Here's tonight's schedule, with the theme being reform ("Washington is broken and the Original Maverick will fix it"). I'm sure that'll work out for them. The fireworks will be in the 10 PM EDT hour when Sarah Palin will attempt to convince us that being a corrupt Alaskan machine politician is actually a good thing.
I think the story is most likely crap, but I think that it feeds in to the Republican strategy of making all Palin stories tabloid fodder. How's that for splitting the difference?
Chuck Rob on MSNBC is admiring the fact that the GOR has scheduled the convention so that there is no break between Guluiani, the Palin video and Palin's speech, so that the evil media can't intervene with "commentary" (or what you and I might think of as "correcting the lies."
He fucking loves that the GOP are cutting him out of the loop because he completely buys the idea that the media -- himself! -- is non-objective.
For the record, Wayne Morse (R, I, D-Oregon) is the original maverick. He managed to actually vote against his party and president every now and again.
I'll be back to play after the kid goes to bed, probably just before 9ish.
ReplyDeleteSeen this? Republican strategy to make all Palin stories just tabloid fodder or potential real story? Shorter version: crap, not crap?
ReplyDeleteI think the story is most likely crap, but I think that it feeds in to the Republican strategy of making all Palin stories tabloid fodder. How's that for splitting the difference?
ReplyDeleteThat background screen is CRAZY AMERICAN!
ReplyDeleteNothing says drill baby drill like the image of an unspoiled wilderness.
ReplyDeleteChuck Rob on MSNBC is admiring the fact that the GOR has scheduled the convention so that there is no break between Guluiani, the Palin video and Palin's speech, so that the evil media can't intervene with "commentary" (or what you and I might think of as "correcting the lies."
ReplyDeleteHe fucking loves that the GOP are cutting him out of the loop because he completely buys the idea that the media -- himself! -- is non-objective.
MITTENS!
ReplyDeleteI am being told that it is sexist to assert that Obama has more experience than Palin. Because she has "executive experience."
ReplyDeleteMITTENS!!!
ReplyDeleteDamn--and Neats was just making fun of me for writing that!
ReplyDeleteThe sun is about to rise from Arizona and Alaska... but conspicuously not California.
ReplyDeleteAt the DNC, it was hard to hear the crowd, which made some of the speeches sound weird.
ReplyDelete--Mitt, the sun rises in the east no matter who is governor of Alaska --
Having a hall where you can hear each and every jackass "whoop" is worse.
Wow... someone missed out on that whole 1994-2006 thing, huh?
ReplyDeleteinterests of the teacher's unions above the interests of students!
ReplyDeleteoh, and: hi!
I believe Mitt just called George a "big government liberal."
ReplyDeletethank you mitt for the "Teachers' Union" shout-out!
ReplyDeleteI love it when Republican's paraphrase the labor theory of value.
ReplyDeleteHomes without pornography?!? Mittens wants to ban the internets!!1!!1!
ReplyDeletelove the baby and kid montage after the family values line.
ReplyDeletebig brother?!?! who is wire tapping this conversation right now?
ReplyDeleteThe party of Big Brother... hmmm... might want to rethink that one.
ReplyDeleteI think Mitt thinks he's having a "Reagan '76" moment.
ReplyDeleteReally is it 1992?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't "Adam Smith on steroids" be awesome to a free marketeer?
How can a fucking Republican be against real estate speculation? Isn't the the free fucking market?
But, conspicuously, not George Bush 8 years ago.
ReplyDeleteSweet Christ - "the tyrannosaurus appetite of government unions."
ReplyDeleteAl Gore joke. Boom!
ReplyDeleteUh yeah dude. They talked about actually finding bin Laden instead of going after people who didn't attack us.
ReplyDeleteSaddleback Reference!
ReplyDeleteUSA!! USA!! USA!!
ReplyDeletePutin, Chavez, and A-jad! BOOM!
ReplyDeleteMitt cannot give a speech. He really keeps fucking it up. Cut taxes, not hostages, no retreat.
ReplyDeleteHere comes the Michelle slagging.
ReplyDeleteUSA!! USA!! USA!!
ReplyDeleteInherited?
ReplyDeleteWe don't want your Mormon god's blessing Mitt, but thanks.
ReplyDeleteIf it is up to God whether this noble little experiment in democracy lives or dies, then what the heck difference does it make who we elect president?
ReplyDeleteUm Wobs--that would be Gods'
ReplyDeleteand DAVE,
ReplyDeletelay off my man chuck todd.
1 to 10 Mitt's speech. I give it a 5.
ReplyDeleteChuck Todd is worse than your man Chris Matthews and that is saying something. Actually I hate Todd most of all.
ReplyDeletewhat does 1 represent, and 10?
ReplyDeleteFor what is was supposed to do, which is fire up the base, I'd give it an 8. To appeal to Joe Schmo, who wasn't watching it anyways, a 5.
ReplyDeleteBobo is boggled by Mitten's "right wing" speech
ReplyDeleteDear Mitt Romney's gods - please make the awkward white people dancing stop.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't there be someone begging the conventioneers not to dance?
ReplyDeleteBobo and Shields laughing about Mittens using the speech to start campaigning for 2012--it is really an odd sight.
ReplyDeleteLike diving, 10 is better than 1.
ReplyDeleteGergen just called Mittens' address "a great speech for the 1970s" and asked "what decade IS this???"
ReplyDeleteokay, that was a belly flop then--I give it a 4
ReplyDeleteFor the record, Wayne Morse (R, I, D-Oregon) is the original maverick. He managed to actually vote against his party and president every now and again.
ReplyDeleteCNN is really on the way McCain has turned on the "liberal media" frame. They seem somewhat surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe Huckster!
ReplyDeleteI finally get to use the word "Hucktacular!" again.
ReplyDeleteBreak out the dog whistles, kids, it's Huck time!
ReplyDeleteNot Huckalicious?!
ReplyDeleteMy second choice. Swipe at Mittens!
ReplyDeleteHucktacular!
ReplyDeleteApparently, we are no longer part of America, as we have failed to be unified for McCain by the "liberal media."
ReplyDeleteBOOM! Madonna concert. Hoo boy!
ReplyDeleteMadonna?!? We ARE in the wrong decade!
ReplyDeletePolite applause for the black man.
ReplyDeletehis color?
ReplyDeletewhy do they keep saying they aren't Republicans?
ReplyDeleteAvoiding economic proposals like the plague, eh?
ReplyDeleteBill and Ted reference? 80s!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my. "Elevate our taxes and our risk."
ReplyDeleteThey really are going for the taxes-terrorism linkage.
"opportunity to prosper" not unlike the "opportunity to have qualified counsel."
"European ides" Sweet Jesus.
Europeans hate freedom.
ReplyDeleteyou got to take showers?!
ReplyDeleteHow many Republicans actually had fathers that worked with their hands?
ReplyDeleteIN the hall, that is.
ReplyDeletethat silk stockings thing was creepy weird.
ReplyDeleteAnyone want to comment on the homemade signs?
ReplyDeleteCheap line on Biden and not true.
biden: zing!
ReplyDeleteshe got almost votes as there are empty seats at this convention!
ReplyDeletethat would be "as many votes"
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain was a POW? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteWas the "he did not choose the easy path" a swipe at Bush?
ReplyDeleteHuh. That's the first time we've heard the word "torture" here.
ReplyDeleteAnyone want to comment on the homemade signs?
ReplyDeleteI don't believe they are homemade. They seem like the "homemade" signs at American Gladiators.
Was the "he did not choose the easy path" a swipe at Bush?
ReplyDeleteI love the awkward smiles and sign waving while Huck describes the lasting damage from McCain's torture.
ReplyDeleteHoly effing ess. That was the awesomest story ever!
ReplyDeleteBatshit. But Awesome.
Soldiers earned the students desks? Huh.
ReplyDeleteStudents' desks = freedom.
ReplyDeletewe're in iraq fighting for...desks
ReplyDeleteholy shit, what a wingnut ending.
ReplyDeleteSo, if McCain is elected, then free desks?
ReplyDeleteAnyone thinking about Wag the Dog and that Willie Nelson song about shoes? I am expecting a new hit about "the desk" tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteNew thread is posted, y'all.
ReplyDeleteI am quite literally at a loss of words...
ReplyDeletehey dave--i'm glad you brought up the homemade signs. don't remember seeing that at the DNC? what's the story with that?
ReplyDeleteThis is the woman that said that saying Obama has more experience than Palin is sexist.
ReplyDeleteash...see you on the new thread.
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