Harmor
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What is your opinion on how the Republicans are balancing their Convention (first ever to be interrupted by a natural disaster), and Hurrican Gustav?


What are the political ramifications, if any?
Spark
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Not sure. It's more for political reasons - they want media coverage - than anything else.
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FEOS
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Political ramifications: They get less time to attack Obama's campaign amongst themselves.

Really not a big deal.

In fact, since neither Bush nor Cheney will make the convention, it helps to separate McCain from Bush...which is a good thing for McCain.
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lowing
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I dunno but I find it ironic that the most violent people are democrats

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanm … _Paul.html

Nothing like trying to bash in a few heads to protest war and violence. gotta love a liberal with a cause
chittydog
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All liberals must be violent animals because one isolated incident involving a group of hypocritical morons accurately represents the everyday happenings of the rest of the group. With this form of reasoning, we can infer that all Republicans are closet homosexuals who meet for anonymous gay sex in public bathrooms because, ZOMGZ, Larry Craig is a Republican!!!

If you weren't so quick to judge entire groups by the actions of the lunatic fringe, people would probably listen to you more and argue less.


lowing's site wrote:

Delegates were shoved and spat upon by the protesters.
Unless they were attempting to bash heads with saliva, I think we can say you overstated the situation a little.
Bertster7
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Harmor wrote:

What is your opinion on how the Republicans are balancing their Convention (first ever to be interrupted by a natural disaster), and Hurrican Gustav?


What are the political ramifications, if any?
Political ramifications?

Well, it clearly indicates that God hates Republicans and is telling people not to vote for them.
chittydog
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Bertster7 wrote:

Harmor wrote:

What is your opinion on how the Republicans are balancing their Convention (first ever to be interrupted by a natural disaster), and Hurrican Gustav?


What are the political ramifications, if any?
Political ramifications?

Well, it clearly indicates that God hates Republicans and is telling people not to vote for them.
lol. As Colbert said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

I don't think there will be any political ramifications at all, positive or negative. Everyone (who didn't live in Gustav's path) was somewhat distracted by the hurricane, but not enough that they would have skipped the convention if they had planned on watching it anyway. I'm also guessing that most people are looking at it the same way I am, which is agreeing it was the right thing to postpone briefly, but not thinking they deserve any extra credit for it. Contrary to what lowing and sealxo may think, the Dems would have done the same thing, and would have received the same zero gain from it.

Last edited by chittydog (2008-09-02 08:32:50)

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+1,182|6831|'Murka

chittydog wrote:

Unless they were attempting to bash heads with saliva
"Normally you have to pay double for that action, Cotton."
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein

Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
lowing
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+1,662|7071|USA

chittydog wrote:

All liberals must be violent animals because one isolated incident involving a group of hypocritical morons accurately represents the everyday happenings of the rest of the group. With this form of reasoning, we can infer that all Republicans are closet homosexuals who meet for anonymous gay sex in public bathrooms because, ZOMGZ, Larry Craig is a Republican!!!

If you weren't so quick to judge entire groups by the actions of the lunatic fringe, people would probably listen to you more and argue less.


lowing's site wrote:

Delegates were shoved and spat upon by the protesters.
Unless they were attempting to bash heads with saliva, I think we can say you overstated the situation a little.
lol
TrueMusou
Member
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chittydog wrote:

Bertster7 wrote:

Harmor wrote:

What is your opinion on how the Republicans are balancing their Convention (first ever to be interrupted by a natural disaster), and Hurrican Gustav?


What are the political ramifications, if any?
Political ramifications?

Well, it clearly indicates that God hates Republicans and is telling people not to vote for them.
lol. As Colbert said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

I don't think there will be any political ramifications at all, positive or negative. Everyone (who didn't live in Gustav's path) was somewhat distracted by the hurricane, but not enough that they would have skipped the convention if they had planned on watching it anyway. I'm also guessing that most people are looking at it the same way I am, which is agreeing it was the right thing to postpone briefly, but not thinking they deserve any extra credit for it. Contrary to what lowing and sealxo may think, the Dems would have done the same thing, and would have received the same zero gain from it.
HAHA I didn't catch that from Colbert. He's full of gold ain't he?

As for how well they're handling the convention. I'm not a Republican, but I did catch bits and pieces of it. From what I could see the storm didn't affect it too much. Same boring bullshit they spew come rain or shine.

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