Convention vs. Convention

Now that both conventions are over with, the campaigns for President will start in earnest. But before we look forward to what will be the most expensive campaign in history, it's important to look back at the conventions and compare how they were run.
For 3 days in Tampa, the GOP had a convention that looked like it was planned by throwing a dart at a board, if it was planned at all. The first night had speeches that at best could be called disjointed. There was no flow from one to the other. And the keynote speech should not have been the final speech of the night. It was a stark and dark contrast to Ann Romney's speech. The second night was highlighted by Rep. Paul Ryan's speech that if the lies and distortions were taken out of it would have been less than 10 minutes long, maybe less than 5. Then the 3rd night is and will be remembered as the night of Clint Eastwood and the empty chair. The start of the most important hour of the entire convention, and GOP planners (If there were any) allowed an 82 year old actor go on stage and ad-lib a conversation with the chair. After that came Romney. Remember what he said? Don't worry, very few people, if any, do.
Now compare this to the Democrats and Charlotte. All three nights, the speeches all seemed to lead from one to another, all great and all leading to the night's best speech, the final speech of the evening. And each night, the nightly highlighted speech seemed to get better. From and outstanding speech from Michelle Obama, to an even better speech form Bill Clinton, and then finally to Barack Obama's speech, who even the GOP's Steve Schmidt admitted was a truly outstanding speech. Every night the speeches went relatively smoothly, and every night the speeches went from great to truly outstanding.
But even those differences weren't enough for the GOP, I guess. While both groups tweeted during the other's speeches, there was a vast difference in what they tweeted. While Democrats tweeted about whether the facts were right in the GOP speeches, the GOP would send tweets that were crass and vulgar. As examples, when the President talked about increasing all forms of energy, including oil, the GE chairman tweeted that wind and solar power added up to bad math. Think the company, who by the way paid no federal income tax last year, has more than a small stake in the future energy reserves of the country? Yes, that's crass, but for truly vulgar, there's Ann Coulter tweeting that Bill Clinton was impregnating Sandra Fluke, who spoke earlier in the night.
So one convention, the one in Tampa, was a mishmash of ideas, stopping and starting. That convention looked back. And those there took potshots at the other convention, sending out crass and vulgar tweets. Then there was the convention in Charlotte, which was one of the best run conventions in years, one that looked forward, not back, and questioned the other's facts, not their morals or their place of birth. So which group would you have running the country?