I kept true to my word:
I did not watch one minute of that freak show convention.
I think you missed an opportunity. No where else can you see this many grotesque and odd looking people weeping for joy. It is perhaps the only moment in their lives where they are joyful and, that being a new emotion for them, they come off looking all the more bizarre.
There were the very few normal looking people in the crowd and, being surrounded by hysterically crying freaks, you had to wonder why they were there.
And then, the tear stained faces would change abruptly as their object of worship would command them, and they would suddenly be outraged and angry, their eyes rimmed with red like some movie style demons about to rip some poor person apart...frothing at the mouth with indignation and terror.
Utter fools, each and every one of them all gathered together under one roof.
So it was a spectacle. Something that you just don't see everyday.
But I'm glad it's over, too, because it was also a very false environment where the Democrats attempted in vain to recreate the glory days of the last convention. It did not go well and it did not end well.
Personally, I'm pulling for a negative bounce. I'm pulling for yet smaller crowds at O'Bongo campaign rallies. I'm pulling for a horrible BO debate performance. We seemed to be on a path for that sort of ending to this campaign and it will be interesting to see yet more tear stained faces as the myth collapses.
Here is an early obituary...
Julian Castro is no Barack Obama. And for that, Democrats have themselves to blame.
The focus of this week's Democratic convention was President Obama. Lost in the adulation was the diminished state to which he has brought his broader party. Today's Democrats are a shadow of 2008—struggling for re-election, isolated to a handful of states, lacking reform ideas, bereft of a future political bench. It has been a stunning slide.
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By 2009, President Obama presided over what could fairly be called a big-tent coalition. The Blue Dog caucus had swelled to 51 members, representing plenty of conservative America. Democrats held the majority of governorships. Mr. Obama had won historic victories in Virginia and North Carolina. The prediction of liberal demographers John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's 2004 book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority"—lasting progressive dominance via a coalition of minorities, women, suburbanites and professionals—attracted greater attention among political analysts.
It took Mr. Obama two years to destroy this potential, with an agenda that forced his party to field vote after debilitating vote—stimulus, ObamaCare, spending, climate change. The public backlash, combined with the president's mismanagement of the economy, has reversed Democrats' electoral gains and left a party smaller than at any time since the mid-1990s.
Of the 21 Blue Dogs elected since 2006, five remain in office. The caucus is on the verge of extinction, as members have retired, been defeated in primaries waged by liberal activists, or face impossible re-elections. The GOP is set to take Senate seats in North Dakota and Nebraska, and maybe to overturn Democratic toeholds in states from Montana to Virginia. There is today a GOP senator in Massachusetts. Republicans claim 29 governorships and may gain two to four more this year.
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LINKAnd here is the Romney rapid response team with
a convenient list of all of the negative BO speech reviews.
I enjoy it when things occasionally go our way in the media, despite the media. I only wish that we had a more conservative standard bearer. He does seem pretty damned competent, on balance, with running a campaign. Of course, so was BO four years back and that didn't end well.
