TAMPA — We’re only hours into the 2012 Republican National Convention, but it’s already clear that one message is being pushed hard and resonating with the audience: “We Built It.”

Last month, Mitt Romney’s campaign seized on remarks in which President Obama uttered he now infamous words, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” (Read an analysis of the fuller context here.) Now, it’s becoming a big theme of the 2012 convention.