just to stir up the crowd in the arena but also to give media fact-checkers aneurysms. There’s really no other reason for Ryan to have made the closure of the GM plant such a prominent part of his address. That wasn’t just a misleading interpretation of events, it was straight-up dishonesty.’’[75]

Several assertions were called "false",[76] including Ryan noting that during Obama's presidency, the country's credit rating had been downgraded, implicitly blaming the president. In fact, Standard & Poor had stated that the downgrade was due to "political brinksmanship" making the American government unreliable, after the standoff created when Ryan, leading the House Republicans, refused to raise the debt ceiling if spending was not cut.[77][78] Another contested claim was Ryan's statement that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare cut $716bn from Medicare; although Ryan is correct, he also had included in one of his budgets a proposal to cut the same $716bn for deficit reduction.[79][80] Ryan also asserted that President Obama had "done nothing" when the Bowles-Simpson Commission had presented its report, although Ryan, a member of the Commission, had voted against the report.[81][82] Ryan also criticized the stimulus as "political patronage, corporate welfare and cronyism at their worst" and a waste of money, yet he had asked for stimulus funds for his district in order to bail out the Janeville GM plant.[83][84][85] Some conservatives disputed charges against the Ryan speech, asserting that the some fact-checkers did not disprove Ryan's assertions and instead resorted to tu quoque arguments, a form of fallacy.[86][87][88]

Ryan criticized Obama for supposedly claiming at a February 2008 appearance at a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin (Ryan's home town), which was slated for closure, that Obama would keep that plant open if he became President.[89] GM began a phased plant closing for the Janesville facility, during the 2008 presidential campaign, laying off nearly all of its 1,200 workers on December 23, 2008. 57 workers remained employed at the plant during final assembly and another 40 to 50 in the decommissioning of the plant.[90][91][92][93][94][95][96][70] On September 19, 2011, GM reported that the Janesville plant was on standby status, as part of a contract between itself and the UAW, pending economic improvement in the truck/SUV market.[97] Vice President Biden told a crowd of auto workers "You heard Congressman Ryan on Wednesday night blame the closing of a GM plant in his hometown of Janesville on the president of the United States. [...] But what he didn’t tell you was that plant in Janesville actually closed while President Bush was still in office. What they didn't say is, but for the sacrifices you made, and the courage of the president, all those GM plants would have closed."[98]

In response to journalists' questions about the factuality of Romney/Ryan's claims, Romney pollster Neil Newhouse answered "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers".[99]

My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.

A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you ... this plant will be here for another hundred years.” That’s what he said in 2008.

-Paul Ryan's 2012 RNC convention speech

The speakers for the day were:

Thursday, August 30: Eastwood, Rubio and Romney [edit]

Main article: Clint Eastwood at the 2012 Republican National Convention
Actor Clint Eastwood
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Eastwood Speech at RNC

Actor Clint Eastwood made a planned surprise appearance at the convention, speaking at the top of the final hour. He spent much of his speech time on a largely improvised routine addressing an empty chair representing President Obama. In at least two instances, Eastwood implied the President had uttered profanities directed both at Romney and Eastwood, saying "What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that, he can't do that to himself."[100] Eastwood's remarks were well-received within the convention hall, but responses were mixed in the media.[101] Republican governor Scott Walker described the speech as "that one moment, which I cringed about".[102][103] Film critic Roger Ebert commented "Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him".[104] Breitbart.com editor-at-large John Nolte was more positive in his review, stating that the performance was "funnier, fresher, edgier, and braver than anything those comedy cowards Chris Rock, Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert have done in 15 years."[105] Comedian Bob Newhart, who had popularized empty-chair interviews in the 1960s, tweeted in his deadpan humor style, "I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit".[106] The New York Times quoted unnamed Romney aides describing the Eastwood speech as "strange", "weird", and "theater of the absurd."[107]

President Obama responded to the comment from Clint Eastwood by tweeting a picture of him sitting in his chair, where it says "The President" - adding the phrase: "...This seat's taken..."[108]

External video
Romney acceptance speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention. (Transcript)

Thursday night concluded with Romney's acceptance speech. He announced that if elected, a Romney administration energy policy would take "full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables".[109] Romney also joked about the Obama administration's policies on climate change, saying "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet", a line which elicited laughter from the convention audience.[110] By way of contrast, Romney continued "MY promise...is to help you and your family."

Thursday's speakers included:

Invocations and blessings [edit]

Besides Rabbi Soloveichik, another five religious leaders were scheduled to provide blessings or invocations, including the Rev. Sammy Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; Ishwar Singh of the Sikh Society of Central Florida; Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; Ken and Priscilla Hutchins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (to open[112]); and Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan.[113] Dolan gave the closing prayer.

Protests [edit]

Signs at the Occupy Tampa encampment

In October 2011, Tampa city officials began planning for anticipated protests, and discussions centered around small prior protests by the Occupy movement. According to former Tampa City Council member John Dingfelder, then the senior staff attorney for the mid-Florida office of the American Civil Liberties Union, the convention should expect to draw far more protestors and the city should plan on up to 10,000. Dingfelder encouraged the city to be proactive regarding where protests could occur and protestors could sleep. Tampa's Mayor Bob Buckhorn's response was "If they want a place to sleep, they can go home or to a hotel.... Just because they want to occupy something doesn't mean we are obligated to provide them with an opportunity to camp out in a public park or on a sidewalk."[114]

The city of Tampa has banned puppets from downtown during the convention, a decision which some puppet-makers say violates their civil liberties. Police claimed that puppets could be used to conceal weapons—at the 2000 RNC, police charged a group of puppet-makers in Philadelphia with conspiracy to resist arrest.[115]

On August 4, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) held a forum addressing what would be considered free speech during the Convention.[116][117]

In early August, the city announced plans to provide delegates and protestors alike with potable water and toilets.[118]

Various groups began demonstrating on July 27 in Tampa and Tallahassee as part of a one-month countdown to the convention, calling for "good jobs, healthcare, affordable education, equality and peace," emphasizing their feelings to prioritize people over corporate profits.[119]

Unlike the 2004 Republican National Convention which saw 1800 individuals arrested in New York City[120] the Occupy Tampa demonstrators were met with tolerance by Tampa officials.[121]

See also [edit]

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