Jesus God.
Jesus God, make it stop.
Jesus God, make it stop so bad.
Honestly. I never thought there existed anything that could make Mom jeans and a bike helmet on a skinny Marxist seem remotely cool. But this might just do it. And that’s after I’ve seen him throw a baseball.
Jesus God.
Jesus. God.
it reminds me of that Dale Evans and Roy Rogers show when they would make the kid with no arms sing Jesus Loves Me
rob portman is like awesome
this is mittens setting his hair on fire. severely.
Romney just picked up seven points in some poll somewhere. Now he’s 43/43 with OBarry.
Yea, rob portman is … making me change the channel.
But remember, THIS is who the democrats were REALLY afraid Romney would pick as his running mate.
what’s with the “we” stuff(we built it, we change it) we be collectivist.
How much cursing and ridicule can the PW WordPress installation publish? We’ll know in November when the Pragmatists choke down their comeuppance.
Somebody tell me this is a parody. And if so, just how George Soros got this deep into Reince Priebus.
the instadude
WATCHING ROB PORTMAN, it’s clear that Ryan was a much better pick.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 9:03 pm
There’s a lady in the audience wearing a Cheesehead cowboy hat.
It’s more interesting than this speech.
Watching Paul Ryan it’s clear Rand Paul was a much better choice.
Children. With signboard themes hocked from the opposition.
it’s just a dorkfest unlike nothing I’ve ever imagined
We need Romney to give us liberty.
Unbe LEE vable.
Is that a baptismal font next to the pulpit there?
Matching up socks out of the dryer is more interesting than this speech.
I’ve never felt so politically alienated in my life. These people suck. Seriously.
It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing).
So, this is interesting. George Zimmermann got the judge booted.
Not that guy
and featuring… the go diego go dancers!
Okay, I’m glad I’m not watching then.
It’s as if the GOP convention had been taken over by pod people.
has
Oh holy crap, now Pawlenty is on.
pawlenty’s speech is riveting. though i rather watch real riveting.
thank jesus god no one will remember this next week
¡Ay, mi madre!
Anyone know where I can find a podcast that features children being torn asunder by a running chainsaw?
Cats fed into a chipper-shredder?
Just something that sounds better than this…
i miss sarah palin
Paul Ryan is going to have to hit a Sarah Palin-style grand slam in order to salvage this night.
Obama or these guys? I’ll be in my bunker.
It’s alarming that so many usually well-thought and well-spoken people in the pundocracy can be moved – at all – by this sort of clown carnival.
I mean, people at NRO are not really idiots, but stompin’ Jeebus in a straw hat… they’re thrilled by this mawkish nerd fest. You know who is less cool than the A/V nerd? The political nerd.
Check this slice of Mitch McConnell:
Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems.
Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible.
He cut his own path.
That’s why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope.
And that’s why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that’s ready for a comeback.
I firmly believe he’s the man to lead it.
Says the man who defies medical science by remaining alive with no chin. And no spine.
John Thune and Rob Portman just made me feel really good about myself. As a lifetime underachiever, these guys really really made me feel like a monster achiever. These guys could be my wing man.
On the other hand, it’s been like Dweebs ‘R Us. Please, Lord, please bring James Hetfield to the mic. I’m 63 and I don’t have much longer. All the feelin’ done been sucked out of these white people. Please bring Metallica to the light and to the mic.
look fried squirrels err huckabee
Paul Ryan? The guy that said we have to betray our principles to save our principles? That guy? His wiffle ball bat isn’t capable of hitting anything more than a bunt. We’re fucked.
The only way Ryan can save this shindig is if he shows up with his granny and shoves her off the stage.
Then I might take this seriously.
Dennis, if you were as handsome as John Thune, you could be a Senator too.
Huck’s choking on every word, ya think?
I keep waiting for Fred Willard to walk out and let us in on the gag.
The Republican Party: Because we must not let vanilla divide us.
So I take it that tonight’s theme is Mitt Romney, Nice and Competent?
Sometimes conventional wisdom is correct. To Dems, and its key faux nihilist and hipster constituencies the GOP is shot through with dorks. Given the crossover between these groups and the media, this seeps out into pop culture and becomes the operating definition.
I can’t see where they’re wrong, at least tonight, so far.
Do not let yourselves be distracted by B****k O***a. Do not say His name. Do not take the attack in His direction.
That’s just what He wants you to do.
Ah, Grasshopper, the ways of eleven-dimensional chess are manifold.
Did you know that the Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers?
Did you know that the Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers?
Just so long as they aren’t bronies.
If Huckabee talks any slower he’s gonna need to get some puppets and do voices to keep my interest.
THREE SECOND PAUSES ARE NOT GOOD ELOCUTION ! Might be a good start on a low impact torture technique though.
Who’s next on the schedule, Fed Rogers? Good God almighty…
Fred Rogers, I mean. I’m not a Paulbot.
WooHoo!
Frampton comes alive!
Jesus and Satan are brothers?
the jumah in charlotte says so too
link
Fred Rogers might steal some of the dead vote.
It sounds like the teleprompter is slow tonight.
They’ve all sounded like they were slogging through a swamp.
“On behalf of Mitt R. and Paul R., we say ‘we will do better.'”
Wow. What inspirational words, Huck.
At least you didn’t weigh us down with, you know, ideas.
oh good a bush retread
This would be very avant garde if it were 1963.
yea condi the sharia is the revolution
I hope Pam Bondi is taking fashion notes
to say nothing of taking note of what gravitas and intelligence looks like
You have got to be kidding me. Condi, this is not 2004. And we have no clue why we are still in A-stan.
condi’s had some voice training and it’s really paid off
Condi should have come to the stage, said “I’m a woman. I am also black.” Then, “Peace out!”
That would have been epic.
lead what condi?
she just commands respect
so far she’s the first
Ten syllables, and a tag THEN THREE SECONDS of pause. Repeat until teeth grind.
Who told them to do this?
who be our foes condi?
no condi the foundation is the us constitution
Will NBC acknowledge that she spoke tomorrow, or will she fall into the NBC Journalism standards ‘people of color’ phantom zone ?
– If anyone needs to do a little nose mining, go ahead. Condi’s on and MSNBC is not allowed to show minority speakers.
Plutarch wrote about the hard work Demosthenes had to put in to fix his vocal problems. People who go into partisan politics might want to read that.
Peter Robinson did a good interview with this guy who knows from natural gas and frakking.
condi “it doesn’t matter where you came from it matters where you’re going”
FORWARD!
this is a fine speech I think, thoughtful and of the moment and not just a moronic mind-numbing witless ranting about you didn’t build it like honey boo boo on go go juice
lah dee dah dee dah dee dah lahdeedah. La dee la dee la DEE de da! BEAT…BEAT…BEAT…lah dee dah dee dah dee dah lahdeedah. La dee la dee la DEE de da! BEAT…BEAT…BEAT…
I’m so glad that I’m only reading the comments here rather than watching this dork fest. We need a Man Party. With balls.
Is anyone going to speak tonight who doesn’t care if Colin Powell still likes them ?
Is it my tv or is condi’s head doing a katherine hepburn?
Channeling Samuel L. Jackson…..now that would’ve brought down the house!
this is really remarkable, the part about education
she’s really proving herself a goddamn superstar, and not just in juxtaposition with the vapid dorks what preceded her
Ok the Woolworth’s lunch counter line was good.
– Condi’s kicking ass and taling names. It’s like when she started ta;king it was a whole auditorium of zombies that suddenly discovered a river of blood.
Yeah she just injected 30 gallons of caffeine into the crowds veins.
Dear @Reince Here’s that virtual tie: Akin 45% McCaskill 42%, 3.38% MOE. http://ow.ly/1OtnXO . So. How important is the Senate? More important than rule changes? Or less? (h/t geoffb)
Reince should be fired
Arrogant bastard
She just said, “I America, we all tape grasshoppers to our backs.”
Or at least that’s what I heard.
No doubt he’s looking for a Carly Fiorina-style unwinnable Senate race to lavish NRSC money upon.
I honestly think God has blessed me enough already tonight. It’s not like I’m worried that Huckabee’s blessing didn’t work and so I need more booster shots from everybody down the line. It’s nice to be blessed but not several times in a row as a routine greeting. Please don’t turn it into the new flag lapel pin?
As long as no one blesses your heart, you’re OK.
back to storytime everybody get on your reading rug and follow along until it’s your turn to help sound out the words
Very few Jews to pursue?
I wonder if Susana Martinez’s “Smith & Wesson .357 magnum” line was supposed to presage a possible Clint Eastwood speech tomorrow night.
Ok hf just made me LOL
I don’t care if he’s a troll.
Clearly I shouldn’t vote.
I hope it’s Clint. That would be epic.
It would be a letdown seeing Clint next to all these giant nerds, don’t you think?
The contrast would be startling, to say the least.
in case you were wondering Cindy Crawford endorsed Romney.
the little girls have barriers susana? do tell.
She just said, “The American dream is a Cinnabon on every corner.”
I swear.
Hey Girl!
It’s Ryan Time
what no cheesehead hats?
The endorsement is worthless. Cyndi Crawford was trained as a chemical engineer. And as we all know engineers are stupid people and often have trouble understanding the complex social orthodoxy that by authority of settled scientific doctrine defines uterine function in odd circumstances.
Isn’t that a Hank song?
Engineers can’t even write brief period fiction about awkward discussions of abortion.
I thought it was Thin Lizzie.
All my rowdy friends are here on Wednesday night….that’s right.
Ryan looks like he’s about to try and cell me a brand new laser powered state of the art convection oven that comes with a ceramic knife that never needs sharpening and an easy to clean vegetable chopper that works with two easy whacks.
I was thinking more Hank Sr.
But if you have to explain the joke it isn’t one.
He’s got the eye contact part down pat.
ha!
I didn’t know she had an engineering background – I’m shocked she was married to Richard gere. whoa
we engineers are not known for our social prowess. I’ll give you that.
MATH!
I stopped watching political conventions on TV a long time ago — and that was when the candidate that was being nominated was one I actually wanted to vote for.
I could have kept watching, but while booze is cheaper than psychiatric medication, it still ain’t cheap enough.
Math! And if you can’t do math you can be come a narc engineer who does the SAFETY auditing! And a paperwork whiz! Or you can write reports for marketing, finance, and accounting so they know what the other shifty engineers are up to and where to cut funding! WHooo!
national soros radio catches a glimpse of ryan’s true nature
yup. They’re pretty sure he’s hitler.
link
Heh. He’s all but calling Obama a little bitch.
I don’t listen to NPR. I don’t help support my local station KUT so listening to it would be like stealing.
“It’s been four years since Obama assumed control of the White House. Don’t you think it’s time he assumed responsibility?”
Gotta say, that was good.
– It is Clint Leigh.
If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.
Woo hoo! Thanks, BBH.
You just made my day!
“It’s been four years since Obama assumed control of the White House. Don’t you think it’s time he assumed responsibility?
racist
Yep, Clint is to speak at the Republican convention.
Oh God Clint is going to make these guys look even worse. For being the party of the NRA I really would like to see some testosterone. and not the “Hey Girl” kind.
Clint is awesome. I saw him speak when he was mayor of Carmel, back in the day.
I sure hope he brings it to Obama.
“Barack, a man’s got to know his limitations.”
I meant Clint was going to make everyone else look gay.
“I meant Clint was going to make everyone else look gay.”
So long as they keep him away from a piano.
I knew what you meant, missfixit and I agree he’ll make them all look like girls.
ryan meh
ryan was kinda painting by numbers
Ryan’s daughter sure is a ham. What a cutie.
yay dumbledore!
greeks bearing gifts
Charlie Crist was there?
yay dumbledore!
next week: sgt shultz on steroids
So long as they keep him away from a piano.
Do I qualify for the Geezer Bus if I get that?
oh god but america is some fucked up shit*
oh man i’m late to an engineer-mocking party
damn :(
(My favoritest part of doing my engineering degree was I was the only one who knew how to write or navigate PowerPoint out of the entire student body. AND the faculty.)
Hey! So I’m relegated to the Geezer Bus? Shoot, I was looking forward to another ride in a Cobra.
A quarter’s worth as an undergrad. That’s probably very close to “none”.
On the plus side, she did choose chem-e as her undergrad, so it shows she wasn’t exactly faint of heart.
Oh God. Power point. Automated slide production and presentation. Show and tell. Anyone who develops a time machine needs to go back and take the guy out who thought of that. SO much time and energy goes into carefully and briefly explaining things to people who don’t care and are playing Angry Birds under the conference table and emailed their recommendation to the project manager three days ago.
are we going to do horrible engineer confessions? ha
“A quarter’s worth as an undergrad. That’s probably very close to “none”.”
Well then I’m going to get some scissors and snip her out of the Engineering Education poster by the break room.
oh man she only lasted one quarter. Well she’s smart, she made way more money with her other assets so good for her.
Does anyone sell a Clint Howard mask? I’m thinking of dressing up as Tranya boy for Halloween. I got invited to a party and some old people who might actually get it will be there.
Hey Girl…time to talk about Ryan’s speech.
I don’t care so much about Power Point, however, I’m the guy who has to make sure the guy running the presentation can actually run the Power Point.
Setting up a dual display with presenter view is beyond the capability of 99.9% of the people running Power Point.
Meanwhile, the guy running the presentation generally has enough power to make life difficult if I don’t make sure things are as idiot proof as possible.
I guess I missed out on all the fun. I went over to a friend’s house and sat outside and had a few.
“What’s that font? I don’t think I like that font. ”
Yeah. Great. Thanks for pretending to watch the power point presentation I stopped working on my project to do.
Tonight instead of watching “Top Gear” — since I already saw it last night — I spent the evening trying to log in to websites to change my mailing address. Of the three groups I belong to that send me actual print magazines, not one has a useful way for me to do this online.
One has links on the website from my member profile, but the links don’t work. They apologize that the functionality doesn’t work and they’re waiting for their IT guys to fix it.
Another one has a way to send me my forgotten login info, but for some reason the emails don’t arrive.
On the third, the website claims my member ID, the one embossed on my membership card that says LIFE MEMBER, doesn’t match my last name (which is also embossed on my membership card that says LIFE MEMBER) — so I can’t even get my login info emailed to me, assuming it would ever arrive if it got sent.
I’m thinking watching the convention might have been less painful.
More on those Akin internal polls, courtesy of EBL.
Really ? Seriously biting commentary.
FWIW, Condi rocked and Ryan was just as he’s always been, damned impressive.
Gotta kick out of Susanna Martinez – thinking she was getting a free lunch from the Republicans then turning to her husband afterwards and saying “Chuck, I’ll be damned, we’re Republicans.”
Since Akin poll internals aren’t the same as Akin intenal polls, I’m glad I read the linked item.
Saved me from calling bullshit in Akin for releasing internal polls, which nobody does unless they’re either lying or desperate, either of which I supposed Akin might be.
It’s a statistical tie. And Priebus ought to be made to choke down a heaping helping of crow.
Next time I hear from the RNC, I’m telling them I gave to Akin since they wouldn’t, and because of that, they should stop bothering me.
akin is a shakin and a bakin
his goose is cooked!
Here‘s the press release from the pollster.
So Team R, do we want to win the Senate or don’t we?
I’m beginning to wonder if the polling indicates a resentment of DC stepping into their race. With Akin thumbing his nose at the RNC, maybe the folks of the Show Me state are saying if anyone is going to call our candidate a dumbass it will be us thank you very much.
Yes. They will be…
Professor Rice, lecturer Obama.
She can be properly called Dr. Rice. Barry, we can just call asshole.
premiering on Monday, September 17,2012,at 10 PM, on NBC:
Revolution was co-created by J.J. Abrams (Lost) and Eric Kripke (Supernatural), with the “Pilot” directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Cowboys and Aliens).
Right. Which is all Team R needs to do to make sense in this, the Twilight Zone.
Wonder what Ace of Polls is gonna do with Wrong on Akin; Wrong on Romney.
romney has a secret weapon her name is ann romney and she will make all the womens vote for republicans cause the Romneys used to (used to) eat a lot of tuna and pasta plus they had a crapload of kids without even worrying about spacing them for so they didn’t have more than one in daycare at a time
they’re just like us
I thought Ann was pretty boring myself but then I was seething about the Boehner floor vote nonsense.
Eastwood confirmed to be mystery speaker.
Well, for starters, you’d be dead. Not much of a pilot.
happyfeet, I read Dies the Fire and the emberverse series, at least until it got so boring waiting for resolution that I decided to sit it out and wait for someone to tell me the ending.
I just think it’s weird that NBC just right before the election is exploring the very real possibility that the system, it can be crashed
Jesus God answers:
“You rang Jeff G?
To make it stop, just turn off the tv Jeffrey (may I call you Jeffrey?) and you shall be set free.
One should not ask such small requests of me in the future.
By the way, I did not invent Mom’s jeans or bike helmets.
Marxists were created by the devil.
Love,
Jesus God, the all knowing and helper of Jeff G.”
Wouldn’t that be a drag if you jabbed your ears out with an ice pick to stop the ceaseless noise and after you healed from that self abuse you developed a maddening case of tinnitus? Huh? Wouldn’t that be a drag?
I don’t care so much about Power Point, however, I’m the guy who has to make sure the guy running the presentation can actually run the Power Point.
See, my family makes PowerPoint (and other) presentations look sexy and eye-catching for a living.
You’d think the above idea is oxymoronic but it does pay quite well. We’re kind of a combination advertising/consulting company and can turn out stuff that doesn’t look like “I just vomited my meeting notes onto the slide and then chose a stock template; why doesn’t anyone pay attention?”. (Granted there are people who think any PPT whatsoever falls into that category and I can’t blame you, even if I do not agree because of my obvious bias.)
So PowerPoint abuse is a special pain for me.
Eastwood.
Meh.
I honestly don’t give a fuck about that. I like his movies but this falls under ‘shut up and sing’. Even if you are on my side, please shut up and sing. Because I don’t care about anything but your movies. I won’t pay $7 to see your politics. It’s not your field. It’s not what you are good at. I’m not looking for confirmation from above or a role model. I don’t weigh your opinion more heavily because you were in movies.
This is dumb.
lol. You too? I put the last book down about halfway read and just never picked it back up.
Realized I didn’t really care what happened to any of those folks any more.
Its precisely what he is good at: appearing in front of a crowd and acting like a leader.
The Rs have plenty of politicians, what they need are actors.
The one song they should have played several times each night was After The Fire Is Gone by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty.
But…they caught a serious crime in the offing!
Seriously, if smoking a joint is something even worth sending a squad car over for, which may otherwise be pursuing and catching the dude that’s been casing my neighborhood for the last two weeks, then we are in a world of fucked up priorities.
Wow, the lefty hating on Condi via Twitter is off the scale. Can’t count the number of times lefties of melanin are calling her “bitch” “nigger” and telling her to bleach her skin because she’s not black.
Whatever you feel about the Republican speakers, the Dem party is going to be wall-to-wall hate about anyone that doesn’t fall in line with them.
Later observations:
The Ryan speech had some good lines, though on my iPod Zeppelin is under L. Martinez was okay, I guess, but she seemed to be trying too hard. And Condi ended well, I thought.
The presentation overall, however, was lackluster, and the cadence of nearly all the speakers seemed very mannered. It’s as if they were micromanaged by consultants, and any kind of Parallax View conditioning they were trying on the home viewer didn’t work.
Get rid of the consultants. Seriously. What is it that Palin said? They’re in it for a season, not a reason.
Oh. And someone tell deadrody he isn’t forced to read here — and that I don’t exist to feed his tireless thirst for GOP fluffing.
My stepson may have a chance to go to Stanford. I’m hoping he gets to take a class from Dr. Rice.
Akin wins and Romney loses. Stranger things have happened.
One thing that really stood out ( I enjoyed both speeches, btw, condi and Ryans) – was when Ryan was talking numbers – the entire crowd was riveted and quiet. No applause lines. THIS is what he is good at .
MORE OF THIS please.
I’ve managed to stick with it, but according to S.M. Stirling there are still two more books coming in the series: Lord of Mountains and The Given Sacrifice.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, Washington) is on right now. Hate to say something so obviously sexist and patriarchal, but she is a very pretty gal, and while one might note a superficial resemblance to leftist scold and hatetivist Sandra Fluke, it would be correct to point out that lovely Cathy McMorris Rodgers is also her superior intellectually and professionally. As is usually the case when comparing lovely gals to leftist hatetivist scolds.