2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis is my eighth Republican Convention and I have never felt so sick to my stomach as I do now.
Parading a grieving mom across the stage so she can place her son's blood on Hillary is a low I've never before seem. How many sons were killed by Cheney and the Dim Son in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many are not walking this earth simply because Donald Rumsfeld would not properly equip the troops? I'm speechless!!
FUCK THEM!!!!!!!
MFM008
(19,837 posts)Nausea.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)and now I'm offended that Schmidt said it was okay because the 9/11 widows spoke at the 2004 convention.
sarae
(3,284 posts)I can't believe I'm watching such an unmitigated shit show.
MADem
(135,425 posts)But, ya know, that IS what they do. Not the first time, won't be the last.
They were showing previous conventions on CSPAN this week, and the 92 RNC one was a doozy--I sat in my home with friends and family and we roared with horrified laughter when Pat Buchanan started railing about the Lez-bee-ans and the Ho-mo-SEX-you-alls! The guy was like a wet hen--SO mad, SO annoyed, SO aggrieved that these Ho-mo-SEX-you-alls (!!!) breathed the same air as he did! Oh, The LIFESTYLE!!!
It was unintentional hilarity, but we all were rolling on the floor at how mad he was getting, and how the idiot crowd was cheering him on. Hell, I'll bet a good chunk of those fools are out now! LOL!
Ellen Forradalom
(16,161 posts)that it sounded better in the original German?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,257 posts)Out of 4 deaths they found the one family member with an ax to grind.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)spewing hate and fear ... riling up the crowd to a rabid, frothing, frenzy. I am truly afraid for our country ... I just want to curl up in a ball and cry.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Volaris
(10,281 posts)I'm GLAD this is happening. LET the hatemongers show thebody politic what the Republican party has been for a half century--cause this is who they really are.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)The same type of crap heaped upon Kerry, to a different degree. Rovian tactics are alive and kicking. Can't even talk to my conservative veteran friends about Benghazi without them blowing a gasket. Remember, everything the Swiftboat assholes said about Kerry was false - all of it!
elmac
(4,642 posts)I thought that was their all time low point but they keep finding new ways of showing what a bunch of un-American assholes they are.
coco77
(1,327 posts)have been hearing this day in and day out for 24/7 for years so they believe it.
PatSeg
(47,774 posts)I couldn't watch the entire speech. The RNC should be ashamed.
AnnieBW
(10,482 posts)I'd rather clean the cat boxes than watch this shit show.
lucca18
(1,246 posts)This convention is so full of hate, lies, and cruelty, that it has become shameful.
I am beyond angry in that I feel a profound sadness in what is happening tonight.
I hope the American people totally rejects this travesty........
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)Just they have a candidate that is not above doing it too this time.
The whole production is a simmering cesspool of bullshit. Jeff Sessions about put me to sleep. Now it's good ol' Rudy.
On edit- Rudy is going all out fear.
Peace
DinahMoeHum
(21,842 posts)as the late great Molly Ivins once said.
Ellen Forradalom
(16,161 posts)Molly is sorely missed
adigal
(7,581 posts)This is just a Hate-Fest
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts). . .. that one of the guys from Benghazi spoke the whole time with his zipper open??
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)SunSeeker
(51,820 posts)What a shit show, complete with the jingoistic USA-USA-USA chants from the GOP crowd.
kairos12
(12,906 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)I remember the Humvees that carried our troops into Iraq had not armor and the soldiers had to scavenge metal to put on the Humvees for protection.
Hekate
(91,055 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Tonight marks the first time a speaker for whom English is a second language addressed the convention since Sarah Palin did so in 2008.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)Skittles
(153,318 posts)STOP IT OLDREDNECK, YER KILLING ME
applegrove
(118,962 posts)Iraq after Sadam. al Bagdad dis two top generals are former bathists in Saddam's army. Why ISIS was so successful.