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By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 9/7/12 9:39 AM EDT
Its fashionable to say that conventions dont matter. And its true that its been a generation and a half since the last time there was genuine drama in real time (that was 1980 in Detroit, with its near-miss with the Reagan-Ford dream ticket).
They do matter, though. Maybe not in the way Detroit did, or Chicago in 1968 did, or Los Angeles in 1960 did. But impressions are created amid confetti and cable coverage that reach political civilians (another way of describing normal Americans) that, together with the autumn debates, tend to clarify and even decide presidential elections.
Which is why Republicans should be particularly glum this weekend. The further Democrats progressed into their convention this week in Charlotte, N.C., the more glaring the shortcomings of last weeks GOP convention became. By the time the last of the confetti fell on the DNC convention floor, it became frustratingly clear that the most compelling speaker in Tampa, Fla., was Clint Eastwoods chair.
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livetohike
(22,084 posts)If Scarborough could admit this, imagine what the rest of the GOP are thinking?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)(on edit swapped pictures; that'll teach me to preview)
corkhead
(6,119 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)The rocking chair is calling you, Clint. Give it up.