Curb Your Authoritarianism? The 2016 Conventional Wisdom Thread (Elections, Part 6)

the stage is pretty cool, very Bush I era

"it's kind of like whack-a-mole"

Yeah this Benghazi story needed tampon jokes to make it more relatable

man there's no one in this stadium

from my local paper

Benghazi-related speakers drive home first night's focus on national security
Antonio Sabato Jr., the soap star-turned-Chippendales performer, is up next

Is there even a convention happening

Willie Aames ‏@WAames 4h4 hours ago Vancouver, British Columbia
There is a proverb that essentially says: "Willingness and Stupidity don't go well together"-Apply it where you will..#hardtokeepmymouthshut

Holy shit this Megyn Kelly interview of Malik Shabazz...."do you think white people are inherently evil? Have you ever said the word cracker?" What the fuck is this???

i mean, if you watched megyn kelly spending literally several dozen segments a few years ago scaring viewers oh nevermind here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/07/megyn-kellys-minstrel-show/184788/

So glad this exciting outsider nominee is jettisoning the usual parade of boring politicians, bringing the awesome celebrity star power and pizazz of Scott Baio, Kimberlin Brown, and Antonio Sabato Jr.

I'm wary of making such statements after having to eat my hat on the nomination, but when I see this convention lineup, it's really, really hard for me to believe they can win this year.

BTW "Kimberlin who?" you may ask. "An actress best known for her roles in the television dramas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, Kimberlin Brown is also a California avocado farmer, host of The Design Network’s interior designer show Dramatic Design, and a small business owner."

Two soap opera stars and a sitcom star from decades ago.

They couldn't get Tim Tebow and apparently decided against going with Dennis Rodman, so what globally beloved sports figure did they go with? Why, the LPGA's Natalie Gulbis!!!!!

boy would I give Tom Cotton a hate fuck

"No one can boss us around"--reminiscent of Anderson Cooper and "With all due respect, sir, that's what a five-year-old says."

The fuck was his "hell is on the way" line

not a good idea for Cotton to use John Kerry's 2004 DNC line.

'help is on the way' was kerry theme in 2004

lol that was so dead-in-the-water, I remember grimacing when I heard that. Same with "reporting for duty"

whos the jedi

So he said help? I was so confused I thought he was just wishing death on a bunch of people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuONvtOLb_M

Hell is on the way. Can you pick me up some smokes there thanks

lol that was so dead-in-the-water, I remember grimacing when I heard that. Same with "reporting for duty"

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, July 18, 2016 9

my friend the progressive consultant said at the time that he groaned and said, "We've lost in November."

i remember all my friends in '04 being convinced that bush was toast and i was like, have you seen kerry in action?

jefferson beauregard sessions

feed is down :(

here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x5axmyoinM

jeez giuliani is stressing me out

gee rudy i wonder

Fuck this guy man

Did Guiliani call Clinton accountable or a cannibal?

"Hillary Clinton advocated for the overthrow of Ghaddafi". Yup. How much flack do you think would Rudy be giving her now for "advocating for the preservation of Ghaddafi's regime in Libya"?

lol what just happened

MELANIA

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnsarvLWcAANMH4.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/32/e9/e0/32e9e0e4b7c49bd50cbfe0cb8e58b813.jpg

so we can all agree that it's bizarre, but is this going well for Trump/Republicans or no?

never forget:

https://nobodyputsbabyinahorner.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/giuliani_in_drag_2.jpg

omigod Bob Dole was yanked out of his seat

never gonna tell a lie and..

noticed that too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnsbPxDWAAQIA9K.jpg

I'm wary of making such statements after having to eat my hat on the nomination, but when I see this convention lineup, it's really, really hard for me to believe they can win this year.

I watched the Cotton/Sessions/Giuliani lineup and had the same feeling, but I've been burned by confirmation bias with these things before, so I'm not resting too comfortably just yet. If tonight is supposed to be national security/foreign policy night, then it seems kind of telling that the big applause line is that Obama won't say "radical Islamist terrorism". I mean maybe it's a good dog-whistle line for the crypto-birthers out there who think Obama is secretly a Muslim, but I think it's got to have a little substance behind it to cross over to undecideds, and I just don't see it. I mean this is the big failure of Obama's presidency, that he doesn't use the right words to talk about terrorism? Seems like a tough sell.

Ramesh Ponnuru
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Melania Trump is giving a perfectly good speech for a candidate who does not bear much resemblance to her husband.

you know i actually flipped over to that o'reilly interview trump called into, for a few min, and he was saying oh melania will give a great speech, this is her night, it's all about her

so obvs trump had to 1) call into o'reilly the same night to be on tv and 2) do a dramatic entrance for himself so everyone talked about nothing but that

he's giving the people what they want. folks are heading to the exits now that he's gone.

axelrod: "if i'm a convention planner i did not want rudy giuliani spilling into the ten o'clock hour and scaring americans out of their wits"

Fuck Chris Matthews for sitting next to Hugh Hewitt as he praises Giuliani for being a beloved figure.

beloved????????

such unreality