Paul Ryan’s convention speech mashed up with clips from a P90X video. Brilliant.
Only 36 percent of those who listened to or watched the Republican convention said that it made them more likely to vote for Romney, versus 46 percent less likely. As far back as 1984, there is no precedent for a convention that repels more voters than it attracts… While the impact of the Democratic convention was below average, the Republicans managed to stage the least effective convention in modern political history.Mitt Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Campaign | The New Republic (via felixsalmon)
President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.Clint Eastwood • Reacting to the negative reaction (particularly from the left) his RNC speech drew. Eastwood spoke to his tiny local paper, the Carmel Pine Cone, in the first interview he gave since the speech. (Eastwood was once mayor of Carmel, Calif.) Regarding how Eastwood got away with such a strange speech, he made this claim: “They vett most of the people, but I told them, ‘You can’t do that with me, because I don’t know what I’m going to say.’” Turns out it involved talking to a chair.
Here’s how social media helped Obama steal Romney’s convention thunder last week. Let’s see if the tables will turn now that it’s the Dems show.(via How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media | TechCrunch - Image source)
“Sure, Obama has the spotlight advantage because he’s the President, but it goes to show that all the money and staging in the world can’t compete with cleverness.”
Mitt Romney accepts Republican presidential nomination
“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one,” Mitt Romney said after accepting his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
“And unlike the President, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. Paul Ryan and I have 5 steps.” Read Romney’s prepared remarks on CNNPhoto: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan onstage at the RNC after Romney’s speech. (Getty Images) via CNN
And in case you missed it, Clint Eastwood talked to a chair for ten minutes, just because:
So basically, if you’re sick of the 2012 election, you didn’t miss anything outside of the video above.
I interviewed Meghan McCain at the RNC in Tampa August 28. Topics included the War on Women, Todd Akin, and the perception of women in the political sphere. McCain also discussed the pressures of being a commentator who’s always in the public eye, and women’s sometimes distorted body image. We also touched on why it’s dangerous for the GOP to seek ideological purity over Ronald Reagan’s big tent.
— Meg
Great interview by Meg, who is one of the Tumblr users that had a chance to visit the RNC this year.
Ann Romney … looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles — eh! It’s hard for me to believe. I mean, she’s a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.Fox News contributor Juan Williams • Following Ann Romney’s Tuesday night speech at the Republican National Convention, widely received in conservative circles as one of the most effective speeches ever delivered by a politician’s wife, during post-speech coverage with fellow hosts Bret Baier, Brit Hume, and Megyn Kelly. Given his history of troublesome rhetoric, his co-hosts gave Williams a chance to explain. When asked by Kelly to clarify his “corporate wife” comments, Williams replied that Mrs. Romney’s clearly did not accurately represent a “tremendous” number of women. “She did not convince me that, ‘You know what, I understand the struggles of American women in general,” added Williams. So, do you think he went too far? source (via • follow)
WTF?
The incident would be ugly anywhere, but it is especially troubling for a party whose nominee attracted 0 percent of the black vote in a recent NBC poll.
In case you didn’t hear about this, this is perhaps the lowest point of the entire 2012 campaign.
Romney formally secures Republican presidential nomination
CNN: New Jersey cast the votes that put Mitt Romney over the top to win the Republican nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Follow updates from the convention on BreakingNews.com.
Photo via CNN
“Over the top.” For people already sick of the 2012 race, that has more than one meaning.
It wouldn’t be my speech. That would undo everything I’ve done in the last 30 years. I don’t fully endorse him for president.Rep. Ron Paul • Explaining why, despite being given an opportunity to do so, he’s chosen to avoid speaking at the Republican National Convention. Paul would’ve been given the opportunity to speak as long as his words were a) vetted by Romney and b) in endorsement of the Republican nominee. No dice. Instead, Paul held an event of his own Sunday, bringing the true believers down to the University of South Florida to hear Paul’s final presidential campaign speech. This is likely Paul’s last big hurrah as an elected official — having just turned 77, he retires from Congress in January — but he leaves an army of supporters behind.
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No final decision has been made but anxiety is running high as the storm churns northward.
Officials are currently planning to make the call one way or the other Sunday morning, according to a source on the ground in Tampa.
A delayed start could involve a full cancellation of Monday’s events and a rescheduling of speeches across the four planned days of the convention.
Tropical Storm Isaac is clearly a Democrat. Seriously though, this is probably a smart move.
UPDATE: The first day of the convention has been cancelled.
» Not making an appearance? Joe Biden: Days after the Democratic vice president scheduled a politically-unprecedented visit to Tampa to coincide with the other party’s convention, he cancelled it “due to disaster preparedness and local security concerns” regarding the potentially-damaging Hurricane Isaac, according to the Obama campaign. The convention is still on despite the oncoming hurricane, by the way.
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Tampa’s mayor said he’s prepared to call off the Republican National Convention if it’s threatened by a hurricane.
Given that the Tampa Convention Center sits smack in the center of an evacuation zone that would be inundated with water in a Category 1 hurricane, Mayor Bob Buckhorn suggested that the GOP might want to start thinking about contingency plans.
“Absolutely, we’re prepared to call it off,” Buckhorn told CNN. “I mean, human safety and human life trump politics. I think the RNC recognizes that, the organizers, certainly Gov. Romney recognizes that. Whatever we do will be based on getting people out of harm’s way. Politics will take second place.”
But will it? Right on queue, some are questioning his political motives.
What’s worse, a torrent of criticism or an actual hurricane? More at 11.
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