ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />STORY: Wearing feathers and cowboys hats, Romney - Ryan stickers and buttons, Republicans nominated Mitt Romney on Tuesday to challenge U.S. President Barack Obama for the White House.<br/> <br />One delegate dressed as a witch and another dressed as sheriff Wyatt Earp. Members of the Texas delegation fashioned cowboy hats while delegates from West Virginia wore hard hats, a nod to their state's coal mining industry.<br/> <br />"I am completely excited. I am just really ready to get going. It is one of those can't contain the excitement, pre-kick-off types of things, just ready to go," delegate Apollo Fuhriman of Washington said.<br/> <br />Republicans hope to use the convention to make an aggressive argument for booting U.S. President Barack Obama from office while presenting a softer side of Romney, who is struggling to overcome a "likability gap" with the president and refute critics who paint him as a job-killing, out-of-touch former private equity executive.
