Hello! The technical wizards here have found a way for me to snark on Twitter about day 2 of the RNC convention while also delivering to you that high-quality snark here. So enjoy and snark amongst yourselves in the comments.
Tonight will include the speech from Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, along with cranky old man John McCain. I’ve also heard that Condoleezza Rice is determined to speak inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum. Mike Huckabee gets his moment tonight as well.




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He’ll be back
Pawlenty – Democrats don’t realize you can’t be part of the middle class if you don’t have a job. I know that never occurred to me before – hey maybe we need some more jobs around here, whadyathink?
“McCain would have us at war in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya …for starters ”
Wow, what kind of person would advocate that?
“Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?pagewanted=all
“President Barack Obama threatened military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if his forces attempt to use chemical or biological weapons, the strongest indication yet Mr. Obama would consider intervening in the grinding conflict.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443713704577601820343918852.html
This convention is pathetic.
Who cares about their Bund rally. Perhaps the corporate media spokesmodels who want those ad dollars to keep rolling in.
Does having a smoking hot wife cause brain damage?
Twitter-twatting seems profoundly silly to me. So I guess I’ll pass. (And all you kids will PLEASE get the hell offa my lawn…)
Listened to Ed Schultz and Congressman Peter Welch condemn Paul Ryan for not supporting Bowles-Simpson on Ed’s radio show today. While I can’t vote for these Repub barking loonies, I am so done with Obama and his stooges.
I see Rice. Where’s Beans?
Condi:
“I helped bullshit amurka into a bloody, catastrophically expensive, worse-than-useless, mid-east war…the really shitty ramifications of which are not yet even CLOSE to being realized.”
Thunderous applause…whistles…armpit fartsounds from the Texas delegation…
I don’t mind reading about it but I would have to become an alcoholic to watch it.
NM Gov is packing heat! Awesome.
This just in…James O’Keefe to stage seduction of Condi Rice aboard the Cracker Bay. Film at eleven.
Does his probation officer know?
Since when has O’Keefe’s probation officer paid any attention?
Ahhh – my arch AynRand personifier nemesis, Paul Ryan taking the stage.
Because mounting it would be…vulgar.
He wasn’t allowed to head down to Florida to speak…
When does Mr. Personality speak?
Yeah. If there were any justice, the media would have ignored his whining about it.
LOL! Opponents so silent about their record!
Project much, Paul?
Now. I’m doing “insta-mock”
No, no. Ryan sorta has a personality. I was referring to his
running mateBFF, Willard Rmoney.“My mom Betty lives in FL.”
Sooo – you win FL!
And talking about your dad passing, Paul? You needed SocSec. You needed it bad, and it worked.
Oh, he doesn’t talk till tomorrow I think.
I may stay around for insta mock…
Yep. He got his. And that’s really all it’s about, isn’t it?
Hey Paul Ryan – that plant closed before Obama was elected. Sit down. #GOP2012 #current2012
John Fugelsang
If you’re not watching, and well, not looking at the twitter too, I don’t know if my comments will make ANY sense.
It’s like total multi-media. Weeeeee!
Yeah..I sooooo believe that, Paul.
Romney/Ryan knows the difference between raiding and saving Medicare!
LOL
Yes, they do, now, don’t they?….
he oozes sincerity
“ooze” being the operative phrase.
or earnestness.
And, this morning Mika was all going on about what a great face he has.
Hmmmmmm. Different view, I guess.
Here we go – Ryan just made the economic version of “you’re with us, or you’re against us”
He just blamed Obama for not going forward with the debt commission report that Ryan voted against. LOL
Previously he blamed Obama for the credit rating downgrade that was caused by the repubs in the house screwing with the debt ceiling.
Did he talk about the fact that he paid for his college education using his social security payments he received from his father’s death? You know, the social safety net that he wants to cut now.
Is that a teleprompter you’re reading from there, Paulie?
I’m not sensing any electrification in the crowd
AC/DC to Led Zeppelin? LOL!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
OMG, he just said the Olympics that Mitt saved was being ruined by OVERSPENDING. He forgot to mention that Mitt saved them by getting A LOT MORE GOVT MONEY to spend on them.
we can do this
Condi rice was a joke tonight regardless of what the media says.
I didn’t hear the Ed Schultz show discussion, but I’m sure it was done in the context that while he criticizes Obama for not tackling the debt/deficit, he wouldn’t support a proposal that (whether you agree or not) was seen as doing just that.
The problem is that while you may not like Obama, the offensive of Romney/Ryan on Medicare is working. I often hear my liberal friends say that Americans are too smart to buy into what they’re saying. Apparently not. This is the power of money in politics. Unfortunately, once in office, those people will learn the truth, but it will be too late.
I’m not a fan of the Romney/Ryan ticket, but even I disagree with that assessment. Ryan was a star tonight, just like Palin was 4 years ago. While it’s no surprise that a convention crowd is buying what he’s selling, the test will be if the rest of the country does.
Problem is Kelly, people are believing it if you believe the polls. The Democrats have their work cut out for them because it is very hard to talk about why that 700B is coming out of medicare advantage in a short but understandable way. They’ve got 5 days to figure it out.
Can’t disagree with you on many parts – BUT, I’m gonna disagree that we only got 5 days, and that the messaging war can’t be won.
So much is a matter of coalition, polling and will, by activists. I’ve just seen that work so many times.
RNC = Barbi + Ken Dolls? Plastic, hollow and full of dead air. Hey Mitt, “Father Knows Best,” is a rerun from a bygone era decimated by policies which protected corporatism, scum buggery and politicians. Not the republic of the governed. Go sell some of stocks to survive, while we cut wood to stay warm asshole………..