2012 GOP Convention

[bottomfeeder]

I've already convinced myself that BF is never gonna get it. Why waste the typing. He liveth by the bible of Alex Jones.

Oh I got it alright, spend money we don't have, start wars to piss off the infidels, control elections in other countries and our own, etc. Sounds like fucking dictatorship to me. When the GOP establishment kicked out the Ron Paul delegates, that did it for me. I'm sorry I cannot get the stench of that out of my nostrils. Our country is doomed.

[War Eagle!!!]

Seeing as how your sense of humor meter stays at 0......glad you 'heard' the empty chair.

It had nothing to do with an empty chair. I just heard audio of him rambling and sounding incoherent.

[Snaggletiger]

It had nothing to do with an empty chair. I just heard audio of him rambling and sounding incoherent.

Well, well, well, well. I'm here to tell you that life as you knew it has ended. You all may as well go into town tonight. You may as well laugh and make fools out of yourselves. Rub your pathetic little peckers against your honies or stick it in a knothole in the fence but whatever it is, get rid of it. Because at 0600 tomorrow your ass is mine.

[bottomfeeder]

Well, well, well, well. I'm here to tell you that life as you knew it has ended. You all may as well go into town tonight. You may as well laugh and make fools out of yourselves. Rub your pathetic little peckers against your honies or stick it in a knothole in the fence but whatever it is, get rid of it. Because at 0600 tomorrow your ass is mine.

 

[Snaggletiger]

The real reason the GOP is headed in the dumper is Wednesday night, the Convention was beaten out badly in ratings by Honey Boo Boo Child.

[bottomfeeder]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-30-2012/exclusive---michael-steele-extended-interview-pt--2

start @ 4 min.

[AUChizad]

ICYMI:



I was expecting that to be way worse based on the reactions I'd heard. It started off great, but then there were times where he was mumbling and rambling and not making much sense, particularly right when he started the "I've got Obama here in this chair" bit.

"What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't do that. He can't do that to himself. You're gettin as bad as Biden!"

[Tarheel]

The GOP is finished.
http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/romneys-rnc-power-grab-what-happened

Bullshit.

This "Power Grab" as you Paulbots call it as designed to get the rabid, lunatic, hell-bent-for-leather, social conservatives like Michelle Bachmann and Phyllis Schlafly and the anti-war, pro-pot, whiner Paulbots to acquiesce to the decision that Romney and Ryan are the candidates.  I sympathize with many of the social positions but their messaging turns-off so many people, especially independent-minded voters, that it's destructive and simply not helpful.  And, quite frankly, we don't have the time to worry about social-issues with the economy and jobs being the biggest and most urgent problems with everybody now.

I'm sorry that you don't like it and I'm sorry for you that your candidate did not win but at the end of the day you've got to win a LOT of Primaries and Ron Paul simply could not do it and he's proven that he can't win a national election either.  The Libertarian message simply doesn't resonate for whatever reason despite what they delude themselves with by saying otherwise, loudly.  Perhaps, if they'd actually run a sane candidate it might help; Dr. Paul's foreign policy is simply off the reservation.

Now, you have a choice this Fall to not vote, vote for Romney, vote for Obama, vote for Johnson, vote Constitutional, vote Green Party, vote Socialist Party, or, I suppose that you could still write-in Ron Paul but he isn't going to win.

The Republican Party candidate is Mitt Romney and this may come as a bit of a shock to you but with 47 seats in the US Senate, 242 seats in the US House, 30 Governorships, 1100 (of 1900) state Upper House seats, and 3,400 (of 5,400) state Lower House seats the Republican Party is not finished either.

[Tarheel]

ICYMI:
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I was expecting that to be way worse based on the reactions I'd heard. It started off great, but then there were times where he was mumbling and rambling and not making much sense, particularly right when he started the "I've got Obama here in this chair" bit.

"What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't do that. He can't do that to himself. You're gettin as bad as Biden!"

I still have mixed feelings about Clint Eastwood's appearance.  He had some great lines.  It was unique.  And odd.  I do like the metaphor of an empty chair for the Pharaoh because that's exactly what we have, an empty suit, an empty chair, a man who is AWOL on leadership and derelict in his duty.  I know that image really got under the skin of the left because they are so critical of Eastwood today.

[Tarheel]

My favorite moment of the entire evening, possibly even the entire convention, was during Mitt Romney's speech last night when he said (and I am paraphrasing a little here), "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans.  And to heal the planet.  My promise is to help you and your family."  Looking right in the camera...  That moment will be remembered.

I have wrestled and hesitated about posting this thought: I truly appreciated the personal stories about Romney that were told last night; he seems to be a man of good character and good conscience and, yes, good faith and a positive attitude.  He seems to have surrounded himself with people of good character and that speaks a great deal about a man.  I don't know Romney personally but I know men just like him whom I see every week and whom I respect beyond words for the remarkable, good, quiet work that they do; not wanting or expecting recognition nor craving attention; and the help that they give to the fatherless and the widows and their fellow man, etc.

We've heard no such stories about The ONE.  What we do know, as a contrast, The Pharaoh has surrounded himself with the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Rod Blagojevich, Bernadine Dohrn, Saul Alinsky, Tony Rezko, Derrick Bell, Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, the Weather Underground, etc., etc., etc.; which says something about him too.

[Tiger Wench]

My favorite quote was by Rubio. Paraphrasing, he said Obama's ideas are the ideas "people came to this country to get away from."

[AUJarhead]

My favorite quote was by Rubio. Paraphrasing, he said Obama's ideas are the ideas "people came to this country to get away from."

And mine was Paul Ryan's about the college graduates living at home, looking up at the fading Obama posters.

[bottomfeeder]

So what's their plan to create jobs since that's a private sector function? More government jobs? More tax cuts for corporations (some of which pay little to no taxes)? I hate taxes as much as the next guy, but even during the Bush years there was little to no REAL economic growth (absent gov spending). As a matter of fact the economy shrank. What sectors besides defense and the medical field will see real growth? Even China's economy is contracting. I'm aware of economic cycles created by central banks.

Advanced economies are slowing down, and China is slowing even faster, the OECD warned on Monday on the basis of leading indicators.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/301675/oecd-says-china-economy-slowing-strongly