Think about it for a moment, this is a unique opportunity where you have a set of seven speakers who are all quite good at delivering a message. This is an opportunity to create (watch out – music reference coming up) a virtual symphony of words where it starts low and then gradually builds to a crescendo. However, just like the Democrats, it sure looks like this speaking opportunity was missed.

Instead of complaining, perhaps we should talk about how it could have been done better. Pick a main message: “Lower taxes for everyone”. Then make sure that every speaker has this as a central theme to their message; however, give each speaker another theme (”A strong foreign policy”, “Energy independence”) that they can wrap around the main theme. This way each speaker would appear to “hand off” the main message to the next, carrying it higher and higher until it was handed to the final speaker – the big man. Have him also wrap his speech around this message, touch on all of the other speaker’s additional themes, then then finish strong by driving home points on the main message.

I guess what we are talking about here is coordination. Yes, some speakers were good; however, they were good islands of information. A road that stretched from starting speaker to final speaker would have delivered an even more powerful message.