If enough, perhaps we should fire up the chat room.
Awright, goldammy! I'm sucked in by Christie's speech and I don't like him. Nevertheless .........
Christie's lumping himself in with Conservatives. He's no freakin' Conservative. Bleh .......
Christie's lumping himself in with Conservatives. He's no freakin' Conservative. Bleh .......
must be New Jersey conservativism
So we should toss Christie and keep the speechwriter?
Juan Williams' take on Ann Romney's speech: She's a very rich woman. Not connectible to the average woman's life.
You sonofabitch you. She's had cancer and has MS. Where does "rich" fix that?
She is saying "I'm you." A neat trick for a multi-millionaire.
QuoteShe is saying "I'm you." A neat trick for a multi-millionaire.
Really?
Watching Ann Romney.......started a little slow, but she is hitting stride. Doing a good job, IMO.
Your analysis is comforting, I didn't get to watch.
QuoteShe is saying "I'm you." A neat trick for a multi-millionaire.
Really?
Juan Williams' take on Ann Romney's speech: She's a very rich woman. Not connectible to the average woman's life.
You sonofabitch you. She's had cancer and has MS. Where does "rich" fix that?
Word is floating around that the "Mystery Speaker" for Thurs. night will be Clint Eastwood ... seriously . That wouldn't be terribly surprising . Some on this site may remember Duke Wayne addressing the RNC in 1968 .
Word is floating around that the "Mystery Speaker" for Thurs. night will be Clint Eastwood ... seriously . That wouldn't be terribly surprising . Some on this site may remember Duke Wayne addressing the RNC in 1968 .
Holy crap guys....you're being a little hard on her....remember, she was the ex sec of state.....she is speaking on what she knows.... And the people connected.
Note the Code Pink creep who got in.
Who was that older blonde lady clapping? Was that Jan Brewer?
AC/DC - Zep, nice.
AC/DC - Zep, nice.
ACDC, heh. Can ya imagine.
Prayer now.
Think the Dems will pray to the Great Abortion Goddess?
Ryan did well. I almost feel sorry for poor Plugs, almost, he has an ass-handing of epic proportions coming his way.
Well, tomorrow night the Big Kahuna gets the big lights. He has to rise to the occasion, his appearance will get 1000x's the scrutiny.
Democrat sour grapes continue: DNC outlook "grim," Charlotte a "second-tier host city," article says (http://www.wbtv.com/story/19397208/dnc-outlook-grim-charlotte-a-second-tier-host-city-article-says)
They picked us in a cynical political calculation, and now it's as though they just realized NC is actually a rather conservative state. So, naturally, the problem is that we're just a bunch of hayseeds, cultural philistines, and of course homophobic bigots.
Personally, I take delight in the fact that my state and city are proving to be such a poor choice for these degenerate scumbags.
Ryan's supposed to speak at 10:30. I'd like to catch that, but I'm putting on CSPAN tonight, not Fox News. Meghan Kelly and Brit Hume (of all people) blabbed right through the National Anthem last night, so it's one more reason Fox can KMA.
Ryan did well. I almost feel sorry for poor Plugs, almost, he has an ass-handing of epic proportions coming his way.
Well, tomorrow night the Big Kahuna gets the big lights. He has to rise to the occasion, his appearance will get 1000x's the scrutiny.
Can you imagine his handlers trying to prep slo-jo for the inevitable drubbing he's gonna get?
"Please Joe, can you try not to be an imbecile?!"
Democrat sour grapes continue: DNC outlook "grim," Charlotte a "second-tier host city," article says (http://www.wbtv.com/story/19397208/dnc-outlook-grim-charlotte-a-second-tier-host-city-article-says)
They picked us in a cynical political calculation, and now it's as though they just realized NC is actually a rather conservative state. So, naturally, the problem is that we're just a bunch of hayseeds, cultural philistines, and of course homophobic bigots.
Personally, I take delight in the fact that my state and city are proving to be such a poor choice for these degenerate scumbags.
Oh, ditTOE!!
I'm trying to figure which I am ..... cultural philistine seems to fit the best.
Ryan's supposed to speak at 10:30. I'd like to catch that, but I'm putting on CSPAN tonight, not Fox News. Meghan Kelly and Brit Hume (of all people) blabbed right through the National Anthem last night, so it's one more reason Fox can KMA.
Channel surfing during Paul's speech , I stopped on MSNBC . They had the sound turned down ... you could see Paul's lips moving but all you heard was Matthews and Madcow yammering about what a$$holes Republicans are . From the very start , MSNBC's "coverage" of the RNC has been nothing short of disgraceful but I suppose that's to be expected .
Democrat sour grapes continue: DNC outlook "grim," Charlotte a "second-tier host city," article says (http://www.wbtv.com/story/19397208/dnc-outlook-grim-charlotte-a-second-tier-host-city-article-says)
They picked us in a cynical political calculation, and now it's as though they just realized NC is actually a rather conservative state. So, naturally, the problem is that we're just a bunch of hayseeds, cultural philistines, and of course homophobic bigots.
Personally, I take delight in the fact that my state and city are proving to be such a poor choice for these degenerate scumbags.
Juan Williams' take on Ann Romney's speech: She's a very rich woman. Not connectible to the average woman's life.
You sonofabitch you. She's had cancer and has MS. Where does "rich" fix that?
Dons take on JUAN Williams...he's a very stupid man.
They picked us in a cynical political calculation, and now it's as though they just realized NC is actually a rather conservative state. So, naturally, the problem is that we're just a bunch of hayseeds, cultural philistines, and of course homophobic bigots.
I loved Ryan's speech as much as I loved Palin's in 08. But no media stooges will be able to knock Paul Ryan around like they did Palin. They don't have a prayer of destroying him personally.
Let's see them call him a c*nt, or suggest his children are f**king baseball players, or "trick" him into looking like he doesn't know how to read.
Not a chance.
If this guy keeps his nose clean and the Romney administration has some success, he could be president someday.
One of the talking heads on Rush radio down here suspects that Beck will be the mystery speaker!
They picked us in a cynical political calculation, and now it's as though they just realized NC is actually a rather conservative state. So, naturally, the problem is that we're just a bunch of hayseeds, cultural philistines, and of course homophobic bigots.
You forgot to mention it's also a right to work state.
I loved Ryan's speech as much as I loved Palin's in 08. But no media stooges will be able to knock Paul Ryan around like they did Palin. They don't have a prayer of destroying him personally.
Let's see them call him a c*nt, or suggest his children are f**king baseball players, or "trick" him into looking like he doesn't know how to read.
Not a chance.
If this guy keeps his nose clean and the Romney administration has some success, he could be president someday.
He was really good last night. I thought he came across as if he was talking to people as individuals and not telling us what he thought we wanted to hear. I had the impression he didn't say anything he hadn't said before (mostly). Not like BO who stutters every time to give his brain time enough to formulate a lie.One of the talking heads on Rush radio down here suspects that Beck will be the mystery speaker!
why because Beck's Mormon?
I don't think it's Beck. This convention is crafted to give the undecideds, independents and some dems something to think about in terms of real choices for the future. Having Beck would blow that because it would be about crazy Glenn Beck.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in
their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and
wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
(LEG TINGLE)
::USA::
I loved Ryan's speech as much as I loved Palin's in 08. But no media stooges will be able to knock Paul Ryan around like they did Palin. They don't have a prayer of destroying him personally.
Let's see them call him a c*nt, or suggest his children are f**king baseball players, or "trick" him into looking like he doesn't know how to read.
Not a chance.
If this guy keeps his nose clean and the Romney administration has some success, he could be president someday.
He was really good last night. I thought he came across as if he was talking to people as individuals and not telling us what he thought we wanted to hear. I had the impression he didn't say anything he hadn't said before (mostly). Not like BO who stutters every time to give his brain time enough to formulate a lie.One of the talking heads on Rush radio down here suspects that Beck will be the mystery speaker!
why because Beck's Mormon?
I don't think it's Beck. This convention is crafted to give the undecideds, independents and some dems something to think about in terms of real choices for the future. Having Beck would blow that because it would be about crazy Glenn Beck.
It's pure speculation on his part.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in
their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and
wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
(LEG TINGLE)
::USA::
That is one heck of quote!
My adult daughters living at home thought it was great (but they don't have Obama posters fading or otherwise...)
::thumbsup::
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in
their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and
wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
(LEG TINGLE)
::USA::
That is one heck of quote!
My adult daughters living at home thought it was great (but they don't have Obama posters fading or otherwise...)
::thumbsup::
Was Eastwood speaking tonight? Did he already?
Was Eastwood speaking tonight? Did he already?
Right now!!!
Who shouted "don't touch me!"?
So, I'm watching cspan and the sound and picture are out of sync. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Gawdsdammit, I'm already pissed off.
We are NOT a nation of immigrants!
Everytime that is said, it disenfranchises and marginalizes every one of us born here, with parents who were born here.
It is more a means of saying that Republicans have nothing against LEGAL immigrants.
Okay, so a good speech. Well balanced. A good speech. Not a great (Reagan) speech but good enough.
Maybe it was the old beer I was getting rid of since I got home from work...now remember I'm not wasteful so when I mean "getting rid of" I mean guzzle...but I found most of Rubio's speech good, I flinched a time or two (I ain't that far gone...yet) and I could have swore (sworn?) I heard something flubbed at the end about gubmint...I dunno, maybe he got flustered because it was cue Mitt time, but something sounded flipped to me...or its the beer. But I don't think its just beer, I had the odd feeling during Rubio's speech that this is the last time I'll see and hear something like this. I don't often get vibes, but when I do they mean something, sometimes I fail the translation, but I dunno, it's like a marker has been passed, a milestone I see in the mirror behind me and nothing but darkness ahead. We'll just chalk it up to mad ravings, everyone will feel better that way.
Anyway, just me, don't anybody git there skivies in a twist, but now that I am am onto to the better hooch (Amber Boch for the curious) Mitt is almost tolerable. Now, I realize some folks like an upbeat gosh/golly speech, and maybe Mitt is a bit of a Gomer but a decent chap, and maybe I think waht we need now more than ever is a fire-breathing knuckle-swinging Son-of-Liberty fire-pisser of a candidate...but if not for the beer I may have dozed off during this speech. I don’t think he blew anything, I’m just not that sure how much he gained. Perhaps I am an old fool, perhaps I’m a relic of my time, perhaps I’m a bit loose…but I cannot escape the feeling of being, I dunno, let down? A bit like we’re whistling past the graveyard? I dunno. I don’t want to dampen anybody’s spirits or cause anyone to rethink casting a vote for Mitt.
As Duh Wun says (disingenuously, not like I) “let me be clear” I'll pull the lever for Romney, I think Ryan is an outstanding person and a lot like the last election I think the ticket ought to be flipped, but that ain't happening, so I pull the lever anyway. Can Mitt rise to the occasion? Sure. Can he fall short? Sure. Is he better than Obama? Without question. Assuming the best case scenario, will it matter? For a time, for a time. Can America expect no better than a speed-bump on the road to hell? Sure. But I am casting my lot for "a time". After all, what choice is there?
If there is to be any chance at all of restoring America, Obama has to be defeated, period.
It is the calculus we all know it would be, it is the referendum on the Obama Regime we all expected, it is now upon us.
God be with us.
yeah, he flubbed it bad. Give him credit for what he meant...not what he said. I have made the same mistake. Bad time to make it though. By the time he is out of diapers he might be a great one though!Maybe it was the old beer I was getting rid of since I got home from work...now remember I'm not wasteful so when I mean "getting rid of" I mean guzzle...but I found most of Rubio's speech good, I flinched a time or two (I ain't that far gone...yet) and I could have swore (sworn?) I heard something flubbed at the end about gubmint...I dunno, maybe he got flustered because it was cue Mitt time, but something sounded flipped to me...or its the beer. But I don't think its just beer, I had the odd feeling during Rubio's speech that this is the last time I'll see and hear something like this. I don't often get vibes, but when I do they mean something, sometimes I fail the translation, but I dunno, it's like a marker has been passed, a milestone I see in the mirror behind me and nothing but darkness ahead. We'll just chalk it up to mad ravings, everyone will feel better that way.
Anyway, just me, don't anybody git there skivies in a twist, but now that I am am onto to the better hooch (Amber Boch for the curious) Mitt is almost tolerable. Now, I realize some folks like an upbeat gosh/golly speech, and maybe Mitt is a bit of a Gomer but a decent chap, and maybe I think waht we need now more than ever is a fire-breathing knuckle-swinging Son-of-Liberty fire-pisser of a candidate...but if not for the beer I may have dozed off during this speech. I don’t think he blew anything, I’m just not that sure how much he gained. Perhaps I am an old fool, perhaps I’m a relic of my time, perhaps I’m a bit loose…but I cannot escape the feeling of being, I dunno, let down? A bit like we’re whistling past the graveyard? I dunno. I don’t want to dampen anybody’s spirits or cause anyone to rethink casting a vote for Mitt.
As Duh Wun says (disingenuously, not like I) “let me be clear” I'll pull the lever for Romney, I think Ryan is an outstanding person and a lot like the last election I think the ticket ought to be flipped, but that ain't happening, so I pull the lever anyway. Can Mitt rise to the occasion? Sure. Can he fall short? Sure. Is he better than Obama? Without question. Assuming the best case scenario, will it matter? For a time, for a time. Can America expect no better than a speed-bump on the road to hell? Sure. But I am casting my lot for "a time". After all, what choice is there?
If there is to be any chance at all of restoring America, Obama has to be defeated, period.
It is the calculus we all know it would be, it is the referendum on the Obama Regime we all expected, it is now upon us.
God be with us.
Well, I don't and I'm sick of hearing it. Millions of us were born here, our parents were born here; we're not immigrants and it's disgusting that the focus is placed on immigrants in place of the native born.
I don't expect VIP status or something, but I am tired of recent (past century) immigration waves being touted as the quintessentially American experience, superseding the earlier colonial immigrants. None of my ancestors were recent immigrants. Almost all of them came here in the 1700s, and some in the 1600s. They came to what was literally a wilderness, and the fruits of their toil didn't really mature until generations later --
Well, I don't and I'm sick of hearing it. Millions of us were born here, our parents were born here; we're not immigrants and it's disgusting that the focus is placed on immigrants in place of the native born.
I know what you mean. This has long been a gripe of mine. I remember in a high school civics textbook seeing some exercise where the students had to write an essay about the difference between being a native born citizen versus an immigrant who "earned" their citizenship. That's a poor paraphrase, the way it was worded clearly implied a "they're more deserving" tone.
I don't expect VIP status or something, but I am tired of recent (past century) immigration waves being touted as the quintessentially American experience, superseding the earlier colonial immigrants. None of my ancestors were recent immigrants. Almost all of them came here in the 1700s, and some in the 1600s. They came to what was literally a wilderness, and the fruits of their toil didn't really mature until generations later -- and they did this quite consciously for the benefit of their own posterity. They established the baseline culture -- British seeds sprouted in American soil -- that would become the very USA that later proved so desirable to future immigrants. So yeah it rubs me the wrong way to be lectured with banalities like "we are a nation of immigrants", as if any one of them is just as important or desirable as the other.
I don't expect VIP status or something, but I am tired of recent (past century) immigration waves being touted as the quintessentially American experience, superseding the earlier colonial immigrants. None of my ancestors were recent immigrants. Almost all of them came here in the 1700s, and some in the 1600s. They came to what was literally a wilderness, and the fruits of their toil didn't really mature until generations later --
No, first the government built the roads and then your ancestors arrived. You didn't build that.
Well, I don't and I'm sick of hearing it. ...
...
I don't expect VIP status or something, but I am tired of recent (past century) immigration waves being touted as the quintessentially American experience, superseding the earlier colonial immigrants. None of my ancestors were recent immigrants. Almost all of them came here in the 1700s, and some in the 1600s. They came to what was literally a wilderness, and the fruits of their toil didn't really mature until generations later -- and they did this quite consciously for the benefit of their own posterity. ...
I believe we are going to win. I believe we are going to win big.
There is always something that can be found lacking in any endeavor conceived and executed by human beings but, that said, by and large I think that the RNC came off about as well as it could given the extraordinary burden of having to deal with a hostile and dishonest media.
The trick here was not to fire up the base. If the base isn't fired up to throw the president out then the country is already lost. No, what we were trying to pull off was moving the needle in our direction with those who can be persuaded at this late date. It's sad that there are so many left who have to be convinced that leaving a socialist in office is a bad thing but there it is...that's reality. How the persuadable voters are to be influenced is really the only debatable point.
For me, this convention should have spent more time indicting the president on his faults. The list is very, very long. I wanted to hear his name mentioned more in connection with each and every one of his failings. We got some of that but I wanted more. The reason why I wanted more is that the media has failed to perform this service as it is normally supposed to do.
Instead, there was a lot more time spent building Romney up. Now, this is understandable given the demolition work already done on him by the Democrats and the media. It needed to be done. I felt, though, that the convention architects tipped the scale perhaps a bit much in that direction compared with indicting the president.
Where I thought that they really spent too much time was in trying to convince the persuadable that Republicans don't really hate women. The topic needed to be dealt with but I think, the notion being so patently absurd, that they should have mocked it from time to time rather than trying to win some kind of a pseudo court room argument. I think they shouldn't have treated the "war on women" idea as a joke. They should have countered, heavily, with the very real point that the Democrats are conducting a war on our children and future generations with the debt. It should have been a theme and it should have been pounded into the audience so that it could become a new truth...a new reality.
But these are mere quibbles with how the convention turned out. It was as successful as it could probably have been given the nature of these things. I do believe that we emerged stronger, more unified and clearer of purpose and that is the the over-arching purpose along with connecting with the persuadable voters.
We still have just over two months and now an absolute ton of money to spend on media advertising.
By contrast the Democrats have much less in the bank as they move on to their own convention. They have less money in the bank and they have less in the way of arguments and talent in the bank. It will be very interesting to see if they can pull off a feel good convention that makes the persuadable eager to buy in to their world view. I don't see it happening but the ball is in their court for the next week.
I believe we are going to win. I believe we are going to win big.
I believewe(they) are going to win. I believewe(they) are going to win big.
When I hear "We're a nation of immigrants", I don't read anything more into it than a reminder that America was founded and built by people who came across the sea, expressed for the political purpose of a addressing the current challenge.
I don't fault Rubio. He is assigned the monumental task of GOP ambassador to Latino voters as an antidote to Leftist demagogeury of race. He walks a fine line of pandering, and I think for the most part he stays on the right side of the line.
Well, I think ALL the speeches were great, including Clint Eastwood's.
I'm sure the ghost of kennedy will be close by,along with bill clintonsexually harassing Sandra Fluke.
I'm sure the ghost of kennedy will be close by,along with bill clintonsexually harassing Sandra Fluke.
FIFY.
I'm sure the ghost of kennedy will be close by,along with bill clintonsexually harassing Sandra Fluke.
FIFY.
You can't harass the willing.
She'll give it up for Ted's ghost? Won't Bill be po'd?!
::hysterical::
Ick. My first thought was, no, not a threesome, since a threesome is typically thought of as two females with one male, since the females are willing to touch each other. The other is referred to as a gang-bang, because it is typically a take-turns situation....then other things occurred to me such as when Bill walks into a room with a fish tank even they stop swimming because they know what he will do to ANYTHING that moves, and I wish I hadn't noticed the thread. Bill Clinton, A dead Kennedy, and Sandra Fluke.......Icky.
Ick. My first thought was, no, not a threesome, since a threesome is typically thought of as two females with one male, since the females are willing to touch each other. The other is referred to as a gang-bang, because it is typically a take-turns situation....then other things occurred to me such as when Bill walks into a room with a fish tank even they stop swimming because they know what he will do to ANYTHING that moves, and I wish I hadn't noticed the thread. Bill Clinton, A dead Kennedy, and Sandra Fluke.......Icky.
::hysterical::
Need mind bleach now?
Ick. My first thought was, no, not a threesome, since a threesome is typically thought of as two females with one male, since the females are willing to touch each other. The other is referred to as a gang-bang, because it is typically a take-turns situation....then other things occurred to me such as when Bill walks into a room with a fish tank even they stop swimming because they know what he will do to ANYTHING that moves, and I wish I hadn't noticed the thread. Bill Clinton, A dead Kennedy, and Sandra Fluke.......Icky.
::hysterical::
Need mind bleach now?
Kennedy was infamous for, among other things, "sandwiching" a coat check girl with another Senator at a DC restaurant.
forgive me it this is posted elsewhere, I didn't see it
Paul Ryan Responds To So-Called Fact-Checkers Of His RNC Speech with Brian Williams
Unaired & Unedited: Paul Ryan Responds To So-Called Fact-Checkers Of His RNC Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSPM2SoO0M#)
I liked how Ryan said he wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true
forgive me it this is posted elsewhere, I didn't see it
Paul Ryan Responds To So-Called Fact-Checkers Of His RNC Speech with Brian Williams
Unaired & Unedited: Paul Ryan Responds To So-Called Fact-Checkers Of His RNC Speech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSPM2SoO0M#)
I liked how Ryan said he wouldn't have said it if it wasn't true
Dems misleading......who'd a thought.