TomFitz
Mayor
Bizzarre! That's how Rachel Maddow described Clint Eastwood's speech. The debate with the chair. The vulgar references to where you could put things. The rambling.
But the term could easily describe the entire convention.
It was a three day display of self conciousness, the likes of which I don't think has ever been seen.
Ordinarily, the national convention of any poltical party is the spotlight for the party's leaders, and aspiring leaders to present themselves on the national stage when the nation is watching. It's when the party says what it is, what it stands for, and outlines its proposals.
But not this time.
For three days, the national leaders of the Republcian party, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, etc, hid from public view. One of them didn't speak at all.
The party's last president stayed away. In fact, no living Republican president appeared at their convention (the Democrats will feature two).
Who did we get?
A long list of aspiring second stringers. All beautifully ethnic. Most of them were not even in elected office or even poltics when the GOP last met in 2008.
And the party tried to hide the fact that their fresh faced ethnics were playing to a lilly white audience. They did this in 2008 also, but it was even more blatant this time.
So blatant and so ironically tone deaf, in fact, that they put non voting delegations right in front of the cameras, including the Northern Marianas Islands, the scene of one of their former favorite leaders' more disgusting business dealings.
And what do the Republicans stand for.
Well, they did mention repealing Obamacare a couple of times (but never talked about what they might replace it with).
They talked about being anti abortion (but never mentioned any of their other efforts in limiting women's rights).
They waved the flag for Isreal a bit. (correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't Isreal).
other than that, we didn't learn anything other than Mitt Romney has a nice family that loves one another.
And, I almost forgot:
"we built it"
What did they build. Given that Romney's advisors are all Bushies, here's a short list.
War in the wrong country, subsequently bungled.
Mutiplying the national debt by a factor of six in thirty years in peacetime.
The worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.
No wonder they're so self concious!
But the term could easily describe the entire convention.
It was a three day display of self conciousness, the likes of which I don't think has ever been seen.
Ordinarily, the national convention of any poltical party is the spotlight for the party's leaders, and aspiring leaders to present themselves on the national stage when the nation is watching. It's when the party says what it is, what it stands for, and outlines its proposals.
But not this time.
For three days, the national leaders of the Republcian party, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, etc, hid from public view. One of them didn't speak at all.
The party's last president stayed away. In fact, no living Republican president appeared at their convention (the Democrats will feature two).
Who did we get?
A long list of aspiring second stringers. All beautifully ethnic. Most of them were not even in elected office or even poltics when the GOP last met in 2008.
And the party tried to hide the fact that their fresh faced ethnics were playing to a lilly white audience. They did this in 2008 also, but it was even more blatant this time.
So blatant and so ironically tone deaf, in fact, that they put non voting delegations right in front of the cameras, including the Northern Marianas Islands, the scene of one of their former favorite leaders' more disgusting business dealings.
And what do the Republicans stand for.
Well, they did mention repealing Obamacare a couple of times (but never talked about what they might replace it with).
They talked about being anti abortion (but never mentioned any of their other efforts in limiting women's rights).
They waved the flag for Isreal a bit. (correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't Isreal).
other than that, we didn't learn anything other than Mitt Romney has a nice family that loves one another.
And, I almost forgot:
"we built it"
What did they build. Given that Romney's advisors are all Bushies, here's a short list.
War in the wrong country, subsequently bungled.
Mutiplying the national debt by a factor of six in thirty years in peacetime.
The worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.
No wonder they're so self concious!
