RNC 2012: Tuesday night thread – roll call, Ann Romney, Chris Christie
Good evening from Tampa, where Mitt Romney has just become the official presidential nominee of the Republican Party. New Jersey’s votes put him over the top in the alphabetical-order roll call of state delegations. He might have gotten there a couple of states earlier if not for a smattering of votes for Ron Paul, including three of Georgia’s 76 votes; one additional Georgia delegate was reported as unassigned, meaning Romney received 72 votes from a state whose March primary was won by Newt Gingrich.
Paul Ryan was confirmed as the vice presidential nominee, and now we’ll have a brief recess and then several speeches in a lineup packed due to the cancellation of Monday’s agenda. Among the speakers are Rick Santorum (on the welfare reform he championed in the 1990s and the Obama administration’s recent move to weaken it), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Democrat-turned-Republican Artur Davis, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Ann Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
I’ll be commenting on the speeches here, so feel free to join in below.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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bu2
August 29th, 2012
8:31 am
(OT but too funny not to share:
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School: Teacher Helps Students Cheat Because She Says They’re ‘Dumb As Hell’
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – A former fifth-grade teacher implicated in a cheating scandal reportedly gave students the illegal assistance because she thought they were “dumb as hell.”
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That can happen after five years of government schooling.)
Just shows the teacher wants to be a Democratic politician. They want to do it for the people since they believe they are dumb as hell, while they pick up a bonus for themselves for their trouble.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:38 am
@Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 29th, 2012
12:12 am
Overall, very impressed with Ann Romney’s speech. She really put the War on Women crowd back on their heels with the first part. I loved her line regarding their “fairy tale marriage” not being written with MS and breast cancer. Very good line about Mitt helping people because he considers it a privilege, not a political talking point. That one might even shut up Chris Matthews, but I doubt it. Her money line about Mitt was that “he will not fail”.
Chris Christie’s speech was excellent as well. Yeah, he took too long to mention the actual nominee, but otherwise, he threw down the gauntlet to Obama about this campaign now being about the big issues. I don’t know how this will play with the electorate, but it was refreshing to hear that kind of talk instead of the “we’ll make it all better” crap coming from Obama.
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Ms. Ann was NOT CONVINCING. STIFF. BORING. OUT OF TOUCH.
Chris Christe LOOK BLOATED. BRAGGED ON HIMSELF NOT ROMNEY.
THEY USED A TELEPROMPTER?
And they were STILL BORING.
Cons say that OBAMA can’t speak WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER.
HYPOCRITES.
Buzzy
August 29th, 2012
8:39 am
Christie made his bet last night and I figure his information is pretty good. He knows Romney is going to lose this election, and Christie just went ahead and made a speech about Chris Christie to set himself up as the next Republican nominee for president.
It’s obvious that Christie has thrown in the towel on Romney.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:41 am
@dagnabit
August 29th, 2012
7:10 am
I don’t want to know Romney but I would like to trust him. I want some of those free checks from Welfare. I’m poor and unemployed and Iwant to know where I can get some of these free checks without working.
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WHAT YOU NEED IS SOME CLASS AND DIGNITY
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
8:41 am
Oh, how timely is this? A Matt Taibbi cover story on Mittens!
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
8:43 am
Christie just went ahead and made a speech about Chris Christie
Rachel Maddow tore into Christie as possibly the most selfish political speech she had ever heard.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:43 am
CHRIS CHRISTE THREW ROMNEY UNDER THE BUS, OVER THE
BUS AND THROUGH THE BUS.
CONS DON’T EVEN LIKE EACH OTHER.
They have the nerve to HATE OBAMA.
heeheeheeheeheehee
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Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
8:48 am
Romney is ready and willing to rev up the engine.
Ok, md, how does he do that? How does he create demand? How does he get the middle class to start purchasing again?
If Cons and Romney have the answers, why are they keeping them to themselves? Or don’t they really care about America?
Buzzy
August 29th, 2012
8:48 am
Christie treated Romney like Romney was running for mayor of Tampa.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:49 am
“I’ll be commenting on the speeches here, so feel free to join in below.”
HAS ANYONE HEARD FROM KYLE?????????
I don’t blame you Kyle I WOULD HIDE TO.
The speeches WERE HIDEOUS.
heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:51 am
CONS are not very good speechers.
If they can’t LIE they HAVE NO SPEECH.
The Joy-Less CROWD.
heeheeheeheeheeheehee
Buzzy
August 29th, 2012
8:53 am
It couldn’t get worse than it is. The whole convention now looks to Ryan to pull it out of a slump.
The problem is that Ryan is toxic to the undecided, moderate voters that Romney desperately needs to succeed. To the extent that Ryan brings down the house, he also brings down his Party in November.
Christie could have helped Romney, but he sealed his fate.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
8:53 am
Ms. Ann was NOT CONVINCING. STIFF. BORING. OUT OF TOUCH.
Chris Christe LOOK BLOATED. BRAGGED ON HIMSELF AND THREW
ROMNEY UNDER THE BUS.
THEY USED A TELEPROMPTER?
And they were STILL BORING.
Cons say that OBAMA can’t speak WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER.
They LOOKED LIKE THE JOY-LESS CLUB.
HYPOCRITES.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
8:57 am
Kyle must have had a late night at the strip clubs.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:01 am
@Finn McCool (The System isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
8:57 am
Kyle must have had a late night at the strip clubs.
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heeheeheeheeheeheehee
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 29th, 2012
9:04 am
Looks like the library is open!
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August 29th, 2012
9:05 am
kayaker:
As I understand it, Christie held back due to Isaac’s impending landfall.
I’m one of those rare birds who isn’t fond of negativity in a campaign.
Leave that to the DNC and Obama. With such a dismal record, that really is all they’ve got going for ‘em.
What I wanted to hear was how they did it.
Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia took a rather effective stab at squaring this vicious circle for Republicans. He sought to claim that what economic success there is in the country has come courtesy of Republican Governors.
“In states with Republican governors,” he declared, “the average unemployment rate is a full point lower than in states with Democratic governors. Republican governors lead seven of the ten states with the lowest unemployment rates, and 12 of the 15 states ranked best for business. While the Obama administration borrows over $3 billion a day just to keep the lights on, Republican governors have closed $65 billion in budget shortfalls, without raising taxes.”
Haley WAS good. To have a Republican woman stand there and say (about Boeing) “We fought the federal government and WE won!” was inspiring.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:08 am
To have a Republican woman stand there and say (about Boeing) “We fought the federal government and WE won!” was inspiring.
Kinda like saying “We fought the US and we won”. But it’s from an American, not a North Vietnamese or a North Korean?
misterearl
August 29th, 2012
9:11 am
“The republican governors of Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia and others bragged about their economic recovery, while claiming Mr. Obama had a failed economic program. Aren’t these states operating within the USA? Two of these states in particular have benefitted from the auto bailout and the opening of credit for car purchasers. The other from government jobs in Northern Virginia and the largest military installation in Norfolk.
Truth was hard to come by at the convention last night! That’s why we need the press to provide us with it.”
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August 29th, 2012
9:12 am
Finn:
So you think it’s O.K. for the government to tell businesses where they can or cannot set up shop within the U.S.?
Hugo would be so proud of you. Putin too.
misterearl
August 29th, 2012
9:13 am
Old People
“If confession is good for the soul, this convention proves the GOP has no soul, only a voracious appetite for public money. No one expects them to admit they took the US from a surplus to seven trillion in debt, that they abolished the Bill of Rights, tortured prisoners, and invaded a country without cause, that they are responsible for thousands of deaths and eighty billion in repairs after Katrina. One might welcome the prodigal, if only he wasn’t still profligate.
Lies travel far and fast, but the truth is already there. Romney’s record of buying companies only to plunder the pension funds and move them to his tax-sheltered foreign bank account marks him as the kind of robber-baron aristocrat we threw out in 1776.”
- Martin Weiss Mexico MO
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:19 am
But what most voters don’t know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: by borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America’s top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth.
~ Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829?print=true
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:20 am
A man makes a $250 million fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million-dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for the generous service of telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place.
same link
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 29th, 2012
9:22 am
It is clear that the terminally stupid and the unwilling to listen did just that last night based on the comments of the liberals on here.
Successful REPUBLICAN governors, one right after the other, showing people that you can cut budgets and get rid of deficits AND spur your economies without tax hikes.
Scott Walker, Nikki Haley, John Kasich, Bob McDonald and Chris Christie proves what happens when you COMPROMISE with a side that is WILLING to compromise, or provide tough LEADERSHIP when the other side doe not, and fix the problems that faced their states.
So make all the snarky and uninformed comments you want, libs. These new GOP leaders understand the mistakes of the GOP in the 2000’s and they have proven that they are serious about leading and succeeding.
Oblama
August 29th, 2012
9:23 am
Kyle – can’t wait to see the love fest for “Saint” Obama at the Democrat Convention. They have already released their schedule: 4:00 p.m. Opening Flag Burning Ceremony sponsored by CNN . 4:05 p.m. Singing of “G.D. America” led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright 4:10 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance to Obama 4:15 p.m. Ceremonial “I Hate America” led by Michelle Obama reading her doctorate thesis 4:30 p.m. Tips on how to keep your man trustworthy & true to you while you travel the world by Hillary Clinton 4:45 p.m. Al Sharpton/ Jesse Jackson seminar “How To Have A Successful Career Without Having A Job or A Church”. (* Jesse will be unable to attend due to personal issues) 5:00 p.m. “Great Vacations I Have Taken On The Tax Payers Dime Travel Log” by Michelle Obama 5:30 p.m. Eliot Spitzer speaks on “Family Values” via satellite from a house of prostitution 5:45 p.m. “Tribute To All 57 States” by Nancy Pelosi 6:00 p.m. Sen. Harry Reed 90 minute speech expressing the Democrat’s appreciation of The Occupy Wall Street movement & George Soros for sparing no expense, for all they have accomplished to unify the country, improve employment and boost the economy. 8:30 p.m. Airing Grievances By the Clintons 9:p.m. “Bias In The Media – How We Can Make It Work For You” Tutorial sponsored by CBS, ABC, NBC, The Washington Post and The New York Times” 9:15 p.m. Tribute film to “Brave Freedom Fighters Incarcerated At GITMO” by Michael Moore 9:45 p.m. Personal finance seminar – Charlie Rangle 10:000 p.m. Denunciation of bitter gun owners and Bible readers 10:30 p.m. Ceremonial waving of white flag for Iraq and Afghanistan 11:00 p.m. Obama Energy Plan symposium/ Tire Gauge Demonstration followed by ” “You To Can Get Rich With Green Investment Bankruptcies” 11:15 p.m. Free Gov. Blogoyovich rally 11:30 p.m. Obama accepts Oscar, Tony and Latin Grammy Awards 11:45 p.m. Feeding the Delegates with 5 loaves and 2 fish – Obama presiding 12:00 a.m. Official nomination of Obama by Bill Mahr and Chris “he sends a thrill up my leg” Matthews 12:01 a.m. Obama accepts nomination as Lord & Savior 12:05 a.m. Celestial Choir Singing 3:00 a.m. Biden delivers acceptance speech………. sure to put everyone to sleep ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
misterearl
August 29th, 2012
9:26 am
You Built Nothing
Listening to the convention speeches on the radio as I drove home with my wife today, I was shocked that they picked “You didn’t build that” as the thing they all rallied around. It’s been obvious to anybody with more than two brain cells sparking about in their head that it was a comment clearly taken out of context. I figured they were just being opportunistic and trying to score a few political points with low information voters–hey, this is politics–but I’m beginning to wonder if some of them have started buying their own propaganda. Sitting there with my wife, she wrapped up what I was thinking better than I ever could with a simple comment: “They sound like parodies of themselves.”
Yes, they do. And this is their new “normal.”
misterearl
August 29th, 2012
9:32 am
We heard only relentless and distorted Republican attacks on President Obama’s record, with no mention of how, specifically, Romney/Ryan would improve the economy or make the country safer. The truth is, they don’t have a clue how to do it. Their obsession with debt–the debt that was accrued largely by the last GOP president–makes a robust economic recovery an ever-distant dream.
Their cluelessness when it comes to foreign policy–a policy that can be summarized as: do whatever Israel wants and demonize Russia (Russia!) as the greatest threat to America–was all to evident.
No doubt the GOP honchos pleased with how the convention is going so far. They shouldn’t count their chickens. Because undecided and independent voters are also tuning in, and they’re looking for answers to concrete questions. The Republican party has just two days left to provide them.
Road Scholar
August 29th, 2012
9:35 am
The repubs are for a shrinking government. Yes? Then doesn’t the unemployment rate go up due to spending cuts and a smaller fed/state workforce? And more tax cuts esp for the rich? We know how well that has worked, don’t we?
I asked this yesterday w/o a response from anyone: What has the Congress under Boehmer’s leadership done to create jobs?
Saint Obama
August 29th, 2012
9:35 am
Oblama – It will take a miracle to hold Rev Sharpton to 15 minutes … odds of that happening are about as high as me saving the economy…… Pres Obama
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:36 am
@Lil’ Barry Bailout – Vote American
August 29th, 2012
9:04 am
Looks like the library is open!
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It NEVER CLOSED.
Its always OPEN for the TRUTH.
The truth is CONS can’t give a speech WITH A TELEPROMPTER.
Now we know that OBAMA isn’t the only person who uses one.
At least he is MORE EXCITING.
THE CONS WERE DULL AS PAINT.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:36 am
Successful REPUBLICAN governors
Unemployment as of July 2012:
New Jersey: 9.8
Michigan: 9.0
Jersey is worse off than terminally ill Michigan…..
misterearl
August 29th, 2012
9:38 am
Saint Obama – not very bright are you?
Conventions are always full of cheap applause lines and over-the-top attacks, but it was startling to hear how many speakers in Tampa considered it acceptable to make points that had no basis in reality.
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, for example, boasted of the booming economy in his state, never mentioning that he and Mr. Romney opposed the auto bailout that has played an outsized role in the state’s recovery. (Apparently Mr. Obama’s destructive economic policies do not apply everywhere.)
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:39 am
oh, here’s the link to those unemployment stats:
http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment-update.aspx
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 29th, 2012
9:39 am
“What has the Congress under Boehmer’s leadership done to create jobs?”
Nothing – yet.
They still have to contend with a Democrat-controlled Senate that won’t even take up legislation, let alone pass it, and a President who would veto virtually anything they did pass.
That will change. Soon.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:40 am
@Saint Obama
August 29th, 2012
9:35 am
Oblama – It will take a miracle to hold Rev Sharpton to 15 minutes … odds of that happening are about as high as me saving the economy…… Pres Obama
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DON’T TRY TO CHANGE THE TOPIC.
This ain’t about Rev. Sharpton.
This is about THE CONS last night who were BORING, STIFF, OFF
MESSAGE and DULL AS PAINT.
P.S. It TOOK a miracle to hold CHRIS CHRISTE back from
THROWING MYTH ROBME UNDER THE BUS.
CHRISTE WAS LOOKING OUT FOR HIMSELF.
CONS ARE VERY SELFISH AND SELF SERVING.
DEAL WITH IT.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:41 am
These new GOP leaders understand the mistakes of the GOP in the 2000’s and they have proven that they are serious about leading and succeeding.
Fool us once……
The American people aren’t buying it at the national level. Go sell that stoopid elsewhere.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:42 am
@Tiberius – pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 29th, 2012
9:39 am
“What has the Congress under Boehmer’s leadership done to create jobs?”
Nothing – yet.
They still have to contend with a Democrat-controlled Senate that won’t even take up legislation, let alone pass it, and a President who would veto virtually anything they did pass.
That will change. Soon.
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The LEADER of the pack JOHN BOHNER LOOKED LIKE HE HAD
HAD ONE TWO MANY DRINKS.
WHAT WAS HE BLABBLING ABOUT LAST NIGHT?
THIS IS THE LEADER OF YOUR CONGRESS.
ARE YOU ASHAMED YET?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:42 am
That will change. Soon.
Yeah, after the Cons lose the House…..mwuahahahahahahahaha
Buzzy
August 29th, 2012
9:44 am
It’s obvious that Christie knows that Romney will lose. He’s got the inside scoop. Last night Christie was campaigning for Chris Christie in 2016. He’s thrown in the towel on Romney.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
9:44 am
Four years ago, the Mitt Romneys of the world nearly destroyed the global economy with their greed, shortsightedness and – most notably – wildly irresponsible use of debt in pursuit of personal profit. The sight was so disgusting that people everywhere were ready to drop an H-bomb on Lower Manhattan and bayonet the survivors. But today that same insane greed ethos, that same belief in the lunatic pursuit of instant borrowed millions – it’s dusted itself off, it’s had a shave and a shoeshine, and it’s back out there running for president.
Matt Taibbi
mwuahahahahahahahaha
Tiberius - pulling the tail of the left AND right when needed
August 29th, 2012
9:45 am
Finn once again aligns himself with the terminally stupid and unwilling to listen.
But he does cherry-pick the statistics as well as anybody can.
Oblama
August 29th, 2012
9:47 am
Answer: The House can pass a bill but Obama’s Senate will filibuster and vote NO. Compromise is not on Nanny Pelosi’s agenda and definitely not going to come from Pres. Obama. Cutting the fat from the Fed Government payroll can’t hurt. Get rid of the inept and clueless. Creating the proper atmosphere for the private sector to succeed is all the Fed Gub’ment can do. They cannot create jobs that last in the private sector. The only gub’ment jobs Obama is willing to cut is his gutting of the military that the left supports because they despise them so much.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:48 am
CORRECTION:
The LEADER of the pack JOHN BOEHNER LOOKED LIKE HE HAD
HAD ONE TWO MANY DRINKS.
.John Boehner channels A DRUNKEN bar bouncer.
HEEHEEHEEHEE
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 29th, 2012
9:51 am
Finn: Kinda like saying “We fought the US and we won”.
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Only if you think the government IS the U.S.
That’s how liberal fascists think. But not Americans.
CONS Used A Teleprompter? Only Obama Uses A Teleprompter? CONS Are Hypocrites Once Again.
August 29th, 2012
9:52 am
@Road Scholar
August 29th, 2012
9:35 am
What has the Congress under Boehmer’s leadership done to create jobs?
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HE IS CREATING JOBS FOR COMEDIANS.
Go John
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I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 29th, 2012
9:53 am
haha, bin Laden double tapped himself, obozo didn’t.
Oblama
August 29th, 2012
9:55 am
You fellas are so worked up about the convention. must be a bit worried that check Obama bought your vote with ain’t gonna cash at the bank. News for you is it won’t matter how many checks you get from Obama ’cause they are going to soon be returned for non sufficient funds due to Obama and Congress bankrupting America. Brain dead zomibies vote Obama.
Oblama
August 29th, 2012
9:58 am
Barry – Libs worship the Fed Big Gub’ment as their savior. God is a member of the PRIVATE sector – not a politician that wavers, flip flops and “evolves” depending on how many votes it will bring him.
Lil' Barry Bailout - Vote American
August 29th, 2012
10:00 am
Rolling Stone? I guess President Romney can write off the dope smoking, maggot infested, loser Democrat vote.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 29th, 2012
10:01 am
Brain dead zomibies vote Obama.
Yep, now get back to flipping burgers, Oblama!