Is this convention shaping up to be the biggest political clusterfuck since 1968?

[tularetom]

It's only the first day and we already have a 'let those people eat cake' speech from Ann Romney, a "the American middle class is fucked" speech from fat boy Christie, some idiot throwing peanuts at a black network employee, and a chorus of subhuman mental midgets chanting "USA USA' over a delegate from an American territory.

What can they do to top tonight? Burn a cross? Hang up a pinata shaped like President Obama?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Reminds me more of 1992...

When Pat Buchanan scared away every moderate American with his Cultural Wars speech. My guess is that Romney is going to regret inviting all these bat-shit insane assholes to his convention. Americans are watching and they're probably running away terrified at the hate and divisiveness.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Oh I got faith in them.

[susanna]

5. A comment like this is exactly when I want a "Like" button on DU. n/t

[potone]

6. Me, too.

As terrible as it has been so far, I think they could still sink further. That's the wonderful thing about the Republican party, just when you think it couldn't possibly get worse, it always does.

[susanna]

8. Indeed! n/t

[frazzled]

3. Not to mention the bizarre dark-of-the-afternoon state roll call

in which Ron Paul (and Rick Santorum) had a full 10% of the delegates votes cast for them ... which the official announcers, of course, declined to announce, acting as if no one had heard.

[susanna]

11. Yep...

what the hell was THAT about?

Big tent lol.

Channel Evil Overlord voice: "Screw you, serfs. We win!"

[npk]

4. I said it earlier that this will go down as the most hateful convention of all time

There is no high road with these people.

[CK_John]

7. We'll find out Nov 6. nt

[onenote]

9. Unlikely

First, most of the convention isn't being televised. Second, what is being televised is mostly pablum. Keep in mind that no one, not a single person, on DU is the intended audience for the repubs. Of course we're going to be offended by them. But unless the broader public -- particularly independents -- are offended by the general tenor of the convention, it will be what it is supposed to be -- a way to rally the repub voters and make Romney and Ryan seem more palatable to right leaning independents.

I've seen it declared by some here that the repubs convention is a "trainwreck" -- as much as it may seem that way to us, it really doesn't matter unless that is the message being received by the general public. And from what I can see, it isn't.

[Coyotl]

10. They built it, to be sure!

Noone could have built it like they built it

[mzmolly]

12. Yes, they built it alright.... with millions of dollars

from "big government".

[XemaSab]

13. This convention is about one thing and one thing alone:

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[WI_DEM]

14. I doubt it. Despite their lies they will probably get a nice bounce out of their convention in the

polls. A lot of people will watch Paul Ryan tonight out of curiosity. And they aren't going to present him as the guy who wants to destroy Medicare but as a small town, all-American boy next door. A lot of uninformed voters will buy into it, too.

[jmowreader]

15. No. It's not a clusterfuck.

It is the political equivalent of the captain of the Titanic spotting the iceberg, turning the ship directly toward it and ordering all ahead full. It is the political equivalent of the captain of the Hindenburg dumping fifty gallons of gasoline on the floor of the passenger compartment just before his airship crossed the airfield boundary. It is the political equivalent of...well, you get the idea...

[Skittles]

16. LOL

I want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not about party," said Ann Romney, long her husband's best asset on the campaign trail. "Tonight I want to talk to you about love."

"Tonight, we choose respect over love," Christie said, describing how his late mother "told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected."

These people are total fuckups

[Cleita]

17. I haven't had so much fun in years. n/t

[SIDURI]

18. We can only hope, my dears...

We can only hope. >shakes head<

Siduri

[leveymg]

19. Chicago was at least good theater. This is just a yawn.