Just came across this great item by Michael Shaw over at Bag News Notes. At the top of the feature is a slide show of 16 stills from the second half of Ann Romney's speech last night. Their eloquence is overwhelming and I urge you to go and page through them yourself before reading further.
Here's Shaw's comment on the slides:
Instead, and this is where the body language came in, Ann insisted that, whatever she understands about her husband, and their real life, and their real marriage is just something the American public has to take her word on. It was in that second half of the speech (where these 16 slides, taken in succession, are drawn from) that the defensiveness and the finger wagging came into play, Ann justifying their success and their material gain (although nobody brought it up in the first place) while insisting that Mitt will lift up America, that Mitt will not let us down.
And then the kicker:
Of course, I recognize looking at Ann this hard can’t help but produce some cognitive dissonance. As the mother of five who had been attacked in the campaign for not working; as someone with MS; as a survivor of breast cancer (which, even after the speech, are facts we still only know from the bio sheets), really how much heart does anybody have in deconstructing Ann when there’s plenty to consider about the nature of Mitt? Still, as Karl Rove said and I’ve never forgotten, “politics is television with the sound off.”
[Emphasis added.]