The Republican National Convention

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GOP convention speakers announced

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush will headline the first night of the Republican National Convention, and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani will deliver the convention's keynote address at the four-day political rally in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The convention, which will take place from September 1-4, will culminate in the nomination of John McCain as the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

The Arizona senator is turning to close allies, former rivals, a former Democrat rumored running mates to address the convention in the days leading up to his acceptance speech.

A year ago, four of the speakers were competing against McCain for the Republican nomination. Another speaker is Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee. Two speakers represent the battleground state of Florida, and 10 have been rumored to be on McCain's list of potential running mates.

 

[QueEx]

Republican Presidential Politics

I was reading an article in the Washington Post entitled, "Convicted of Charisma" regarding an assessment that Democrats will have to balance their desire to spotlight Obama's enthusiastic following with concern that images of a cheering throng will ratify Republican attacks on the candidate as a glitzy but untested celebrity."

This statement in the article, you have to admit, is quite interesting:

<font size="4">With so much going their way in this election, the biggest challenge the Democrats face is simple: The Republicans just play the game of presidential politics so much better. They play it with genius, courage, creativity and utter ruthlessness."
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. . . and true, as well.

QueEx

The article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/22/AR2008082202354.html

 

[QueEx]

 

[unda_line]

Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the RNC

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday.

The RNC Welcoming Committee, which describes itself as "anarchist/anti-authoritarian," accused St. Paul police of trying to disrupt their protest planned for Monday, the day the GOP convention is set to begin.

While no one was arrested, the group said police temporarily detained and photographed at least 50 people who were inside the building.

St. Paul Police spokesman Tom Walsh said they were executing a search warrant.

"The cause for the search warrant is not public at this time," Walsh said.

As many as 30 police officers entered with guns drawn, according to witnesses in the building.

"The convergence center is simply a gathering place and is not used for illegal actions -- it is a place for workshops and trainings," a statement from the protest group said. "Tonight, we were watching films and sharing food."

"We are now accused of a simple fire code violation," the statement said.

Oddie Miller, a 19-year-old from Fort Collins, Colorado, said it was "just a space to get food, free Internet, community organization."

"There were no bombs or anything in there," Miller said.

 

[Makkonnen]

Re: Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the RNC

land of the free...........

 

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I guess we'll wait some more.

 

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Hookers and Blow: Welcome to the Republican Convention

The evacuation of two million people and multiple deaths along the gulf coast can't stop GOP party machine

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Hookers and Blow

 

[Detroit's finest]

Re: Hookers and Blow: Welcome to the Republican Convention

Must be nice

 

[datu rocc]

Re: Hookers and Blow: Welcome to the Republican Convention

that shit was sickeneing...........can you believe the luau that big oil threw for them?

 

[GET YOU HOT]

Re: Hookers and Blow: Welcome to the Republican Convention

Welcome to the United States, I'm glad they are finally exposing the ugly under belly of the dirty ass republican party. This is the part of Amerikka, the world truely hates..

 

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Sarah Palin will Make or Break the 2008 RNC Tonight

This Is Sarah Palin's Convention​

ST. PAUL – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will on Wednesday night deliver the most anticipated address to a national party convention in decades.

And Mary Buestrin can't wait.

"Our people are pumped," says the Republican National Committeewoman from Wisconsin, the state that former White House political czar Karl Rove this week described to delegates as the most evenly divided along lines of red and blue in the country. "This is Sarah Palin's introduction to America. If she gets it right, and I think she will, her speech will give Republicans the boost we need to win this election. This is such a big deal"

Buestin is right about Palin's speech being a big deal.

In America's rigidly choreographed politics, it is rare indeed that an individual leaps from obscurity to a primetime speaking slot at a national political party convention. And it is rarer still that the individual is put in a position to make or break a presidential campaign.

But that's the position into which Palin, who most Americans had not heard of a week ago, and whose name is still being mispronounced by top McCain aides, has been thrust.

Never before has the address of a vice-presidential pick mattered so much – not merely to the party faithful who will enthusiastically nominate a governor who speaks their social-conservative language but to the broader contest that will begin Friday morning.

If Palin delivers a brilliant speech, the sort that electrifies the convention and draws praise even from cynical pundits, she will be the fresh face of a Republican party that, after eight years of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay, needs nothing so much as an image makeover.

If the governor stumbles, even if she simply gives an O.K. address to delegates who do their best to cheer her on, Palin will open up a long and potentially disqualifying discussion about the judgment of the man who selected her as his running-mate: presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

McCain's selection of Palin has electrified grassroots Republicans, especially social conservatives who share the hard-line anti-abortion rights, anti-gay rights, anti-stem cell research, anti-immigration stances taken by their presumptive vice-presidential nominee. Party activists who were skeptical about McCain – a man whose deviations from Republican orthodoxy had inspired distrust and disenchantment among the faithful -- are flooding party phone-banks with offers to volunteer for the campaign, giving money at unprecedented rates, showing up at rallies in numbers that rival those of events for Democratic nominees Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and generally breathing life into a Grand Old Party that until last week was looking old and bitter.

Mary Verich, a Republican volunteer sporting a big "I Vote Pro-Life" pin, bluntly declared that Palin had renewed her party.

"I'll be honest with you: I wasn't energized until he picked her," said Verich. "Now, I'm ready to get out and work for the ticket. That's how important she is."

Statements like that of Verich are typical on the floor of the Xcel Center where, in almost every sense, this has become Sarah Palin's convention – not John McCain's.

Don't get these Republicans wrong. They were going to try and elect McCain, if only because to prevent Barack Obama from occupying the Oval Office. But McCain, whose maverick" reputation was earned by breaking with GOP orthodoxy on issues ranging from immigration to gay rights to taxes, was never a favorite of the faithful.

Palin closed the enthusiasm gap.

"We needed a push. And, oh my gosh, did we ever get it," says Buestrin, a key player in national Republican politics for many years, who huddled with Rove Tuesday morning to discuss electoral strategies for fall contests in Midwestern battleground states that she now thinks are "winnable."

"It's mind-boggling what Sarah Palin has done for the party," says the woman who was in charge of the logistics for this year's convention. "Now, she just has to give a great speech."

Will Palin do it?

Alaskan delegates were confident.

"She's actually a great public speaker, and she's a great debater – Joe Biden should be scared," says Pat Fink, a delegate from Fairbanks. "I don't know who all will contribute to it, who all the speechwriters will be. But I know she will deliver it well. She always does."

Gene Brokaw, a delegate from Anchorage, who like Fink was wearing a white hard hat with a map of Alaska and the words "Drill Here!" printed on it, chimed in. "The country doesn't know Sarah Palin yet. But they will after tonight. Sarah Palin's going to be star of this convention."

That's no understatement. Palin is already the rock star of this convention -- at least for the delegates, alternates and acolytes gathered inside the hall. And, beyond the hall, she is the only story of this convention.

For the first time in history, the biggest speech of a national party conclave is not coming on the last night when the presidential candidate takes the podium.

It is coming on the night when the vice-presidential candidate, a woman far more in tune with the party base than the presidential nominee, will speak to her frenzied followers and to a nation that tonight begins the process of deciding whether it wants to place the favorite contender of the most conservative Republicans ever to gather in convention one heartbeat away from the presidency.

 

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Giuliani Rips Obama At RNC

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Democrats

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awww stfu!

 

[thoughtone]

Re: Giuliani Rips Obama At RNC

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[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Re: Giuliani Rips Obama At RNC

fuck a stoogeianini he married his cousin, and piggybacks off the fact that he happend to be mayor when the wtc was imploded.

like he did anything, his right hand man bernard kerik whom fooliiania handpicked personally.(says a lot about his decision making abilities)

he piggybacked off of DAVID DINKINS SAFE CITY SAFE STREET LAWS WHICH PUT MORE COPS OUT ON THE STREET THUS THE DROP IN CRIME, IT WAS NOT A GHOULIANI POLICY AT ALL THAT CAUSED THE DROP IN CRIME.

BESIDES.. he lost credibility with me years ago when I found out he married his cousin.

he is really a sad little man who can lie with a straight face and a crooked smile just like bush sr and jr.

 

[hanginbals]

Re: Giuliani Rips Obama At RNC

fuck a stoogeianini he married his cousin, and piggybacks off the fact that he happend to be mayor when the wtc was imploded.

like he did anything, his right hand man bernard kerik whom fooliiania handpicked personally.(says a lot about his decision making abilities)

he piggybacked off of DAVID DINKINS SAFE CITY SAFE STREET LAWS WHICH PUT MORE COPS OUT ON THE STREET THUS THE DROP IN CRIME, IT WAS NOT A GHOULIANI POLICY AT ALL THAT CAUSED THE DROP IN CRIME.

BESIDES.. he lost credibility with me years ago when I found out he married his cousin.

he is really a sad little man who can lie with a straight face and a crooked smile just like bush sr and jr.

C/S!!! A true New Yorker!!!

 

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Sarah Palin's Bio

[WM]http://cdn.liveleak.com/17/media17/2008/Sep/4/LiveLeak-dot-com-222101-SarahsBioVideo.wmv[/WM]This was supposed to have been shown last night to introduce Sarah, but they ran out of time after Rudy's speech. So the RNC authorized Fox News to show it today.:

 

[thoughtone]

Re: Sarah Palin's Bio

Faux Snooze, the official propaganda arm of the republican party.

 

[m10_v]

The Republican’s Hater Ball



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It's funny but he's speaking the truth about the disparaging comments about Obama's background as a community organizer. It's hilarious to me that that the GOP attacks that but touts Palin experience on the PTA...

 

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An Examination of the Words Used in the 2008 DNC & RNC Convention Speechs

The Words They Used​

The words that speakers used at the two political conventions show the themes that the parties have highlighted. Republican speakers have talked about reform and character far more frequently than the Democrats. And Republicans were more likely to talk about businesses and taxes, while Democrats were more likely to mention jobs or the economy.

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I'm not surprised by use of God by the RNC speakers BUT I was shocked to see that the DNC mentioned 9/11 more than RNC (only 2 times!).

 

[QueEx]

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[dcbhoops]

m10_v, I was wondering if anyone else noticed the hypocrisy of the GOP convention speakers (in particular, Rudy Giuilani and Sarah Palin) ridiculing Obama's work as a community organizer.

Obama's work in Chicago is the sort of community service that McCain has encouraged during his campaign. In fact, one of McCain's campaign slogans is "Country First."

Now, what if someone had tried to diminish McCain's military service for his country? That would be equally wrong.

BTW, I'm a registered Libertarian, and a Bob Barr supporter, but attacking Obama's community service work was a cheap shot.

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[GET YOU HOT]

Re: An Examination of the Words Used in the 2008 DNC & RNC Convention Speechs

Great, how superficial words are, on the other hand, a few words, pretty much sums it up...