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    Very interesting:-

    Major Republican Speakers Avoid Two Words: "Tea Party"
    Not a single prime time mention of the movement after two days of the Republican National Convention. Not Romney's crowd?
    Major Republican Speakers Avoid Two Words: "Tea Party"


    Curious to know how often two other words may have come up too- 'George Bush'.

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    americans hate the tea party almost as much as they hate congress.

    jeb came out and cried about the fact that americans remember that his brother was an absolute dimwitted failure

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    before some start bleating conspiracies about the 'main stream media' he's ten minutes over already.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    americans hate the tea party almost as much as they hate congress.
    Gotta source for that?

    Mebe some Americans such as yourself?

    It's time to employ objectivity rather than projection there RA...

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    ROMNEY: “If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as President, when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.”

    Indeed. Imagine those thousands of 20 somethings still living in Mom's basement staring at the Hope poster!
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    God, what an awful spectacle. Pantomime booing, sub-fascist chanting, mawkish self-indulgence, mass idiocy and an awful speech. What's not to like about the Republicans?

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    well, the big takeaway from romney's speech is they're obviously very concerned about the women's vote.

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    Heh...great speech! Another takeout:

    8:07PM “President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans.” [LONG PAUSE FOR LAUGHTER] [LOOOOOONG PAUSE]


    “My promise is to help you and your family."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    "Our problem is not that he's a bad person. It's that he's a bad President."
    Watched bits of the jamboree today. Clear the Republicans have pretty much stopped demonizing and attacking Obama's likability. Good, as it is a no win.

    Now it's "America is not better off since Obama took office." Fair enough and probably a good go forward message. Now the trick is to convince the swing electorate Romney will do any better.
    "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    they're obviously very concerned about the women's vote.
    Indeed as well they should be.

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    i can't imagine his speech helped him much.

    i'm not saying it was delivered poorly (it was actually less robotic than i thought it would be), but i really don't think it's going to change the minds of enough voters in the all important swing states.

    it will be interesting to see the polling data from those states a week to ten days from now.

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    and to further that point...

    i wonder if people are even going to be talking about romney's speech tomorrow and in the days ahead.

    my guess is that everyone is going to be debating how much clint eastwood embarrassed himself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    don't think it's going to change the minds of enough voters in the all important swing states.
    I didn't expect the speeches would swing many votes. Nor did I expect specifics. Political conventions never do.

    The specifics of how Romney intends to accomplish improving the economy need to be established and put to the voters. Both Romney and Obama must do this if they have any hope of convincing the undecided. Hope both parties will put forward their plans for the future and be the meat of the debates. The undecided are far more discriminating that the partisan voters. Gonna take a far greater level of detail in specifics to sway vote in favor of either candidate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    my guess is that everyone is going to be debating how much clint eastwood embarrassed himself.
    Unfortunately, so do I. A pure screw up in planning who should speak and what should be said is all I can say.

    If Clint and Rubio had to speak should have been done before the Romney video which generated a great response. Bring on Romney right after the video would have been better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    my guess is that everyone is going to be debating how much clint eastwood embarrassed himself.
    Unfortunately, so do I. A pure screw up in planning who should speak and what should be said is all I can say.
    my guess is that they drafted eastwood because of the GM ad he did during the superbowl.

    again, they're looking backwards at something that people just don't care about (or even remember)...and it just ends up biting them in the ass.

    it really makes you wonder who is running this campaign.
    can political consultants be sued for malpractice?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    my guess is that everyone is going to be debating how much clint eastwood embarrassed himself.
    Unfortunately, so do I. A pure screw up in planning who should speak and what should be said is all I can say.

    some of the reviews are in, and they're not pretty.

    Clint Eastwood speech:


    and this spectacle is almost guaranteed to become an unrelenting internet meme on youtube and tumblr.

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    one of the many amazing moments from eastwood's fail:

    "I never thought it was a good idea for attorneys to be president anyway."


    guess who holds a law degree?

    that's right.....willard 'mitt' romney.


    oh yeah, mitt's father was a lawyer and he also ran for president.

    ooops!

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    ^&^^
    Wow! Just 'cause it wasn't the speech of someone who was running for office it failed?

    It was an overstated old man's delivery meant to show how a person losses faith with the mistake that is Obama. What'd y'all expect him to say? "Make my day, punk"? Right...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    What'd y'all expect him to say? "Make my day, punk"? Right...
    He did say "Make my day".

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Very interesting:-

    Major Republican Speakers Avoid Two Words: "Tea Party"
    Not a single prime time mention of the movement after two days of the Republican National Convention. Not Romney's crowd?
    Major Republican Speakers Avoid Two Words: "Tea Party"


    Curious to know how often two other words may have come up too- 'George Bush'.
    Amazing isn't it? The Republicans run the country in the ground with two wars and the worst financial crisis since the '30's (that's optimistic) over eight years of the most disgraceful president in anyone's living memory, whose administration made Reagan's seem reasonable, now they want the country to hand the reins back to them with a candidate who has surrounded himself with Bush administration officials, but they can't invite Dubya. No f-ing way.

    Their platform is hilarious. My personal favorite section is "“Liberty alone fosters scientific inquiry, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and information exchange. Liberty must remain the core energy behind America’s environmental improvement.”

    "Liberty must remain the core energy"? Liberty is energy? This is the language of a cult.
    “You can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think.” Dorothy Parker

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    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey
    one of the many amazing moments from eastwood's fail:
    Sad, but we should've seen the early signs of Alzheimer's when Clint couldn't remember how many shots he fired...

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    republicans are lining up to throw eastwood under the bus:.

    Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis) on Friday made his confusion and displeasure for the event more obvious, saying he “cringed” during Eastwood’s routine.
    Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” said that Eastwood was not only “rambling” but delivered “highly off-color jokes that a lot of people [in middle America] would cringe about. Highly offensive.
    Ann Romney on Friday offered a lukewarm review for Clint Eastwood’s bizarre “empty chair” address at the Republican National Convention, saying that the Oscar-winner is a “unique guy and he did a unique thing” trying to shift the message back to her husband.
    Clint Eastwood ?unique,' Ann Romney says - POLITICO.com

    i'm sure they're regretting not going with the reagan hologram.

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    Here is a short 11 minute Clint Eastwood speech.

    Honestly, this is pretty sad by Clint. 82. Just....off.


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    ^ The dems call Clint's speech a big gaffe. I thought it was amusing. And, erm, Clint ain't in public office, unlike the gaffe-o-rama dumbo king, Joe Biden.

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    TAMPA, Fla. — Republican National Convention protesters sobbed in each other’s arms as their weeklong series of protests came to an abrupt and unremarkable end."

    Read about all the pathos here

    Well, what's next? Back to Mom's basement?

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