RNC

[Scott Campbell]

He was better than Hillary.

[mraynrand]

Boy...did Guliani and Palin come out with a lot of punches. Guliani was especially strong against Obama. I was like Wow! I guess I was expecting some feel good "We are family" speeches like the Dems gave last week. After the DNC I told my wife that I had a feeling Obama was going to win, but I'm sot so sure now.

While Giuliani threw some punches...i can say quite fairly, that he is one of the poorest pols at public speaking in a long time. Makes W look like Obama.

I started to drift off during his brilliant 2 applications for a job section.

More interesting was watching the camera scan endlessly for the minority faces in the crowd.

Tell me, did you find any blacks or jews. I can't possibly find them because, like Scott Campbell, I just don't understand.

Still, nice job multiculturalist. Who is concerned about race all the time again?

What about women? Are you conceding that women are no longer minorities? Fill us in on all the minority and race issues, oh multicultural sage!

[HowardRoark]

More interesting was watching the camera scan endlessly for the minority faces in the crowd.

Were you in the XCel Center tonight?

[mraynrand]

More interesting was watching the camera scan endlessly for the minority faces in the crowd.

Were you in the XCel Center tonight?

Even if not PHYSICALLY there, Ty was MENTALLY there. Once again, Ty gets into the thoughts and motivations of people like no one else can! Now he knows that the camera operator was scanning for minorities. Ty knows all!

[HowardRoark]

You people who are arguing that "liberals" and "anarchists" are essentially the same are either being intentionally dense or are so far out there to the right that anything to the left of Mussolini looks identical to you. Consider that liberalism in the US has always stood for governmental activism in solving social problems, whereas anarchism is in principle opposed to any form of government other than self-government. Liberals despise anarchists as being forces of disorder; anarchists despise liberals as being tools of the capitalist system. If your political horizon begins with Barry Goldwater and ends with the Bushies, I can sort of see why those two positions might blend together a little. But try to have a little perspective.

Hoosier, I agree with just about everything you wrote.

They are just too stupid to know .......aw hell they just want to break stuff.....let's be honest.

[digitaldean]

I have to be honest that I was NOT thrilled with McCain as the nominee.

Given the deification of Obamamessiah and the near persecution of Sarah Palin, I am voting for McCain. I see him, at best, as a 21st century Jimmy Carter.

I have been vocal in my opposition to McCain / Feingold, etc. But with more nanny state programs from Obama, I know that gov't. largesse will only get worse. With McCain I know at least it will be at least a step in the right direction.

Though McCain is not totally my type of President, I have even less faith in an Obama presidency.

[BallHawk]

There were all sorts of nutjobs protesting at the DNC. They had barricades to keep them far away from the convention site. I'm not sure if they have the same thing at the RNC. The people that are involved in the destruction of property in Minneapolis are NOT the same as the far lefty groups like Code Pink for example. They say so on their own site. These are real crazies, who want to 'bring down society' Hoosier is correct on this point. That of course, doesn't make Code Pink any less weird - but it doesn't make them anarchists.

The most popular protesters being the "9/11 was an inside job" type, the "Legalize Marijuana" type, and finally the "I live in a police state" type.

Anarchists.

[texaspackerbacker]

Boy...did Guliani and Palin come out with a lot of punches. Guliani was especially strong against Obama. I was like Wow! I guess I was expecting some feel good "We are family" speeches like the Dems gave last week. After the DNC I told my wife that I had a feeling Obama was going to win, but I'm sot so sure now.

Wow what a night! It was, indeed, refreshing to see the forces of good come out and really tell it like it is--no pulling of punches!

They downright RIDICULED Obama--the uh, "community organizer:" hahaha. What in the hell IS a community organizer, anyway? It kinda sounds like some sort of a professional troublemaker.

And to think THIS magnificent spectacle was on all three networks, CNN, and MSNBC, where virtually everybody who cares enough to vote could see with their own eyes/hear with their own ears, rather than through the filter and spin of the leftist mainstream media.

Tonight was a GIGANTIC step toward defeating the plastic sham of a candidate, Obama, and his party that shows so much disdain and disrespect for everything American.

[mraynrand]

Giuliani was terrific I thought. So was Palin. And the beauty was two-fold. First, they took apart Obama using simple facts and his own words and positions. Giuliani dissected him on the response to Russia's invasion of Georgia. They both pummeled him on being wrong about the surge and being for defeat in Iraq. They blitzed him on being for tax increases in all aspects of life and death. And they demonstrated that he has ZERO, repeat, ZERO actual experience (Present!). The second prong was to point out how they - McCain and Palin are the better of the candidates. Service to America, focus on basic American values that have stood the test of time. Love - LOVE of country - both families McCain and Palin rich in service to the nation. Effective leadership. Great, just great!

[texaspackerbacker]

Giuliani was terrific I thought. So was Palin. And the beauty was two-fold. First, they took apart Obama using simple facts and his own words and positions. Giuliani dissected him on the response to Russia's invasion of Georgia. They both pummeled him on being wrong about the surge and being for defeat in Iraq. They blitzed him on being for tax increases in all aspects of life and death. And they demonstrated that he has ZERO, repeat, ZERO actual experience (Present!). The second prong was to point out how they - McCain and Palin are the better of the candidates. Service to America, focus on basic American values that have stood the test of time. Love - LOVE of country - both families McCain and Palin rich in service to the nation. Effective leadership. Great, just great!

Excellent summary, Aynrand. I can remember many conventions where timidity reigned supreme, and this sort of factual, but directly confrontational attacks against the leftist extremists that the Dems routinely nominate would NOT have occurred. Our guys (and gal) even confronted the blatantly biased media, which for so long, has been a sacred cow that big name Republicans didn't dare cross.

America was watching tonight, and I can't help thinking they liked what they saw. I certainly did!

[Harlan Huckleby]

Palin gave the most effective political speech i have ever heard.

It was not a thing of beauty, like Obama's smooth speech on race. But I am certain that she connected with many voters with her simple, direct language.

Palin is a huge talent, her comic timing and delivery was perfect.

The media treatment of Palin has been beyond the pale. I saw a couple radio hosts (Ed Shultz and Stephanie Miller) on a tv panel, making the argument that Palin is hypocritical because she preached abstinence and moral values, and her kid got knocked up. Hypocritical!? Since when does any parent have absolute control over the actions of their teenagers? A failure does not make someone hypocritical.

CNN ran a poll yesterday asking viewers whether Palin should be dumped from the ticket. My God! They are supposed to be a news organization, for them to feed such a devious political frenzy was disgraceful.

I suspect Palin will be a huge asset in the midwest swing states, the obvious reason why she was picked to be VP.

[TheCheese]

There were all sorts of nutjobs protesting at the DNC. They had barricades to keep them far away from the convention site. I'm not sure if they have the same thing at the RNC. The people that are involved in the destruction of property in Minneapolis are NOT the same as the far lefty groups like Code Pink for example. They say so on their own site. These are real crazies, who want to 'bring down society' Hoosier is correct on this point. That of course, doesn't make Code Pink any less weird - but it doesn't make them anarchists.

The most popular protesters being the "9/11 was an inside job" type, the "Legalize Marijuana" type, and finally the "I live in a police state" type.

Anarchists.

Yeah and who the fuck do you think these "protesters" are voting for? And seriously dude, open your eyes; do you really think that there would have been people coming up with a 9/11 conspiracy if Bush had a D next to his name? If 9/11 would have happened to Clinton exactly how it happened to Bush, there would be no conspiracy because all these nut jobs happen to be fucking liberals, they just use it as an excuse to hate on any so called republican that they can because that is what their hippy parents did.

Seriously you haven't answered the question to why there were no "anarchists" at the DNC. IT'S EASY JUST ADD 2+2 !

[th87]

There were all sorts of nutjobs protesting at the DNC. They had barricades to keep them far away from the convention site. I'm not sure if they have the same thing at the RNC. The people that are involved in the destruction of property in Minneapolis are NOT the same as the far lefty groups like Code Pink for example. They say so on their own site. These are real crazies, who want to 'bring down society' Hoosier is correct on this point. That of course, doesn't make Code Pink any less weird - but it doesn't make them anarchists.

The most popular protesters being the "9/11 was an inside job" type, the "Legalize Marijuana" type, and finally the "I live in a police state" type.

Anarchists.

Yeah and who the fuck do you think these "protesters" are voting for? And seriously dude, open your eyes; do you really think that there would have been people coming up with a 9/11 conspiracy if Bush had a D next to his name? If 9/11 would have happened to Clinton exactly how it happened to Bush, there would be no conspiracy because all these nut jobs happen to be fucking liberals, they just use it as an excuse to hate on any so called republican that they can because that is what their hippy parents did.

Seriously you haven't answered the question to why there were no "anarchists" at the DNC. IT'S EASY JUST ADD 2+2 !

Fine. But who would the KKK types rather vote for?

Conservatives!

[mraynrand]

There were all sorts of nutjobs protesting at the DNC. They had barricades to keep them far away from the convention site. I'm not sure if they have the same thing at the RNC. The people that are involved in the destruction of property in Minneapolis are NOT the same as the far lefty groups like Code Pink for example. They say so on their own site. These are real crazies, who want to 'bring down society' Hoosier is correct on this point. That of course, doesn't make Code Pink any less weird - but it doesn't make them anarchists.

The most popular protesters being the "9/11 was an inside job" type, the "Legalize Marijuana" type, and finally the "I live in a police state" type.

Anarchists.

Yeah and who the fuck do you think these "protesters" are voting for? And seriously dude, open your eyes; do you really think that there would have been people coming up with a 9/11 conspiracy if Bush had a D next to his name? If 9/11 would have happened to Clinton exactly how it happened to Bush, there would be no conspiracy because all these nut jobs happen to be fucking liberals, they just use it as an excuse to hate on any so called republican that they can because that is what their hippy parents did.

Seriously you haven't answered the question to why there were no "anarchists" at the DNC. IT'S EASY JUST ADD 2+2 !

Fine. But who would the KKK types rather vote for?

Conservatives!

How about their own Grandmaster, Robert C. Byrd?

If you look at a the anarchists' website, they are opposed to both democrats and republicans. They showed up at the RNC, because if they showed up at the DNC, they would have just blended in with the delegates!

[mraynrand]

CNN ran a poll yesterday asking viewers whether Palin should be dumped from the ticket. My God! They are supposed to be a news organization, for them to feed such a devious political frenzy was disgraceful.

The leftists media has really lost it. Take for example Alan Colmes and Andrew Sullivan, who ran with the rumor that Palin's fifth child was actually her daughters child, and published demeaning articles on their blogs and websites, only to have to retract them later. No apologies, no one got fired. Both those guys should be on the street looking for a job. Neither one properly sourced the 'story' - they just ran with rumors. That's about as low as 'journalists' can get.