The true face of the Modern Republican Party (read the lips)

[DainBramaged]

[trumad]

1. Unreal...

She should have just walked out and never returned.

[JanMichael]

4. I tried to listen

on headphones...why were they yelling "USA USA?"

Am I the only one that doesn't get it?

[JanMichael]

2. wtf?

why were they screaming "USA?" I don't get it. God, is there at least one non-white there? Also, did the guy with the gavel remind anyone of Neidermeyer from Animal House?

[DainBramaged]

3. They were also screaming "kick them out" they aren't very inclusive.

[JanMichael]

5. I am going to listen again

what a bunch of weirdos.

[trumad]

7. check post 6

[trumad]

6. The back story.

An unscripted moment happened late this afternoon that caused the assembled mainstream media to turn away in the hope that it would disappear. As I was standing in line for a sandwich next to an Italian and a Puerto Rican correspondent, a controversy was unfolding on the floor.

The RonPaulites, whose furious devotion to a single idea have made them the Ellen Jamesians of the right, were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention. There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

”The chanting carried on for nearly a minute while most of the other delegates and the media stood by in stunned silence. The Puerto Rican correspondent turned to me and asked, “Is this happening?” I said I honestly didn’t know what was happening—it was astonishing to see all the brittle work of narrative construction that is a modern political convention suddenly crack before our eyes. None of us could quite believe what we were seeing: A sea of twentysomething bowties and cowboy hats morphing into frat bros apparently shrieking over (or at) a Latina.
http://www.echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/

[JanMichael]

9. freakish

Seriously--- they are getting more like brownshirts every day, aren't they. I thought Sarah Palin was the bottom of the barrel, now she looks almost likeable.

[TlalocW]

15. The word here is, "Apparently"

The Ron Bots were raising hell over the treatment trumad described, and the rest of the people in the room were trying to out-shout them with chants of USA. Fonalledas was at the right place at the wrong time, and it looked like people were going apeshit over a Latina "being allowed" to speak.

We know how republicans feel about women and Latinas - there are plenty of examples, but I don't think this is one.

TlalocW

[snappyturtle]

8. Their brains are dehydrated....according to Mika water isn't allowed on the floor! nt

[aikoaiko]

10. It was a repulsive display of their core values.

I really can't think of any way to give them the benefit of the doubt -- especially after seeing their angry faces as they chanted.

[reformist2]

11. Ignorance and intolerance... yep, that's the GOP!

[Chipper Chat]

12. Fodder for Michael Moore's next movie.

This incident reminds me of the GOP Convention of 2004 (I think) when the entire Texas delegation turned their backs and kneeled in prayer on a gay Arizona speaker (who wasn't even talking about gay issues). Disgusting.

[april]

13. Sick people ..very sick

[dballance]

14. It's good to see Rinse Penis is firmly in control of the convention

What a bunch of idiots.

[Berlum]

16. Another whimpy Republican chicken hawk shows his FAIL

How lame was Priebus?

[DainBramaged]

17. That video should be an Obama campaign commercial

[RC]

18. From what I understand, the entire Republican Convention is a serial Democratic campaign commercial

Point after asinine, stupid, ignorant, bigoted, reality challenge, woman hating point.

Why does anyone support these people hating idiots? How can they still, especially when they are so blatant about it?

[DainBramaged]

19. BIGOTS of the White Peoples Party unite

oh wait, they did under an RNC banner.

[Poll_Blind]

20. .

PB