Official Republican National Convention 2012 Discussion Thread

[Yank2133]

As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

Pandering hard, aren't we Mitt?

[CLARENCE 2015!]

Romney excerpts
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/08/romney-convention-speech-i-wish-president-obama-had-133881.html

Fantastic...

[Vosem]

As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

At least Romney's pandering to women by saying things he's done, rather than Obama's pandering to women by saying things the other side would do.

And, honestly, 'pandering' is just 'campaigning' with a negative connotation.

[Yank2133]

As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

At least Romney's pandering to women by saying things he's done, rather than Obama's pandering to women by saying things the other side would do.

And, honestly, 'pandering' is just 'campaigning' with a negative connotation.

Romney's is pandering on stuff that is irrelevant to women.

No one cares if you hired women in your businesses or put women in positions in your admin, since Obama has done that as well.

[Likely Voter]

When watching Mitt's speech it is worth keeping in mind that his campaign has zeroed in on white women as the key demo to flip to his side, specifically uneducated white women and suburban married white women. They are the key to getting him to that magical number of 61% of total whites. They arleady have the white men and know they are losing single white women and educated white women.

[J. J.]

As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

At least Romney's pandering to women by saying things he's done, rather than Obama's pandering to women by saying things the other side would do.

And, honestly, 'pandering' is just 'campaigning' with a negative connotation.

Romney's is pandering on stuff that is irrelevant to women.

No one cares if you hired women in your businesses or put women in positions in your admin, since Obama has done that as well.

Women like to have a paycheck just as much as men.

[Peeperkorn]

Well, it has just started on youtube.

[Peeperkorn]

Performing again "My Girl".....looking for female voters?

[Peeperkorn]

Dr. Cain on Fox.

[Yank2133]

As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

At least Romney's pandering to women by saying things he's done, rather than Obama's pandering to women by saying things the other side would do.

And, honestly, 'pandering' is just 'campaigning' with a negative connotation.

Romney's is pandering on stuff that is irrelevant to women.

No one cares if you hired women in your businesses or put women in positions in your admin, since Obama has done that as well.

Women like to have a paycheck just as much as men.

Agreed.

Hence why Obama is leading among woman......

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yankee, they've (the democrats) have abandoned Jefferson and Jackson and embraced Wilson, Roosevelt and Obama. I'm a lifelong Republican and  I personally don't trace my idealogical roots through Lincolin. This is my republican root tree. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Cleveland, Coolidge, Taft, Goldwater, Reagan, Paul. You do bring up a really strong point . Can't the GOP make an argument of claiming Jefferson and Madison as one of their own?

I guess my grandmas New Dealer roots have some side effects I need to get out of me without taking the positives out.

Of course you can make such an argument because the GOP has embraced many of their princples and views of Gov't in terms of the Constitution, size and scope of gov't, etc etc. The point I am making is you have to look at motivations and desired interests also, not just static ideologies and positions through time. Indeed in the 1830's, many former Jeffersonians were brought into the fold of the Whig party in opposition to Jackson, and many Jefferson-Jackson Democrats were brought into the GOP in the 1850's and 1860's. And throughout the subsequent decades in the 20th Century, millions of small gov't Democrats migrated to the GOP.

Anyway, Convention time.

[Peeperkorn]

they pray? lol wtf

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

they pray? lol wtf

Yes they pray. Will the Dems pray at theirs?

Yes convention time. And in honor of Clint Eastwood, "Go ahead, make my day."

[後援会]

"Blame America First crowd". Heh. Jean Kirkpatrick is smiling down from heaven.

Though I don't think this is actually a good speech.

[Peeperkorn]

they pray? lol wtf

Yes they pray. Will the Dems pray at theirs?

Yes convention time. And in honor of Clint Eastwood, "Go ahead, make my day."

Oh please, Eastwood is my favourite director. And I guess that the majority of republicans in that convention haven't seen Mystic River, Unforgiven or One Million Dollar Baby.

[Angel of Death]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone sound as overrehearsed as the guy currently speaking.

[Peeperkorn]

Reagan again?

[Spamage]

LOL It must be killing Newt to speak nice about Mitt.

[後援会]

This is so weird. Can we tell people to never do duet speeches ever again?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Can the GOP just replace the elephant with a photo of Reagan? Please?

[Likely Voter]

LOL It must be killing Newt to speak nice about Mitt.

reminds me of this

http://www.hulu.com/watch/1608

[後援会]

Not amazing. It was okay, but usually Gingrich is a much better speaker. You know, it's what he uses to gloss over his 500 other horrible vulnerabilities.

[Peeperkorn]

They should have put Gingrich alone.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Reagan was a horrible President even by his own proclaimed standards. Why do the Republicans love him so much? Because of his "charisma"?

[後援会]

You know, Latino and Hispanic aren't synonymous. But I guess there isn't a large Brazilian-American community to get annoyed...