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The Spectacle Blog
TAMPA —- Word is out that due to an unpredictable Isaac, and a real chance of tropical storm force winds, heavy rain, and storm surge here Monday, the Republican Party has delayed the start of its national convention. Festivities, originally scheduled to get under way Monday, have been set back to Tuesday afternoon.
Perhaps we should call this the qualm before the storm.
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Occam's Tool| 8.25.12 @ 11:07PM
The Festivities that matter will be in November.
Kingofthenet| 8.26.12 @ 12:14AM
Yes Occam when President Obama has some serios POLITICAL CAPITAL, that he plans on spending(and NOT on you cheap Republican Whores like Laura Ingram or Michelle Malkin)
Bob S| 8.26.12 @ 2:01AM
Yes, we know, like he said to Comrade Medvedev, "I'll have more flexibility when the election is over."
He'll definitely have more flexibility, since he'll be out of a job.
Occam's Tool| 8.26.12 @ 9:18PM
King: I look forward to encompassing YOUR DOOM in November, mwa-ha-ha!
There, I think we have established our respective positions. You just have to get behind the civilized man in the Middle East, who actually are friendly to gays, and disdain those who would murder them, and then you can be like RCV, a decent Lib.
Alas, you seem to have a distict homophobia which is not in keeping with your otherwise Liberal views, as you support those who would crucify gays in the Middle east (Quite Literally). How do you reconcile this with your LGBT friends, King?
squalis| 8.27.12 @ 9:48AM
You're asking a lib to be rational and consistent in thought?
Grzmlyk| 8.27.12 @ 11:55AM
Kingofthenet is engaging in his own war on women in this post.
Typical bigoted, hating, misogynistic liberal. Now let's hear your opinon of Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas!
Tom Kyba| 8.27.12 @ 12:27PM
Blah blah blah, someone like me I'm smart blah blah blah I'm the king. Blah blah blah, leave me alone mommie, I took my pills already.
MyGirlFriday| 8.27.12 @ 5:54PM
Speaking of political debauchery, your party should know all about it; selecting Clinton to speak at your democratic convention would be hysterical if not for the fact that those women he raped and abused were not real. Just incase you have conveniently forgotten just a few of their names:
Jane Doe No. 5 (Jane Doe 1,2,3,4)
Juanita Broadrick
Boby Ann Willows
Gennifer Flowers
Paula Jones
Christy Zercher
Kathleen Willey
Elizabeth Ward
(and surely not the last) Monica
Now in 2012 Democrats and Obama chose Clinton to be the face of your party and claim the republicans have a war on women? Clinton abused his wife, disgraced his daughter, and is a sexual pervert and predator who attacked, intimidated, and destroyed vulnerable women. You King of No Where are in good company.
You dare call respectable conservative christian women Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin cheap republican whores? You King of No Where are in good company with Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party.
I call on American Spectator to censure your disgustingly offensive language. And every woman who reads A.S. and comments here should do the same.
Bob S| 8.26.12 @ 2:00AM
And now there's a Democrat Congressman saying the storm is a sign that "the gods" are favoring the Democrats.
Leathersmith| 8.26.12 @ 1:17PM
Seems like a lose/lose for the GOP to me. If the storm is formidable, the news cycle will be focused on the aftermath, and on the poor dependents who would be left unaided under Romney/Ryan. If the storm fizzles, the conventioneers will be branded as chickens for not staying the course. The Ministry of Propaganda could even tie Chick-Fil-A into the latter scenario, I suppose.
Grzmlyk| 8.27.12 @ 11:46AM
We are approaching the zenith of Republicans' self-delusional, and inevitable, infatuation with Romney. We've gone from rejecting him in '08, to to accepting his recycled campaign in '12, to enduring his stolid stamina during the debates, to embracing him relucantly as the presumptive nominee, to convincing ourselves that he DOES have a conservative bone in his body, to salivating over his pick of Paul Ryan, to swooning over his sometimes deft parrying of liberal smears and lies.
We now believe that Romney is the man of the moment for the GOP, for conservatism and for the country.
I believe he will be elected. And then the slide toward mediocrity, concessions to Realpolitik, reaching across the aisle to entice the liberal zeitgeist to "like" him, and bowing to liberal inertial momentum will begin in earnest such that, a year from now, we will be wondering where that dashing knight in shining armor disappeared to.
He never was.
I'll vote for him. I'll hope for the best. I even think he has a lot of good qualities - decent man, excellent manager, reasonably humble.
But I'm preparing for Just Another Republican President who peddles "Democrat Lite" as conservatism.
And even if he WERE the knight in shining armour we have convinced ourselves he is, his armour will provide very little protection against the buzz saw into which he will be thrust; he'll be a a bug on the windshield of the Beltway Juggernaut.