The previous RNC open thread is filling up, so here’s a new one to discuss one of the most important ceremonial moments in Mitt Romney’s long quest for the Presidency, the nomination acceptance speech.
As if anyone didn’t know he was next in the Grand Old Party’s line of succession.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:33:08pm |
Mitt's big challenge tonight? Prove he's not a robot sent back from the future to destroy us. fb.me/1dfdz4qOe— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 31, 2012
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:36:10pm |
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Major Tom Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:38:01pm |
Where is this going? Oh they're Olympians AND Republicans... Seems Legit.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:39:26pm |
re: #5 CuriousLurker
Seriously? We have to listen to this?
LOL no. I'm letting other people listen to it. I'm just following the live blogs and Twitter.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:39:55pm |
Accosted by RonPaulites on way into Forum. They demanded why I had changed convention rules. Me.— davidfrum (@davidfrum) August 31, 2012
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Charles Johnson Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:40:08pm |
Far be it from me to boast about my predictions, because I'm usually wrong, but I've been saying for a long time that Romney was going to be the nominee. He's the right wing establishment's best hope.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:40:20pm |
re: #5 CuriousLurker
Seriously? We have to listen to this?
You could hit the mute button, turn on "Dark Side of the Moon," and see if they sync.
/
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Big Joe Ghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:41:06pm |
re: #10 Targetpractice
You could hit the mute button, turn on "Dark Side of the Moon," and see if they sync.
/
stoner!
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:41:21pm |
re: #9 Charles Johnson
Far be it from me to boast about my predictions, because they're usually wrong, but I've been saying for a long time that Romney was going to be the nominee. He's the right wing establishment's best hope.
And the rise in the number of "Independents" is a fairly good demonstration of how many have chosen to jump ship than go down with it.
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Stanghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:42:30pm |
re: #6 Lidane
LOL no. I'm letting other people listen to it. I'm just following the live blogs and Twitter.
Lost Internet at home - no patience to wait - so I trying out steakhouse. & happily following LGF comments.
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SteveMcG Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:42:42pm |
re: #11 Big Joe
stoner!
When I was a freshman at Father Judge High School, the Christian Brother who ran the little book store by the cafreteria had "Dark Side of the Moon" on a loop. I loved hanging out there.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:43:28pm |
Attention all short Mexican-American kids: St. Mitt will help make your dreams come true.
Crowd isn't crazy about Mexicans.
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:44:59pm |
Even after cutting #RNC2012 from 4 days to 3, they're still torturing us with vacuous filler.Please, make it stop.— CC (@canadiancynic) August 31, 2012
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Big Joe Ghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:45:12pm |
I'm having a heck of a time keeping the stream going tonight. Video played flawlessly the past two nights.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:45:49pm |
I hate, hate, HATE it when they use 9/11 for political shit. That's what, the second time today?
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:45:54pm |
Olympians?
John McCain called the Olympics spending controversy a "national disgrace" and called for a federal investigation. youtu.be/6LVKJjA_VxU
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 31, 2012
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:48:21pm |
"How many times can I say America in this song...?"
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Major Tom Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:48:31pm |
Birther music... "I was born in America..." I see what you did there.
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:48:35pm |
re: #18 CuriousLurker
I hate, hate, HATE it when they use 9/11 for political shit. That's what, the second time today?
Obama can't take credit for killing Bin Laden but Mitt Romney invented sports.— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 31, 2012
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:48:48pm |
re: #21 dragonath
It's a mantra, to be repeated mindlessly.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:49:15pm |
re: #21 dragonath
"How many times can I say America in this song...?"
Hope nobody was playing a drinking game on this one.....
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:49:40pm |
re: #20 freetoken
This is... "music"?
What are they playing? From your reaction, I'll assume it's not Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima".
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Sionainn Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:50:11pm |
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:50:18pm |
America is you & me? Really? Even us Muslims? //
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:03pm |
re: #27 What Would Spalding Gray Do?
What are they playing?
It's the use of African American Gospel music tradition to present an idolatrous mantra about "America", which is almost the only word in the 5 minutes of lyrics.
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:22pm |
Bebe winans...wasn't he arrested for domestic assault a little while back?
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Sionainn Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:22pm |
re: #32 CuriousLurker
America is you & me? Really? Even us Muslims? //
Well, you know, Muslims aren't Real Americans.
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BongCrodny Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:49pm |
re: #32 CuriousLurker
America is you & me? Really? Even us Muslims? //
No, don't be silly -- of course not!
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:51pm |
re: #26 JamesWI
Hope nobody was playing a drinking game on this one.....
I don't hate my liver that much.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:51:52pm |
Times like these I'm glad they didn't call it Vespuccia.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:53:41pm |
It must be that they paid the lyricist by the word.. and under Romney's reorganization of the GOP they only could afford 5 words.
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Skandal Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:54:00pm |
[tweet
Via @thedailybeast: Reagan Hologram Planned but Pulled for RNC Worried A Dead Reagan Would Out Perform A Live Romney thebea.st/OD4vMr— John Dean (@JohnWDean) August 31, 2012
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:54:27pm |
Using his wife's illness for political gain - Drink!
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:55:29pm |
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Major Tom Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:55:34pm |
Mitt came very close to feeling an emotion that day.
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BongCrodny Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:55:59pm |
This is the party that celebrates the Civil War. They'll be chanting "9/11" for the next 150 years.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:56:10pm |
And now.. they demonstrate the power of the "baby juice".
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:56:26pm |
Why all this Video Mitt? Why isn't he saying these things in person when he comes out?
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) August 31, 2012
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:56:28pm |
Loving stories about him flying around in the late 60s to meet his girlfriend.
Good thing there wasn't anything patriotic he could have been doing around that time instead......
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:57:50pm |
Tea Party, don't fret about Jane Edmonds portraying Mitt as moderate. She worked with him in 2002; he was a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON then— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 31, 2012
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:58:06pm |
Now time for the "Life and Times of George Romney."
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:58:18pm |
Somebody give me a barf bag. All this talk of love and I can think of is all the horrible racist shit the wingnuts have said about President Obama, Michelle, and even Sasha & Mailia.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:58:38pm |
re: #52 dragonath
Humility is not found on by the Y-chromosome, Mitt.
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bubba zanetti Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:58:54pm |
re: #41 Major Tom
Mitt should come out on a White Horse.
If you want to be rich, you got to be a bitch.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:59:31pm |
And now, every American can work at minimum wage, just like Staples employees.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:59:55pm |
"If he could save 50 cents on paperclips, he'd move all the paperclip manufacturing jobs to China"
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 6:59:56pm |
Yes, let us talk about Staples, and not the office supplies company that got run into the ground to build up Staples.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:00:07pm |
re: #47 Major Tom
Mitt came very close to feeling an emotion that day.
Emergency hotfix applied. System now operating as expected.
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:01:04pm |
It's bizarre seeing his wife talk about him as he looks on.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:01:18pm |
Balancing the budget, otherwise known as the law as written in Massachusetts.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:01:42pm |
"His values are so strong......at least, when he can remember which values he's pretending to have that given day"
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:01:57pm |
Charismatic? Are we talking about the same Mitt Romney?
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:02:02pm |
Wait a minute! Who edited out the Romneycare section from the bio video? Does Mitt know about this? #rnc2012
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 31, 2012
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Charles Johnson Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:02:19pm |
The Romney campaign obviously spent huge bucks on production.
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:02:45pm |
A Michael Jackson song...? What... is Cardinal Dolan coming out?
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:04:17pm |
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:04:22pm |
Yes conservatives are known for being soft spoken and modest.///
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:04:33pm |
We hate Hollywood actors talking about politics!.......Oh wait, we finally got one bigger than the guy from "Coach"??? Put him on primetime at our convention!
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:04:50pm |
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:05:15pm |
Well, I'm convinced. Mitt got Clint to speak, so I guess I'll vote Republican this year. //////
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:05:42pm |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:06:10pm |
re: #65 Targetpractice
Charismatic? Are we talking about the same Mitt Romney?
First time I saw Mitt Romney, I thought to myself, "holy shit! All this time I thought James Brown was a black guy!"
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:06:23pm |
We haven't done enough to solve the employment problem...... So.....let's raise taxes on those guys and give the rich people more money!
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:06:53pm |
Good going. Mock the emotions that people felt on the election of the first African American president.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:07:20pm |
I'm sorry, are they laughing at Clint's attempts at humor or Clint's delivery?
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:07:48pm |
Oh look, Eastwood's new movie is coming out September 28.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:05pm |
Now he's blaming Obama.......for Afghanistan?????
WHAT THE FUCK????
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:15pm |
A bone to the Paulian Isolationists about Afghanistan... hehe....
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ElCapitanAmerica Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:20pm |
What is Clint rambling about? This is embarrassing ...
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:31pm |
"Possibly it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem." - Clint Eastwood's endorsement of Mitt Romney
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 31, 2012
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:48pm |
re: #85 JamesWI
Now he's blaming Obama.......for Afghanistan?????
WHAT THE FUCK????
If only Obama had paid attention to the intelligence reports we had at the time, 9/11 might have been prevented.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:55pm |
Now Obama was apparently supposed to bring the troops back from the wars immediately.
Because that's what the Republicans wanted.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:08:57pm |
re: #87 ElCapitanAmerica
What is Clint rambling about? This is embarrassing ...
Yeah, he seems to keep losing his train of thought.
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:09:15pm |
Clint is so old, the only way he can be the toughest guy in an argument is if the other guy is imaginary.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:09:21pm |
Well, do you feel lucky, chair?
— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) August 31, 2012
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:09:28pm |
re: #91 CuriousLurker
Yeah, he seems to keep losing his train of thought.
Time for the orchestra to start playing and the nice models to escort him off stage.— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 31, 2012
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:09:46pm |
Seriously, I'd actually have been more impressed if they'd managed to talk Trump into filling up this time block. This is just sad.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:09:59pm |
So this is what it's like to watch someone lose all their dignity in 10 minutes
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:10:27pm |
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was an attorney.
Christ O Mighty
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:11:05pm |
The RNC crowd just laughed at the notion of the Afghanistan war. Clint is talking to invisible enemies. We're through the looking glass.— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 31, 2012
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:11:11pm |
re: #93 dragonath
This is really fucking bizarre
It's like when early-Alzheimer's Groucho Marx used to go on the Dick Cavett show and ramble on incoherently. More than a little sad.
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:00pm |
We own this country. Not those Liberal pricks.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:00pm |
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:13pm |
Good lord, the quality of this "speech" is about on par with the hypothetical imaginary situation where the Democrats put Snooki on in prime-time at their convention.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:14pm |
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:19pm |
Eastwood just sounds like your typical winger.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:35pm |
This is the most bizarre convention speech I think I've ever seen. Clint Eastwood has lost his mind.
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 31, 2012
Someone please get Clint Eastwood some Obamacare #GOP2012 #RNC2012 #thismakesmesadinside
— Baratunde (@baratunde) August 31, 2012
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:38pm |
re: #103 Stanley Sea
Its bad eh?
Not totally, but the conventioneers have been so bored for 3 days it seems actually entertaining.
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:12:55pm |
re: #108 Tigger2
Eastwood just sounds like your typical winger.
This performance really sums up the Republican Party of the last four years.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:13:07pm |
re: #107 Targetpractice
Clint doing his rendition of Harvey the Rabbit.
With jump-cuts to white people in the audience wearing elephant-shaped hats.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:01pm |
I feel bad for Clint but he of course could have turned them down too.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:01pm |
Clint, if I promise to go see your new movie, would you please, PLEASE save what little dignity you have left and get off the stage?
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:18pm |
What the heck IS this?— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) August 31, 2012
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:19pm |
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:20pm |
He is actually trying to win the independents with that?
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:14:57pm |
I hope invisible Obama stays on stage for Romney's speech.
— Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers21) August 31, 2012
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:15:00pm |
re: #120 Petero1818
He is actually trying to win the independents with that?
He was the token non-neocon bone thrown to the isolationists, I gather from the actual content.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:15:06pm |
I liked it better when we were speculating that Caribou Barbie was the mystery guest.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:15:18pm |
In Eastwood's new movie, he plays an old man who bangs his car into his garage walls. Not the image this party needs— davidfrum (@davidfrum) August 31, 2012
Not the image it needs, but the one it deserves right now.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:15:21pm |
re: #120 Petero1818
He is actually trying to win the independents with that?
People only vote for Democrats because movie stars tell them to! Now we got one of our own!
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:16:02pm |
re: #124 Targetpractice
I liked it better when we were speculating that Caribou Barbie was the mystery guest.
Holographic Reagan looks like the smarter move now...
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:16:12pm |
Rubio takes a moment to remind us his parents were from Cuba.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:16:21pm |
Was that Clint Eastwood being high or just someone in his 80s?
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:16:24pm |
Now everyone is going to get up and get a drink or a smoke. Sorry Rubio.
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Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:16:56pm |
Andrea Mitchell didn't know what to say. LOL.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:17:17pm |
re: #130 Destro
Was that Clint Eastwood being high or just someone in his 80s?
Sounded like late-stage Reagan to me.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:17:21pm |
This campaign keeps on getting weirder and weirder.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:17:35pm |
GOP corners the "Pity Vote". Brilliant, Rove.
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Robert O. Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:17:59pm |
I am at the RNC right now and I took a photo outside:
[Link: tinyurl.com...]
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:18:25pm |
Shorter Rubio: my ancestors knew how much the rest of the world sucks.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:18:48pm |
Betty White would have nailed this fucker in one take— TBogg (@tbogg) August 31, 2012
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:06pm |
re: #138 Amory Blaine
This production is very polished.
You can say that with a straight face after what we just witnessed?
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:13pm |
re: #134 HappyWarrior
This campaign keeps on getting weirder and weirder.
That's what happens when you run out of ideas.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:40pm |
I can't help watching this and thinking "Rubio would have been a much better VP pick."
More charismatic, doesn't have that whole "mastermind of getting rid of Medicare and Social Security" thing going against him.
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:45pm |
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Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:46pm |
re: #140 Mocking Jay
You can say that with a straight face after what we just witnessed?
I guess I forgot the
/
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:19:48pm |
"I picked the wrong week to quit sniffin' glue."
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:02pm |
Jokes about the President golfing? Really Republicans?
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:07pm |
re: #140 Mocking Jay
You can say that with a straight face after what we just witnessed?
He was talking about the run for the Warsaw City Council.
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bratwurst Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:09pm |
Golf joke...yuk yuk yuk. Bob Hope will sue his ass off from the grave!
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:40pm |
re: #147 JamesWI
Jokes about the President golfing? Really Republicans?
Hey Bachmann did say that Americans should vote for Romney over Obama because Obama's too rich.
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:51pm |
Republican audience is loving Clint -- not surprised.They love things that don't make sense. #Current2012 #GOP2012— Jennifer Granholm (@JenGranholm) August 31, 2012
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steve_davis Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:57pm |
I enjoyed the part where they posthumously baptized Hitler.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:58pm |
re: #141 Tigger2
That's what happens when you run
out of ideasoff all the rational people in your party.
FTFY.
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:20:59pm |
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:11pm |
Republicans talking about Obama's ideas moving us "backwards"? Really Republicans?
People from other countries are immigrating to America to get away from healthcare? Really Republicans?
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:17pm |
re: #150 HappyWarrior
Hey Bachmann did say that Americans should vote for Romney over Obama because Obama's too rich.
Yes. Crazy bitch is crazy.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:21pm |
Yes, this ideas are old and tired. "Trickle down economics," now that's new and different!
///
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Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:31pm |
They must be transmitting the shit out of this because I never get uninterupted reception for this long.
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RadicalModerate Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:36pm |
I see that the media already has Eastwood's speech recap written up.
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Interesting Times Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:21:47pm |
New Gallup poll: Romney 45%, Obama's Chair 48%.— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) August 31, 2012
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:22:32pm |
You mean the rest of the world, where a large number operate universal health care systems that actually cost less and do more for people?
Yeah, how horrible.///
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:22:34pm |
.@angryblacklady They got Marco out there like someone yelled polo. I swear to God.— Simon Says (@SayethSimon) August 31, 2012
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:22:48pm |
Obama's ideas have been tried over and over again and failed.
Unlike trickle-down economics, which has never been tried before and will definitely be successful.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:23:04pm |
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:23:14pm |
Havent partaken in a while, but may need to smoke a joint and watch Clint speech over at half-speed.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 31, 2012
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:23:28pm |
Let's be glad Mitt wasn't "trapped by the circumstances of his birth".
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:23:51pm |
re: #159 RadicalModerate
I see that the media already has Eastwood's speech recap written up.
Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. That was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:23:58pm |
Yeah I don't know how you can say our opponents ideas are failed ideas while ours are fresh when your candidate has said basically he's going to repeat the Bush approach. They should be embarrassed but instead they will convince themselves that they're telling the American people the truth that we don't want to hear.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:24:03pm |
Rubio talking about a time when the rich lorded over the poor.............
But not talking about how that's the time they want to go back to.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:24:33pm |
re: #170 What Would Spalding Gray Do?
Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt. That was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
I read that in Abe Simpson's voice, thank you.
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:24:43pm |
Wait, faith in a God is the most important thing about being an American?!
WTF?
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:24:45pm |
re: #173 JamesWI
Rubio talking about a time when the rich lorded over the poor.............
But not talking about how that's the time they want to go back to.
I pictured the Koch's pleasuring each other over that description.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:25:03pm |
Faith in our creator is the most important value for us all?
Hmmm... Me thinks some here might be valueless...
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:25:20pm |
re: #177 dragonath
Wait, faith in a God is the most important thing about being an American
WTF?
No.
THE God.
You fail at being American.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:25:23pm |
re: #177 dragonath
Wait, faith in a God is the most important thing about being an American
WTF?
Sigh.
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:25:25pm |
The last few minutes have tested my faith in humanity
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Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:25:51pm |
They're blaming Obama wholesale for the recession. Total dishonest tripe.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:26:17pm |
re: #167 freetoken
Let's be glad Mitt wasn't "trapped by the circumstances of his birth".
I agree, America is great and special. We elected a half black Kenyan Marxist Muslim with a weido name like Barack Hussien Obama over a white war hero named John McCain.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:26:18pm |
Someone should tell Marco Rubio he's standing on my foot right now.
— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:26:48pm |
re: #183 Amory Blaine
They're blaming Obama wholesale for the recession. Total dishonest tripe.
Of course. If Paul Ryan's going to blame him for a plant closing before he became president, you can be damn sure that Marco Rubio will blame him for the whole recession. And these people whine about "blaming Bush" look who's talking assholes.
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RadicalModerate Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:00pm |
Rubio talking about the mortgage crash, economic upheaval, and general uncertainty.
Is this 2008?
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:15pm |
re: #179 freetoken
Faith in our creator is the most important value for us all?
Hmmm... Me thinks some here might be valueless...
Hmm, what other country is run by a bunch that espouse the best value as faith in the Creator and submission to his will?
/
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:18pm |
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engineer cat Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:39pm |
anybody know what college rubio is thinking of going to after he finishes high school?
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:42pm |
re: #185 jaunte
A new meme is born. Gotta love it.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:27:52pm |
re: #191 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
The GOP is clearly The Party of God.
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:28:13pm |
Speaking in Spanish, and the audience applauds like they actually understand it...... Well, I guess they had to learn a little to communicate with "the help"
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:28:28pm |
I have my TV muted to protect my sanity I just can't listen to anymore of the crazy.
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:28:33pm |
Rubio's wearing the same flag pin Romney does.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:28:53pm |
re: #193 engineer cat
anybody know what college rubio is thinking of going to after he finishes high school?
Regent or Liberty with all this God alone is what makes us great crap. More power to ya if you believe in God, but you can still be a great American and not believe in God. Would love for Rubio to tell that to my cousin's husband, the Desert Storm vet atheist former Marine.
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:05pm |
re: #194 CuriousLurker
The speakers would be more nervous if they knew that Invisible Obama was naked.
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CuriousLurker Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:08pm |
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RadicalModerate Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:10pm |
Mr. Rubio makes a statement in Spanish.
Joe Arpaio seen walking toward the stage to request him to show his papers.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:20pm |
re: #185 jaunte
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I guess Obama is so black for the GOP to visually handle they made him invisible.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:26pm |
Did Eastwood really do a bit with an empty chair? What was the chair's motivation?
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:29:58pm |
re: #204 Decatur Deb
Did Eastwood really do a bit with an empty chair? What was the chair's motivation?
The chair's motivation was to get as far away from that senile old man as possible.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:30:14pm |
Obama should quote from Ellison's Invisible Man but that would probably too intellectual for them.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:30:36pm |
re: #204 Decatur Deb
Did Eastwood really do a bit with an empty chair? What was the chair's motivation?
To avoid being fired by Donald Trump.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:30:40pm |
re: #204 Decatur Deb
Did Eastwood really do a bit with an empty chair? What was the chair's motivation?
The empty chair was supposed to represent a black man in a GOP convention.
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engineer cat Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:30:40pm |
little known fact: rubio will play the role of "chip" in the movie version of 'my three sons', due out spring 2013
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JRCMYP Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:30:57pm |
Notice how practically no one knew what Rubio said in Spanish? Had he been at the Democratic convention, that would have been different.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:00pm |
re: #204 Decatur Deb
Did Eastwood really do a bit with an empty chair? What was the chair's motivation?
What is the chair's favorite swear word?
Image: 4bWcV.jpg
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dragonath Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:03pm |
Maybe Romney made the right decision in passing over this guy.
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Skandal Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:06pm |
[tweet
Clint Eastwood is still continuing that speech backstage to a water cooler. #RNC— Mike Polk Jr. (@mikepolkjr) August 31, 2012
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darthstar Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:27pm |
Rubio: "People like me who were born here." - nice dog whistle, asshole. #p2— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 31, 2012
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:43pm |
Is it his job to keep speaking until we've all forgotten about Eastwood?
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:31:51pm |
re: #184 Destro
I agree, America is great and special. We elected a half black Kenyan Marxist Muslim with a weido name like Barack Hussien Obama over a white war hero named John McCain.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:32:01pm |
re: #214 darthstar
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Pathetic that a son of immigrants engages in that crap but hey he's got an audience to please.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:32:07pm |
re: #212 dragonath
Rubio is likely scheduled for the 2020 election, given that Ryan now has the mantle for 2016.
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Jadewater Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:32:08pm |
Is Eastwood a normal, sane like Conservative or is he a bat-crazy one?
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JamesWI Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:32:20pm |
Yahoo apparently has a live chat going. I just looked at it and found a good point:
Comment From Guest
The lead story tomorrow will be Clint Eastwood, not Mitt Romney.
Indeed. All people will be talking about is Clint talking to an (edit) empty chair, unless Mitt goes out there and asks for Obama's birth certificate.
Mitt's been upstaged by just about every person at this convention.
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freetoken Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:32:40pm |
re: #219 Jadewater
He's just get a bit strange in his old age.
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Dark_Falcon Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:00pm |
re: #220 dragonath
Hey Dark, how about that Clint speech?
I didn't see it. I was taking care of my laundry.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:12pm |
The GOP built me.— Invisible Obama (@InvisibleObama) August 31, 2012
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Jadewater Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:20pm |
re: #222 freetoken
He's just get a bit strange in his old age.
Well was he sane conservative or bat-crazy before?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:30pm |
re: #221 JamesWI
Yahoo apparently has a live chat going. I just looked at it and found a good point:
Indeed. All people will be talking about is Clint talking to an angry chair, unless Mitt goes out there and asks for Obama's birth certificate.
Mitt's been upstaged by just about every person at this convention.
I think really that's the last thing Mitt wants at this point but I imagine he after all had the final say on Clint. It's too bad, I like Clint's movies quite a bit but it sounds like really made himself into a punch line tonight.
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Targetpractice Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:33pm |
What is that thing on Willard's face? That curvy thing?
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Petero1818 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:33:37pm |
God I hope that Obama's chair distracts him and fucks up the whole speech
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jaunte Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:34:39pm |
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Four More Tears Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:34:41pm |
This would be an excellent time to start running that Chrysler commercial again.
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Lidane Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:34:52pm |
We chose more government over more freedom? Get him, Ron Paulers!— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 31, 2012
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jhrhv Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:34:58pm |
Tell it like it is.
My parents and theirs worked really hard. They loaned money from everyone they knew to start a business. When things were better they borrowed from banks and paid interest. Then the party I represent deregulated banking and they created false securities with that money and destroyed the economy.
Now please vote for a guy who ship jobs overseas and wouldn't have spent a dime to save the auto industry.
Ladies and gentlemen Mitt Romney.
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darthstar Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:34:59pm |
It should be noted that @mittromney does a red carpet walk when he goes to take a shit. #p2 #RNC— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 31, 2012
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:35:24pm |
re: #223 Dark_Falcon
I didn't see it. I was taking care of my laundry.
Don't worry about missing it Dark it was your typical intellectual Republican speech.
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Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:35:37pm |
Where's the teleprompters?
Oh there they are.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:35:51pm |
re: #233 jhrhv
Tell it like it is.
My parents and theirs worked really hard. They loaned money from everyone they knew to start a business. When things were better they borrowed from banks and paid interest. Then the party I represent deregulated banking and they created false securities with that money and destroyed the economy.Now please vote for a guy who ship jobs overseas and wouldn't have spent a dime to save the auto industry.
Ladies and gentlemen Mitt Romney.
That's pretty much the vibe I get from Rubio's speech.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:36:22pm |
Someone yelled "no no don't touch me" as Romney made his way to the stage.
LOL!
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smirking Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:36:42pm |
re: #108 Tigger2
I'd disagree with that. He sounded like he had no idea what he's doing. I'm listening on radio instead of watching. He sounded lost over the radio.
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Jadewater Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:37:34pm |
I don't care so much about his wacky presentation, just the Clint isn't on the Nugent like point of the scale. That would bother me. :(
Please make it not so.
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:37:50pm |
re: #239 smirking
I'd disagree with that. He sounded like he had no idea what he's doing. I'm listening on radio instead of watching. He sounded lost over the radio.
re: #239 smirking
I'd disagree with that. He sounded like he had no idea what he's doing. I'm listening on radio instead of watching. He sounded lost over the radio.
I forgot the /////////////////// after my comment. lol
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:37:54pm |
Romney wants us to walk together to a better future....I thought he was a car guy?
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Decatur Deb Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:38:04pm |
Please let them play 'Fanfare for the Common Man'
| 245 |
Amory Blaine Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:39:02pm |
Is there something on his pledge pin? like a red dot?
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:39:16pm |
So VP candidate Ryan likes his kids and mom.....................
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:40:07pm |
Romney said we are a nation of immigrants - is he admitting he is Mexican?
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:42:39pm |
Did Romney say this was the time we were to pay down our debt? We did that 16 years ago when a Democrat was president named Clinton then Bush was elected president with a GOP congress. Fuck you, Romney and GOP!
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:44:02pm |
Crowd chanting USA! USA! I am waiting for Sgt. Slaughter to come out to fight the Iron Shiek. The GOP crowd knows they are not watching a Wrestlemania, right?
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:46:01pm |
Romney dog whistles and says the USA deserves better than a black man as president.
Romney now praising socialist NASA program started by a Kennedy.
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Tigger2 Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:46:38pm |
Armstrong got to the moon because of the Democrats.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:49:23pm |
So we should vote for Romney because his dad gave his mom a daily rose? What the fuck?
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:50:31pm |
I like how Romney chose women to work for him but won't let them choose for themselves.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:51:43pm |
How is waking up with your kids in bed relevant to running for the presidency?
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wheat-dogghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:53:43pm |
re: #203 Destro
I guess Obama is so black for the GOP to visually handle they made him invisible.
Invisible Man? By Ralph Ellison?
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:57:22pm |
re: #260 wheatdogg
Invisible Man? By Ralph Ellison?
I am betting that routine Eastwood 'performed' was written a white person who never read that work.
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wheat-dogghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 7:58:06pm |
re: #243 Destro
Romney wants us to walk together to a better future....I thought he was a car guy?
As long as you're not a dog
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wheat-dogghazi Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:00:00pm |
re: #261 Destro
We read it in high school, which is ironic considering my school had only one black kid in it at the time.
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:08:19pm |
Romney just said, yea fuck the earth! Fuck the earth! fuck the earth!!! USA! USA! USA!
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:09:14pm |
Chants of USA! USA! USA! Waiting for Triple H to enter the ring!!
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Destro Thu, Aug 30, 2012 8:10:13pm |
Romney just promised war against Iran and Russia.
Putin laughs at faux tough guy Romney.
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Bulworth Fri, Aug 31, 2012 7:48:51am |
re: #80 JamesWI
We haven't done enough to solve the employment problem...... So.....let's raise taxes on those guys and give the rich people more money!
One other thing we could do to solve the unemployment problem is pass legislation taking away the Fed's mandate to promote full employment. That'll do it. Freedom! ///
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