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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:32 AM Sep 2012

JOE SCARBOROUGH-Conventional warfare: Why Democrats won

By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 9/7/12 9:39 AM EDT

It’s fashionable to say that conventions don’t matter. And it’s true that it’s 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 week’s 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 Eastwood’s chair.


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JOE SCARBOROUGH-Conventional warfare: Why Democrats won (Original Post) kpete Sep 2012 OP
The GOP have nothing. Their "rising stars" are boring with no new ideas livetohike Sep 2012 #1
"the most compelling speaker in Tampa, Fla., was Clint Eastwood’s chair." Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #2
you know they know they got one helluva spanking when they are freely admitting it like they are. corkhead Sep 2012 #3
What does Clint want with his crow? Frustratedlady Sep 2012 #4

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
1. The GOP have nothing. Their "rising stars" are boring with no new ideas
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:48 AM
Sep 2012

If Scarborough could admit this, imagine what the rest of the GOP are thinking?

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,789 posts)
2. "the most compelling speaker in Tampa, Fla., was Clint Eastwood’s chair."
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:03 AM
Sep 2012


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