Eli!

I’m excited, too. Can hardly wait to not watch. The comments here will be all I need.

HEY, ELI!

Buzz!

HEY, TWAIN!

You couldn’t pay me to watch.

Watching on MSNBC, Chris Hayes was pointing out how the Republicans’ demonization of debt is so ironic given the way Bain was basically built on debt.

And Tweety talked about how Americans love people who *make* stuff, but not people who just turn massive amounts of money into more money.

This is all pundits. I demand to see Republican former Massachusetts government officials!

Eli!

Watching online CSPAN

Elliott!

You could pay me to watch, but I’d just lie about it and take the money. After all, if it’s good enough for a Republican….

ELI!
Thanks for watching this mind numbing drivel so I don’t have to, (not that I would anyway…).

Tried to tune in, but it seems like an ad for Bain Capital. Seriously, am I in the right place?

MARGARET!

While I was cooking dinner, The Kid came and turned on the television, just while Newt and Callista were doing their joint speech.

Callista in front of the microphone is as natural, at ease, and flowing as her hair.

Tried to tune in, but it seems like an ad for Bain Capital.

Oh, I’m sure it is.

Yeah, I was thinking much the same thing… Maddow/Hayes commentary is pretty entertaining tho.

so
they are celebrating government assistance for higher education now? I’m so confused.

You guys aren’t the only ones who feel that way apparently.

I dunno. Liveblogging is pretty hard to do between speakers unless everyone is watching the same channel.

Probably only charter schools where the kids learn about creation and dinosaurs.

Mitt Romney: warm and authentic. No, really.

It’s really not fun anymore. Gotta have a few drinks to take the edge off.

I watched a little, but when either Ed or Ezra Klein, can’t remember which (maybe it was Chris Hayes), pointed out generational wealth perpetuating the myth of transient wealth I thought about the Roman Republic; then Steve Smith said that no matter what some may say, it has been established that Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest presidents in history. Then I turned to Current, and Al Gore and Elliot Spitzer were talking about how great a guy Mitt Romney is on a personal level. I’ve been sickened by political conventions before from Chicago ’68 to Dallas ’84, but this time I really feel like I’m watching the death throes of a murdered America.

I still want to see the saddles for those dinoaurs. I don’t care what they say.

Eli !

I can’t imagine what Newt is feeling, knowing that he lost the nomination to this yutz …

I’m sure the Republican crowd is just loving all this stuff about how many women Romney hired for his administration. Maybe it was because he could pay them 25% less?

Petro !

let’s rock out in a business suit !! Partay!!

Larry O’Donnell points out that this is pretty much *all* she can say about Mitt’s track record on jobs.

and takin’ it to the streets….

I’m only here to see my hero: Mr Clint Eastnut.

I remember being a kid and watching gavel to gavel coverage. People in funny hats. Stupid speeches from the delegation chairmen during the roll call. It was amusing.

This thing (not that I’m watching it, mind you) just seems like a lame sales conference for a company slowly going bankrupt. Third string salesmen that couldn’t get a job with the competitors are waiting for the announcement New Improved Product that they can actually get enough commissions selling that their spouses won’t leave them.

I can’t think of anyone whose Republicanism saddens me more.

We’re gonna hit an irony overdose when Marco Rubio steps up …

er,. I mean mr clint. oh never mind.

Me too.

I’m with Eli Wallach

“Blondie, you’re a son of a …”

I kept waiting for Jane Edmonds to say “Mitt Romney is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever met.”

I wonder how much they had to pay Eastwood?

I’m not gonna make it. already half in the tank.

I’m really hoping Eastwood calls out the ridiculous teabaggers but I don’t believe he will. My dad went from saying Rush Limbaugh is a clown to being an all out dittohead as he aged. Crotchety old Clint will throw them some red, raw meant. Eastwood used to be quite the moderate but I guess expecting a conservative with stature to be brave and do the right thing is far too much to hope for.

OMG ! I just got an e-mail from Mitt asking for a donation. Made me want to hurl. I can’t imagine how they got my name.

Maddow showing clips of gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney calling himself progressive, and presidential candidate Mitt Romney calling himself a “severely conservative” governor.

Lately I’ve been hanging up on both or them. Now that’s real power.

Send ‘em back a link to a laugh track.

He’s been trolling for retired Caucasians who may have forgotten to throw some money at him. Even hired a firm to build him lists. I read about it a couple of weeks ago.

Okay, okay, okay… I had sworn to myself that I would try to hold onto my lunch rather than watch this. I’ve got MSNBC on, where Kindly Dr. Maddow is showing us clips of Mittens the weather vane. I don’t think I’ll be able to tolerate the actual speeches with the sound on, however.

Hi, Petrocelli! What are you in the mood for in the way of breakfast tomorrow?

*blink* … oh, so you didn’t want me putting you on the “Million-Dollar Donor” List ?!!

I sent a reply saying that I wanted them to remove my name because I detest both Romney and Ryan. Hope it works.

Treansformation over the course of his career. You mean the story of how he became an asshat.

{{{ Marion }}}

The French Toast were scrumptious … and the Maple Syrup was yummy !

We should have something special tomorrow, in honor of Mitt’s coronation …

When is the chief asshat supposed to speak anyway? And when is the movie star up?

Now they know your address is live. You’ll get buried in emails.

Stray thought. Wonder what Morgan Freeman thinks about this silly shit.

he’s a breath mint – no a candy mint

Magnum Farce

who what do Mormons eat for breakfast?

Eggs Benedict? Whole wheat peanut butter pancakes? Or if we’re feeling suicidal we could let Paula Deen help us along. (Don’t get me started on that bitch…)

{{{ Elliott }}}

I’m thinking in honor of Newt & Calista, we should have Piggies in a Blanket ! *g*

video, then that mystery guy. I gotta try and hang in there to see another Mr Tough Guy tell us how it is.

What are we going to see?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Fistful of Dollars
A Few Dollars More

You know he’s gonna say “make my day, Obama. “

magic omelets with green cheese

Eggs Benedict topped with Smoked Salmon … Mmmm Mmmmmm

Ed has an interesting take on Eastwood.

You might check out your family members . . .

One of my liberal relatives once sent a donation to an environmental group in the name of one of my conservative relatives. The conservative responded by making a donation to the NRA in the name of the liberal. Both have been getting unwanted mail, email, and phone calls for several years as a result.

This is the same family that once had a thanksgiving dinner where the cook brought out a smallish bird and said “I couldn’t find a turkey at the market, but they did have this spotted owl . . .” It was actually pheasant, but you get the idea.

M’eh. Just send ‘em to the spam folder.

The Mormons prayed Obama’s mother into heaven during the 2008 campaign and apparently have done Anne Frank for the ninth time.

The Mitt Romney Story: Any which way but truth.

Whatever it is that they eat in the morning, they don’t serve coffee with it, and so it doesn’t qualify for the term “breakfast”.

Do not know…but just heard a bit of the Olympian and had to shut it down….Will have to miss the rest of the intelligent “bon mots.”

LMAO … buzz !

Your wish is my command. And good Scottish smoked salmon, right? Lox is for bagels.

Figure this thing helps or hurts his career? Prolly doesn’t give a shit one way or the tother.

Your family sounds fun!

I just heard that Pussy Riot is the mystery guest.

Is this song America America special for the convention? BeBe Winans

Now that’s funny. :)

Nobody does breakfast better!

Yes’m !

Really looking forward to it …

I wish I were an expert on interpreting body language. It would make watching Mittens’ performance more interesting. I most certainly will not listen to him…

On the other hand, do robots actually have “body language?”

I wonder if he had to come in the backdoor

“They think Clint Eastwood is more likeable than Mitt Romney.” Really? No shit?

Oh, please… These are Republicans. More likely that Wing-Wang Riot is the mystery guest. Please to remember that they have wide stances.

Awww… [blush] Thanks!

Though the act of retroactively Baptizing dead people is arrogant and presumptuous, there are no real, tangible effects. The dead person is still dead, their brain lacking any electrical potential. Sorta like shooting a dead horse.

It’s so sad to politicize the Olympics

Wait, you gotta shoot a dead horse, other wise you can’t say for sure he’s dead, right?

Oh, hell no. They’re parading every more-than-Florida-tanned face they can dredge up.

I would pay good money for when he is in the same room as Rev Sharpton & Jesse Jackson …

Have they no decency? What a question.

It’s just so offensive. I don’t understand why they think you can do something to a dead person that the dead person had not done while alive.

Been tipping a few?

What’s even more telling is, they think they’re contributing something of value to the World.

Clint’s five wives are coming.

Watching the hagiography that’s being shown on MSNBC has me about to hork up Monday’s lunch, to say nothing of today’s. Gosh — Ann wasn’t always blonde… I guess you can’t be a proper Republican if you aren’t nowadays.

They mean well, they think they are saving souls for eternity.

They baptized my great grandmother – and you’re right Margaret, no skin off her teeth

I think only 2 of the 5 women he impregnated were counted as actual wives in the league standings.

I have never seen a home movie with less emotions …

In Salt Lake City I only saw blondes. Seriously.

Chuck Todd is a fucking idiot. No other way to put it.

Do they have to show this shit? I want to see one about Kenya.

Heh, now Mitt’s talking about how immovable his dad’s principles were.

How you talk…;)

Did you hear that laugh?

Oh, I agree. It’s offensive as all hell.

However late into the thread I am, still thanking the universe for those yuks you just gave me.
And, thanking you personally too.
I think yuks are good in this situation.
yuk, yuk, yuk. :)

Is he dumber than Luke Russert? Inquiring minds want to know.

They baptized my great grandmother

How do you find out if they’ve done that? (If they did my grandmother she’s raising some high and holy hell with them, I can guarantee…)

Can’t take me out in public. I may say the damndest things.

It is unbelievable….the spirit of Baptism is to commit to a new and virtuous life….Seems the dead would be disqualified, non compis, to make that decision.

If only that had been a characteristic he passed on down to Mittens…

Fuck Wad is even more repulsive this go-round !

Come sit by me…;)

Tough call. Sorta like which Presidential candidate is the biggest corporate tool…

Mathews says the video was a failure. I couldn’t watch it.

did he ride in on Rafalca?

And here goes Clint.

Oh, Jeebus… Go ahead, Clint, make their day.

Haha, “Save a little for Mitt.”

“What will turn America around is lots more Westerns and lots more Spaghetti … not necessarily in that order”

He’s not aging all that well. You’d think they could have gotten someone to at least comb his hair.

Holy shit!

Clint’s speech is very strange so far…

A sick old fuck

Correction: Clint’s speech is *awful* so far.

Twenty three million unemployed. got that right. Now what do we do about that? Someone’s come along to solve the problem.

before the Internet I would use their genealogy resources and could see someone had “sealed” her, there’s an id number for that. They were very generous with their resources, ulterior motives I suppose, but any fees were very small.

Clint segued that joke into a weak point about 23 million unemployed …

Too bad they couldn’t have Heston. He could have done his Moses bit and then talked about “tablets”, although the Mormons had GOLD tablets. Even Joseph Smith was a liar.

I think he may shit himself.

My place of work is infested with fundies and I make no secret that I’m atheist, though I don’t do so pro-actively. I just refuse to participate in their religiously oriented discussions, prayers and activities. I told one of the worst ones once that finding faith seems to me to be a personal epiphany that a person has to experience for themselves so leave me alone about it. That stopped all of the proselytizing in front of me at least and most of them are back to speaking to me.

And sad.

Is he all there anymore?

He keeps doing that lip licking thing. Tardive dyskinesia?

Thanks. I may prowl around a bit.

What the fuck?

I’m on the patio pissing on my Dirty Harry collection

I was kinda wondering that myself. He seems really out of it, and this pretending-to-talk-to-Obama gag is really ill-conceived.

Maybe he’ll have his Charlton Heston moment. “From my cold, dead hands, by cracky!”

This is painful… Just goes to prove that “Republican humor” is an oxymoron, with the emphasis on moron.

Gotta get some more ice. this guy is boring me half to death.

Whoa. Clint Eastwood is struggling to have a conversation with a chair.

Clint’s out into the ramble-brush…… but the crowd is happy….. they’ve got their own Hollywood star. Silliness.

I’m gonna piss down my leg in a minute listening to this guy.

The chair is winning.

This is really terrible. I can’t imagine who thought this was a good idea…

He may actually think Obama is there

Or as Clint calls it … every Thursday night !

I could not listen. Painful.

Why? Is the chair winning?

First honest thing he’s said. “We own this country.”

You mean nominating Mitt. Right?

Jee Whiz, Marion. It was hard enough diving into this thread, like getting on a really crowded fast freeway with a short on ramp. But, then I clicked your link, and well, it’s just too much for me at this point in the day. But, Thankin’ Ya. :)
Sounds like weird shit.

It’s Clint fucking Eastwood! That was pretty much the end of the thought process.

“we own this country.” Of course you do. You bought it.

Oops. Owe you a drink.

Now he’s trashing politicians…. kewl.

Great minds think alike! (Damn, but Mrs. ZEGS seems to have an over-abundance of teeth…)

I suspect the planners are ruing this choice.

Sounds like he’s trying to paint Obama as a foreigner. Clint the birther. Say it ain’t so Clint!

Ramble-bush.
I like that, Dearie.

He’s rambling around trying to be smart snarky. Thank heavens, it’s over.

Did Trump speak at some point? I seem to have lost count.

Maybe not…will make Mitt look good, maybe.

I just flipped it on and then flipped it right back off, (after I flipped of Clint for the “make my day” line). What a dick.

Well. That was depressing. And not just in an actor-I-like-is-on-the-wrong-team way.

The first thing Maddow says is that Clint Eastwood is 82 years old.

Rachel was speechless

Sorry, but after about 35 years as a medical transcriptionist I’ve learned some stuff to look out for… Which makes me about as good a diagnostician as Bill Frist.

Doesn’t look a day over 80.

Will they even bother having a convention in 2016?

Wow, with all the buzz about him I had no idea Rubio was such a dipshit.

LMAO! Looks like even the msm pundits are scratching their heads over that one.

I just finished watching “Babe” and haven’t changed the channel.
I think I won’t. It’s fun just reading what you all are seeing.
I, I, I just can’t watch what’s coming up. I can’t and I won’t.

I agree. My first thought was, has he been sick? Kind of sad, for real.

Bless you, Isaac…

Well, he’s never followed a horror show before

Yep, that made John McCain look less insane…

LOL!

He’s a Republican, isn’t he? That should have been your first clue.

I’d pick you, hands down, first, Marion.

Oh yeah. Another Bobby Jindal.

Eastwood looked like someone hit him with a stun gun and then he staggered around for awhile until he found the exit.

Thanks. I thought I might have lost a day.

I thought he was supposed to be all handsome and charismatic and stuff. Just not seeing it at all. Still not nearly as bad as Jindal tho.

Well, he’s a tad less wooden than Jindal. And also a lot paler… Which makes him a STAR!!!

Old man shakes his fist at chair? Way to follow in Heston’s footsteps there buddy. I predict his family will announce his Alzheimer’s disease within three months.

The Viagra ads start next week

I wanna see your papers…. and your birth certificate, Marco.

Hey Rubio, have you ever been to Canada ? *sswipe !

Almost had a “whoopsie” enunciation moment there… Good catch, Mario, you pulled it out.

Lower taxes to the upper %s keeps unemployment high. JOBS have been LOST since the Bush Tax cuts to the most wealthy. They are now the Obama tax cuts to the most wealthy–and jobs continue to be a problem due to tax cuts to the most wealthy. Keeping the tax cuts to the most wealthy will keep the economy sucking–recent history is the test and proof. Taxes are the lowest since the 1920-30s. GOPher memes that higher taxes kill jobs is a big, big, big lie. There were more jobs and more prosperity under Clinton when taxes to the most wealthy were higher taxes.
One thing, the Y2K hype and all the survival purchasing may have kept the consumer ball rolling for Clinton at the end of his term.

“I am I said… and no one heard at all not… even the chair…” I love that song.

Maybe Neil Diamond should have given the speech instead of Clint.

O My…even Reagan could carry his lines off a bit better than this….really sad.

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Is it just me, or does he have huge ears? (The left is even bigger than the right.)

Some of this sounds like he looked over the last six conventions to get the “good stuff.”

Has to say something in Spanish soon

Now that I would have listened to. (Yeah, I’m that old. Get the hell offa my lawn…)

Good catch.

Why didn’t Dirty Harry mention how the BS wars and military are keeping America poor?

That’s why I’m only being half snarky about this. Eastwood was a much better communicator in bygone days. If he’s got the msm shaking their heads, it must have been ugly indeed.

Didn’t they cover that last night? Tonight it’s his job to tell us that Almighty God wants Mittens to be prezznit.

It was painful to watch. Not for the politics, but because he’s obviously not well.

Si.

Rubio is terrible. He’s like the stuffy self-important stick-up-his-ass kid in a campus comedy, the one who ends up the butt of every joke.

“Discombobulated” springs to mind …

Having voices in one’s head could be a sign of dangerous psychoses.

Newt looks like he wants to shrivel up and die, or go out into the garden and eat worms, or be teleported to ANYWHERE other than where he is. That made me smile!

And there it is.

AHA! Econobuzz was only a few minutes off!

I don’t know how much more of this I can take.

Imagine poor Calista … she still has to play French Horn later tonight …

Thank you for making me glad I’m not watching.
I’d have to get up and walk across the room and change the channel.
(Hi, late Hi to Eli. :O)

Four years ago, Chuck Norris was much more lucid than Eastwood while stumping for Huckabee and look what that’s done for his career. Nothing but exercise videos and infomercials. Clint’s finished.

Rubio is like The Sphinx in Mystery Men with all those cute little inversions. “If you do not learn to master your rage… your rage will become your master!”

Has a big family to take care of him. Kids from three different women.

I wasn’t even watching! (Do I get bonus points?)

I’ll be back in a few. It’s time to make myself a LARGE cocktail if I’m going to get through the rest of this orgy of delusional self-congratulation.

Hi demi!

While Newticles watches.

Oh, EWWWWWW… But you’ll still get breakfast!

Holy Good God, what was that Clint Eastwood spectacle?!?

Now I know why Rubio was not selected for anything. He is as bad as Clint.

LMAO! According to some twitterfeeds, Rmoney’s campaign is already distancing itself from that speech. Says it was “ad libbed”.

The opinion in the blogs is that Mitt has now been up-staged by an empty chair – smile.

LOL … pls explicky to econobuzz …

there he goes

It sounded more addled than ad-libbed …

Yeah, I was wondering about that. It sure didn’t look like Clint had any idea what he was going to say from one moment to the next.

Thank gawd. Finished.

he did, apparently it’s the liberals fault we went into Afghanistan, the conservatives were happy just doin’ Iraq

She’s gotta keep thinking of the bling from Tiffany’s

I’m not even going to try to pretend to understand what that means.
Yikes. :)

Look at Mitt working that crowd! What a natural!

Well that’s it for me. No more of this assholery.

Cal. knew exactly what she was getting….And she was “taken” anyway. Blondie jokes will get me in trouble, but really…She should have known….

you are sooo bad!

Maddow points out that Rubio didn’t actually say much of anything about Mitt, just Rubio and ‘Murka.

Did Newt marry his prop for the election cycle?

I don’t think they’d let anyone up there without a pre-vetted, pre-edited, probably pre-written text. To me he looked unwell and confused enough that maybe he couldn’t keep up with the devil’s machine teleprompter.

Who just yelled “No no no, don’t touch me!”???

It’s on

They just told Clint no one was in the chair.

Ugh. Here comes the smarm…

Speaking as a natural blond, it wouldn’t bother me to tell some blond jokes. It turns out only the ones who color their hair are stupid. ;)

I love that “We Believe in America” backdrop shit. None of us goddamn libruls do that, right?

So Pat Tillman was a Democrat casualty.

Is Mitt trying to do puppy dog eyes???

Oh shoot, just got here. Missed all the live blogging.

Paul Ryan is “a man with a big heart from a small town.” Riiiiight.

Did he just say “senility”?

Jeebus … LOL !

Also “a strong and caring leader”. Yes, Ryan is big-hearted and caring in much the same way that Mitt is warm and authentic.

I’ve turned the sound off, so I can watch him. (Jeebus, but ZEGS has a huge nose…) Mittens isn’t surprising me so far. Stiff as a plank.

sucks so far

You could just stick a pencil in your eye and catch up.

Why was he invited to speak in that slot at this convention, though. That shows some really clueless planning on the part of the GOP planners.

Kinda like Chris Manatee Christie who mentioned Rmoney seven times and himself more than thirty? They’re doing everything they can to throw this election. It’s remaining so close is a testament to how unpopular Obama is with his base.

You know we would have to discuss the sample, of course.

Or they don’t want too much tape of them talking about how great Mitt is. For some reason.

Ahem. Clearing my throat here.

Yep, I have no need to listen….

Mitt haz a sad for all the people without money.

Mitt says

Paul Ryan lights up around his kids

I didn’t realize Count Blankula was pro-pot.

“Me & my peeps robbed Amerika, and we’re gonna blame Obama for the crime !”

This Jackass is giving the Dems all the ammo to take him down …

LMAO! Present company excepted of course demi. That wasn’t meant as an “all dyed blonds are stupid”.

Heh. While your pants are down in front of a bunch of old ladies. Pain, plus awkwardness would be a more complete description.

Lisa !

Cut out mooning?

Maybe he meant that his kids keep trying to electrocute him.

You know, all that warm, earth-toned Al Gore-like wood isn’t working to humanize him much. And his eyes… Well, I’ll let Quint from Jaws ‘splain those to you:

he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes.

I’m so freeking unpatriotic…I hate that USA, USA bullshit like it’s a sporting event.

If they believe in America, why so many off shore tax havens? Why might Mitt want to be reimbursed from IRS for taxes he has paid abroad? If GOPhers love America so much why not pay their % share of taxes to pay for American infrastructure?

Jest keeping ya on your toes, sister. :)
And, does highlighting 60 year old hair count as Dyed Blond?
Sorry. I’m not watching, but I guess Mitt’s talking, and I’m not being respectful.
I’m on my knees.

“I wish Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.” That would make you unique among Republicans, Mitt.

I just watched the Eastwood clip on YouTube (yes, they’re up already). It would have been more effective with a straw man in the chair.

Clueless and GOP are often synonyms.

However, what is this planning you speak of? Because based on the last 12 years of stupidity I’ve seen from the right I’m pretty sure they couldn’t plan their way out of a paper bag. They’re like monkeys randomly flinging poo and hoping some of it lands on their target.

Has this been covered already, or is this the phoniest politician ever?

Ooo, look how passionate Mitt is about how America deserves better! And Ann looks strangely alarmed.

Makes me insane. I can’t think of another country on the face of the earth that does it. Jingoistic bull crap.

The Dems have enough ammo to sink the US Navy but they’re afraid to pull the trigger.

And I need it! I don’t wanna wind up like Mr. Eastwood: senile and sad.

It would have been better with a straw man at the podium.

And his kid’s have crazy eyes.

It would have been more effective with a straw man in the chair.

They had one but couldn’t make him stay in the chair…

Mitt is making a conscious effort to *look* warm with that puppy dog/starry-eyed thing.

“God bless Neil Armstrong.”

Well to their credit, the pugs are normally very good at projecting the *image* of all that is good and orderly.

It’s patriotic to dodge taxes./s

TeamObama have been pushing hard, and it’s going to go full bore, to counter the Billion$ from the other side.

Mitt is making a conscious effort to *look* warm with that puppy dog/starry-eyed thing

Probably Seamus’ eyes….

Good night Friends….Nothing I want to hear from Mitt…very sad about Clint. Can we save our country? Where are truth and peace? Later….

Ding, ding, ding! And BINGO!!!

Mitt should have spoken up when fatboy Rush told the world he wanted Obama to fail.

Did I mention I was born in the USA?

I think they just like to roll around in dry powder like Scrooge McDuck likes to roll around in money.

Mom & Dad gave us the greatest gift of all … unconditional credit lines !

Who the fuck wrote that two $10 an hour jobs line?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…..

G’nite Rev !

Even with the sound off I can hear the clanking and grinding of gears from the Mittbot 2.0.

The eye thing of wanting to look sweet is a beauty queen contestant ploy.

Night Rev!

The drunks in the audience are starting to cry.

Not working for me, and you know, I really would just like to have some input into what I do with my own body, but what the hay?

ROFL … Peg !

AHA! That would explain why they blow up so often. Gotta tell them to stop smoking and grilling and cooking…

They had to look hard for someone that wouldn’t upstage Romney.

oh my god, Mitt’s gonna go Boehner any second

“Women can be Senators, they just can’t have control of their bodies !”

Ya know what? When I was working at Warner Bros. I saw him on the lot, ’cause his production company was there, prolly still is. And, I saw him up close, as in walking down the same hallway, and he looked Really Old 25 years ago. And, there was that creepy No one talks about Mr. Eastwood thing going on. I heard All the gossip on the lot, but None about him. Just sayin.

They love America like a doormat, or their first two wives.

I am, I said / To no one there / And no one heard at all / Not even the chair / I am, I cried / And I am lost, and I can’t ..

get up.

I’ve seen some unfortunate things that the wimmenfolk have pinned to their dresses, but whatever Ann Rmoney has on pretty much takes the cake.

I’m waiting for this to be over so I can hear Wolf Blitzer’s critique of all this theater.

Waiting for Mitt to show us the palms of his hands then touch his heart–Clinton-like–as they say to do in social psychology 101 in order to get people on board w/you.

Has this been covered already, or is it just me who finds this mofo the most unsincere man ever?

This is just Mitty doing his own infomercial……all recycled from previous ads and interviews. He’s got nothin’.

Family, community and faith are what make America America. So I guess gays and atheists are just kind of… there.

Sweet dreams, Bev.
(It’ll all still be here again tomorry, so let it all go. :)

Anyway, now we know he wasn’t actually “acting” in Gran Torino. He really is a narrow minded, bigoted asshole.

That will depend on who programmed him. They may go for the single tear…

Oh, what Ann and I would give to smell those five jockstraps again.

Has he talked about anything meaningful, like what he will do as President, or maybe I missed it…

They don’t call him a robot for nothing.

I can’t really argue with him on how disappointing Obama is, but obviously I disagree pretty wildly on the nature of the disappointment…

“I built great economies … in China and India …”

Well, until they can be taken care of.

I thought I saw it move

Their Presidential candidate isn’t as engaging as Sarah fucking Palin….

who my tv just blacked out after “Shouldn’t you be happy about Obama now that he’s been president”

Meaningful? Really? Or did you just forget to close a snark tag?

That’s why I chose the video I did. That, and that it seemed like a pretty accurate depiction of Romney and Ryan’s policy positions.

Don’t make me get up and grab the remote control and turn it on! Ellie!

I’m sure that he’ll have to share that coveted title with many in his party. Why just yesterday the young Ryan was looking to unseat him in the insincerity department.

He is really a terrible speaker. Terrible.

Can a Mormon like Mitt sell Faith to the American Talibangical?

I suppose he can. After all, he ain’t black.

Mitt also could have stood in front of a mirror and yelled in order to make his voice raspy for a little sympathy.

I was thinking the same thing, Dave. No Condi Rice before his Moment. Yep, you’re on it.

I missed a couple of jokes I guess…My tv must be liberal–and it’s cannel 13 which is a fox affiliate

Now you have me cackling! Maybe it’s the latest version of what will turn us all into pod people… Looks a bit pricey for me to afford, and the Republicans are already pod people, so now I haz a confooze.

Haha, Bain Capital is all about dreams.

God! Look at the faces in the audience! Utter boredom.

Mitt: “In America, we reward the ones who take the most and never look twice at the people who were stepped on and laid off along the way.”

What the heck was that when Michael Moore said he thought Romney would win?Youtube or something.

Rich peoples’ wet dreams…

Mitt must have a *very* short memory if he thinks Obama and Carter are the only presidents who couldn’t say that we’re better off at the end of their first term than when they took office.

That wouldn’t work. In order to make the robot function correctly it has to be well-oiled. (Stop that — he’s a Mormon and they don’t drink. But I may need another cocktail if this is going to go on much longer…)

Has anyone seen Boehner? He might be backstage crying and hitting the Jack Daniels but I thought he would be more visible tonight.

Bring back the chair!

Mitt’s keeping one promise. He’s not saying a word about policy.

omg I just flashed back to that Outer Limits!

Perhaps Moore just wants the Obama people not to take anything for granted.

Michael Moore is an idiot sometimes. The electoral numbers hugely favor Obama, even if the popular vote remains close. People seem to forget or ignore that the President is elected by the electoral college.

The beauty/and ugliness of faith is that it defies facts or logic(and I say that as someone who is a Christian.)

Dunno. Look for an orange banner and then see if Boehner is standing in front of it.

Here you go.

Selective memory or just plain ol’ lies.

Argh, Mitt is so full of shit that he’s actually making me sympathetic to Obama.

ROTFLMAO!

I saw that. I wondered if he was challenging the 3rd party voters…don’t know, but that was something I thought. Like a challenge.

He really said, “laid off.” The guy has big brass balls I’ll give him that. Not much in the brains dept though.

Ooo, he has a plan to create 12 million new jobs. He didn’t specify in which country tho.

A jobs PLAN, let’s hear it, please.

I was thinking the same thing!

Really? Isn’t this supposed to be the big moment that leads up to the debates and stuff?

Moore kind of freaked me out with that.

The Fundies don’t like the Mormons. Hate them more than they hate Catholics, Jews and Atheists.

I have a plan to create 12 million jobs….. yeah, right.

FWIW, I’m losing sleep thinking the same thing. Voter suppression and cheating’s going to give it to him.

Just. Fucking. Clueless. How can anybody possibly believe that line will play well in a nation in desperate need of jobs growth?

Moore is doing GOTV just a tad early.

So Romney destroys American jobs and families, then he wants to create the same jobs he destroyed here. Job security. Thats the MO fo GOPhers. Job security.

I thought people were joking when they were talking about the etchasketch staging.

I’m old enough to remember that Nixon had a plan to get us out of Vietnam… Not that he’d actually tell us what it was, you understand, but he had an effing plan.

Which is weird, since Mormons are so much like fundies… only more so. I guess it’s an uncanny valley thing, where anything that’s just *slightly* different is more disturbing than something very different.

I’m still not sympathetic to Obama but I am terrified of a Rmoney Presidency.

Okay, now there is black smoke coming out of his mouth………. scary damned guy.

Seamus.

Keystone is good for 12 million jobs if you skew the data and you make a bigger gully thru Texas.

Fuck the planet

If he attacked Obama with facts it wouldn’t be so bad, but when he attacks him with bullshit it makes me want to push back and defend Obama. Perverse, right?

Yeah but on the heirarchy of “who would jesus hate” Muslims draw the short straw. Besides everyone knows that if they don’t elect the Mormon then the Kenyan Muslim Socialist will win.

Reminder:defies logic and fact

I liked the part where he praised those who accepted two shitty jobs to replace the good job they lost. Yes, when executives like Mitt cut your job, replace it with a pair of minimum wage jobs like a good peon.

Me? Petrified works for me. But I might luck out… Both of my parents were dead before they were 70 and I’m going to be 67 in January. The down side (sort of)? I’m as healthy as a horse and may have to try to live through another Republican administration. Life sucks sometimes.

The Metamucil’s kicking in.

Well I used to argue passionately that the Republicans would never nominate a Mormon but I was wrong. It’s like a theory in which the math and logic add up but the result doesn’t match observations. I’m not going to make anymore predictions yet.

We should have had a drinking game for every time he uses the Seamus eyes.

Two shitty jobs instead of one good job gets you no benefits.

Damn! Maybe he’s a deep-cover Democratic mole!

wooHOOO war with Russia! wooTie Hoot

Christ, that’s a tv commercial for his opponent.

Seriously. He’s far more effective on me than any Democratic spokesperson has been.

Freedom of religious is fine, as long my faith gets the same parity. Sanctity of life– does that mean he’s abolishing the death penalty and stopping wars!

I don’t think we’ll see another Republican President. The bad news, is that Obama might as well be one.

Both my parents were dead before 70 too but they both died of excess and poor health habits. I plan to live forever. ;)

Really good question. I once knew some really fundy Methodists who didn’t think that even Catholics were real Christians, let alone the Mormons.
Yeah, where’s that line drawn? I’ll put that on a Way Back burner. Other more pressing issues now. :)

Romney would be worse than Obama, but I’m not terrified of a Romney presidency anymore than I’m looking forward to 4 more years of Obama. Obama didn’t do nearly enough to reverse course after Bush.

It’s only Thursday. I would have played, since I took tomorrow off, but some folks actually have to get up for work. A hellacious hangover doesn’t make that fun.

No divisiveness, that’s why we throw peanuts.

Oh, and now Mitt’s a uniter not a divider.

The really sad thing is that he is/was the best their side had to offer. Clueless, uncharismatic, and tons of baggage and that’s their best.

Yeah, 12M minimum wage jobs that will allow 4M people to have work

Well put.

Don’t be silly. You’re only sacred and sanctified when you’re “preborn.” After you start breathing you’re on your own, sucker.

Well, I would be dead from alcohol poisoning after just a few minutes. Poor, poor Seamus.

I couldn’t believe he said it as though it were a good thing: “Just take your two shitty jobs w/o benefits and shut up.”

Um, Mitt? We could cut our military budget in half and it’d *still* be strong enough that no one would mess with it. At least no state actors – non-state actors aren’t really deterred by military size.

Aren’t those making the $10 an hour ,the ingrates that Mitt is always intoning aren’t paying their fair share?

when do the balloons drop?

Okay. I see it’s time to put this up again.

Which Republican was it that said something like “That’s awesome, that’s the American way” when someone told him they had to work three jobs to stay afloat?

Oh, I fully agree. One of my biggest disappointments in Mr Hopey Changey is that he left all of the unqualified, extremely partisan Bushies in the offices they gained by giving campaign bribe money to Dubya

New Yorker magazine cover, they dreew that, I got it in the mail yesterday.

TBogg was right
khackied

That’s why I’ve been trying to convince you that third party COULD work?

Never say never. Shit happens if you live long enough.

Is it safe to turn the sound back on? (After all the cheering, I mean… Hearing “USA, USA, USA” ad infinitum gives me a rash.)

Paul Ryan’s boys need Ritalin

Attempting to get the independent or undecided voters hence two sides of mouth and any going off the res. from the ultra fundy conservative platform. It all means nothing. We know that campaign talk means nothing.

The last president with big experience as a successful businessman . . . Herbert Hoover.

The man who wasn’t there.

I’m sure I’d be bored to tears if I were there too. I’m fairly sure that much self absorption and self congratulation shouldn’t be allowed in a room for too long.

Wow, I was closer than I thought.

I’m glad you all have this covered. I can’t watch. Just knowing from your comments what he’s saying, makes me kinda sick. The visual and the aural would be to much for me.
I’m a wimp.
I’m going to go read a book.
I imagine I might pick up a word or two here and there tomorrow about some details.
Take good care.

Wolf Blitzer, theater critic, likes the balloons.

One more time then: The President is elected by the electoral college, not by the people. There is no contingency for a scenario in which nobody gets to 270 electors, which is the very best you could hope for by voting third party. I almost always vote third party in down ticket races and if Texas isn’t in play, I may vote for Jill Stein in this election but she’s not going to be President. Sorry. I hate it too.

Ain’t that the truth.

What IS that thing that Ann Rmoney has pinned to her left chest? A peacock?

Obama leaving the Bush bean counters in their positions was treason to the Dem party.

Thanks Eli! – It’s lights out here, g’night everyone.

It ain’t easy to drop balloons on cue.

The children love them, I guess Wolfie is young at heart.

I guess one more good thing that could come out of such a result would be to show everybody what a dinosaur the EC is but neither the Democrats or the Republicans are actually going to vote to abolish it. Not willingly anyway.

Night Ellie!

Clint was looking for the balloons.

Well, I’ve about all the fun (and you folks have made it fun!) that I can take. Besides, I’ve got to be alert enough to make Hollandaise in the morning for Petrocelli’s breakfast. I’m going to go and snuggle up with Morpheus. Sleep well, and try not to dream of Republicans.

Night Marion!

After that performance, the debates should be among Obama, Stein, and Anderson — leaving mushmouth out.

The decline in American oratory is beyond belief. Romney tonight compares worse than Clinton’s 1988 keynoter, and that one was a disaster.

Last thing Wolf Blitzer said before Mitt spoke was that he didn’t think Clint’s performance was good theater and the first thing he said after Mitt spoke is that he liked the balloons.

Is this what passes for analysis at CNN?

The scary thing is that all the MSNBC pundits agree that it’s the best speech Romney’s ever given.

Those with power will give up nothing willingly. That can be taken to the bank. Anyone that thinks that there is a shortcut or an easy solution just isn’t or hasn’t been paying attention(and I said this in 2008 when everyone was all once Obama is in we’ll have rainbows and ponies.) That being said, you have to start somewhere and at sometime if you want change.

Just turned the sound back on. Tweety is amazed that the room went silent when a line about caring for the poor was delivered. Why is he surprised? NOW I’ma gonna turn off the teebee and go to bed.

Have you heard the others?

Is this what passes for analysis at CNN?

Yes.

Yesterday they were opining that there were only seven or eight factual inaccuracies (no biggie) on the stylistic speech of Mr Ryan. So, yes, this is what passes as CNN’s hardball commentary.

Was the crowd at the convention tonight related to Honey Boo Boo?

I was one of those people saying Obama is no Progressive and I was called “racist”, “Republican troll” and worse for it. And I’m just pointing out how the Electoral College works. No amount of outrage and no amount of righteous indignation is going to change that. In this country the fact remains that punishing one major party always = rewarding the other. I don’t make the rules but I’m not going to hide my head from them.

Heh I was bitter, uneducated, working class and Appalachian.

Those creative class folks did a bang up job.

Working class from Texas. God, I was sneered at! With extreme prejudice. Sometimes it’s easy to see where those liberal “elitist snob” stereotypes come from.