Consider this a pre-GOP convention open thread.
Possible topics: GOP convention drinking games, what’s the craziest thing Mark Halperin will write on twitter, how often will Paul Ryan’s freaking bright white crewneck teeshirt be visible.
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Consider this a pre-GOP convention open thread.
Possible topics: GOP convention drinking games, what’s the craziest thing Mark Halperin will write on twitter, how often will Paul Ryan’s freaking bright white crewneck teeshirt be visible.
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Jamey
Another possible topic: How many times during GOPCON my fellow travelers and I will invoke FEMA, or “Heckuva Job, Whitey.”
Violet
So they’ve cancelled the first day of the convention. Now Isaac may be heading for New Orleans with a landfall seven years to the day from Katrina’s landfall. Now what do you think the media will want to be focusing on? Hmmm…boring old white guys or a hurricane hitting New Orleans? I don’t think Isaac moving away from Tampa is going to do the GOP convention any favors.
Sawgrass Stan
I just can’t take the rise in blood pressure I’ll get from watching this– I’ll just look in the mirror and keep repeating “Romney good…Obama bad…”
It’s a shame Isaac is moving west, but the storm system’s pretty big, so they’ll be stuck indoors most of the time. Better to just check out the titty bars.
Hunter Gathers
So what’s going to be the over/under on birth certificate jokes? I’m thinking at least 25.
Christie’s keynote, where he will swallow a grade school teacher whole, will also be entertaining.
burnspbesq
I learned yesterday that there is a band called The Dead Kenny G’s. I. Haven’t heard them yet, but I’m tempted to buy their record regardless of what it sounds like, on general principle.
Hill Dweller
The LA Times does a fairly good job of dismantling Ryan’s salt of the earth, self-made man bullshit in today’s edition. He is another trust fund baby that used his family’s wealth and connections to get elected.
DougJ
@burnspbesq:
Awesome!
FonzieScheme
Apparently Ron Paul isn’t going to endorse Romney after all, and is not going to speak at the convention, according to Raw Story.
Should be interesting to see if that peels off any “libertarians” from the GOP.
Mr Stagger Lee
What will be the over/under shots of non-whites in the convention crowd? Maybe it will be too bold to say 25?
Hill Dweller
@Hunter Gathers: The NJ unemployment rate is now at a 35 year high. Christie’s economic record has been abysmal, but he blames it on the Democrats in the state legislature. That hasn’t stopped him from attacking Obama when he rightly points out the congressional Republicans’ obstructionism.
cathyx
@Mr Stagger Lee: That high? I say 11.
burnspbesq
T minus two days. Took eight boxes of children’s books to storage this morning. There will be several trash bags of children’s clothing going to Goodwill tomorrow. Mah baybee is all growed up (sniff).
quannlace
When’s Ann Romney’s sppech rescheduled? You know, the one that’ll convince all us vagina-owning citizens to vote for Dear Hubby.
Violet
Wondering if Bobby Jindall will make the convention. Isn’t he scheduled to speak?
Ash Can
@Violet: Anything that draws attention away from the GOP’s shitshow fail parade will do the GOP favors. What won’t do it any favors is if Isaac really does hit NOLA on the anniversary of Katrina. Then the inconvenient comparisons will be inevitable.
Hill Dweller
@Ash Can: The MSM will find a way to make it Obama’s Katrina.
quannlace
Keep the good onws. Doesn’t matter how old you are. There are some shitty days where reading the right kid’s book is just what you need.
Violet
@quannlace: Isn’t she speaking on Tuesday now?
lamh35
@Violet: Jindal has called a state of emergency. I’m on phones with my fam to see what they plan to do. As a Katrina evacuee, we take all states of emergencies way more seriously now.
Although I am dreading the questions form co-workers when I return to work on Thursday. As u can imagine, u can get tired of people saying “oh ur from New Orleans…is everything…ya know alright there???” All I ever want to say is “google it” shit, or visit ur darn self and add some tourism dollars and see for yourself.
But I usually just say, “well in some places…” and let the conversation drop.
lamh35
@Violet: I believe Jindal’s already cancelled.
General Stuck
The drums are pounding, the camp fire hot, and there is blood in the air on Planet wingnut.
This is hopped up control freak stuff. Exactly what the nutters voted for in Romney the CEO, a little Hitler lining up all the rubber duckies. It is also the sounds of a dying party, one internal rebellion at a time. No one is in charge, so Romney will land shark the GOP as his very own Cayman subsidiary pol party. Republicans are top down people, but even they have limits of surrendering their life and will to dear leader. The only question is how long can Fox News, Rush, and Norquist hold together all the exited isotopes as restless natives.
Bobby Thomson
I used to be a terrible offender of the no open shirt with crew neck undershirt rule until a mentor tipped me to how bad it looked. Now I’m hypersensitive to it. Can’t believe the quittah was taken shopping but no one told Ryan something so basic.
Ash Can
@Mr Stagger Lee: I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if we slam an adult beverage for every black person we see at the con (and I don’t mean showing the same one over and over) our livers will be quite happy.
Violet
@lamh35: Hope your family is prepared and stays safe. I’ve been through two fairly significant hurricanes and they are no joke.
@Ash Can: Not sure if a hurricane heading for NOLA during the GOP convention will help or hurt them. As you say, it’ll mean the attention is off their “shitshow fail parade”, so that might be a good thing. But Romney doesn’t get to “reintroduce himself to the nation” or whatever crapitude they’re trying to sell now. And likely they wont’ see much of a convention bounce. Plus the “remember when the Republicans let New Orleans down so badly” comments.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Mr Stagger Lee:
I believe that it was MHP this morning (rather than Chris Hughes) who had a graphic on the screen showing something like 96% of all of the delegates are white, 2% AA and 1% hispanic. Michael Steele was fit to be tied.
Jennifer
@burnspbesq: I’m holding out for the Dead Michael Boltons. Or even the Dead Celine Dions.
Goblue72
Hadn’t noticed the white crew neck tshirt thing before – that look is right up there with white baseball caps as a frathead douchebag signaling plumage.
Ann Rynd
There will be blood over whether the nerworks will take a day of coverage planned for the dems just because god is racist and won’t send them a hurricane. The nutters want a blackout (so to speak) on the dems Monday coverage. God will be billed for the costs.
Also, Cardinal Dolan getss caught giving extra speciàl “confessions” to the busboys at his hotel.
Violet
@Bobby Thomson: Sorry, what are you talking about here? Is there some picture linked somewhere?
General Stuck
@Jennifer:
Sorry, Celine has always been dead. However, she could come back to the living with an alternate twist of fate.
Ann Rynd
@Violet:
No bounces for the R’$. They’ll lose points.
Keith G
I have a shite load of movies and old TV queued up. Will be avoiding most political news for a week. I know what will be said. I have better things to focus on.
lamh35
I’m not a fan of Micheal Steele, but looks to me like this should have been one of his final “wake-up call” (as Paul Mooney calls it with an extra word that youse white people whould never say). But I doubt it with what the Steele quote says.
RNC Shuns Michael Steele
burnspbesq
@quannlace:
Romney and Ryan = Thing One and Thing Two?
MoeLarryAndJesus
I’m looking forward to Ann Romney’s wardrobe malfunction.
quannlace
I hear he’s already declared a state of emergency. You know, when you can qualify for government assistance. Big, evil government assistance.
Elizabelle
@Hill Dweller:
Here’s HD’s link to LA Times today on Paul Ryan:
Despite working-class image, Ryan comes from family of wealth
No apparent howlers, like the NYTimes’ assertion that the teenaged Ryan worked to support his family.
Not.
lamh35
@quannlace: yes he has called a state of emergency
General Stuck
@lamh35:
Doesn’t surprise me now that the spawn of Colonel Klink is in charge. Rinse Repeat knows the code in detail, and the black guy experiment is over in the GOP. Back to the future for the white party.
Maude
@burnspbesq:
Pat on shoulder, there, there. Such a major change.
Elizabelle
@lamh35:
Hell, the GOP doesn’t recognize its previous 2-term president.
Do you ever hear Romney or Ryan mentioning GWBush, in public, by name? It’s like the Bermuda Triangle has swallowed up an entire administration.
Michael Steele is small beans.
He should adopt a dog, like the winsome one he borrowed for his campaign commercials. Rakish little Boston Terrier, if memory serves.
Bobby Thomson
@Violet: Look at the shots from Hampton Roads where Ryan is wearing Romney’s jacket and no tie. The undershirt is very visible at the neckline.
WaterGirl
@Mr Stagger Lee: Somebody on an earlier thread predicted that we will see the same 5 black guys over and over again.
Kind of like old westerns, where if you are paying attention you see the same Indian falling off his horse over and over again during the battles. How sad that we haven’t come any further than this in the last 50 years.
Hungry Joe
When was the last time anything of note happened at a convention? You have to go back to the fizzled Kennedy challenge and the Ford-for-VP damp firecracker in 1980, and those were just threats. There’ll be some omigod-did-you-hear-that? moments, but no real drama and no genuine surprises, because conventions are no longer about deciding anything — they’re about putting on a show.
Brian R.
@burnspbesq:
Nah, Thing One and Thing Two were useful on occasion.
Jennifer
@burnspbesq: If you haven’t seen it already, Romney and Ryan = REDRUM! REDRUM!
Schlemizel
I think it is important to remind people that 4 years ago the GOP had to shorten their convention also because of a hurricane = God is trying to send them a message and they are not listening.
That and gosh I hope the Paultards explode into physical violence when it dawns on the their owners will not permit them to spread their freedom juice all over the convention.
Ann Rynd
Everyone’s glad Jindal cancelled. Looks too much like a dem on TV
WaterGirl
@Litlebritdifrnt: I believe that was on Chris Hayes on Saturday, but it may also have been on MHP’s show today.
WereBear
@Bobby Thomson: He’s in freakin’ Florida. In August. He doesn’t need the t-shirt.
Unless he’s paranoid about his nipples showing through his shirt?
General Stuck
@Hungry Joe:
This is true, at least since the sixties. Let us just say that conditions are rife for an outbreak of tornadic activity in Tampa, inside and outside.
There is very little joy in republican Mudville, and the only entertainment is unharmonized whistling past the graveyard. A spark, or two, and who knows?
WaterGirl
@burnspbesq: What happens in T minus two days? Moving? Kids moving out?
artem1s
@FonzieScheme:
please let this be so
Ann Rynd
@WereBear: R’$ are totally underwear challanged.
WaterGirl
@WereBear:
Double Ick. Brain bleach, please.
The Dangerman
New Orleans? No shit. A cousin’s Husband is Coast Guard and just moved there in the past couple months; he is Heli-Rescue (he’s a swimmer, one of the first out of the copter), so great timing for him.
J.D. Rhoades
@Hungry Joe:
When was the last time anything of note happened at a convention?
I’ve mentioned this before, I think, but the unhinged speeches of the two Pats (Buchanan and Robertson) at the 1992 Republican Convention moved me off the fence and right into the Clinton camp. And I’m not the only one.
Jennifer
@WereBear: Maybe we should send him some of these.
WereBear
@Jennifer: Thanks… a…. bunch.
What’s imagined can’t be unseen, and all that.
SiubhanDuinne
@Hunter Gathers:
Also too, TelePrompTer jokes. Let’s not forget those.
And points for every time a Rethug uses President Obama’s full name, if you catch my drift. And I think you do.
Dr. Dave
@quannlace: No way we would ever give away the best of our children’s books, some of which are legacies of my own childhood. My boys are starting seventh grade, but will still occasionally pull a picture book of the shelf and indulge in some nostalgia.
danielx
@Elizabelle:
Great minds, etc etc. Two names conspicuously lacking from the convention bill: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I can understand the lack of both, if for different reasons. W is unpopular because he wasn’t a real conservative and because his administration’s unparalleled succession of fuckups cleared the way for the Kenyan interloper’s occupation of the White (Man’s) House. Cheney would be popular enough with convention goers, but his presence at the rostrum just might remind independent voters of what a bloodthirsty corrupt ghoul he is.
Speaking of which, ol’ Dick is looking a little peaked lately. Must be harder to obtain the livers of Iraqi babies to supplement his diet these days…
Jamey
While the GOP is getting blown, it never hurts to get ready for the big one with a disaster prep app. (disclosure: I worked on this, but it’s really, really helpful.)
Frankensteinbeck
@danielx:
I understand that even in the GOP, Cheney is as popular as anthrax. ONLY the Beltway Pundits like Cheney. That’s it. This is an excellent demonstration of just how out of touch the Village is.
Elizabelle
@danielx:
Surfed around after the GWBush comment, and saw that Kevin Drum put up a thread on Whatever Became of George W. Bush?
Talk about Republican amnesiacs.
Had to laugh when one of his commenters posited that GWB is leading a quiet life because he can’t leave the country much. Threat of being snatched for war crimes.
I’m very curious whether he, Cheney, or Rumsfeld do travel internationally. We never hear.
Elizabelle
@danielx:
And GWBush IS a real conservative. Despite what the Teahadists claim.
It’s that their ideas don’t work — are flat out failures — and they cannot admit that.
Spaghetti Lee
“Small businessmen” = drink
“Barack Hussein Obama” = drink
“Restore America” = drink
Reagan shout-out = drink
Mitt Romney having another “i like being able to fire people/I’m running for office for pete’s sake” moment = 2 drinks
Some reporter mentions how sexy Romney and or Ryan look: 2 drinks
Ayn Rand/objectivism referenced = 3 drinks.
Someone audibly screams a racial slur in the crowd = 5 drinks.
Full-on Tea Party/Ron Paulist rebellion on convention floor = 10 drinks, and set off some fireworks.
WereBear
@Frankensteinbeck: Do the Villagers like him… or do they fear him?
After all, he’s quite a lot like the gangster trope where they do something to an associate and declare, “And that was someone I like. Imagine what I’ll do to you.”
Anne Laurie
@Bobby Thomson:
The RNC convention is being scripted by people who think Mad Men was a golden age. If they notice the crewneck-peeks at all, they’re hoping to invoke thoughts of Ryan’s hot, hot six-pak abs, with maybe a little subliminal memory of St. Reagan as a chaser.
(Also, if we’re talking about Ryan’s Visible Undie Lines, we’re not talking about the Ticket-Topper’s temple garment — which those who know Mormons have said is also visible, when he’s wearing a white shirt, particularly under bright podium lighting.)
trollhattan
@lamh35:
Is a volcano scheduled to erupt?
I can’t recall a time in the past when I’ve hated every elected Republican. They’ve finally done it.
patrick II
@Elizabelle: George Bush calls off trip to Switzerland from a story in the Guardian last year describes possible protest and arrest for GWB if he traveled to Switzerland.
Amnesty International:
gorram
I made a bingo card and/or drinking game score card.
quannlace
What about Zell Miller? Classic jaw-droppingly horrific.
************
Well, the one phrase they can’t use is ‘rugged individualism.’
You know, what Romney’s own father called ‘”It’s nothing but a political banner to cover up greed.”
Sometimes the fruit really does fall far from the tree.
Mike in NC
@Jennifer: Thanks for the link. I really cannot get enough of the imbecile Jon McNaughton’s alleged “art”. The article says Hannity is a huge collector, LOL.
Mike in NC
@Elizabelle:
Both he and Poppy have been airbrushed out of the official GOP playbook, as if they never even existed.
Tyro
@Bobby Thomson: I do this often enough that it has apparently become remarked upon as my “thing.” I am okay with it in casual settings, but you’re right– any time where dress matters, you shouldn’t do it.
arguingwithsignposts
The crew-neck undershirt thing is bullshit. I can think of 500,000 things to criticize paul ryan for before i get to his choice of undergarment.
And, FYI, some people sweat profusely, and an undershirt, crew or v-neck, will at least keep the sweat stains down.
and @burnspbesq, you already probably heard of this, but since you mentioned the curly-haired one: I agree with Pat Metheny
WaterGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: I don’t think I have taken the time to say it yet, but I have been really happy to see you here recently.
arguingwithsignposts
@WaterGirl: Thanks. I had to take a breather from politics for a while.
Sparrowgal
@Mike in NC:
I wouldn’t be so sure of that entire dismissal…according to the very-much revamped/compressed schedule, they’re evidently giving some sort of hat tip to the dynamic duo on Wednesday night:
9:00 p.m. Remarks by Governor Luis Fortuño (PR)
Remarks by Governor Tim Pawlenty (MN)
Bush 41, 43 Film
Remarks by Mike Huckabee
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq: They have a website. A couple of track names: “Birther Blues” and “Death Panel”.
WaterGirl
@arguingwithsignposts: Well, you’re back in good form now!
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Spaghetti Lee:
Your first four suggestions would kill everyone who participates.
Are you a Republican operative trying to reduce the number of Obama voters by killing them? ;)
khead
90 posts and no one links to the original video?
C’mon folks.