The GOP Convention MegaMittensThread!

[Neil]

kinda like how nobody's used the Veep pick to secure a region's electoral votes since 1960;

I thought that was part of the reason that Agnew got the nod.

[Queequeg]

Why is it that Tea Party types insist on making the Democrats sound like mid-30s Stalinists?  Central Planning, Communism, Socialism.....it's all weirdly archaic.  Kind of like railing against sans-culottes in the 1920s.

[derspiess]

I don't see how you can call that barely left of center.  It was solidly left-wing populist red meat.

Obama:

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

That's not even left of center.  It's from de Tocqueville:

I'm cool with that point, but that was just typical politician double-speak thrown in for cover.  His main applause lines were the populist red meat.

[derspiess]

I don't see how you can call that barely left of center.  It was solidly left-wing populist red meat.

Obama:

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

That's not even left of center.  It's from de Tocqueville:

Yeah, see, you just lost 98.5% of the Tea Party right there.

"de Towhat? COMMUNIST!"

Shows how well-informed you are about the Tea Party/Right.  They quote de Tocqueville all the time.

[CountDeMoney]

kinda like how nobody's used the Veep pick to secure a region's electoral votes since 1960;

I thought that was part of the reason that Agnew got the nod.

Meh, I think it was more because he was one of the less-crazy "southern" Rockefellerian Republicans with name recognition on the east coast.  And he had a combat personality only Nixon would like.
But nobody picks a Veep from Maryland to secure the south. 
It's funny, though:  as far as Carolinians, Georgians and the rest are concerned, Maryland is Yanquistani.  But you talk to a New Yorker or Bostonian, we're knee deep in Dixie.

[Neil]

kinda like how nobody's used the Veep pick to secure a region's electoral votes since 1960;

I thought that was part of the reason that Agnew got the nod.

Meh, I think it was more because he was one of the less-crazy "southern" Rockefellerian Republicans with name recognition on the east coast.  And he had a combat personality only Nixon would like.
But nobody picks a Veep from Maryland to secure the south. 
It's funny, though:  as far as Carolinians, Georgians and the rest are concerned, Maryland is Yanquistani.  But you talk to a New Yorker or Bostonian, we're knee deep in Dixie.

I think that was the point though.  He picks a guy that says 'Southern concens will have a voice in my administration', which was important to the Southern Strategy, but at the same time he avoids picking someone like Strom Thurmond who would have made half the country lose their shit.  Thurmond's power was more informal.

[Habbaku]

Romney called out Obama for hurting Medicare...so he plans to maintain Medicare and the massive defense budget while balancing the budget?



Glad to know he is going to stop Iran somehow.

Can't we just cut Planned Parenthood to solve all 3?

[derspiess]

But you talk to a New Yorker or Bostonian, we're knee deep in Dixie.

Some of those dipshits even think Pennsylvania is southern.

[Valmy]

Some of those dipshits even think Pennsylvania is southern.

Really New York and Boston only acknowledge California as also being important.  The three pillars of American Elitism.

[CountDeMoney]

But you talk to a New Yorker or Bostonian, we're knee deep in Dixie.

Some of those dipshits even think Pennsylvania is southern.

Well, in all honesty, everything between Pittsburgh and Philly is pretty fucking rebeltard.  And their state legislature's been acting the part.

[Valmy]

Well, in all honesty, everything between Pittsburgh and Philly is pretty fucking rebeltard.  And their state legislature's been acting the part.

How can good Pennsylvania men be pro rebel?

What would George Meade say?

[Ed Anger]

Well, in all honesty, everything between Pittsburgh and Philly is pretty fucking rebeltard.  And their state legislature's been acting the part.

How can good Pennsylvania men be pro rebel?

What would George Meade say?

Right now? Nothing. He's dead.

[Ed Anger]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/31/occupy-rnc-ends-in-tears-frustration/

A feel good story. 

[derspiess]

Right now? Nothing. He's dead.

Oh, I'm sure there's an animatronic Meade in a museum somewhere making excuses for why he didn't pursue Lee after Gettysburg.

[Ed Anger]

Right now? Nothing. He's dead.

Oh, I'm sure there's an animatronic Meade in a museum somewhere making excuses for why he didn't pursue Lee after Gettysburg.

Squee