Wednesday, September 3, 2008
RNC open thread
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.
Bon appetit!
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I'll be back to play after the kid goes to bed, probably just before 9ish.
Seen this? Republican strategy to make all Palin stories just tabloid fodder or potential real story? Shorter version: crap, not crap?
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?
That background screen is CRAZY AMERICAN!
Nothing says drill baby drill like the image of an unspoiled wilderness.
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.
MITTENS!
I am being told that it is sexist to assert that Obama has more experience than Palin. Because she has "executive experience."
MITTENS!!!
Damn--and Neats was just making fun of me for writing that!
The sun is about to rise from Arizona and Alaska... but conspicuously not California.
At the DNC, it was hard to hear the crowd, which made some of the speeches sound weird.
--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?
interests of the teacher's unions above the interests of students!
oh, and: hi!
I believe Mitt just called George a "big government liberal."
thank you mitt for the "Teachers' Union" shout-out!
I love it when Republican's paraphrase the labor theory of value.
Homes without pornography?!? Mittens wants to ban the internets!!1!!1!
love the baby and kid montage after the family values line.
big brother?!?! who is wire tapping this conversation right now?
The party of Big Brother... hmmm... might want to rethink that one.
I think Mitt thinks he's having a "Reagan '76" moment.
Really is it 1992?
Wouldn'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.
Sweet Christ - "the tyrannosaurus appetite of government unions."
Al Gore joke. Boom!
Uh yeah dude. They talked about actually finding bin Laden instead of going after people who didn't attack us.
Saddleback Reference!
USA!! USA!! USA!!
Putin, Chavez, and A-jad! BOOM!
Mitt cannot give a speech. He really keeps fucking it up. Cut taxes, not hostages, no retreat.
Here comes the Michelle slagging.
USA!! USA!! USA!!
Inherited?
We don't want your Mormon god's blessing Mitt, but thanks.
If 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?
Um Wobs--that would be Gods'
and DAVE,
lay off my man chuck todd.
1 to 10 Mitt's speech. I give it a 5.
Chuck Todd is worse than your man Chris Matthews and that is saying something. Actually I hate Todd most of all.
what does 1 represent, and 10?
For 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.
Bobo is boggled by Mitten's "right wing" speech
Dear Mitt Romney's gods - please make the awkward white people dancing stop.
Shouldn't there be someone begging the conventioneers not to dance?
Bobo and Shields laughing about Mittens using the speech to start campaigning for 2012--it is really an odd sight.
Like diving, 10 is better than 1.
Gergen just called Mittens' address "a great speech for the 1970s" and asked "what decade IS this???"
okay, that was a belly flop then--I give it a 4
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.
CNN is really on the way McCain has turned on the "liberal media" frame. They seem somewhat surprised.
The Huckster!
I finally get to use the word "Hucktacular!" again.
Break out the dog whistles, kids, it's Huck time!
Not Huckalicious?!
My second choice. Swipe at Mittens!
Hucktacular!
Apparently, we are no longer part of America, as we have failed to be unified for McCain by the "liberal media."
BOOM! Madonna concert. Hoo boy!
Madonna?!? We ARE in the wrong decade!
Polite applause for the black man.
his color?
why do they keep saying they aren't Republicans?
Avoiding economic proposals like the plague, eh?
Bill and Ted reference? 80s!!!
Oh my. "Elevate our taxes and our risk."
They 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.
you got to take showers?!
How many Republicans actually had fathers that worked with their hands?
IN the hall, that is.
that silk stockings thing was creepy weird.
Anyone want to comment on the homemade signs?
Cheap line on Biden and not true.
biden: zing!
she got almost votes as there are empty seats at this convention!
that would be "as many votes"
John McCain was a POW? Who knew?
Was the "he did not choose the easy path" a swipe at Bush?
Huh. That's the first time we've heard the word "torture" here.
Anyone want to comment on the homemade signs?
I 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?
I love the awkward smiles and sign waving while Huck describes the lasting damage from McCain's torture.
Holy effing ess. That was the awesomest story ever!
Batshit. But Awesome.
Soldiers earned the students desks? Huh.
Students' desks = freedom.
we're in iraq fighting for...desks
holy shit, what a wingnut ending.
So, if McCain is elected, then free desks?
Anyone thinking about Wag the Dog and that Willie Nelson song about shoes? I am expecting a new hit about "the desk" tomorrow.
New thread is posted, y'all.
I am quite literally at a loss of words...
hey dave--i'm glad you brought up the homemade signs. don't remember seeing that at the DNC? what's the story with that?
This is the woman that said that saying Obama has more experience than Palin is sexist.
ash...see you on the new thread.
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