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"Republican National Convention: Tampa."
Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 09:13 AM (EST)
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"Republican National Convention: Tampa." |
There's a Bill Veeck line which I'd like to paraphrase here, but I'm going to wait until I clear front page spoiler space as I don't exactly have intentions towards being polite. And there we go. 'Holy @#$%, all the bigots, repressives, haters, Religious Reich members, and social regressors with power are gathered in one place for the next few days. The citizenry is screwed for the next four years.' I know, I know -- I'm being silly. No one in the current party configuration ever counted me among the citizenry in the first place... at least, no one who'll be allowed to speak... Sorry kids, but to me, this is Hatefest '12: The Economy Will Fix Itself When We Finish Pleasing God By Oppressing The Sinners. Judge lest ye be thrown out for not judging. I'm expecting anti-gay speeches, anti-equality, anti-immigration, anti-any-religion-that-isn't-Christianity-and-even-then-only-the-really-strict-parts, anti-female, anti-rights, and quite possibly anti-aliens because if they land and can't prove they brought their own crosses, goodbye. There will be ideas thrown out about the future, sure. Some of them may even be based on trade policy, getting jobs back to the States, fair wages for the lower and middle classes, taxes that work for all, and keeping the last gasp of the American Dream alive. If so, they will be lost in the giant rallying scream of 'We have offended the Almighty with all this so-called acceptance and we're going to fix that right now by fixing everyone else real good!' ('Really well' would be intellectual elitism.) I will not watch one minute. I will read the transcripts the next day. I will even read the official ones posted on the GOP's own site. But when everything in the world is currently my fault, I prefer not to be blamed in real time. One nation, under the thumb. And yes, you will be wasting your time debating with me on this. So let's not. Shall the coverage begin? 
Again: baseball metaphors=death.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 03:17 PM (EST)
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3. "Cancellation?" |
Rumor is... they're talking about canceling it (Boston Globe).There is a distinct possibility that the 2012 Republican National Convention will be cancelled. But the series of conversations - occurring just hours later - made clear that the Romney staff also realizes that Isaac’s potentially horrid wrath could eclipse any bunting-draped imagery they generate inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum. That would render the whole convention exercise a net loss for their candidate, rather than a positive force propelling him into the fall campaign. Consider for a moment the juxtaposition of President Obama marshaling his administration’s forces and personally visiting New Orleans or Mobile, Ala., in the aftermath of the storm’s landfall, all while the convention hall is filled with delegates dressed in funny hats listening to partisan speeches. Never mind, it's a non-event anyway.
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foonermints 11209 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 03:46 PM (EST)
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5. "Nevada." |
Nevada works for me. The Democrats too. There's an old test site out there. Two birds and all of that. No offense, Dabo.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 03:53 PM (EST)
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6. "RE: Nevada." |
Realistically, both parties have reason to fear working within sight of Sin City and in shouting range of legalized prostitution. (Someone would get caught. Someone always gets caught. The legality does not matter to the voters.) Nevada will get a major political convention right after it gets a professional sports team in the Big Four: currently scheduled for the twelfth of Never.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 04:38 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: Nevada." |
Do not tease Kingfish by suggesting Janelle might have a ranch.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 05:01 PM (EST)
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10. "RE: Nevada." |
Did you say Mustang?  Ragtop Ride by foonermintsNup, they couldn't manage the horsepower. And git your Orehorses right.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 09:28 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Republican National Convention: Tampa." |
No, that's the one where they hate America by encouraging sin. Geez, man, try to keep up.
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AyaK 9510 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-27-12, 11:44 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Republican National Convention: Tampa." |
There's more than enough hate floating around to fill both the conventions this year, with some left over that's going to be auctioned on eBay.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-28-12, 00:06 AM (EST)
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16. "RE: Republican National Convention: Tampa." |
Not to mention shot out of the barrel of a .38 or .357.
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foonermints 11209 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-28-12, 02:34 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: Republican National Convention: Tampa." |
How Un-Rodney of you. Must have been a reason for that PCP?
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dabo 23623 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-28-12, 07:41 PM (EST)
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20. "RE: Romney wins!" |
Oh, there was probably some long discussion about whether she should say "real marriage" or "legitimate marriage" or "authentic marriage" -- or perhaps just not go there at all. You know how the liberal media like to pick apart every little word.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-28-12, 08:17 PM (EST)
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21. "RE: Romney wins!" |
How about "happy marriage" or "gay marriage" (in the Yabba-dabba-do sense of the word)?
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foonermints 11209 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-28-12, 08:52 PM (EST)
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22. "RE: Romney wins!" |
You're Evil! I have a "real" marriage, and I'm not even married. Love that cat.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 10:21 AM (EST)
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28. "RE: Predictably" |
'Vote for us and allow us to work towards our goals in the total confidence that we will never achieve them.'No. (And for the record, I did come within twenty seconds of automatically losing the thread.) Give me an intelligent candidate who separates fiscal politics from social and I may vote Republican. What has been offered to me? Isn't it.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 11:50 AM (EST)
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32. "RE: Predictably" |
When I know people are automatically going to dismiss everything I say, it removes most of the incentive for serious answers. So now you can dismiss this one: Barack Obama does not speak for me in all matters for every issue -- but at least he allows me to speak. It has been made clear that I have no place in the Republican party as it is currently constituted. Even in those areas where I agree with the GOP position, I have no intention of trying to join a club which won't have me as a member. Moderate Democrats still have a place on the fringes of the party. Moderate Republicans are close to extinct.
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AyaK 9510 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 02:23 PM (EST)
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34. "POLITICO's view" |
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80316_Page4.htmlLooking forward, the economic and cultural wings of the party will inevitably clash if the all-consuming fiscal focus continues with Ryan and, particularly, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul taking their place atop the GOP. And the fight won’t just be over how much attention to focus on abortion. While Republicans are likely to broadly remain an anti-abortion party, there will almost certainly be an internal battle in the next decade over whether they must bow to the country’s rapidly shifting views of gay marriage. “The social conservatives are getting squeezed,” said one of the party’s most well-known former governors. “You notice how little attention their issues are getting now and just wait when the economic intellectuals embodied by Ryan and the libertarians who love Paul take over.”Let's hope he's right.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 09:42 PM (EST)
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36. "RE: POLITICO's view" |
Actually, in my view, a fairly good assessment.
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cahaya 17741 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 09:33 PM (EST)
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35. "Who's watching?" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-29-12 AT 10:22 PM (EST)Not the whole world. Ho hum. Some speeches by the rank and file. Pawlenty of them. Along with the loser of the last election. Would you look around you now And tell me what you see...I grew up with this song. Conventions (either party) aren't what they used to be.
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08-29-12, 11:10 PM (EST)
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37. "Mystery speaker on Thursday?" |
The political chatter around the Republican convention has once again turned to a Romney pick – with delegates and reporters alike wondering who the campaign has tapped to be the mystery guest at Thursday night’s finale.The buzz started Monday when convention officials released a revised schedule that included a “To Be Announced” speaker – tucked between a performance by singer Taylor Hicks and a speech by Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio. Officials confirmed Wednesday that a surprise guest was still on the schedule but declined further comment. Um. How good could this mystery guest possibly be if he or she is following the bathroom break Taylor Hicks?
I'll take Mitt's elevator music.
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AyaK 9510 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-29-12, 11:33 PM (EST)
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39. "RE: Mystery speaker on Thursday?" |
The rumor is that the mystery guest speaker is Clint Eastwood, who was ticked about the Obama campaign's attempt to use his Chrysler ad during the Super Bowl as an Obama campaign pitch.
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dabo 23623 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-30-12, 11:58 AM (EST)
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42. "RE: Mystery speaker on Thursday?" |
I thought Clint went on record that the Super Bowl ad wasn't a political pitch for either side, it was intended as a morale booster, just a pure non-partisan pro-American thing.http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2012/02/06/clint-eastwood-on-super-bowl-ad-im-not-obamas-puppet/ It was meant to be a message … just about job growth and the spirit of America. I think all politicians will agree with it. Whatever, that was months ago, he is entitled to take a side now if he wishes to. Anyway, the TBA mystery speaker has certainly worked as a publicity stunt, generating interest in what would otherwise be a by the numbers convention finale. Everyone from Clint to Ronald Reagan's ghost has been speculated as the TBA. WOO! Well, we'll see. I expect it to be, actually, a passing of the baton, either Dubya himself or former VP Cheney. A political big gun moment.
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AyaK 9510 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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08-30-12, 10:58 PM (EST)
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49. "RE: Mystery speaker on Thursday?" |
You're right on message for the Democrats talking points:Play Ditzy for Me But even Republicans admit that Clint was all over the place: https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/241357719213309952 However, his job was to deliver the audience for the Rubio-Romney speeches, and he did that.
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08-31-12, 01:28 PM (EST)
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52. "Yep" |
LAST EDITED ON 08-31-12 AT 02:32 PM (EST)LAST EDITED ON 08-31-12 AT 02:26 PM (EST) I'm not sure Clint did anyone any favors with his little skit. So glad I only read the transcript-my face would have hurt from all the wincing. ETA: Much hilarity ensued as #eastwooding became a social media thing with photos of people and pets gesturing to empty chairs.

Too funny. Have to add:

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08-30-12, 09:35 PM (EST)
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46. "RE: Mystery speaker on Thursday?" |
Wow, Taylor sure looks old. I never liked him during AI, but he sounded pretty good tonight, both singing and playing harmonica. And he still can't dance.
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Estee 52318 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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09-05-12, 02:27 PM (EST)
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55. "RE: Ryan runs..." |
Not impressed. As we all know, if his faith was really strong, he'd be able to leg-press three thousand pounds.
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