Three more Republican speakers added to DNC program...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

You may vent at your leisure...

[Lars39]

1. Why are we marginalizing ourselves?

[DFW]

2. Former Gov. Whitman, I can understand

The HP Whitman, I don't get, unless she has promised to use some of her famous acid comments on her Party's nominee. If THAT is the case, she can get really nasty, and I'd love to see Republicans reeling from getting bitten by their own pet rattlesnake.

[RhodeIslandOne]

26. All that's missing is Carly Fiorina

Another one who never won a goddamn thing in her life.

[George II]

59. "...unless she has promised to use some of her famous acid comments on her Party's nominee"...

She already did back in 2016, when she endorsed Hillary Clinton and contributed to her campaign.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Almost a Whitman sampler

[lagomorph777]

20. A surprise inside every one!

A rotting crunchy frog.
https://vimeo.com/379670532

[MuseRider]

4. I understand this

but I do not like it. We never come out of these shake hands across the great divide without losing. I do understand this so I will not be critical but I sure wish we were keeping our convention for ourselves.

At least they are not just random choices who are simply R's with a slight liberal bent (or not) there is a good reason these people were chosen. Mostly I do not like Kasich since we know he is itching to run next time, we really do not want him to gain creds here.

Hoping for the best.

[PCIntern]

17. Agreed in toto.

[HotTeaBag]

5. It feels more and more that we'll be treated to the same 'Orange Man Bad' speeches over and over.

I do hope that some of our speakers spend some time laying out the positives of having Joe and Kamala in the White House.

[brooklynite]

45. What is you basis for this assumption?

[HotTeaBag]

51. It's pretty much all there is and has been for weeks

outside of a handful of ads.

Right now a great many people are voting against Trump and not for Biden and I hope that the convention will change that and people will gain more enthusiasm with regard to voting for Joe.

58% of registered voters who support Joe Biden in the 2020 election say their vote is more in opposition to President Trump than in support of Biden, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll out Sunday.

https://www.axios.com/biden-trump-poll-against-3afb9853-427c-4c85-8673-ed64d6a0a5f5.html

[MacKasey]

6. Don't you remember David and Julie Eisenhower endorsing Obama

I don't believe they spoke at the convention, someone correct me if I am wrong, but Obama lined up republicans who supported him.

Biden is doing the same, showing that he can reach across the aisle and get things done for the good of the American people.

Anything that irritates Trump is a good thing!

[BGBD]

32. Republicans absolutely

spoke at the 2008 Democratic Convention. He also appointed republicans to high level in his cabinet.

[Budi]

7. Well, at least they're encouraging their base to vote for Biden!!

Bring em on board. This is not a typical election.

Trump HAS to be defeated.
Nothing happens without this 1st step.

[RhodeIslandOne]

27. What base?

Every single one of them has been out of politics for almost 20 years or never won a fucking thing and drove companies into the ground.

[Budi]

30. They all have supporters. Old or new. And they speak to them & anyone hiding in shame from Trump

They aren't invisible & they indeed bring supporters.


A vote for Biden is a vote against the catastrophy of Donald Trump.

It's pretty simple.

[RhodeIslandOne]

31. Are you sure about that?

Meg Whitman got whipped in a governor's race by 14 points, 10 years ago in a heavy Republican year. Never. Won. A. Thing.

Who is clamoring for Meg Whitman's opinion? Really? Show your work.

Meanwhile, Katie Porter won a traditionally Republican district in the same state in 2018. She;s in OUR party!

But she's mean when she asks tough questions of Ben Carson or Nancy DeVos. I guess America doesn't want to hear someone like that.

[Budi]

38. Sure ok.

I wanted Katie Porter to take AOC's speaking slot.
But...oh well.

[Bradshaw3]

8. When they get to Dick Cheney, then I'll vent

Until then, so what. It's an opportunity to get as many swing voters as we can in order to win the presidency and the senate and save our democracy. That's all that matters.

[Ilsa]

13. looking for W to endorse them over trump-putin. nt

[Bradshaw3]

16. I'll believe it when I see it

Maybe but W has never been known for his backbone or morals. He was just as much a useful idiot of the economic elites as raygun.

[Budi]

33. Ok. Definately not Cheney!

There's literally nothing he could say to get that invite.

I'd predict a mass revolt.
gross..
🤢

[aeromanKC]

9. Great to see Dems expanding the tent against Trump!!

You just know MAGAt's are trying to dig up a Dem to talk at the RNC next week. Well, not going to be Webb this year. I think I saw he is on board with Biden this year. And Jill Stein doesn't count.

But regardless, great to see the Dems expanding their tent against Trump this cycle!!!!!!

[EarlG]

10. Same principle as the Lincoln Project

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If a bunch of Republicans want to get up there and speak on behalf of Biden while denouncing Trump, fine by me.

We have an incredibly broad range of political speakers at our convention this year, from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at one end to John Kasich and Susan Molinari at the other. That would seem to indicate the size of the coalition for Biden this time around.

Who's Trump going to have? Richard Spencer and Jacob Wohl?

Getting rid of Trump is the ONLY goal this year. That said, I still don't buy into this idea that just because some Republicans are going to speak at our convention, it means the Democratic Party is suddenly going to be taking orders from Meg Whitman.

[MineralMan]

11. I agree.

If any of those Republican speakers can swing voters over to the Biden/Harris ticket, the more the better.

The enemy of my enemy and all that...

[2naSalit]

15. +1

[still_one]

18. I agree Earl. This isn't about supporting republicans, but trying to motivate republicans to vote

for Biden/Harris

[onetexan]

42. +1 K&R

[diva77]

12. Our airwaves & print media are controlled by rethuglicans; even public tv & radio. If rethugs want

to vote for Biden/Harris, great, but we shouldn't be giving up what's left of our disproportionately minute slice of media, ESPECIALLY the DEMOCRATIC Convention.

Let rethugs broadcast their "come to the light" messages on rethug outlets.

[Cetacea]

24. +1000

There is no "liberal media".

[octoberlib]

14. Only thing I care about is winning. So be it.

[still_one]

19. exactly

[lagomorph777]

22. Haven't we tried Pub Lite for years? Did it ever work?

Seems like a horrible idea to me.

[JI7]

43. no we never tried that. Only ones who say things like that ended up supporting Trump

[lagomorph777]

47. ? I disagree. We drifted to the right for years; Gore, Kerry, even Clinton.

And, no, I can't imagine anybody on the left, like me, ever considering Trump to be anything but a horrible piece of shit.

[octoberlib]

50. I live in a purple state where our Senate and Presidential races are close, within 1-3 %

Crossover voters , whether Independents or Republicans are a must here for us to win. So, yes, concerning the electoral college states , it does work.

[Sympthsical]

56. But Meg Whitman? Why? Who is she drawing in?

She lost her major race spectacularly.

Put Katie Porter in there. Let's highlight our bench and get them more exposure. We have a great bench.

We do not need these people.

[irisblue]

21. 3 Republican women are the ones Kasich was teasing yesterday?

Aged pale wealthy republicans?

Geeezzzzz

[tinrobot]

23. It sends the message to Republicans that it is OK to vote against the party.

Well, at least it is OK this time.

I'm cool with that.

[Leith]

25. Yeah, I agree with this

I will wait to hear them before I decide on how good their speeches are.

[SharonClark]

28. I don't care as long as the Biden campaign has

reason to believe it will bring gop voters to Biden.

But I don’t want to see any republicans in the cabinet or other high appointments. There are plenty of Dems who can lead, we don’t need them to govern.

[edhopper]

29. Let's keep our eyes on the prize here

Will any of these speakers turn away any Dem voters? No.
Could these speakers bring over any conservative voters who don't feel good about Trump? Yes.

We want to win, not prove how pure our Party is.

[Doremus]

35. That's a big assumption.

Will any of these speakers turn away any Dem voters? No.

[JI7]

40. Then it's even more important we try to get other votes since people who claim

to be Democrats wil be turned away from voting Biden based on who speaks at a convention.

That means they can't be relied on if something like that makes them not vote.

[lagomorph777]

48. If it makes people conclude that Biden's not serious about undoing Trumpism,

some might sit this one out. And it could turn out to be the last election ever.

[JI7]

49. Exactly, if they sooo easily decide not to support Biden over this we can't rely on them

They claim to be Democrats and to oppose Trump but then don't want to vote for Biden because there are anti Trump republicans that will speak in supporf of Biden over Trump.

[lagomorph777]

52. Right, we should just discard decent people who are weighing whether to risk COVID etc.

... because we just might attract a couple of MAGATs.

[JI7]

57. They aren't decent people if they don't vote for Biden over Trump. And republicans who vote Biden

are not MAGA.

So their objection seems to be that people are supporting Biden.

[lagomorph777]

58. OK one more try.

Somebody who's left-leaning might conclude from the slate of speakers, that Biden is not going to actually save the country; maybe he'll just do whatever Republicans want.

Somebody who's right-leaning already has his guy; Trump.

Whose vote are we more likely to get? The right-leaning jerk, or the left-leaning discouraged person? The answer should be pretty easy. So why are we falling all over ourselves, again, to please the mythical "white working class" (euphemism for MAGAT) voter?

[JI7]

60. They are not left leaning. They are right wing leaning. People can claim to be anything

I look at their actions. If they aren't voting Biden over Trump becsuse there are republicans that will speak in support of the Democratic candidate over Trump then those actions show their problem is with Biden getting support.

They prefer Trump by their actions. Just like Trump claims to not be racist we see by his actions he clearly is a racist.

[Budi]

36. K & R Well stated.

"We want to win, not prove how pure our Party is."

We have ONE shot at salvaging what remains of our country from a foreign coup.

ONE!
1
O.N.E

It's not a difficult decision.

[Doremus]

34. So no need to watch tonight. Thanks for the heads up. nt

[Budi]

37. Here's who you'll miss

CONVENTION PROGRAM (09:00 PM - 011:00 PM)

Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Representative Jim Clyburn
Convention Chairman Bennie Thompson
Representative Gwen Moore
Senator Doug Jones
-- Performance by Maggie Rogers
-- Performance by Leon Bridges
Senator Bernie Sanders
Former First Lady Michelle Obama

If none of these speakers are worth watching, then who are you waiting for?

I will record & watch as many as I want..over & over again.

You may do as you wish.

[JI7]

41. I wonder what they want to watch if they don't care to watch any of these people

[JI7]

44. I wish the poster would say why they have a problem with these people

[Budi]

46. Right. Considering this entire Convention is a mandate against Donald Trump et al.

There are certainly some speakers that I don't care to hear from, but to write off an entire night of some of the best speakers we could ask for, is confusing.

Who does the poster want then?

Who doesn't want to hear the ever gracious & eloquent,.. the brilliance & purpose driven voice of Michele Obama.

Millions will tune in just because of her & I'm one of them.

[crickets]

39. You might want to check in toward the end for Michelle Obama. nt

[Doremus]

55. I will.

I didn't realize she's on tonight as I can only scan posts here once in a while during the day.

Thanks for the suggestion btw.

[erpowers]

53. Agree With This Tweet

I agree with most of what this tweet says. I think the DNC could have given these slots to up and coming Democrats. I disagree with the notion that Democrats need to try to get Republicans to vote for the Democratic Party. As far as I know, the real problem that Hillary Clinton faced in 2016 was that the Obama Coalition stayed home.

The slots that were given to Republicans could have been given to the Mayor of Ferguson, the President of the College Democrats, the President of the Young Democrats, the President of the Wisconsin College Democrats, or the President of the Wisconsin Young Democrats. If those individuals have already been given speaking spots, then the spots could have been given to other up and coming Democrats, or even other well known Democrats.

[Sympthsical]

54. At least Ted Lieu threw down over Yang

And Lieu really never criticizes the party, so that was something.

I really have no idea who Meg Whitman is supposed to attract. I'm not sure I've ever heard her name after she lost her bid.

Our party really needs to understand the reality we're living in now. They're playing politics like it's 2000. We need a party that plays politics like it's 2030.