Campaign 2008

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

As an independent without any loyalty to one single party...

 

I'm watching this and thinking, "Is it just me or does this whole convention sound way more angry and hateful than the DNC?". Maybe I've been watching too much MSNBC and not enough Fox News, but this whole thing sounds kind of asshole-ish.

 

I'm an independent as well... I find the RNC to be a room full of people that I don't want to be around. It's like they're trying to make me feel bad about something...and I'm not sure what it is.

 

...I'd apologize to them if they'd just stop yelling at me and let me know what I did wrong.

[Art Sandusky 0]

This all comes across and sounds like a movie depicting the 2008 Republican National Convention. Mitt fuckin' Romney was the best speaker tonight.

 

EDIT: CAN WE PLEASE STOP MAKING UP DEMOGRAPHICS EVERY FOUR YEARS PLEASE

 

Hockey Mom? Really? The only place that's even going to help is where people are already locked in as Democrats.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Let me tell you why I'm inexperienced. I had no intention to get into politics!

[SuperJerk 0]

Oh, fuck you for invoking Truman.

 

"Unlikely path the the vice-presidency"? YEAH, HE WAS A U.S. SENATOR. Morons.

 

 

"Let me explain to them what the job involves." Hiring lobbyists to get your town $27 million in federal earmarks?

[CubbyBr 0]

That sleeping baby also has been passed around from the father to the oldest daughter, to the middle daughter, to Cindy McCain, and then back to the father all through the speech while they took turns standing and taking in applause.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

Something about this woman I just don't like...When McCain announced this pick he lost my vote for sure as I was hoping from Romney. However, there's just something about Palin that turns me off, probably the fact that I don't see her as presidential material. I just don't take her very seriously.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I thought earlier today she'd cry during the speech, but now I think she's going to let her hair down part of the way through.

 

Hot.

[Markme123 0]

I find the RNC to be a room full of people that I don't want to be around.

 

Yeah. I don't give a fuck what party you are, people are people, its just...that these people don't seem very likable.

[SuperJerk 0]

"I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment."

 

You mean like John McCain?

[Art Sandusky 0]

Quick shot of a protester being dragged out. Can't let the show be interrupted.

 

"I was a mayor, our job is to keep the community from being organized in the first place!" When he was doing that stuff you were still teasing your hair and wanting to secede from the country.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

I thought earlier today she'd cry during the speech, but now I think she's going to let her hair down part of the way through.

 

Hot.

Honestly, if I was coaching her, and I say this if I wanted them to knock it out of the park even though I don't, she should do something like "if they want a fight (lets hair down) we're ready for it."

 

It's an empty gesture, but it's the kind of gesture only a woman can really pull off so they might as well take advantage of the unique weapon they've got.

[SuperJerk 0]

This speech stands up to neither logical nor factual scrutiny.

 

So of course, it'll be considered a great success.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Sarah Palin attracts the kind of voter who sits around saying "weathermen don't know shit, they can't even tell me if it's going to rain!"

[BorneAgain 0]

There have been candidates I like, ones I dislike, but with Palin its not even a matter of like or dislike, the one question I keep asking in my head is "Why is she here?"

[RonL21 0]

I swear in the last week I've never heard about the World Power that is Alaska so much

[SuperJerk 0]

So...Was that the natural gas pipeline that she said God wanted built?

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS! 0]

"I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment."

 

You mean like John McCain?

 

I was thinking the same thing. WTF?

[Gary Floyd 0]

I'll give her this much: at least she's giving a better speech than Rudy, who damn near put me to sleep.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

She's talking about Saudi Arabia and Venezuela like she's trying on a new pair of loafers.

 

 

 

OH SHIT SHE JUST DEVIATED FROM MCCAIN'S POSITION ON DRILLING (off-coast, not ANWR)

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS! 0]

Every time she looks down at her cue cards I picture a room full of no less than a dozen forty-somethings putting this speech together on her behalf. She looks overwhelmed.

[SuperJerk 0]

I'll give her this much: at least she's giving a better speech than Rudy, who damn near put me to sleep.

I didn't have that problem. Pure hypocrisy is like caffeine to me.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

Palin is the only person who can get away with "drill baby drill" in this room, since she's the only one who wants the drills in her area.

 

You bet all these rich folks in the audience would shit NIMBY bricks if the drills set up in their backyards.

[Danville_Wrestling 0]

I shudder to think of how much of a beatdown Biden is going to give her in the veep debate. It's going to make Cheney-Edwards a distant memory in the smackdowns of political debating history.

[Brett Favre 0]

Boooooooo!

[Gary Floyd 0]

TERRORISTS!

 

And with that, I shut out.

[SuperJerk 0]

Going after Obama and lying about his record is a bad idea for her. She just put the bull's-eye back on her back.

 

She's also probably losing a lot of Hillary supporters right now with this wave of standard right-wing propaganda.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

The good news is she is playing attack dog. This means that Biden can go full-contact on her and not have to worry about looking like a misogynist picking on the poor confused girl.

[SuperJerk 0]

"She said Ohio! I'm from Ohio! YAYYYY!!!!"

[SuperJerk 0]

Hey, Sarah, tell us about how smaller government means banning abortions for rape victims and censorship of books!!!!

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

This speech comes off like they chose a random republican woman to get up in the middle of the untelevised parts of the convention to talk about how great the candidate is.

 

...

 

Only they put her on the ticket instead.