Romney officially accepts Republican nomination

(Vatican Radio) Republican Mitt Romney officially accepted the Republican nomination for United States president last night in Tampa on the final evening of the Republican Party convention.

Romney used the event to speak about his own background and family, before saying that President Barack Obama has failed to deliver on the promises he made four years ago.

“He introduced himself biographically in a way that I think not many people were expecting, or certainly it was a story they didn’t know,” said Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor-at-large of National Review Online. “The cynical conventional take is that this man is a robot. There is this caricature of him as not quite fully human, and he certainly combated that image tonight.”

Lopez told Vatican Radio Romney was helped by some of the personal testimonies of the people whom he served when he was a lay pastor at his Mormon church in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

“A woman who talked about her child who was born with difficulties, and how tender and wonderful he was with the family, and the message was he was a ‘servant leader,’ which was the phrase she used,” Lopez said. “It was really getting a sense of who this guy is at his core.”

Listen to the interview by Charles Collins with Kathryn Jean Lopez: