Thursday on theamericanconservative.com, Scott McConnell, Noah Millman, Scott Galupo, and Daniel Larison reacted to Romney’s convention speech (Rod Dreher on the Clint Eastwood embarrassment here).

Daniel McCarthy wondered if Rand Paul could connect with post-boomers, and Samuel Goldman and Galupo took issue with the GOP’s narrative of “job-creators” and “parasites,” which doesn’t account for Americans who are not Henry Fords and Ronald Reagans and merely “hope for stable lives that include a reasonable measure of comfort.”

Larison debunked the widely-held GOP myth that the U.S. missed an opportunity to alter Iran’s political future and deconstructed Condoleezza Rice’s convention rhetoric. He also exposed the shallowness of the GOP’s claim to being the party of limited government. He argued, “the national security state is the antithesis of a constitutional government of limited and enumerated powers.”