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Convention Thread

by BooMan
Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 06:10:00 PM EST

Apparently, McCain canceled an appearance on CNN because Campbell Brown was mean to his surrogate last night and Sarah Palin canceled a scheduled appearance to accept some award. In other words, the convention kicks off with the Republicans in total media lockdown. Unbelievable.



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Look at all those old white people...are they even alive? They're basically motionless.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."
by CabinGirl on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:35:46 PM EST
That's kinda funny :o)

Green Grass and High Tides Forever
by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:42:14 PM EST
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Watching this is a little surreal, to be honest.  So far, they've chatted with shining stars of the Republican party, Tom Delay and George Allen.  Definitely nowhere near the same energy/vibe as Denver, as the commentators have noted.

These people creep me out.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:05:04 PM EST
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Yeah, and old white people don't exactly smell like new born babies either! :o)
Yikes!

Green Grass and High Tides Forever
by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:18:14 PM EST
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-Call to order: 7:40 pm ET

-Rep. Boehner

-Sen. Coleman

-Laura Bush

-President Bush (via satellite)

-Fred Thompson

-Sen. Lieberman

As Atrios said, Joe and Fred are going lock-up the Droopy-Dog American vote.  Zzzzz.

by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 06:16:47 PM EST
what a bunch of dumbasses

they managed to push my parents into the obama column...which i couldnt even do....but my dad says he thinks palin will withdraw and newt will step in, in which case he will vote republican.

off topic...anyone see the korean air commercial?

its 15 seconds of subliminal sex

by anna in philly (flymetothemoon@yahoo.com) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 06:28:28 PM EST
but my dad says he thinks palin will withdraw and newt will step in

Argh!  My eyes!  Don't do that!

Seriously though - McCain wouldn't put Newtie on the ticket.  If this Palin thing implodes on him enough that she exits stage right, I expect he'll start firing his current crop of advisers immediately.  And then he'll plop one of the guys he really wanted into that VP position - Ridge or Lieberman.

I'm actually a little worried about that, to tell you the truth.  Eagleton comparisons aside, the media would eat that narrative up with a spoon.  McCain fires all the Rovians and regains both his "honor" and his "maverick" status in one fell swoop.  They'd love it.

And if he waits until after the convention, he doesn't have to worry about an embarrassing revolt of the religious right on the convention floor....

by nonynony on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:57:45 PM EST
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GOP is pulling out all the stops - circling the wagons.

Fred Thompson's speech will defend Palin and attack Obama on abortion

McCain stands by his VP pick - thinks America is all excited.

Analysts: McCain's Palin pick: Wrong kind of buzz

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:00:25 PM EST
So finally we put to rest the belief that there's no bad publicity.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."
by DaveW on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:01:28 PM EST
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The media doesn't understand life membership in the NRA; they don't understand getting up at 3 a.m. to hunt a moose; they don't understand eating a mooseburger; they don't understand being married to a guy who likes to snowmobile for fun. I am not surprised that they don't get it. But Americans get it. A mooseburger means she is like one of us. She is not some jackass who's "gone Washington."- Rep. Adam Putnam (R-FL)
by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:13:30 PM EST
the policy of "relating to the little guy" when all the Republican policy accomplishes is keeping the "little guy"---"little". Remember W, the have and have mores quote.
by americanforliberty on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:21:08 PM EST
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No. She's some jackass that needs to stay in Alaska.

And saying he's a winger Florida rethug jackass is redundant.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:35:35 PM EST
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you're just hating on mooseburgers.
by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:43:51 PM EST
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let's see the double standard here. You'll need to do an Eagleton Watch V thread. After the howl over Wright do you think this will be given a free pass?

via TPM

Founder Of Group Palin Courted Professed "Hatred For The American Government"; Cursed "Damn Flag"

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party -- a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years -- once professed his "hatred for the American government" and cursed the American flag as a "damn flag."

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that's now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan succession, the key goal of the AIP.

"And I won't be buried under their damn flag," Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. "I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."

At another point, Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States.[.]

(emphasis added)

Will she last the night?

Just asking because of Rev Wright; remember - how Obama was given no option but to denounce and reject him? Wright was not on any ticket. But this Vogler stuff is a different category kinda rubs out Obama is a Muslim, hangs around with terrorist doesn't it?


Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:45:56 PM EST
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I guarantee you that little Howdy Doody-looking mofo has never tasted moose nor ridden a snowmobile nor gotten up at 3 am for anything, ever.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by pateacher on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 10:15:20 PM EST
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Mooseburgers must be rather expensive in Florida.
by Joyful Alternative on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 10:24:41 PM EST
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The Palin Effect and DNC Bounce

Gallup has Obama at 50% for first time

Rasmussen confirms at 51% when "leaners" are factored in

Rasmussen finds:

Despite all the national attention that has been focused on Sarah Palin, public perceptions of the Alaska Governor have changed little in the last few days. She is still viewed favorably by just over half of all voters. A separate survey found that Obama is number one and Palin number two on the list of candidates people would like to meet.



Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"
by idredit on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:24:26 PM EST
Bush speech suggestion, bad news/good news format
  bad news, highest unemployment rate in 25 years
  good news, we took out the discouraged worker
             that would make it look even worse
  bad news, worst inflation in 17 years
  good news, we kept out those upsetting, volatile food
             and fuel price rises out of the total
  bad news, higher murder rates in large cities
  good news, more plot material for TV crime shows
  bad news, the Iraq War gets much more expensive every
            year.
  good news, Republican voting former Iraqi CIA assets will open great kebab restaurants in each large metro area.
   bad news, no progress on global warming
   good news, oil companies have record profits          

The Ownership Society: $62 trillion in CDOs based on a $10 trillion mortgage market
by Multisect on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:46:43 PM EST
It...just...wont...stop...
by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:50:50 PM EST
And here's more hypocrisy...

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."
by CabinGirl on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:06:49 PM EST
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Oh, Lordy, kiss McCain goodbye.  

Palestinian Attack In Israel Part of God's Judgment, Said Recent Guest At Palin's Church


    Describing a trip by his son to Jerusalem, Jews for Jesus founder David Brickner described the a July Palestinian bulldozer attack against Israeli civilians as part of God's "judgment."

    That speech, from August 17, is posted on the church's website, along with all other recent addresses delivered to the congregation.

    In a talk entitled "The Jerusalem Dilemma," Brickner also went on to describe all of the problems in the Middle East as related to Jerusalem. "But what we see in Israel, the conflict that is spilled through the Middle East, really which is all about Jerusalem, is an ongoing reflection of the fact that there is judgment," Brickner told Palin's church, adding: "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It's very real. When Isaac [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment -- you can't miss it."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palestinian-attack-in-isr_n_123297.html

Banned but hopefully not forgotten.
by Mattes on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 07:54:15 PM EST
that they are betting the farm on abolishing reproductive rights and the promise of appointing 1 to 3 judges to the supreme court to get that done as a means to ignite their base to beat Obama.

Pat Buchanan just claimed that the Obamas "Like the idea of partial birth abortion"  and Rachel Maddow jumped on him.  

ugh.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:39:58 PM EST
whoa!!!!

on msnbc just now christie whitman was asked if palin is ready to be president and she answered is anybody ever ready to be president?

didnt bill clinton say the same thing?

i wonder if anybody will catch that or rip her a new asshole for it.

by anna in philly (flymetothemoon@yahoo.com) on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 08:54:37 PM EST
Oops. Nice freudian slip. You can find this in several places, this just happens to be from Politico. It does just keep getting worse.

Touting John McCain's much-buzzed-about new running mate, RNC Co-Chairwoman Jo Ann Davidson got caught up in the moment on the convention stage.

"The next vice president of the United States, Sarah Pawlenty!" Davidson said, a cringe-worthy conflation of McCain's No. 2, Sarah Palin, and veepstakes runner-up and host governor, Tim Pawlenty.

I didn't see it - off to find a video clip.

by conglomerNation on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:05:00 PM EST
by conglomerNation on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:07:44 PM EST
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Orrin Hatch claims to have teared up when he realized the Republicans might put the first woman in the WH.

Andrea Mitchell just asked him about her lobbyist  connections and he claimed they all knew about them and she's still a reformed.

WHy doesn't lightning strike these mofos when they speak?

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

by CabinGirl on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:12:31 PM EST
Because their God it too busy doing sonograms.
by BooMan on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:13:16 PM EST
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You are on fire with the one-liners tonight!

Perhaps the RNC should have booked you. Apparently, they need someone to wake up the crowd after Thompson's nap demonstration.

by conglomerNation on Tue Sep 2nd, 2008 at 09:16:10 PM EST
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