Whoever decided to have Jim Leach speak at 10pm on the first night should be fired from the campaign

[scheming daemons]

Dumb.


That's the kind of guy you have speak at 7pm when the place is half empty.


What a buzz kill.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

1. Helps A LOT in Iowa

which is still a swing state.

[scheming daemons]

5. It hurts AROUND the country. He was BORING. In Prime Time.

Dumb.

[Cha]

8. Yeah, it was okay...Senator

McCaskill has brought it up fast with her common sense.

[Catch22Dem]

2. You ain't too bright, is you?

He's a reupb supporting Obama, he speaks in prime time, period.

[Teaser]

4. yeah, fine, but

I wish he was a little livelier.

[CoffeeCat]

12. Maybe they can bring him back

...on tomorrow night and he can juggle flaming kitties.

:eyes:

[Teaser]

19. Now you are talking.

This is TeeVee. Valuable entertainment hours are being WASTED!

[scheming daemons]

22. Look.... you have to HOLD the audience.... having a guy with a boring monotone voice,

who sounds like Bert from Sesame Street doesn't do it.


More Teddy Kennedy, please... and less monotonic Republicans that nobody ever heard of.

[scheming daemons]

10. If he was an ENGAGING repub who wouldn't bore people to tears, you'd be right...

TV sets all across the nations were switching to non-convention coverage as soon as that guy started speaking.


Like watching paint dry.



You can't have BORING in prime time.

[Catch22Dem]

20. He should have emulated Zell Miller

And challenged someone to a duel. That's some killer prime time entertainment there.

[speedoo]

3. Ummm. Did you actually listen to him?

I thought it was a fantastic speech.

[sammytko]

24. I thought it was a great speech also.

I didn't notice a bad delivery -

[Breeze54]

6. You suck at chess, I'll bet?

:shrug:

[CoffeeCat]

7. Actually, my husband was just wondering...

...where Jim Leach was.

He made the point that Leach is the kind of guy who can help
us win elections. He's a Republican, who has crossed over to
support Obama, and Leach is respected.

He demonstrates Obama's universal appeal, and could help to draw
some Republicans, or at least get them thinking.

Also, it's impressive to some Independents, who like the idea of
a candidate crossing political boundaries.

I think giving Leach a primo time slot is a great idea.

[scheming daemons]

14. He may be all those things, but he's a TERRIBLE public speaker....

It's great that he's supporting Obama.... but he's DRY and he could give that speech earlier in the evening, instead of boring every independent voter in the country that we're trying to get.


It was such a downer following Kennedy.

[DJ13]

9. This is a political convention, not Cirque du Solei

:rofl:

[CoffeeCat]

17. Good one...

Maybe if Leach had been on a trapeze--sweeping across the convention air until
he clasps hands with a sparkly-leotard-clad Oprah.

Ya gotta have he sparkles, my friend!

[QC]

21. LOL! n/t

[elleng]

11. You're aware

that there are SEVERAL time zones in the U.S., right?

[Colobo]

13. A Republican speaking for Obama is always good.

[scheming daemons]

16. Not if it causes 50% of the television audience to change the channel out of boredom

[book_worm]

15. hardly anyone covered it anyway, unlike Lieberman everybody will cover that next week.

[scheming daemons]

18. Well... the good news is... Michelle has a VERY easy act to follow...

[stillcool]

23. Jeez..here I thought it was the..

"Democratic National Convention".

[madrchsod]

25. jim is one of the last real republicans

i was not paying attention to who was speaking but jim`s one of the few republicans left that has principals. whether we like him or not he does deserve respect for standing for what he believes in and respecting those who disagree with him. it takes respect and trust in and for each other to get things done in the senate...that is what the senate used to have. but the band of thugs the republicans have become there is very little left of that "balance"