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I’m Completely Disinterested

Although Mike Huckabee is talking about Obama’s craaaaaazy European ideas.

It’s just tiring - this exact convention could be from 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988…I just don’t understand the point of putting on this show if the only adjustment you make to rhetoric is stealing your opponent’s and strategically inserting it into a campaign speech from July of 1984. The GOP is ideologically brain dead.

UPDATE: John McCain’s service to this country helped get Mike Huckabee a schooldesk. Or something. God, just give up the convention and make this the world’s largest game of Scene It! The answer is The Usual Suspects, by the way. It always is.

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Posted by Jesse Taylor on 10:29 PM • (21) Comments

Mike Huckabee is the only GOP candidate in 20 some years that doesn’t give me the creeps on a personal level.

He still gives me the creeps big time on a policy level but, you know.

Comment #1: Ben D. on 09/03 at 10:36 PM

I was trying to explain this to someone today. I can’t get around the words, “cognitive dissonance”.

“Let’s throw the current terrible (republican) government out and replace it with a new republican government.”

Now that’s change Dear Friends.

And the school desk thing was so pathetic, well, it’s perfectly in the tone of this convention. Admire authority. And did you know that republicans think less authority is necessary for freedom? Vote republican.

Straw men and oxymorons don’t slow these rethugs down. It’s impressive to watch.

Comment #2: ice weasel on 09/03 at 10:50 PM

Those nutty, European ideas.

Yeah, like the Enlightenment. Oh wait. This entire country was FOUNDED on that crazy European idea. Don’t these morons know North America is culturally very much a child of Europe, for the most part?

Comment #3: Ben D. on 09/03 at 10:51 PM

Just watching msnbc… a reporter mentioned that they are moving the men back and the women forward to the seats closest to the stage. that has to be a first, and is mildly disgusting.

Comment #4: blackfrancis789 on 09/03 at 10:54 PM

I’m so glad the U.S. Open is on. Serena vs. Venus is far more interesting….and I hope Mardy Fish (who really looks stoned) can take out Nadal!

Comment #5: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits on 09/03 at 10:58 PM

Rudy! 9iul1an1!

I’ve got my shot glass ready.

Comment #6: Ben D. on 09/03 at 11:02 PM

“Let’s throw the current terrible (republican) government out and replace it with a new republican government.”

...except it’s even worse because they’re not even really claiming their “new” Republican government will do anything different from the old one.

I hate Spam. I don’t want any. It’s nasty.

Well, you’ll love our new chopped, reformed, and pre-cooked canned meat product!...

Comment #7: MikeEss on 09/03 at 11:11 PM

Shorter every republican speech I’ve listened to so far:

Demonstrate support of the nominee.
POW

Oxymoron about government.
Our government is evil. Throw the evil current office holders and elect us.

Distortion of Obama record/resume/policy.
Obama hates the troops.

saint bbq is the best
POW

Thank you good night.

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Did I really just hear Rudy say that, “This is no time for on the job training”?

Comment #8: ice weasel on 09/03 at 11:13 PM

Bad Europeans like the French, without whose $20million we might still be a colony of the Queen’s.

Comment #9: CParis on 09/04 at 01:31 AM

Tell me. How does it feel to watch the election slip through fingers yet again? Don’t be afraid of change, I mean real change, not Obama’s load of crap kind of change. See you in 2012.

McCain/Balin 08’

Comment #10: Jason on 09/04 at 01:48 AM

Like Janis sang, “freedom is just another word for having a place to sit in school.”

Comment #11: dwight meredith on 09/04 at 02:28 AM

Ben:

Yeah, like the Enlightenment. Oh wait. This entire country was FOUNDED on that crazy European idea. Don’t these morons know North America is culturally very much a child of Europe, for the most part?

This is just like the Adam Smith thing. The facts of history don’t matter in the slightest, either to the Republican party muckity-mucks or to the Republican voter base.

All that matters is that the word “European” makes the nativists restless. It’s a purely Pavlovian response.

Comment #12: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster on 09/04 at 02:33 AM

a reporter mentioned that they are moving the men back and the women forward to the seats closest to the stage. that has to be a first

Right. Usually when Republicans go out for the evening, the men sit in the front of the car and the women sit in the back.

Europeans eat food with sauces that don’t come in jars or bottles. Their hamburgers go unhelped.

Comment #13: Hector B. on 09/04 at 03:24 AM

Some idiot wrote:

“Yeah, like the Enlightenment. Oh wait. This entire country was FOUNDED on that crazy European idea.”

That was hundreds of years ago, dumb ass. Try digging up something in recent memory, you clueless pos.

Comment #14: Robert O on 09/04 at 03:51 AM

I banned Robert O based on his comments in another thread, but I’m wondering now if he isn’t just a parody troll.

Comment #15: Auguste on 09/04 at 04:25 AM

Kudos to all of you who sat and watched it. As time goes on, I have less and less stomach for the inevitable masochism that is watching the RNC / reading wingnuttery / etc.

I can’t even listen to NPR this week. They keep replaying speech soundbites, and commentating, and all that newsreportery stuff. And I spend a lot of time in the car…

Comment #16: madinscriber on 09/04 at 10:38 AM

It’s just tiring - this exact convention could be from 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988…

Who will win the coveted Molly this year? (Y’know, for the R convention speech that probably sounded best in its original German.)

Comment #17: ThresherK on 09/04 at 10:44 AM

McCain/Balin 08’

Wait, McCain has already changed running mates? Who’s this Balin person? When is he going to speak to the convention?

Comment #18: Mnemosyne on 09/04 at 01:59 PM

“I banned Robert O based on his comments in another thread, but I’m wondering now if he isn’t just a parody troll.”

No, dumb ass, I am quite genuine.

http://huperborea.blogspot.com/search?q=amanda+marcotte

If you and the other members of the pandagon clown car are going to share a brain, then at least get one that works.

Comment #19: RO on 09/04 at 02:41 PM

madinscriber, I feel your pain. I know NPR <has> to give equal time to McCain et al., but I had to switch stations this morning… I even attempted to watch Palin’s speech last night, but the pitbull/hockey mom/lipstick quip was so nauseating I had to flip the channel.

Comment #20: decemberx on 09/04 at 03:53 PM

Balin’s a great running mate for McCain! He’s got loads of experience running Moria!

Comment #21: Rebecca on 09/04 at 06:50 PM

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