Three hours until John's big oratorical whatever, but I can already smell the ether wafting in from the land of Amy Klobuchar (swoon), Bob Mould (une autre swoon) and all.
Mebbe like me you're already staring into the fire? Touching the flame? Tasting the burn? Hearing the yawps?
For example, former gov. Tom Kean just referred to NJ as "in play." Really? Are people doing heroin out on the floor out there? Is there a Howard Hughes element to this new, "reform" bloc coming out of the GOP?
ReplyDeleteJohn Ensign:
ReplyDeleteI think I'll just read a list of Republican talking points from the last 25 years instead of giving a speech.
Palin scared me, this guy makes me think that there is no way the American people are going to fall for this sh-t again.
Rule 40(b)
ReplyDeleteA hellva rule.
Off to canvass for Barack...may be back in time for John.
ReplyDeleteHave fun y'all.
juneau people in the house, y'all!
ReplyDeleterule 40(a) in the house.
it _is_ a great day to be a Republican Woman, i bet.
Glad to see the party's started! I'll be back after I get E. to bed (a little before 9, I imagine).
ReplyDeletesome douche re biden's critique of the palin speech:
ReplyDelete"she doesn't need to talk about the middle class - she IS the middle class."
dave cecil alert:
ReplyDeleteKeith O just broke news about Palin's long, strange trip through multiple colleges (6 stops altogether) on her way to a degree.
Thing is, reporters are so far stymied in getting further backstory. Why, you ask.
Parce que quelque chose qui s'appelle 'FERPA!'
Frist's speech was lame...
ReplyDeleteBrownback up now....
ReplyDeletevery negative...
I am getting a bad vibe from him...
No we will?
Yes we can't?
He's got wind energy going for him right now.....zing!
ReplyDeletewas Mccain a pow?
ReplyDeleteTrue Grits..now .99 cents a bowl
ReplyDeleteremind me how showing the okc bombing helps the repubs?
ReplyDeleteUnbelievably poor taste.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you call that? It's not quite the same as waving the bloody stump.
ReplyDeletethe video they showed was weird.
ReplyDeleteIt conflated the Iranian embassy occupation with 9/11 and the okc bombing.
bobo now babbling about people's changing "risk tolerance"....
God is our head coach.
ReplyDeleteI never realized how much Gibbs resembles Pat Robertson.
"God's Game Plan"
ReplyDeleteShorter Joe Gibbs: God created the game plan, and John McCain is the QB to carry America to victory.
ReplyDeleteI guess the lighted strip along the edge of the stage is blue tonight because John McCain is a boy.
ReplyDelete(or does it cycle slowly through the colors of our flag?)
"Highway to the Dangerzone"
ReplyDeleteAlso, they seem to have some "Peace" signs floating around.
We won in Iraq? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteAl Qaeda's in Iraq? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteIt's refreshing to hear an old white guy root for war.
ReplyDeleteLindsey's got this crowd on fire! Zzzzz...
ReplyDelete"We came within two votes of a congressionally mandated surrender... Thank God for Joe Lieberman."
ReplyDeleteJoe Lieberman is so fucked after November.
ReplyDeleteI love it - "the road to victory" with a picture of headstones behind him. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteWait a minute. A few things - didn't Obama meet with Petraeus on his last trip? And should military personnel be in uniform at a political convention?
ReplyDeleteShorter Lindsey Graham: Barack Obama is not a warmonger, thus (and the rest is a guess at this point) the GOP is the party of peace.
ReplyDeleteFinally, the Palin tribute video!
ReplyDeleteThey really need to stop outsourcing their video production to undergrads at Liberty University.
ReplyDelete"An environment suited to outdoor adventure..." and drilling!
ReplyDeleteHmmm... it sounds like Palin is something of a maverick.
ReplyDeleteI imagine Palin also loves puppies.
ReplyDeleteWow. That video sucked.
ReplyDeleteThis maverick video maverick is maverick making maverick me mavrick feel maverick a maverick little maverick woosy maverick and maverick I maverick think maverick I maverick will maverick need maverick a maverick bucket.
ReplyDeleteHmm... like jokes about gorillas raping women? I can't see why y'all would be the only ones laughing.
ReplyDeleteP maverick O maverick W maverick
ReplyDeleteA crisitunity! How novel!
ReplyDeleteToo bad the rest of the GOP never understood that you win to govern.
ReplyDeleteDid Ridge really open with an anecdote about how John McCain has been a huge celebrity for, like, ever?
ReplyDelete3 AM, sometime in the mid-80s:
ReplyDeletering, ring
Hello, Senator? It's Charles Keating...
Wow. Now we're just making up American history.
ReplyDeleteThey were never the Founders. They were... the Mavericks.
ReplyDelete"call the maverick forward" was always my favorite hymn
ReplyDeleteWow! Ridge is lighting them on zzzzzz...
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain speaks truth to power!
ReplyDeleteRepublicans: can't dance, can't do call and response.
ReplyDeleteThe verdict is in: churched up, war supporting white folk like John McCain.
ReplyDeleteHe's one of them!
ReplyDeleteCan't trust either side of that family with an airplane.
ReplyDeleteCreepy family values alert!
ReplyDeleteFounded the non-profit, and then she stole drugs from them!
ReplyDeleteSo Cindy just stole a baby?
ReplyDeleteSo... where's John's first wife?
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with the bling on her left, uh, shoulder.
ReplyDeleteCindy sounds suspiciously like a community organizer.
ReplyDeleteAnd she's got that little pin that Palin had last night. What the hell is that thing?
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln guides the modern GOP from the grave?
ReplyDeleteCNN is reporting:
ReplyDelete--snip--
Aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin improperly obtained her former brother-in-law's state police personnel files and cited information from those records to raise complaints about the officer, the head of Alaska's state police union said Thursday.
--snip--
Did they ship Levi home before tonight?
ReplyDeleteNope... there he is.
ReplyDeleteDo you think Levi is getting any on this trip?
ReplyDeleteI'm betting he thinks sex with a pregnant woman is gross.
ReplyDeleteI'm not thinking Cindy McCain is just like me.
ReplyDeleteCindy is lighting this crowd o... zzzzz...
ReplyDeleteThere was a kid uncomfortable with being a political prop.
ReplyDeletecindy mccain's solidarity with the people of rwanda is longstanding. however, her willingness to dole out patronizing shout-outs and condescending pick-me-ups to ALL brown peoples may be news to some of you.
ReplyDeletesomebody get Paul Simon out here!
is she blinking at inappropriate moments?? or is it me?
ReplyDeleteEveryone loves noblesse obligé.
ReplyDeletebtw,
ReplyDeletei think EZ's "mccain was a POW?" deserves mention as an early fave for post of the nite.
Help him everyday... changing the Depends, waking him from naps, chasing the kids off the lawn...
ReplyDeleteLet's have a pool. How much for tonight's ensemble?
ReplyDeleteMcCain was a POW? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the bling alone was $100K.
ReplyDeleteis that snarky "post of the night" or regular?
ReplyDeleteAre you including the pearls?
ReplyDeleteThe sparkle completely obscured the pearls. What I think was missing was a rope, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure McCain isn't going to speak in tongues, so he risks alienating this crowd.
ReplyDeleteNew thread is up.
ReplyDeleteEZ,
ReplyDeletewobs and dave can tell you that i have a weird way of striking a deferent pose towards my GTFF forebears. sure, dave gets some licks from me semi-regularly, but they're always coupled with lunches on me, out-and-out, behind-closed doors worship-ful-ness, and a genuine sense that his fate and mine are irrevocably linked.
as for wobs, i don't think i've ever disagreed with him on anything in my life.
anywho, yeah, for reals, i think that was post of la soiree.
tip o'neal?
ReplyDeleteThank Cheebus Nixon had a plan to end the war
ReplyDelete"somehow John McCain's life was spared. Perhaps he had more to do..."
ReplyDeletepeace through bombing and drilling
ReplyDeleteshout out to the word "dank"!
Fred Thompson voice over.....bad
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