23 thoughts on “RNC Convention Speakers: Lettin’ the Freak Flag Fly”

1. Interesting that neither the last GOP President, nor Vice-President, is on that list. The closest they get is Condi. Apparently they aren’t so far gone that they think reminding people of what Obama replaced is a good idea.

   And while Rand is on the list, Ron Paul is notably absent. Hee hee. That’ll be fun.

   The real question, of course, is which Mitt Romney will show up? The one that has laser focus on the economy, or the one who is all about opposing the contraception and welfare? The one who’s against Obamacare, or the one who thinks Romneycare was actually handy, if say, your plant got closed by the invisible hand of the free market.
   The only thing that stays consistent with Mitt is that he lies like a rug.

2. Lining up for the “B” ark.

3. No Sarah or Michelle? Perhaps they’ll show up with BD/SM gear later.

4. Rob Portman also not in that list, but he doesn’t have the fanboy cred of the other four you listed.

   • Portman is a potential veep pick, and I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Mittens chooses him. Conventional wisdom is that Portman would be a “safe” choice.

5. And here I thought that was Nurse Ratchet’s antipsychotic med list for the day.

   I don’t care what time he’s on, I’m going to tune in to watch Rand bark at the moon. I’m sure he spits his med’s into the nearest trash instead of swallowing.
   Mitt’s people may regret giving him a spot, though I’m sure it was part of some deal with Daddy Paul, to keep his rabble happy. That boy’s about as nutty as a Planters canning plant. But then, he’s that rare filbert in the can of mixed nuts – the rest of them are more common nuts.

   Where’s Sarah “The Whore of Babblin’-on” Palin?
   Maybe she’s been hired ‘to provide paralysis of the Republican National Condescension.’
   But not by FOX. I think even Rog and Rup have their fill of that maver-ICK.

6. What, no Joe Walsh in black face??

   Never understood how Condi Rice could be part of that group of whackjobs and nut cases.

7. buckeyblue,
   Condi is a Bush groupie – a lifetime member of the Bush Crime Family.

   And Jeb is there in Tampa to lay down his first layer of bricks in what he hopes to build into the foundation of his own run for the Presidency (against Paul Ryan?) in 2016.

   Wherever a Bush brother is, these is Condi.
   If Neil went to an Vietnames bordello for underaged children, Condi would be sent shortly afterwards to bail his sorry ass out – and that’s if she’s not already there to make sure he picks up the ones without STD’s.

   Also too, I’m sure that ex-President Bush “The Not Insane One” asked her to be at the Convention to give the Republicans something darker than their usual whiter shade of pale, and also give them a badly needed extra “X” chromosome, to add to all of those angyr old white “XY’s.”
   The Republican Party needs to have someone black besides their crazy Ol’ Godfather, Herman Cain, and, the fact that she’s a black female makes her a double Wingnut Lottery winner!

   I happened to turn to Cup O’ Schmoe this morning (on my way to checking the weather forcast), and that odious DINO carbuncle, Harold Ford, was on stumping for Condi to be Mitt’s VP.
   Pssst – Harold, yeah, Condi’s just what Mitt needs!
   Don’t worry, being pro-choice, she won’t remind anyone of Mitt’s prior pro-choice stance, and that he and Mrs. Romney contributed to Planned Parenthood back, you know, before the time he flipped, when he flopped running as a Democrat Lite when losing to the real deal – Ted Kennedy.
   And don’t worry that she’s almost certainly gay, and is pro-gay rights, and that that may remind the base that at one time Mitt was also pro-gay, you know, when he didn’t flop, and became MA’s Governor – before the flipped to being anti-gay to run for President 4+ years ago.

   Condi Rice – once the ultimate Republican Ttriple Affirmative Action hire!
   Yeah, it’s just too bad for her that the party doesn’t look at any of what she is, in the affirmative any more.
   But, she’s now a Wingnut Welfaredependent grifter for lif.
   And, a grifter’s gotta grift, so Condi will be glad to go to Tampa – cash in advance, only.

8. Why did I visualize a wall with heights marked on it, when I read that list of names? Why can I hear Holly Hunter saying “Turn to the raaht”? Strange!

9. “I’m assuming the worst whackjobs will not be speaking in prime time”

   As crazy as most on the list are, they are the statesmen of the modern tea-bag-republicant party, sad but true. I suppose the real nut jobs (Bachmann, Walsh, Fox, Barton, Gohmert, West, etc) will be ready next time, can’t wait.

10. “I’m assuming the worst whackjobs will not be speaking in prime time”

    A prime time speech by Santorum would surely fire up — independents. And Women.

    I hope they don’t muzzle sweater-vest boy!

11. Jonathan Chait, Romney May Have No Choice But To Pick Ryan:

    …Ryan’s capacity for national-level wholesale politics has yet to be proven. He has masterfully played the Washington press corps, but it remains largely an inside game. Most Americans have not formed an opinion about him. He has a long record of radical votes and is the functional leader of a wildly unpopular Congressional wing. The one real electoral test of his plan’s political tolerability came in a special election in a Republican district in upstate New York in 2011, in which an underdog Democrat swept to victory by relentlessly pounding Ryan’s plan, and especially its provision to privatize Medicare.

    At this point, joining Ryan to the ticket would be a huge gamble. Romney would be tapping into Ryan’s immense political talent, but giving up on his win-by-default strategy that has taken a beating but might look good again if, say, some international disaster craters the recovery between now and November. In any case, the conservative drumbeat for Ryan has grown so overwhelming that it’s no longer even clear that Romney could turn Ryan down for an Incredibly Boring White Guy, even if he wants to. The Republican Party belongs to Ryan.

    This is the game the interests me, who Romney will pick. I think we should start a pool….

12. New book: Better Off without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, author interview here.

    According to Chuck Thompson, a veteran travel writer who toured the American South, a degree of mutual enmity between Northerners and Southerners continues to be a source of cultural tension and political gridlock. We remain divided even as we have grown to become the world’s superpower. In his new book… Thompson argues that it may be time for a divorce – to shake hands and go our separate ways:

    “One of the goals of this book really was to more or less articulate – to put some facts, figures and research behind a lot of this frustration of Northern and Southern liberals, of which there are many. I encountered many Southern liberals while conducting my research.

    There’s this seething frustration people have. There’s this kneejerk reaction to blame the South. The sort of Northern media strafing of the South for a lot of the nation’s ills is a longstanding tradition. What I wanted to do was to get away from the traditional stereotypes of the dim-witted, mouth-breathing, Southern racist redneck and really look at what’s going on today. Find out why people are still having these issues with the South, and put some hard research and some facts and figures behind this general unease with the influence that the South has on the rest of the country.

    “I get tired of everybody bitching about the problem. It’s like what Mark Twain said about the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it. People have been having this problem with the South for my entire lifetime, and as my research pointed out to me, since even before there was a United States of America. Even in the Continental Congress, before the Declaration of Independence was signed, there were a lot of Southerners from South Carolina – particularly a family called the Rutledge family – sort of running the show back then and didn’t want any part of the United States. So a lot of the problems that have arisen between North and South have been around for a long time.

    So, as I’ve said, I’ve spent a lot of my life hearing from everybody from Seattle to Savannah. Almost every American, at one time or another, has said that it’s too bad the country didn’t just split when we had the chance. We didn’t let the South go when we had the chance. We would have avoided a lot of problems. We – meaning this group in the north as we might identify ourselves – could take the country we want into a direction that we think is befitting of America without this push and pull that comes from the Southern states. At the same time the South could do the same thing.

    What really led to this call for secession was understanding that a lot of people from the South are just as sick and tired of people like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid having an impact on their country as I am sick of people like Newt Gingrich and Jeff Sessions, Eric Cantor, Haley Barbour having an impact on my country.

    So why shouldn’t each of these societies that are really very different from each other in the way they approach the fundamental building blocks of society – education, religion, commerce, politics – both sides of the country really approach their problems in the way they want to put their societies together in very diametrically opposed ways. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to live in a pseudo-theocracy if they want to? If the majority of the people in a very large part of the country wants to have the Ten Commandments emblazoned in front of their legislative houses, why shouldn’t they be allowed to do so?

    My call here for secession isn’t really a punitive thing towards the South, though I admit to a lot of these Northern frustrations. It’s an effort to identify these differences; to acknowledge that they’re very striking and very strong, and to say each one of these sides might be better of without the other….

    • One drawback with the secession idea is that the South likely would devolve into a crime-ridden sinkhole. They’d create problems that would make the border issues with Mexico look like a picnic.

13. At this point, I’m all for secession.

    Lincoln was right at the time to try to save the Union.
    What should have happened was that, cruel as this may sound, the entire South should have been destroyed completely in order to rebuild it.
    I’m not talking about kill everyone and burn everything to the ground. What I’m talking about was that the North was too conciliatory to the South and the traitors that remained there.
    There should have been the promised “40 acres and a mule” for all former slaves – and cows, chickens, goats, tools, seeds, etc., – taken from the existing landowners, who should have been left impoverished.
    And with the 14th Amendment strictly enforced, with any infringement on a black persons rights treated as harshly as possible – including confiscation of property, and banishment from the US for the entire famil – possibly to some frontier territory, or to some country in South or Central America.
    Instead, we had the horrid Reconstruction, where conditions were allowed to return to pretty much the way they were before the South seceeded, with the same families, for the most part, having all of the wealth and power, and the black “citizens” now, instead of being slaves, having “advancing” to indentured servants.

    Well,it’s too late for that.

    So, let’s figure out a peacful way to do this – and a peaceful way to allow people to move where they want. While, a peaceful migration may be unprecedented, it need not be unmanageable. People have had to migrate plenty in the last 100 years, when there were wars. There are lessons to be learned there. A large chunk of Easten Europe ended up in Western Europe, and somehow, that ended fairly well after a period of time.

    If the Southern states want a Dominionist Christian state, well, let them have it.
    Better them, than ALL of us!

14. maha,
    That’s true.
    But without secession, our whole country might become like Mexico – only with a more Protestanty Jesus, and a lot more methy. 😉

15. ..that the South likely would devolve into a crime-ridden sinkhole.

    I see that as THEIR problem. If they want to resurrect plantation society, they get all the social ills that go with it. It’s all part of the package. As long as people can leave, let them run their little experiment.

16. As a Southerner, let me tell you a thing or two:

    1. What you hate about the South is the same stuff you hate among your own, just stated more openly and with a venomous drawl that is easy to mock (Mawuk, as we say it).

    2. Actually, that one thing was all you needed to be told.

17. One more thing:

    1. The modern plantation mentality exists as a Northern-dominated financial realization of the old agrarian plantation. Vertical integration of the rural plantation is matched by the cradle-to-grave corporate plan to suck out our wages and taxes for the enrichment of the management/ownership class.

18. They’ve actually got Scott Walker on the list! I guess they have completely written off Wisconsin.

    Noticeably absent: Scott Brown. He’s no genius, but he’s smart enough not to be photographed with this crowd.

19. Bill B.,
    I’m not arguing with your point.
    And I’m not saying the North, or “Blue” states are perfect.

    I’ve always said that after NY City, Albany, and a few of the other mid-sized citiies in the state, and their suburbs, once you get out into the rural areas, NY is Mississippi with worse winters, more cows, and no cotton.

    Most “Blue” states are like that. And most “Red” states have their pockets of Liberals.

    That’s why if there’s a seperation, we’ll need some sort of an exchange program to trade Liberals from the South, for Conservatives from the North. Or, like in Europe after WWII, “Camps for Displaced Persons,” with training, and sponsoring family members or friends from the other side.

20. I am so glad you all have no clue about how beautiful the Pacific Northwest is and its very decent whether, which neither fries our brains nor freezes our asses off. And, while I know everyone thinks that it rains all the time here, I won’t mention how that is a story we tell other people just so the place won’t get overpopulated. I was such a fool to live on the east coast for 24 years. God’s country is us.

21. OMG, what about Florida? For sure, the panhandle is “redneckistan”,large swaths of Hillsborough,Polk, Hardee, Citrus, Marion, and Osceola belong to the Klan; but then there is the colony of Miami-Dade which is divided between various peoples from the Carribean , South America, and New Yorkis, and Palm Beach owned by the Polo set from the NE Gentry.

    And Bonnie, the PNW is beautiful, but the rain is legendary; I spent two seasons in Seattle as a commercial diver working in “the sound”, the Duamish river mouth in January is not for the feint of heart, Our plan was to work 6 months (summer) in Seattle, then spend winters in Fl., too bad the diving season ran counter to that; I think that limits competition for the Swedes and Finns.

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