Liveblogging The RNC – Day Three

not sure if this has been posted yet:http://www.drlaurablog.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-and-motherhood/I am feeling pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Too painful to view it sober, that’s for goddamn sure. To the tequila dispensary, HO!

I am feeling pretty, pretty bad after feeling so much schadenfraude last night, among other overindulgences.Sorry for any and all stupid comments, yall.

Y’all have a stronger stomach than I do.Ain’t no way I can watch the RNC, period. Not only would I have to drink myself into oblivion, I’d also have to go out and buy my husband a new TV since I’d be smashing the shit outta it with empty beer/vodka bottles after everything bullshit thing that comes out of their mouths…..

It will be too painful to bear. Hey, at least Auntie Anne’s speaking. I guess I’ll stop supporting them now. lol.

Hey, stupid comments are always welcome, Jane; it’s just your Time Warner connection that drives me crazy.

Well, shit. I hope someone watches otherwise the only way we’ll know what’s going on is from the (shudder) media.

I SAID there’s no fight, Pat! (Sounds like a fight, Pat.)

Jane you ignorant slut!

Stop calling me Shirley.

Opera Bouffe again! (Tweety.)

I’m with lovetheblue … there aren’t that many barf bags in existence to contain what I would hurl if forced to watch this debacle.JG, Dr. Laura is a loyal member of the storm troopers, isn’t she? Totally against Palin but will vote for McBush, anyway. Hag.

At this rate the Internets will break on election night.

Oh is this thing still going on? Oh yeah, it’s Tracy Flick’s big night. How are we gonna know how she did? Are you looking for actual errors? General giddiness?

God I hate Pat Buchanan – more repeating of the “press hates Sarah” meme. Hates what? They’re still trying to figure out who the fuck she is!

Oh Boy, an(other) extended EBay commercial!

Oooh! Meg Whitman, former CEO of Ebay is speaking. Right after her speech, you can place a bid on the autographed original draft of her speech. Her handle is “RichGOPBitch.”

Who vetted her outfit?

“McCain and Palin – the REAL agents of change in this campaign.” This is gonna be a long, fucking night.

Who vetted her outfit?

Apparently the same people who vetted Palin.

Let me get this straight – The first person at the RNC to talk about the economy is MEG WHITMAN?Way to connect with the “reg’lar folks.” Meg Whiteman is a billionaire….

Carl, come on. We see she wasn’t vetted. Googled, maybe.

From Palin’s speech: I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.

Is this what we’re sitting here waiting for? Awesome zingers like this? And now, in the bumper to commercial KO inferred that McCain used the “living close to Russia=foreign policy experience” as well. Keep it up, Maverick.

To be fair, Carl, Russia hasn’t invaded Alaska for as long as she’s been governor. Just coincidence??

Now they’re saying that she gets regular military briefings on the goings on in Russia because of ALASKA’S PROXIMITY TO RUSSIA! WTF?!?!

Random white people dancing poorly!

Carly Fiorina now. Did anyone mention to her that McCain’s not so hot on equal pay for women yet?

LOL ceu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey looky! Another woman CEO! That’s it, screw you guys, I’m votin for SARAAA

Is it me, or does it seem like no one’s paying any attention? Every shot of the audience shows people milling about and talking, and not listening. Then scattered applause when there’s a lull in the speech.

John McCain knows what women feel like…heh

What. The. Fuck? Is Carly Fiorina going totally off-message? She just said the word “choice.” The audience was stunned. A few boos from the gallery. Has she lost her fucking mind?

Forgive my unsnarkiness tonight, everyone. I think I’m just disgusted and pissed off at what I’m hearing. I promise to snap out of it.

PS – Dear Carly Fiorina: Donate your uterus to science, you’ve betrayed the sisterhood and sold out your sex. How’d Hewlett-Packard do the day they shoved you out the back door, by the way?

He doesn’t know how to use the internet! How is he gonna do that?

“John McCain will simplify the tax code by making sure you make so little money, there won’t be any need for Schedule B forms. Just pay the AMT and shut the fuck up, while we lay on our solid gold beds with mattresses stuffed with hundred dollar bills.”

If she says “I know John McCain” one more time… AAARGH!! She said it!

The longer Carly talks the longer John has been in office…2013, 2014?

“Did I mention that I KNOW John McCain?”

BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-INGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

He values women until he calls them “cunts.”

Choice choice choice!

Carly Fiorina? Shouldn’t it be “disgraced former HP CEO Carly Fiorina?”Ah yes, failing upward… I wish I could make one of the worst business decisions in IT history and spy on board members, then get run out of my company and still have a national stage…They’re showcasing women, yes. I support that. But Carly Fiorina? She’s the poster child of women executive failures…At least Meg Whitman was a success…

They’re blathering on so much about her fucking “executive experience”, you just know that picking a governor for VP was all part of the calculus. They were looking for an easy sound bite to hammer away at in a masturbatory frenzy.What was it again that Nixon (whose ashes reside in perpetual conservative glory inside of Peggy Noonan’s vaginal catacombs) was executive of before he became Prez?

I had to take a vomit break. How many times did Fiorina say she knew John McCain?

Hey! Look! A black guy! If you squint (and hit the mute button and turn your back) it looks JUST LIKE the Dems convention!

Jesus The Christ, are they really chanting “Drill, Baby, Drill”??? Have I lost my fucking mind?

Drill, baby, drill just got Levi all worked up…

Carly Fiorina currently playing the sexist card because people are dismissive of Palin’s record. …Sigh…

Uh oh, here comes Mittens… Hair gel, check. Spray-on tan, check. Veneers, check. Magic underpants, check. Reality-check.

I’m disgusted & pissed off, too. It really sank in today how the GOP has turned the nomination of a VP into a fucking joke.

@ JohnGalt – LOL!!!!

Look! It’s the new Romney-bot 2008 edition. And he’s already flubbed his first line!!! LOL!

Mitt gets Booed!! Or was it a sympathy boo? Ah who cares, I’ll take it.

DAMN Karl “DJ” Rove has been earning his keep.

Did Romney-bot just say that Washington is liberal because the Supreme Court upheld the Constitution? ZOIKS!

Wow… Mitt’s saying that it’s a liberal Washington for the last 8 years… But I guess if you can convince yourself that a con man was chosen by God to lead you can believe that GWB and both houses of congress have been run by liberals the last 8 years…

** crickets **Oh! CHOICE again!

I don’t know if I’m looking at this through my liberal colored glasses, but I don’t think this speech is going well, is it? “Keeping pornography out of our schools”?

Is he blaming liberals for the mortgage crisis? Looks like another one of those “fuck the poor” speeches.

HOLY CRAP what a ginormous flag!! I get it already!!

Drill it, bitches! DRILL IT!

Again, wow… Mittens just said that the right course was defined by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago and to cut back spending, blah, blah, blah…Seems to me and my bleeding heart that the last 8 years have been the realization of the neocon dream and where has it gotten us?To be eloquent: In the shitter.

Oooh! Shot at Al Gore! What a dickhead.

Ah yes, the Obligatory Al Gore slam. Hy-ster-i-caaaal!Al Gore: Nobel Peace PrizeMitt Romney: Fucking rich guyEat shit, Romney.

USA! USA! USA!

Wrong Bingo card. Where’s my evil/jihad/terror card?

I’m laughing. But it’s not a “hey, this is funny” laughter. It’s a “I think I’m going into a hysterical fit” laughter. RED MEAT! RED MEAT! USA! USA! USA!

Elvis, please allow me to expand on your statement:Eat a bucket of shit, Romney.

has any one else noticed that the “chant” sonds more like 12 frat boys next to a mike, and that it jumps in the begining? is that ’cause the move it closer to make it louder?

YOU-ESS-AY, YOU-ESS-AY!DRILL BABY DRILL, DRILL BABY DRILL!Republicans: They love this country enough to drill enormous holes in it.

ugh….im new here, and i dont think im too good at gag-type-gag quite yet….

I have to ask a question of all of you.CNN – The DNC:The floor sound meter on the left side of the screen. Was it just me or did it never really reflect the noise level? It never changed. It reminded me of the sound graphs from the movie Contact.Anyway, where are they for the RNC?

That was the Romney-bot 2008 Edition, ladies and gentlemen. Let’s give him a warm round of applause for blowing $40 million of his own money on a FAILED campaign.

ooh a break. Gotta change my soaked Magic Underwear!

c-span actually blew something at one point in the DNC…it got *that* loud during bill clinton’s speech.

Listen, Republican Superdouches: I have about as much chance as hitting the lottery while drilling Angelina Jolie (and not for oil, POW! Daddy’s still got it, baby!) and being struck by lightning as I do being killed in any sort of attack of The Terror™. Go sell your Fear Show somewhere else, Coppertone, I’m not buying.

LOL @ Mr. The Broadway Carl

wow.that crowd needs a LOT more alcohol.

Tweets: Romney “may well be President” (one day)!

Oooh! The Huckster. I actually like this guy. It’s a shame he’s such a fucking lunatic.

Mike Hickabee (typo but I’m keeping it) now… Perhaps the best speaker presenting at the RNC. It’ll all be bullshit but engaging anyway…

Ooh – Madonna jokes. Topical

Hi ya, mme. Move the wastebasket next to you – it makes gag-type-gag much easier.

I swear to The God™ these people are all purposefully trying to sabotage this election for themselves. Huckabee just rolled with a shitty joke about wishing it had been him, called McCain his SECOND CHOICE, then call him STUBBORN. This is it: I’ve finally gone Gene Hackman in The Birdcage.

OMG – Not a “symbolic job”. Are you hearing this?WTF??

Ooooh! Praise for Obama on the race issue (camera 1 pans the all-white crowd).Camera 2, find that black guy with the glasses!! CAMERA 2?!!??! CAMERA 2!?!?!?

Forced Obama applause, yeah, yeah, black guy, history, blah… And let’s blame the “elite media” time! QUICK! Someone in the elite media pull the plug on this guy!

Let me explain Lava soap to you rich motherfuckers with immigrant asswipers.

no….you’re a republican because they’re the only ones that would let you talk on TV.

Oh Christ, no Republican should ever be allowed to invoke Lincoln again. Lincoln would put his Size 17 boot in George Bush’s asshole up to his kneecap if he were alive today, and pinch Cheney’s head off between two magnificent fingers.

Shot of Sam Greenfield on the floor looking completely disgusted.

Carl’s awake now I see.

Food for thought: What if Palin was fully vetted and the McCainiacs knew all about the controversies surrounding her. Since no one knew anything about her they knew the media would research her life as thoroughly as possible in the interest of information.Now, given the coverage that such an off the wall selection would get, the McCain campaign realized this would be a huge opportunity to play the victim. Attack the “liberal media”, “angry left”, etc. for sexism, elitism, favoritism and whatever else.Basically they decided that it was the only chance they had of slowing the Obama juggernaut.

DUDE!! john mccain voted to give those docters LESS! thats what got ted…aaarrrrgggghhhhh….i’ve now scared the cats by yelling at the television.

Laugh out loud, literally, at Mr. The Broadway Carl, re: Lava.

prepared…sure! he’s practically embalmed!

Oh. My. God. Shot at Biden… good line, but it pissed the fuck out of me.

omg….he went the angry penguin guilt route….

John McCain:”At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you ‘cuntry first’.”

The Martha Desk Story: Four minutes of our lives none of us will ever fucking get back.

ok….ima sucker. i teared up at the desk story.

Yeah kid, ya gotta stand up unless you’re a VET! Yarr! I thought I’d heard this story already.

mme6546 – riotous!!!! Good one!

No desks in the classroom? Ms. Coughlin’s a nutjob! NO DESK UNLESS YOU ENLIST! Ooh! A publicity stunt to tout the military. Great job.

But John McCain didn’t have a desk at the Hanoi Hilton. Or a chair… or a table…

That’d be the resolute desk and I think even that is younger than John McCain.

ok, moving the wastebasket was a good call.that last bit had me tasting lunch.

Is there some sort of disastrous shortage of desks suddenly? Are the Democrats to blame? WHO’S BEEN STEALING OUR FUCKING DESKS!?!?!

9ui11lani… I can’t wait!

thats what he needs all the houses for.to hide the desks!

wow….mittens up close is scary….

LOL @ JohnGalt. Good one, mate.

bristol’s had a makeover….

OK, they’ve changed their talking point. Palin has more exec experience than Obama, but McCain has more experience than both of them.

Keep it going freaks. After that Murphy/Noonan fuck up, no one will believe anything you say. We all knew you had to play rah-rah-team when punditizing on the television, but to show your human side by being disgusted after the interview, that was just too much.

dude!! wtf! the announce her pregnancy, put her and her bf in the spotlight, and then MAKE HER SIT APART FROM THE REST OF THE FANDAMNLY?!?!?

Okay, boyth and girlth. Rudy Giuliani ith going to thpeak thoon, tho pleath pay cloth attention.

Giuliani preview:

“9/11 9/11 9/11 Terroriths 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 Terrorithm 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 Hate uth for our freedomth 9/11 9/11 9/11 Maverick will catch Othama bin Laden 9/11 9/11 Are you thcared yet? 9/11 9/11 9/11 terroriths 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 Ithlamic Exthtremiths 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 terrorithm 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11 9/11!”

Cindy McCain! From Banana to Granny Smith! Paul McCartney will be suing her soon…

It’ll be Mac vs. Mac! Evil Beatle Vs. That Old, Pandering, Out-Of-Touch, cheatin’, elitest fossil!!CAGE MATCH!!!

Cindy seems to be subliminally courting, “The ‘Fruity” Left’.”

Sthit Broadway! You are making me laugh my ath off tonigth. Bitcth!

lookit all the cheap made-in-China cowboy hats wavin…

Wolf “The Tool” Blitzer: Rudy 9ui11ani, a great thpeaker.”

He’s losing them early.

rudy looks like the fourth chipmunk.

Rudy can hear his penis talking to him right now, begging him to go to the goods: “Ruuuudy! Listen to meeee! Say ’9/11′! Please Rudy, for meee, for your little buddy, say ’9/11′! Think of how much fun we have playing together as you moan, ‘Ohhhh, nine-elevvvvven!’”

I love it when he does the wild-eyed thing… Now that’s creeeeeeeepy…

say it again rudy…”crithith”

“That’th right! U. Eth. A.” Wow! he just said “life exthperientheth.”

LOL! @ Mr. The Elvis Deingeldein!

Flying bombers over The Vietnam, serving a cause greater than his own self-interest: Bombing the shit out of Brown People.

omg elvis…..now whenever i lookit him all i can see is a penis with ears!!!!!!!!

This is an supreme exercise in arrogance & sheer audacity.Only the Republicans could try to cover up 8 years of reckless leadership that has cost thousands of lives lost and many more injured, runaway spending & a wrecked economy with empty droning chants of “USA! USA!”When is the media gonna call this for the Bull**** that it is?This is truly a party out of ideas, if we don’t win this year, we may never win.

What, you mean you didn’t already?

Choice! Choice! Start the clock- T minus 20:10 start. Cue 9/11 @ T minus OH WAIT POW POW Country First Proud FootTholdier okay 9/11 @T minus What is that they’re yelling?

LOL! “Fithcal Dithipline.”

Look at all the pretty blonde women! Guess that explains Bristol’s make-over. To not be that blonde is a maverick thing… I guess… By my logic, if McCain is Maverick, that makes Palin, “Goose.” – Insert creepy, old, philandering, white guy joke here.

Hey! The black guy got on camera!

Fuck. 2 minutes of Rudy and I want to stick a fork in my eye…

and people raped by reagonomics on the south side arent in cirsis?!?

Oh! The “present” vote attack. Nice. Listen to these assholes boo community organizing”. Hey, Rudy, you didn’t know about the vote “present” because it’s not part of the New York rules… but you already knew that, you fucking asshole. Now you did know about moving your communications center to the number one possible attack target in New York, didn’t you, you fuckwad.

im with you ceu

“Thubthanth over thtyle.”

Seriously, this is making me physically ill. I detest every living soul in that building right now. Grotesque fuckwads all.

Rudy just explained the Republican way of life, “If you don’t have the facts, change them.” That’s what he said, right?

Is it just me or the background behind 9ui11ani looks like flames wafting off of his body…? An epilogue?

Drill, baby, drill. I’m disgusted. And that “substance over style” line? Too bad Rudy didn’t take that advice when constructing this speech.

Here comes the terrorism section. Say it, bitch. Say “9/11″. Say it!

WOW! That place is energized!!!!

Classy. A shot of the New York skyline sans the World Trade Center. GOD I HATE THESE FUCKING PEOPLE!

When the Dems gave up on Iraq, they gave up on America. Oh friggin’ puke!

Public financing – lie. Wire tapping – what are you gonna do? Israel – lie.

This is the worst performance I’ve ever seen on a political speech. This is an embarrassment to skin-headed weaselfuckers everywhere.

What a fuckin’ prick!Yup, McBomb showed the world how he’d respond in a time of crisis.

Is Cindy holding the kid with DS? The speech is bad, but that’s downright venal.

Lovely shots of Giuliani’s wife. No not the first one that happened to be his cousin. No not the second one that he cheated on with the current one in the mayor’s residence while the family lived there. Yeah, the third one.

Oh, thank you, God. KO interrupted. Oh…wait. Interruption interrupted by more lies.Bite me, Rudy.

So they almost vetted the 911 right out of this speech…I am counting 20+ minutes…

Did I just see “Community First” signs being waved? By people who booed the “community organizer”??

Given the crowd and what just happened to me, perhaps Rudi is the answer to constipation…

You missed it, Jane. It came about 10 minutes ago.

That’s an excellent fucking point, Ceu.

“HOW DARE THEY QUESTION WHETHER SARAH PALIN HAS ENOUGH TIME TO SPEND WITH HER CHILDREN!??” Rudy demands!Cut to Cindy McCain holding Sarah Palin’s Down Syndrome Baby.

Who’s questioning Palin about time with her children? Concerned mothers, that’s who. Concerned mothers who can’t afford nannies and don’t have enough other kids to take care of each other.

Shake up Washington?? He’s been in fucking Washington for 26 fucking years!!!

They probably mean “Gated Community First.”

Rudy went on so long they had to cancel Palin’s intro video. I think that was in the plans.

Amen Carl. You don’t hear about us non-breeders and our responsible not-bein-pregnant selves.

yea…all thirty seconds of it….

Oh big fucking shocker: NOW, for the first time this evening, suddenly Mr. Governor Palin is holding the baby. Wow. He’s some kind of father.”Here, Cindy, lemme just take Trig for you there, sweetheart.”

they should just tattoo that kid with the campaign slogan and get it over with.

soooo…whats the POW mention count so far tonight?

My blood pressure’s going up. I may have to view this in small dribs and drabs… very drab. Almost time for me to go home too.

No, Sarah Lou. They overlooked the possibility that he’d pledge federal matching funds as collateral for a loan!

mme, they’d just make it look like these signs…run out of room and have to crowd all the letters together on one side of his head. (Poor kid. Will there be an E! special one day?)

Eye-rack!Bat-shit-looney!

I’m a mother of a soldier – there it is!

no doubt, jane….no doubt…

…and another soldier, and another soldier…

Yay! Special needs kids need love too. Someone hold my baby for me!

o god….i hate her so much right now….to politicize those people’s pain….GOD!

Extremely weak.

he looks like a constipated alec baldwin.

This is going down in flames. And the Republican’s can thank “America’s Mayor” for it.

Oh shit! The ground rumbled ………….. I think it was Harry Truman rolling over in his grave!

Did her douchebag husband really just hand the Down baby off to the little tiny daughter so he could stand up and give a big two-handed wave to the crowd? Did that really just happen?

our chanting powns theirs.HA!

I can’t take it anymore. Good thing I have to stop watching. Will catch up with you later.

See the little one? Mmmm. Saliva on the DS baby’s head. Mmmmm.. DS babies taste good.

oops. ugh. typo.yea….your home town…that had no debt til you ran it.your home town, where the moose are meat, and the librarians are nervous…

Neeeext on FOX, the latest reality television show:NAVAL OBSERVATORY.

Code Pink woman escorted out just now. Thank the elite media for catching it on camera!

a community organizer doesn’t have actual responsibilities? I guess helping people out of the depths of poverty isn;t really responsible

yup.”you kids get off my lawn” transcends all divides all right.

Hey goodnite Carl! Thanks for teh lulz.

you mean to tell me these people in the audience don;t cling to thier guns and religion in times of crisis? they’re willing to shoot any muslim that walks thru the door of the arena

Boy, do they think that crapping on the media is going to help them? Dumb & Dumber ’08

Oh shit, it’s like twilight zone, she’s going to serve us …………. it’s a f***ing cookbook, run like hell!

and the rest of the world will take you seriously…riiiiiiight

she just described thier entire party

Do these people even know what they’re booing at this point? I’ve never seen a more distasteful display. The problem with fucking evangelicals is they don’t know how to get drunk before a big rally.

Dear MSNBC : Please stop cutting away to the fatty in the red cowboy hat. I think I banged that chick once.

Alaska has a surplus becuase they PRODUCE OIL!, and no you didn’t say no to the bridge quit f’n lying

o jeebus…the power of veto….YEA!! like the “wasteful spending” for pregnant teens??the earmarks YOU spent the money for?!?!?the bridge money YOU never gave back? that you RAN on??ugh….i think im losing brain cells here….

Oh yeah, the bridge lie again! I supported it to get elected, then I changed my mind!

it goes thru canada! thats why your approval rating tanked! you truned down dubai and went for canada! took jobs AWAY from alaskans and gave them to canadians!

Yeah, I bet your kids miss that Personal Chef, Sarah. You’re sure as hell never home to fucking cook for them.WHO WILL COOK FOR THE PALIN CHILDREN!?!?

oil will run out you moron!!! why con’t you get that thru your fallen beehive

She’s fucking nuts!Lies, lies, platitudes, oil pipelines for energy independence. Deluded. She’s fucking deluded.She thinks we drew from the Stragetic Petroleum Reserve because of Gustav??

?!?!? NO ONE IS SAYING DO NOTHING!!

oh so youre a petro geologist now?

Solar, wind, geothermal energy sources….didn’t McCain vote AGAINST funding those??

great shot of the crowd…my tele screen lit up the whole house with the severe whiteness

ok, i really hate her.

OMG! Seriously.

the same greek columns that youre trained chimp used in the hatefest of 2004

DAMNIT!!! I AM TOO!! READING THEM THEIR RIGHTS IS WHAT REAL AMERICANS DO!!!

“We need American sources of resources.”Can you say that? Can you say sources of resources? Isn’t “resources” already repeating sources?

Al Qaeda is still plotting to inflict catastrophic harm on America….who’s fault is that, Sarah Lou?? Who decided not to go after bin Laden in Afghanistan and invade a sovereign nation instead??

why wont she say his name? wtf is up with that??

That’s old school opposition training, Mme: Try not to say the name of your opponent, it’s free advertising. It’s a douchebag play.

I can’t wait to see this nut-job debate Joe Biden.

I think cindy mccain and palin aught to get it on … maybe I might consider , oh sh”t I flaked not even hot girl ongilr would change my mind this chick is off her rocker..can’t wait for SNL’s Tina Fay to do Palin

@Elvis:What with her not knowing very much at all about what’s going on, I’m willing to bet she doesn’t really know who her opponent is.

POW reference…drink

This woman is terrible. Nothing but snarkiness and sarcasm. Call me crazy, I don’t think this is gonna play with the moderate/independent crowd. She comes off real snide

Oh I’m waaaaay ahead of you there, LiberalinTexas. And by the way, I feel very, very sorry for you. Liberal in Texas, and all. *Shudder*

crippling poverty on Chicago’s south side isn’t evil?they truly don”t care for the rest of us…anyone making under 60k and voting for these facists are brainwashed

Guess what’s happened twice to my teevee and once to my innernets, Elvis? (I won’t say it.)

Lies, lies, lies. Racist rhetoric. Lies. Talking through nose. Lies. Warmongering. Lies, lies, lies.I love the suggestion that, by virtue of being an asshole, McCain should be President.

Quick – all kids on stage!!

Ahhhhhhhhhh the odor of arrogance!

Jane – Fuck Time Warner in their cableholes.

New McCain Campaign Slogan, Go! “John McCain: He Can Take A Beating!”

There. See? She held that baby. For…almost a full minute!

I appreciate the pity…but you must remember Travis county (home of Austin and the Univ of Texas) has not gone repug for as long as I can remember…we have an island of sanity to cling to

teehee-”John McCain: Not Afraid to Take Kicks to the Nutsac”

I’ll bet the “Father to be” is staring at Megan McCain right now and thinking, “Dayum homes, she’s fiiiine and gots Benjamines?!?!” “I gotta’ plants sum seed..”

Keith: People who like this sort of thing will find this…the sort of thing they like.

forced smiles all around…you gotta know that Putin, Ahmedinejad et al are fucking laughin thier asses off watching this!!!!

You people are brave. I’m sitting around watching “The Man Who Fell to Earth”.Depressing movie, yes…but I think I’d slit my wrists if I watched the RNC.

10:10 CST – For the first time in untold hours, Sarah Palin touches her newborn baby.

10:10:30 – She gives him back. The closeness is short-lived.

Look at the shot of the convention hall behind David Gregory. Empty!

Only morbid curiousity motivated me to watch her speech. I can’t really listen but her malicious lies coming from my TV keep catching my attention as I read this blog.The funny cracks here offset this simplistic, sophomoric drivel that — considering where we are because of their policies– only the completely soulless could deliver and/or applaud.It’s grim.

No question, an incredible speech for their side. But probably the nastiest speech I have heard in a convention. If you want more of the same, this is your ticket.

I just said the exact same thing, JG. Just nasty.

…and again with the cable reboot. NOW they’re messin with ma’ The Daily Show.

ugh….i hadta go smoke. couldnt take it.and if taking hits to the nutsac is presidential, why the fuck isnt steev-O on the ticket??

its not so bad when its on PBS, intelligent if somewhat veiled left leaning …Beschloss jsut remarked that this was the first time a pres/vp candidates “had hugged, in public” … don’t know how many times darthvader cheyney rogered chimp dubya though

I’m done… Goodnight.

Why is David Gregory talking like he’s making cootchie-talk at a sleeping baby?

elvis, jg, im with you.i just hope that people are tired enough of this crap.my hubby thinks snark like that is gonna win.*gag*

Jane – I’ve got The Daily Show TiVO’ing right now. Bring some popcorn, I’ve got the booze.

this was tremendous fun…made the speech more, well, I couldn’t stand it, this woman is a lightweight… if these facists are in control of our govt for four more years I’m getting rosettastone and moving to, hmmm, I don’t wanna move!!!! get everyone you can to vote Obama/Biden!! I can’t leave, I have a mortgage payment to meet, and god knows I can;t sell my house

Elvis, I’m in no shape to drive…still, from last night. Ahh fuckit, send me mapquest.

On its way, darlin’.

Oh! I have it, just in TWO PIECES. Last night kicked ass.

Now McCain is laying out the “McDoocy Theorem”…”McCain also told ABC News, in an interview setting up his speech Thursday to accept the GOP’s presidential nomination, that his running mate is capable in foreign policy matters in part because of geography.”Alaska is right next to Russia,” McCain said. “She understands that. Look, Senator Obama’s never visited south of our border. I mean, please.”"My frikkin’ God!!!! Make it stop, please!

Olbermann nailed it right after the speech:”A great speech, but [to quote Abraham Lincoln]: People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”

Why did they all conveniently forget that Obama lived in an actual foreign country?

Cognitive dissonance? Holding two completely contradictory positions at once? (Muslim, Christian, elite, naive, too black, not black enough…have they called him fat yet?)

Love Keith but he could have easily written that before she gave the speech. Ha!

The magic word there is “convenience” ceu. Just like they conveniently forget the truth most of the time. All bets are off on the “Dems better take it easy cuz she’s a woman” bullshit. Biden’s gonna eat her up. She had no problem throwing punches, let’s see how she takes them. And at the risk of sounding politically incorrect, I haven’t seen that baby move yet. I think it’s a prop.

Carl’s back!

Q: Why is it that Republicans need to have “big words” phonetically spelled on their teleprompters?

Hi Jane. I got home and after my wife went to sleep, I logged on and watching MSNBC. We can’t talk poilitics because I get so worked up she shuts down. So she reads my blog… that’s one of the reasons I started it in the first place!

…where you coined “McCainStream Media.” Been there. I think it ate my comment (which was happy anniversary)

Big words? You fucking elitist Carl.

Scathing Joe Klein on the Time blog which KO talked about and our dear host blogged on HuffPo:

There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is “a task from God.” The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY!

You referring to the transcript saying “new-clear”?

I haven’t actually seen the transcript, just going by a Rachel Maddow comment. But if the word was “new-clear”, then it’s worse than I thought.

Well, it could’ve been worse, like “Mick-Cane.”

WOW! I just scared myself by looking at the screen and seeing Olympia Snowe. No wonder John didn’t pick her.

Transcript @ crooks & liars. And the version there does say “new clear” as well as “habber dasher” (her father or FIL?)

They were talking about Truman with the “haberdasher” line. Really? HABBER-DASHER? How can you fuck that up? Pronouncing it “HAY-BER-DASH-ER”? Jesus Hussein Christ, the dumbing down is IN-CREED-I-BLE.

How the pundits are thinking there’s some worrying that McCain will fall flat tomorrow after Palin’s performance. Candy Crowley just said, “We all know John McCain, and he’s no Governor of Alaska.” LOL!!!

Too much talking head pee-ple on the teevee…gotta get my dose of Daily Colbert. And a little sleep, perhaps? I was dragging ass at work today.

Apparently Joke Line called the McCain campaign Angry Amateurs, if it makes you feel any better.

really look forward to her first extended interview.

Goodnight, Jane. Gotta be up at 6! See you tomorrow night. Thanks, Bob!

We live in a rather small apartment, where there is no escaping the sound of the TV, so since my husband insists on watching every bloody minute of this frightfest (“know your enemey,” he offers, by way of excuse, as if I needed to know more), I was forced against my will to hear much of the steaming pile of acrid shit spewed forth tonight. Had to double up on the nightly wine intake, let me tell you. About halfway through, my young niece called to ask, “Are you watching these Republican fuckers???!! I feel like every evil character that ever existed are all gathered together in one hellish assembly!” “Well, I’m hurling blood, if that answers your question,” I replied. Seriously, I’m going to have to be out of the house tonight if my hub plans on listening to McCadaver skull-grin his way through 30 minutes of lying bullshit. I’m too young to have an embolism.