GOP Convention
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The Republicans are uninspiring, they want to go back to a simpler time remember?
They want Jesus a chicken every Sunday, they want people to behave just like them
without question. Rich people get back to their rightful place and the Middle Class
pays for everything. They want to get rid of medicare and that Blaaaaack guy in
the White House. They want to measure sanity by the yardstick of the Donald.
I am so sick of these whiners and pretenders,
No Obama is not perfect he made some mistakes, but remember he was cleaning
up the seven year mess made by Georgie Boy.
Romney is a little snake and they are trying to make him human so people will like
him Good luck with that
They want Jesus a chicken every Sunday, they want people to behave just like them
without question. Rich people get back to their rightful place and the Middle Class
pays for everything. They want to get rid of medicare and that Blaaaaack guy in
the White House. They want to measure sanity by the yardstick of the Donald.
I am so sick of these whiners and pretenders,
No Obama is not perfect he made some mistakes, but remember he was cleaning
up the seven year mess made by Georgie Boy.
Romney is a little snake and they are trying to make him human so people will like
him Good luck with that
How about the Governor of Ohio taking credit for his state's improving economy? Without the Auto bailout his state would be a mess, and the joker he's endorsing once said to let Detroit go bankrupt. Mittens said then that if the automakers take any money from Washington, they could kiss the American automotive industry good bye. Then this year Mittens wanted to take the credit for the health of the automotive industry.
What a bunch of maroons.
What a bunch of maroons.
During a speech to Florida delegates on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was heckled numerous times by anti-corporate protesters.
“We demand that the GOP stop whoring themselves out to the big money interests that are raping this planet and trying to squeeze every last dime out of the working class,” .
Heckler tells Rubio: Stop whoring out to big money interests | The Raw Story
“We demand that the GOP stop whoring themselves out to the big money interests that are raping this planet and trying to squeeze every last dime out of the working class,” .
Heckler tells Rubio: Stop whoring out to big money interests | The Raw Story
Bloody racist repubs complaining about the Bamster.
Mia Love To Obama: "We're Not Buying What You're Selling" | RealClearPolitics
Mia Love To Obama: "We're Not Buying What You're Selling" | RealClearPolitics
Here's a Word Cloud of Almost Every Speech From Tuesday's GOP Convention
GOP Word Cloud: Here's a word cloud of every speech from Tuesday's GOP convention.
Bunch of extremists.
GOP Word Cloud: Here's a word cloud of every speech from Tuesday's GOP convention.
Bunch of extremists.
- Yes, Love was very good but the speech of the night was given by Arturo Davis who became disgusted enough with Obama's economkic and fiscal failures and with the left wing drift and classwarfare incited by the Management-Trainee-In-Chief to cross over to the GOP and campaign for Romney even though he as a Democratic congressman in 2008 had been called the Alabama Obama and had seconded Barack's nomination as the party's presidential candidate.
- Davis spoke specifically to those disaffected Democrats and independents by persuausively arguing that the Obama Democratic Party was not the Democratic Party of Clinton or JFK or LBJ and that it also was totally out of synch with the values and opinions of most Americans.
- Davis spoke specifically to those disaffected Democrats and independents by persuausively arguing that the Obama Democratic Party was not the Democratic Party of Clinton or JFK or LBJ and that it also was totally out of synch with the values and opinions of most Americans.
as soon as mrs romney came on and began her over the top b.s., I couldn't grab the remote fast enough
to change it to the weather channel.
same ole same ole
to change it to the weather channel.
same ole same ole
Getting a little tired of this constant chatter about Romney and Ryan ‘being introduced to the American people’..........really? What ..................... the American people have collectively been living under a rock? How could anyone just about anywhere not know who Romney is for pete's sake............TV hosts are acting like this guy just sprang up out of nowhere. Ryan is a bit newer to the scene but give me break about the ‘introductions.’
Chris Christie needs to go on a diet.
As far as Mrs. Romney's little speech.............did anyone think she would tell us he was anything other than the next savior of the free world??? Sheesh!
Frankly watching the reporting on Issac is a tad more fascination than watching the Republican National Convention. It is not as if Romney is going to change his stripes and start talking about what is really important like the obscene numbers of unemployed people in the States. All he is interested in doing is controlling the message that comes out of this mess and in doing so making sure he undercuts anyone who isn't on-message with him.
Did some reading this morning and came across this article that highlights the lack of caring by the Republicans.
“Romney and Ryan don't hesitate to detail the taxes they would cut and the loopholes they would preserve. A 20% tax cut across the board above the extended Bush taxes, will hand millionaires an average $175,000 a year tax break. Corporations will get not only a cut in tax rates, but a "territorial corporate tax" system that exempts companies from U.S. taxes for anything reported as earned abroad, giving multinationals a million dollar incentive to transfer jobs and report profits abroad. They'll abolish the estate tax that applies only to multi-million dollar estates of the top 1%. And they vow to defend the favorite loophole of the wealthy: the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends and on "carried interest" (the obscene tax dodge that enables Bain partners and other private equity guys to treat their fees as capital gains rather than income). This is the tax break that enables Romney to pay a 14% tax rate on $20 million in income, and Warren Buffett, one of America's richest men, to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. Much is still secreted from the voters, but the preferential option for the rich is detailed for donors to see.
Romney and Ryan also pledge to cut government spending dramatically, but won't say what they will cut. They do promise to lard even more on the Pentagon, already burning through more money than it did at the height of the Cold War in comparable dollars. And they put off cuts in Social Security and Medicare for a decade, because they don't want to disturb today's seniors who vote in large numbers. The cuts thus must come almost entirely from the 15% of the budget that pays for the domestic services of government -- everything from education to FEMA, the agency Republican Governors are calling on to assist in response to Hurricane Isaac.”
“So behind the multi-million dollar stage in Tampa, beneath the glittery "reintroduction" of Mitt Romney as a pragmatic business guy, lies this "hard truth." With the US suffering Gilded Age levels of inequality, Romney will fight for more tax cuts for the very wealthy and the corporations. And with record numbers in poverty, Mitt's promise is to savage vital programs for the vulnerable. Forget about the Tea Party's ersatz anti Wall Street populism or the Christian Coalition's war on women. This is the candidate and the party of privilege, intent on lavishing more benefits on the few while savaging the already inadequate support for the poor and the vulnerable. That's the "hard truth" Chris Christie didn't bother to mention.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-hard-truth-about-romn_b_1838702.html?utm_hp_ref=daily- brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=082912&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
Chris Christie needs to go on a diet.
As far as Mrs. Romney's little speech.............did anyone think she would tell us he was anything other than the next savior of the free world??? Sheesh!
Frankly watching the reporting on Issac is a tad more fascination than watching the Republican National Convention. It is not as if Romney is going to change his stripes and start talking about what is really important like the obscene numbers of unemployed people in the States. All he is interested in doing is controlling the message that comes out of this mess and in doing so making sure he undercuts anyone who isn't on-message with him.
Did some reading this morning and came across this article that highlights the lack of caring by the Republicans.
“Romney and Ryan don't hesitate to detail the taxes they would cut and the loopholes they would preserve. A 20% tax cut across the board above the extended Bush taxes, will hand millionaires an average $175,000 a year tax break. Corporations will get not only a cut in tax rates, but a "territorial corporate tax" system that exempts companies from U.S. taxes for anything reported as earned abroad, giving multinationals a million dollar incentive to transfer jobs and report profits abroad. They'll abolish the estate tax that applies only to multi-million dollar estates of the top 1%. And they vow to defend the favorite loophole of the wealthy: the 15% tax rate on capital gains and dividends and on "carried interest" (the obscene tax dodge that enables Bain partners and other private equity guys to treat their fees as capital gains rather than income). This is the tax break that enables Romney to pay a 14% tax rate on $20 million in income, and Warren Buffett, one of America's richest men, to pay a lower tax rate than his secretary. Much is still secreted from the voters, but the preferential option for the rich is detailed for donors to see.
Romney and Ryan also pledge to cut government spending dramatically, but won't say what they will cut. They do promise to lard even more on the Pentagon, already burning through more money than it did at the height of the Cold War in comparable dollars. And they put off cuts in Social Security and Medicare for a decade, because they don't want to disturb today's seniors who vote in large numbers. The cuts thus must come almost entirely from the 15% of the budget that pays for the domestic services of government -- everything from education to FEMA, the agency Republican Governors are calling on to assist in response to Hurricane Isaac.”
“So behind the multi-million dollar stage in Tampa, beneath the glittery "reintroduction" of Mitt Romney as a pragmatic business guy, lies this "hard truth." With the US suffering Gilded Age levels of inequality, Romney will fight for more tax cuts for the very wealthy and the corporations. And with record numbers in poverty, Mitt's promise is to savage vital programs for the vulnerable. Forget about the Tea Party's ersatz anti Wall Street populism or the Christian Coalition's war on women. This is the candidate and the party of privilege, intent on lavishing more benefits on the few while savaging the already inadequate support for the poor and the vulnerable. That's the "hard truth" Chris Christie didn't bother to mention.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/the-hard-truth-about-romn_b_1838702.html?utm_hp_ref=daily- brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=082912&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
On the other hand:
Obama camp: Ann Romney’s RNC speech ‘was very effective’
President Obama did not watch the Republican National Convention speeches last night, but his campaign acknowledged that Ann Romney — a key weapon in her husband’s outreach to women — turned in a “very effective” performance.
“She gave a speech about her relationship with her husband, the strength of her marriage, the love… she has for her husband, and did a great job doing that and it was very effective,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, according to the pool report. “We’ll leave it to the voters and the viewers to decide what their thoughts are on the ticket.”
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell also gave Mrs. Romney high marks. “Inside the hall, it was absolutely powerful,” Mitchell said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today. “Women — some women [had] tears streaming down their faces.”
As in her convention speech, Mrs. Romney has worked throughout the campaign to bridge the gap between her husband and female voters, who historically favor Democratic candidates and prefer Obama to Romney.
“Women are talking about jobs, women are talking about deficit spending,” Ann Romney said in March. “Thank you, women. We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why we’re upset and what we’ve got to do to fix things.”
Obama camp: Ann Romney
:dontknow:
Not sure what to make of this one yet. Fox hasn't made a statement as yet.
Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews'
I’m sorry Fox canceled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot. I look forward to hearing his words to his fellow Americans tonight more than any of the other convention speeches. God bless John McCain. Thank you for everything. And happy birthday, my friend.
Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews' - POLITICO.com
Hold on to something!
Clint Eastwood To Speak At Republican Convention on Thursday: Fox News
Clint Eastwood To Speak At Republican Convention on Thursday: Fox News - Deadline.com
Obama camp: Ann Romney’s RNC speech ‘was very effective’
President Obama did not watch the Republican National Convention speeches last night, but his campaign acknowledged that Ann Romney — a key weapon in her husband’s outreach to women — turned in a “very effective” performance.
“She gave a speech about her relationship with her husband, the strength of her marriage, the love… she has for her husband, and did a great job doing that and it was very effective,” said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, according to the pool report. “We’ll leave it to the voters and the viewers to decide what their thoughts are on the ticket.”
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell also gave Mrs. Romney high marks. “Inside the hall, it was absolutely powerful,” Mitchell said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today. “Women — some women [had] tears streaming down their faces.”
As in her convention speech, Mrs. Romney has worked throughout the campaign to bridge the gap between her husband and female voters, who historically favor Democratic candidates and prefer Obama to Romney.
“Women are talking about jobs, women are talking about deficit spending,” Ann Romney said in March. “Thank you, women. We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why we’re upset and what we’ve got to do to fix things.”
Obama camp: Ann Romney
:dontknow:
Not sure what to make of this one yet. Fox hasn't made a statement as yet.
Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews'
I’m sorry Fox canceled all my scheduled interviews tonight because I sure wanted to take the opportunity on the air to highlight Senator John McCain’s positive contributions to America, to honor him, and to reflect on what a biased media unfairly put him through four years ago tonight. Granted, our honored and esteemed war hero has gone through much more than the liberal media can ever do to him in their efforts to harm this patriot. I look forward to hearing his words to his fellow Americans tonight more than any of the other convention speeches. God bless John McCain. Thank you for everything. And happy birthday, my friend.
Sarah Palin: 'Fox canceled my interviews' - POLITICO.com
Hold on to something!
Clint Eastwood To Speak At Republican Convention on Thursday: Fox News
Clint Eastwood To Speak At Republican Convention on Thursday: Fox News - Deadline.com
I can't believe Canadians are watching American political conventions. It's like naval gazing. Or is that navel gazing?
Watching Condi Rice. What a bunch of baloney. The only entitlement she can come up with that didn't start before Obama is giving kids trophies (which I'm sure that in itself is baloney too).
Now it's Ryan's turn to speak from the position of greed. He should just shut up and pay more tax.
Now it's Ryan's turn to speak from the position of greed. He should just shut up and pay more tax.
Angry RNC Crowd Shouts Down Puerto Rican Speaker, Reince Priebus Forced To Quell Chants Of ‘USA! USA!’
Read more at Angry RNC Crowd Shouts Down Puerto Rican Speaker, Reince Priebus Forced To Quell Chants Of ‘USA! USA!’
These Republicans did not realize Puerto Rico is part of the USA.
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Black Camerawoman Has Nuts Thrown at Her, Called 'Animal' at GOP Convention
Read more at Black Camerawoman Has Nuts Thrown at Her, Called 'Animal' at GOP Convention
Puerto Ricans held to be unamerican and Blacks as "animals". And some still insist it's only the Democrats or liberals who play the race card.
These Republicans did not realize Puerto Rico is part of the USA.
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Black Camerawoman Has Nuts Thrown at Her, Called 'Animal' at GOP Convention
Read more at Black Camerawoman Has Nuts Thrown at Her, Called 'Animal' at GOP Convention
Puerto Ricans held to be unamerican and Blacks as "animals". And some still insist it's only the Democrats or liberals who play the race card.
Yeah, we already know.
RNC ejects two idiots for throwing peanuts at black camerawoman
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/us-american-politics/109002-rnc-ejects-two-idiots-throwing.html
At least Condi managed to wake up the crowd, it was a snore-fest before she spoke.
Anyone else think Ryan could have career in Hollywood should his political one collapse? He looked as though every single gesture was scripted to the max.
About the only 'real' person I saw last night was the Governor of New Mexico.
I heard that the Romney camp vetted all the speeches to make sure they were 'on message', and people say that Stephen Harper is a control freak.
The RNC is all about tax reduction. So why are they are against the student tax credit? Is it because the savings don't go directly to Mr Monopoly?
A tax credit is a reduction in taxes owed. No one profits from a tax credit. What the RNC believe to be a class-warfare entitlement grab is the student 10k tax credit. In other words if a student owes up to 10k in taxes they can offset some or all if used for tuition in college or university.
The entitlement crap is way too far to the right. I know a wealthy guy who claims every single meal he eats in a restaurant and he makes no bones about, almost none of them are for business. He was questioned one year in an audit. They wanted to know the nature of the meeting in regards to the McHappy meal receipt. I am not joking.
If only a student could get away with that.
A tax credit is a reduction in taxes owed. No one profits from a tax credit. What the RNC believe to be a class-warfare entitlement grab is the student 10k tax credit. In other words if a student owes up to 10k in taxes they can offset some or all if used for tuition in college or university.
The entitlement crap is way too far to the right. I know a wealthy guy who claims every single meal he eats in a restaurant and he makes no bones about, almost none of them are for business. He was questioned one year in an audit. They wanted to know the nature of the meeting in regards to the McHappy meal receipt. I am not joking.
If only a student could get away with that.
Paul Ryans' Speech in 3 Words
by Sally Kohn
The first word was Dazzling - IMO, anything but. The last word was Distracting - all about what Ryan didn't say. It was the second word Deceiving that caught my attention.
"2. Deceiving
On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling.
Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately enacted to prevent other plants from closing.
Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said. Period.
Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan.
Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/#ixzz252i58pI5
by Sally Kohn
The first word was Dazzling - IMO, anything but. The last word was Distracting - all about what Ryan didn't say. It was the second word Deceiving that caught my attention.
"2. Deceiving
On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling.
Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately enacted to prevent other plants from closing.
Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said. Period.
Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan.
Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/#ixzz252i58pI5