Ann Romney, Chris Christie and Rick Santorum energize Day 2 of the Republican National Convention

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With newly upgraded Hurricane Isaac blowing past Florida, the Republican National Convention surges on with speeches by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former GOP presidential race contender Rick Santorum, and Ann Romney, the wife of the now affirmed GOP presidential nominee. The abbreviated convention schedule may have dampened the opening day, but with Mitt Romney’s arrival, Day 2 finds the winds of the Grand Old Party struggling to hold onto the many hats of a divided Republican base.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Minutes before Mitt Romney’s chartered plane touched down in Florida, bringing the candidate and his wife to town for Ann Romney’s much-anticipated convention speech Tuesday night, Romney chief spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said there was no chance Mitt Romney would have stayed behind in Boston.

“I don’t think you could keep him away from watching her giving the speech,” Gitcho told Fox News. Gitcho also hinted that Romney may join his wife onstage.

“We’ll have to wait and see,” she said coyly when asked. Not a definite yes, but certainly not a definite no. (It’s hard, if not impossible, to imagine that Romney campaign brains would not want the world to see images of a proud husband hugging his adored wife in what is bound to be an emotional aftermath of the most important speech of her life.)

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