Mia Love - Gaining National Recognition

[Moliere]

I hope you do. I really, really hope you do.

You know Matheson isn't a woman right?

[DU Ute]

You know Matheson isn't a woman right?

That makes sense.

I'm not advocating fisticuffs, but I think JL should try to instigate some verbal sparring.

[FMCoug]

Tonight Mia Love takes the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. This speech, delivered during the much-coveted primetime television coverage, will be the biggest moment in the young political career of Love, a Republican congressional candidate from Utah’s Fourth District. It will also serve as the introduction for most Americans to the woman whom many prominent Republicans, including the GOP presidential ticket itself, expect to be a leading voice in Congress for years to come.
Love might be the most talked about Republican congressional candidate in 2012, with numerous appearances on Fox News and CNN, and profiles in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as lots of exposure on conservative political blogs. Yet so far, more than her Tea Party politics, it is her unique biography—she’s a Haitian American woman and a Mormon convert—that has garnered most of the attention. If elected, she will become the first black Republican woman in Congress. As one longtime Utah political observer told me, “If Mia Love wasn’t a black, Mormon, conservative woman, no one outside of Utah would have ever heard of her.”

http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/08/28/mia-love-the-most-interesting-mormon-speaking-at-the-rnc/

Also be sure to have your Bingo card out because you can mark off one of the squares when she takes the stage.

[byu71]

She knocked it out of the park. Even a manly man such as myself shed a couple of tears.

[myboynoah]

She knocked it out of the park. Even a manly man such as myself shed a couple of tears.

BINGO!!!!!

[pellegrino]

She knocked it out of the park. Even a manly man such as myself shed a couple of tears.

that's just cuz she made you feel like you were in a fast and testimony meeting.

[Jeff Lebowski]

She knocked it out of the park. Even a manly man such as myself shed a couple of tears.

I missed it. Anyone got a link to the video of the speech?

[Jeff Lebowski]

She tends to do quite well in interviews. But of course I am hopelessly biased on this one.

By the way, they supposedly showed this video at the convention. It made me laugh when talked about Utah ("Isn't Utah great? Look how beautiful it is!") but then they showed her jogging down a sagebrush-lined dirt road in the winter with snow falling.

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[Coach McGuirk]

I missed it. Anyone got a link to the video of the speech?

http://www.nationalreview.com/media/video/315221

[pellegrino]

She tends to do quite well in interviews. But of course I am hopelessly biased on this one.

By the way, they supposedly showed this video at the convention. It made me laugh when talked about Utah ("Isn't Utah great? Look how beautiful it is!") but then they showed her jogging down a sagebrush-lined dirt road in the winter with snow falling.

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best line of that video "If I could describe freedom in one word, it would be agency." She's so Mormon.

I agree with the shot of her running in the sagebrush, but then again, that's where she lives. Just a decade ago Saratoga Springs was nothing but sage brush and jack rabbits. What would people have said if she had filmed herself running in Little Cottonwood Canyon?

[pellegrino]

http://religionandpolitics.org/2012/...ng-at-the-rnc/

Also be sure to have your Bingo card out because you can mark off one of the squares when she takes the stage.

interesting twist on a time honored Mormon tradition for conventions . . . er, I mean conferences.

[Coach McGuirk]

Those people smiling on the treadmill, they are not training hard enough.

[Jeff Lebowski]

best line of that video "If I could describe freedom in one word, it would be agency." She's so Mormon.

I got a chuckle out of that too.

I agree with the shot of her running in the sagebrush, but then again, that's where she lives. Just a decade ago Saratoga Springs was nothing but sage brush and jack rabbits. What would people have said if she had filmed herself running in Little Cottonwood Canyon?

Could have used a couple of stock photos/videos from the national parks. She was talking about Utah, not Saratoga Springs.

[byu71]

interesting twist on a time honored Mormon tradition for conventions . . . er, I mean conferences.

There are times when I have some pride in someone representing my tribe. This was one of those times.

[Surfah]

She killed it. Getting lots of buzz for her speech and deservedly so. Sher Valenzuela was impressive too. And Janine Turner is hot.