If you were unbiased and a "Don't know " would this convention scare you?

[AlCzervik]

I think that the moment this convention went over into real scary land was when they were all doing the "Flip flop" chant tonight. Miller was a lunatic and very scary as well but watching them drool over Cheney and then shielding the protester from the camera just confirmed it for me. These delegates are total sheep and i think that this is going to turn off many.

[TeacherCreature]

1. And it was covered by the networks.

Scary stuff.

[AlCzervik]

4. I dont think it's just us, i think many will be turned off

by the gop mob mentaltiy. They look like frigging irobots.

[cheshire]

2. I'd be scared it I was there by choice

[mmonk]

3. Yes, but I'm sane

some people out there are not.

[grasswire]

5. all their "inside" jokes....

...and subtle digs surely don't present the image of an inviting tent. It looks a little frightening, I imagine.

[barb162]

6. the honest answer to that is no

because if I didn't pay ANY attention to politics, all I would see up there was a lot of flags being waved behind zigzag Zell, lots of talk of patriotism and the speakers righteously going after some democrat guy who was voting against defense bills, not caring about the troops, lots of talk of defending America, that kind of thing. I would see a huge auditorium with thousands of people wildly cheering Cheney and Zell.
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Now don't send nasty notes to me that I think this way, because I like to bash that POS Cheney.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. My moderate friends are all whimpering for their mommies right now

and telling me to "make it go away."

One called me tonight and as soon as I said, "Hello?" She just said "EWWWWWWWW!!!" and I knew what she was talking about.

These are all people who watched the DNC and are watching this to help make up their mind. They do all have a way they are leaning, some bush, some Kerry. But EVERY one of them to a person has told me their reaction to the RNC has ranged from "WTF?" to outright fear and creepy feelings.

GREAT JOB GOP!! KEEP IT UP!!!

[AlCzervik]

9. I'm so glad to hear that

I dont trust my judgement on some things anymore but i know scary stuff when i see it. It looked like Jonestown. I think cultish and infantile are the words for the week.

[barb162]

10. we must always remember all of the millions out there

who don't watch either convention ( or maybe they watch an hour of the last night) and then just vote their pocketbook. They will say, hey no attacks after 9/11, these guys went after those Arabs for 9/11, my taxes hardly went up (down), what's the problem with keeping the present team. I know a lot of rich types whose taxes got lowered a lot by Bush. They simply do not care about anything other than their pocketbooks. People dying in Iraq? WHo cares? Millions without jobs? Who cares? 45 million with no health insurance? SO what?

[Robbien]

11. Those are the exact same words being used by the GOP pundits

Nice GOP talking points to try and cover the manic behavior.

Wonder if the GOP will pull it off once again.

[barb162]

14. I can't deal with Bush/Cheney again for 4 more years

but I personally know many people like this. I believe I am the only person in my family who is a democrat. The last time I saw them and tried talking to them about the horrible health insurance problem, the response was whenever the government puts in a big program all they do is waste money. Most of the people in my neighborhood are GOP. I am dumbfounded on how to change their attitudes.

[A_Possum]

8. I hate negative campaigning

Always have. I'm an independent, voted every which way over the years, but it's the negativity that has driven me away from the Pugs for the last 10 years. They're awful.

[Fed Up]

12. Frank Luntz's fake "undecided" focus group liked the 2 speeches.

I couldn't believe it, most of them said "This carries so much weight because Zell is a Democrat."

Yeah like they are really undecideds. Probably they are undecided in the sense that they supported Bush strongly in the past, but he has angered them to a point they might possibly consider Kerry, maybe.

Undecided my ass.

[goclark]

13. It was all about WHITE POWER

Flame me if you want to, I am so angry at the Republican Party that I don't care!!!

There were so many closet bigots at the MSG. Expose them for what they really are...

Let's not get it twisted. This election is about WHITE POWER.
The Republicans are playing to their silent base and the unspoken buzz words are "we will keep you safe from THOSE people."

Those Black people

Those Brown People and dirty Muslims

Those dirty poor people that keep getting sick because they have no medicine. So what! Our WHITE buddies that own Wall Street are getting rich while they get sick. We won't have to see them because if we get sick,we'll have LOVELY hospitals to go to and great health care.

Those Black and Brown Men/Women in Jail and on Drugs and with Aids-let them die there. Less of them means more of US.

Those Black and Brown Children that want to get an education - fool them into thinking "No Child Will Be Left Behind" and leave them to rot in the pain of the ghetto

Those weird people that want Woman to have the Right To Choose, keep them from getting that Right!

Note: have you ever heard of them being against a Black Woman having an abortion? NO! They would not care. They don't want WHITE woman to have abortions because that will reduce the number of WHITE people in the United States.

Those radical White people that liked Martin Luther King and wanted him to have a holiday..."The nerve of them to want a holiday for him."

Those horrible gay people(except for Cheney's kid and they hate her behind closed doors.)

Those stupid homosexuals that want to get married. They don't want that because marriage should be "between a Man and a Woman," Translation: marriage should be between a WHITE man and a WHITE woman so they can have WHITE babies and they will still have
WHITE POWER.

Those people that don't want US to kill those Middle Eastern nuts. Those anti -war scary ones. Who cares if we kill 1 million Iraqi/Korean woman and babies,they are like dirt. They are all terrorists. They hate us for our WHITE freedom

Those people who care more about the Environment, why should they like trees more than oil,that is stupid. This land belongs to US, WHITE US.

Those silly people who really care that we should not bully the world ..why not?! We will not mess with Ireland, England, Poland because their leaders are PURE and WHITE just like us.

It's all about WHITE SUPREMACY, they are not giving up the WHITE POWER.

i pray with all my heart that we will wake up from this horrible nightmare on Nov. 2nd and Kerry and Edwards will be victorious!
What a glorious day that will be for REAL PEOPLE.

[barb162]

15. gop

Note: have you ever heard of them being against a Black Woman having an abortion? NO! They would not care. They don't want WHITE woman to have abortions because that will reduce the number of WHITE people in the United States.
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Alan Keyes, GOP candidate US Senate Illinois, is against ALL abortion. It is extremely unlikely he will win that seat.
I don't know where a lot of GOP types stand on anything anymore becaue I stopped listening a while back. I was only able to watch today for about an hour, yesterday couldn't watch at all.

[goclark]

16. Alan Keyes is an Uncle Tom

He is just saying anything they tell him to say.
My point is that they will all say they are against "all" abortions.
It is their unspoken words that are providing the silent bigots,the fear in this election.