Republican Convention

[xoxoxoBruce]

Scaled back happenings on Monday. Laura's speech canceled and W watching the weather channel from Texas.
Tuesday, Cheney is leaving the country for 4 days.

[classicman]

Ya think the Almighty is tryin to tell the Repubs something?

[SamIam]

Let's hope they keep up that level of enthusiasm for the entire campaign. I got visited by an African American lady who is canvassing for Obama. She was so excited, she was almost turning cartwheels.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by classicman

Ya think the Almighty is tryin to tell the Repubs something?

Well someone up there likes them. They now have a legitimate excuse for excluding GWB from the convention.

This is much better than the alien invasion they were getting ready to stage.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by classicman

Ya think the Almighty is tryin to tell the Repubs something?

Pat Robertson prayed for rain, so that Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Stadium would be rained out. Seems like He showed mercy instead by watering down the RNC 08 par-tay!

[wolf]

If anything, I think it's becoming clearer this year how unnecessary a spectacle involving a lot of people in funny hats and vests covered in more flair than a Chotchkie's waitress. The candidate is already determined, the platform planks long since decided upon and nailed in by the Inner Party and all the conventions do at this point is mess up the TV schedule and reinforce the notion that white people can't dance.

[Undertoad]

Romney: 3 out of 10. Pretty boy speak nice, but his repeated emphasis of Librul vs Conservative was divisive red meat for his own side, not making the case to America. In his time slot maybe that's to be expected, but fuck him.

Huckabee: 8 out of 10. Passionate populism, but not overly passionate. It's not exactly my cup of tea, but it's okay; and Huck has this likability characteristic that I can't escape. He comes across as a decent guy gently making the case for his side. The uncle or cousin you liked to listen to at family gatherings.

[Elspode]

Yawn. Let me know when Sarah blinks her headlights at the conclusion of her speech. *That's* something I'll be sorry I missed.

[Juniper]

OK -- I went up to watch just now but got bored. It's not that I don't care; I just find the whole situation so damn depressing. I don't like Obama, so if I vote for McCain, it will be because he's not Obama. And so nothing else matters. I don't like McCain either, so my vote will be about who I dislike less. Blech..

Vote for someone else and it's like not bothering to vote at all. I made that mistake way back in 1992, so this time I might just stay home so I don't have to admit to something embarrassing like voting for Perot.

Which, let me tell you, is a BIG DEAL for me - I am a serious voting advocate; I never miss a vote. Even the little local ones. I take it very seriously. So if I say I ain't voting, wow, you know?

My husband wuvs Palin. Whatever. I told him that I thought picking Palin just flushed the whole campaign down the toilet. He asked me who I thought would have been a better pick.

Um....got it! Hillary! Now THAT would've been a ticket!

[Undertoad]

Palin: 4 out of 10. She had a particularly difficult dive to do: convince the electorate of her gravitas. She got to the hard part and started reading the prompters harder. She made a few deft attacks, otherwise a lot of it was too inside poker for the rest of the country to care. It serves as just good enough of an introduction to allow them to get a foot in the door of the electorate. It keeps them int he game, but it needed to be much more than that.

[Undertoad]

Many people are rating Palin higher than I did for her attack dog parts, which I felt were mixed. I also faulted her for her accent, which I found a little annoying and nasal at times, but that's probably not fair. Now this gets floated:

Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

It's possible - I don't know where the deviations are.

I also thought she was a bit too factually weak, but I didn't take points off from Obama for that sort of thing. My meter may be a little off.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by Juniper

I am a serious voting advocate; I never miss a vote. Even the little local ones. I take it very seriously. So if I say I ain't voting, wow, you know?

Yup. I do.

I still like the idea of none-of-the-above. If none-of-the-above wins, they have to do the whole thing over again.

[classicman]

That's a great one Dar, but we'd have to keep the incumbent till the reelection was over.

[ZenGum]

Preferential voting, guys.
Who do you want most?
Okay, if it's not them, who's your second pick?
And so on, all the way down the ballot.
It's fun because you get to decide who to put LAST!

[Undertoad]

J. McCain: 8 out of 10. Told his war story personally, which is something he doesn't often do. Call for action and strong ending. Gloss over the issues. Show grace. Part of his job was to show enough vigor to not fall relentlessly behind in image; I think he mostly did that. His tic of grinning at every applause line became distracting.