Ann Romney Knocks It Out Of The Park

Ann Romney showed her and Mitt's human side---her grandfather as a Welsh miner and her dad an immigrant from Wales who worked in a pub back in the old country, then became mayor of the Michigan town where she and Mitt both grew up.

Their parents didn't shower them with money as most liberals suspect, but they worked their way through college and then Mitt worked a small grubstake into a successful business. She scored a big point by noting Mitt should not be punished for his success. And she talked about life's hard knocks as they hit the Romney family....

"I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage,'" she said, adding the realities of a long partnership. "Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS [multiple sclerosis] and breast cancer."

"A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage," she said.

All in all, a bravissimo performance.