RNC thread (Admit it, you're watching and gagging too!)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

I'll start:

What's up with the Montana governor's hair? Oh wow.

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. My question is: why are they counting the delegates now?

Isn't this usually reserved for the night before the acceptance speech?

[actappan]

8. Passing the buck . . .

. . . or at least the vote. It seems that pretty much all of them are passing anyway.

[chelsea0011]

12. If Dems broke with this tradition, the media would be losing it

[Protected]

13. Why are they doing this in primetime?

I thought the Dems did this at around 11pm on one night. I guess they've got nothing better to do or talk about.

[UpsideDownFlag]

41. did they just nominate bush on the first night?

didnt the dems nominate kerry on the last night?

[LynneSin]

47. They have to nominate Bush tonight or he won't get on some state ballots

States like Mississippi and California (I think there are a few others) have August 31st deadlines for candidates to be nominated and on the ballot. Those first 2 states actually have democratic control of their state congresses (yes, even in Mississippi) so the repukes had to move their nomination to the first night of the convention so Bush could get on the ballot

[drdigi420]

46. mebbe they are afraid of having to do recounts

[Placebo]

2. Of course I'm watching it...

I may be a die hard democrat, but I'm also a political addict!

[Connie_Corleone]

7. I am too.

But, I missed the swinging, giant phallic Elephant trunk. I hope they show it again.

[Placebo]

16. It likes to pop out of no where!

no pun intended.

Someone is speaking la la la...terrorism...gays are evil....tax cuts....la la laaa..........GIANT SWINGING ELEPHANT SIZED PHALLIC SYMBOL!.....tax cuts.....war for all.....gays are evil.....la la laaaa....

[Warpy]

17. Not me

Although the spectacle of watching all those moderates pretend that their little tin Jesus isn't the most unchristian, stingy, belligerent, incompetent SOB in the history of the presidency would be fun, at least watching the microexpressions.

However, I went out today and rented a bunch of movies I haven't seen before. If I'm going to watch fiction, I'd prefer it to be believable fiction.

[Endangered Specie]

3. "Montana, home of ..., dinosaurs,..." - boy is that the truth.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

11. The Nevada lady needs to cut back on the coffee.

Jeez, lady...

[actappan]

4. Know your enemy . . .

. . .or something like that.

What's up with that SNL intro?

"Look at us, ignore the suits, we're funny!"

Yeah - they're funny. Whatever.

[Kierkegaard]

5. I admit nothing

I will not watch the cavalcade of prevaricating ass clowns. I like my blood pressure right where it is, thank you.

[Armstead]

6. I watched for a few minutes but couldn't stand it

They make my skin crawl.

I'm a political junkie too, but this week I think I'll stay far away from the TV.

[Endangered Specie]

Nevada is bragging about being full or Republicans???

Ironic.

[grannylib]

9. I tried but I am just about hurling - the love-in of the corporate-whore

media is just too much. It's a veritable orgy of adulation for the naked emperor...
I just ate. Can't take it.

[lastknowngood]

10. Not me I'm watching Red Dwarf

n/t

[henslee]

Actually, I'm projectile vomiting.

[seabeyond]

14. not watcfhing not watching

i am not watching. and really this is amazing for me and sooooo proud of me. nope nope nope, i couldnt do it. too much chaos in this world, i dont need to feed it this week, lol. not even reading a lot of threads on the b.s.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

15. Ewwww... Not Denny.

"I hope everybody smiled."

Also- anyone else notice that he hasn't pronounced "Delegates" the same way twice?!

on edit: I added back " I wonder where they found a suit to fit him."

[Endangered Specie]

18. I think they skinned an eel.

[Lancer]

23. Best thing I heard today

was from a caller into C-SPAN. He said if Kerry can't talk about Vietnam, Dubya shouldn't be able to talk about 9/11.

[Endangered Specie]

19. Mentioning Lincoln and Reagen in the SAME sentence...

then in the next one, Lincoln Reagan and Bush..... :HURL:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

22. George W. Bush shares the Reagan vision.

Oh, how that scares me.

[flordehinojos]

20. I am so proud of myself ... I have watched the DEMOCRACY NOW! programming

this morning--and again this evening, sticking to my plan and thinking that I would much prefer watch a repeat of that than any of the Republican Convention, and to my surprise the DEMOCRACY NOW! program was running the second hour of their special two hour program which the station did not run in the morning--as it just ran the regular one hour program this AM.
So, I saw the first hour of their special two hour program this morning, and the second hour of that this evening.

The rest of the day Turner Movies Classis has been running old Esther Williams movies. I have been watching that.

I think I have to give myself a gold star.

I said I wasn't going to watch the RNC, so far I haven't and I don't think I will. I may peek into it the day Bush speaks, although, if I do, I will have the television on MUTE and later check my reactions to his body language against a transcript of the speech just to see how accurate or not the emotions his body language draws out of me are.


:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[Endangered Specie]

21. Wow, NASTY Kerry attacks...

"Kerry wants to throw the taxpayers overboard"
"{Kerry campaign} are the job killers"

Sieg Heil!

[spanone]

24. You caught me,,,,,oh I just threw up.....Cheney entered the hall

SALUTE GENTLEMEN :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

26. Speaking of Cheney, any sign of Mary Cheney yet?

n/t

[jefferson_dem]

48. Yep. Old Chest Painey Slithers In...

Back at you...

puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[maumcc1]

25. Cheney just walked in

What's up with the song, "You're all I need to get by?"

[spanone]

27. bush* requested that to be played when Cheney entered????

[Protected]

28. "We salute our troops" signs

Ah yes, so let's support a pResident who uses them in a war that's manufactured on lies.

[Rowdyboy]

29. Why should I? I have you guys to do the dirty work and report back

[Endangered Specie]

32. you may not long, the RNC watching crowd is dwindling as we speak.

[maumcc1]

34. Does Cheney ever smile?

He looks pretty miserable to me. As a matter of fact, they all look boring as hell.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

30. Ok, I'm going to throw up if I continue watching this.

and I don't want to clean the puke off my nice clean laptop.

I'm going to go do something productive. Perhaps even clean the living room.

[Endangered Specie]

31. God this is some SHITTY Music!!!!!!

[caber09]

33. Is it me....

or are there alot of people at the garden that look like empty seats? Where is the media outrage, it is also very quiet compared to Boston. Speaker of the House just spoke with a ton of empty seats, almost 9, I remember it being much louder in Boston?

[ladjf]

35. Not one second.

[enough]

36. NOT watching, but so glad that you guys are.

The strong do what they can, so the weak can keep their blood pressure under control.

THANKS!!!!

[maumcc1]

38. Don't know how much longer I can take it

This war rhetoric is getting to me. I have yet to understand that we went to war to protect our freedom. I just don't get it, was our freedom ever in danger?

[LDS Jock]

37. yes I'm watching.. I'm so ashamed

I feel dumber by the minute for watching.

[UpsideDownFlag]

39. i started one of these in the lounge, but i guess this woulda been better

"we need a commander in chief who is an anchor, not a weather vane"

[Princess Turandot]

40. Nope..thank goodness for Law & Order on TNT..

since there's no baseball game tonight.I'm not planning to watch a minute of it.

At least in NYC, neither ABC or NBC are showing on their schedule that they are covering the 10PM slot, although CBS is.

[elperromagico]

42. I'm trying to quit smoking. Watching that convention

would put me back up to three packs a day.

[Protected]

43. "We need to lead other nations"

LOL, like the nation of Iraq? We're going to lead them... to what?

[Protected]

44. I love these "reporters" with RNC microphones

Now onto a war machine montage which conveniently leaves out the death and destruction part. There's some chorus there background singing stuff like "Anchors Aweigh." Oh, it's so nice and uplifting! :crazy:

[rusty charly]

52. and...

There are about ten non-white people in that hall, and five of them have been interviewed by the RNC "reporters" already.

[AmerDem]

45. I checked in once or twice

had to see how things were set up.

[AgadorSparticus]

49. NOPE. I never watch this shit. Just can't stomach it.

besides, monday night football is on.

[Crunchy Frog]

50. Not watching.

I watched it last time and couldn't stand it. I'm not going to put myself through even worse this time. It's just not worth it.

[hyphenate]

51. Not watching

Don't intend to, either. My blood is hot enough already, it doesn't need to boil.

I'll tape Jon Stewart, though. He'll put it into perspective!

[rusty charly]

53. this was fast

GOP Assails Kerry As Convention Begins
Breaking News

August 30, 2004 07:48 PM EDT

NEW YORK - Republicans belittled Democratic Sen. John Kerry as a shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House on Monday at the opening of their national convention, lavishing praise on President Bush as a steady, decisive leader in an age...



http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?cat=0&aid=830060611_breakingnews_story

[union_maid]

54. Not me

I might watch, but my husband won't put it on. Of course, they have news on where he works all day so he's got to deal with some of it. Interestingly, they used to switch between Faux and CNN at his office and he's happily notice that they've recently switched to MSNBC. Not a particularly liberal office, either. I think they just find MSNBC more interesting or accurate or something.

[Selwynn]

55. I'm watching, in the interests of equal time...

...but I'm not paying nearly as much attention. :)