Inside Pitch

Ohio has "the most important delegation from the most important state in the most important country in the world,'' Ari Fleischer, the former press secretary to President George W. Bush told the Ohio delegation Monday morning.

"You have a profoundly important job to do, and, boy, do you know how to do it,'' Fleischer told the delegates at their morning breakfast in Tampa. "You need to deliver Ohio for Mitt Romney."

Despite the fact that Tampa is taking only an indirect hit from Tropical Storm Isaac, calling off the Monday sessions was the right call, Ohio Republican Party chairman Bob Bennett said this morning.

"A few days ago, it looked like it would be a direct hit,'' Bennett told reporters before the Ohio delegation breakfast Monday. "They made the right call."