A Recap of the RNC. (AKA "Profiles in Clownage")

[TrollBuster9090]

Day One: The Party that believes global warming isn't real, and natural disasters are god's way of punishing the wicked has their Convention washed out by a hurricane. None of them notice the irony.

Day Two: Some racists throw peanuts at an African-American woman, Ann Romney does a bad impersonation of an airline stewardess pointing out the emergency exits, and Hurricane Isaac hits Louisiana prompting Bobby Jindal to whine that he's not getting ENOUGH help from the federal government. President Obama responds by sending Jindal a tape of his 2009 State of the Union Address rebuttal entitled "Americans Can Do Anything (without government)."

Day Three: Paul Ryan makes a speech that causes the press to launch into a semantics debate on the differences between LIES and 'factually incorrect statements,' and whether the truth even MATTERS to the Republican base anymore. Ryan is left confused as to why he never got his compulsory props for having a ripped set of abs.

Day Four: A senile old man has a rhetorical debate with an empty chair, and loses. (I can only assume the Straw-Man had decided to go to a strip club for a lap dance, and the chair was a last minute substitution.)

I gather that SOMEWHERE in there the GOP chose a presidential candidate, and he made a speech of some sort, but I really didn't notice. Did anybody catch it?

[LeftofObama]

1. Sums it up perfectly!

This is the recap everyone should be talking about!

[baldguy]

2. And GOP partisans crow that it was a big success!

It was everything they could have imagined & hoped for!

[lindysalsagal]

3. As long as no one has to air an ad claiming not to be a witch, it's a success.

Gotta keep in all in perspective. You betcha.

[TrollBuster9090]

10. Hahah! Very true. But the sad thing is that George Bush lowered expectations for Republicans so

much that the voting public ALSO thinks of that as a success.

Neither is the press immune from 'The Soft Prejudice of Lowered (Republican) Expectations.' Witness Chuck "Friar Tuck" Todd's stupid comments about Democratic Party 'envy' of the 'diversity' of speakers at the RNC. They round up BOTH of the TWO Republican Congressman who happen to be African Americans and have them as speakers, and suddenly it becomes the 'man bites dog' story of the Republican Party's big tent diversity.

[FSogol]

4. My favorite comment on the convention

Frank Conniff: "Hey, Condoleezza Rice, You Didn't Build That. But you did let it explode and fall to the ground by not doing your job."

[deutsey]

6. There it is.

[TrollBuster9090]

11. As soon as Condi Rice opened her mouth, the mystery of why the Republicans never ran her for office

was suddenly removed. I was amazed by how inept she was at making a political speech. Oh well...back to the American Enterprise Institute for her, I guess.

[Waiting For Everyman]

5. K&R and a Tweet for that!

True, succinct, and funny!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Full of clowns

[TrollBuster9090]

12. Apparently Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have to ride in a cage on the roof

of the Republican Clown Car this year. Poor guys.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. They invited the man on the left (pic) but ...

[TrollBuster9090]

13. There's a reason they didn't invite the orangutan instead. He's currently serving as the Republican

SCIENCE ADVISER.

[uponit7771]

9. +1