I had to watch my New York Football Giants beat the New England Patriots again. So, catch me up to speed on the convention tonight. What has happened so far?
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Wait, they’re doing the convention again tonight? WTF are they thinking?!?
Doubling down because GWB told them that it works sometimes.
“I/we/you built that” in a continuous loop. Bad music.
I hope the Dem convention makes a big joke of it. They could play “I built this city (on rock and roll)” and actually be permitted to play it, unlike the Republicans who can only play glorified elevator music as if you’re on hold for three hours. Which you are because nothing is being said that isn’t false or boring.
Am thinking that the Democrats should do a pre-recorded “setting the record straight” for each of the GOP speakers interspersed with the live comments from delegates as they perform community service work in NC.
I don’t think they should talk about the Republicans at all. Just go out, have a blast, and show that they’re not just 100% behind, but that they 100% believe in and are EXCITED ABOUT, President Obama. That will provide enough contrast with the Republican convention, where it seems like Romney had to pay off each subsequent speaker increasingly high amounts merely to mention his name.
How did that strategy work for Kerry wrt to the Swiftboat lies? Sorry — the GOP SuperPacs are going to be pushing those lies from now until November. Might was well use the DEM convention free air-time to begin a strong pushback.
That’s fair. I do feel that we have a strong advantage this time in that the GOP has put forth a candidate that nobody is excited about in the least, and we should push that advantage wherever possible.
The two routes are not mutually exclusive.
Did anyone mention Romney tonight? Maybe Ryan did?
WHY ARE THEY ALL SO BORING?
True story – I thought I had flipped the Republican convention coverage on earlier tonight, but I just looked over at my teevee and realized it is off.
I feel somewhat better about myself because of this.
Because they are rich spoiled Republicans!
Obama sux, Biden sux, Pelosi and Wasserman-Schultz suck. Obama crashed the US economy and Condi claimed something wrt 9/11. Oh, and the Huckster went a bit Lester Maddox for fun.
They seem not to approve of the President. Oh, dear. Its a good thing that the people inclined to accuse people of treason for such acts are at the convention.
Joined the ranks of the most mendacious, manipulative, duplicitous public speakers in political history; as Molly Ivins once said, “it probably sounded better in the original German.” Orwell would have not been surprised in the least.
The arena was filled to capacity with lies.
You didn’t miss anything. 98% of the crap out of the Zombie-eyed Granny-starver’s mouth was a lie. He lied about the Janesville plant closing under Obama(when it actually happened under Dubya). And it all went downhill from there.
Ryan’s speech was lies and rhetoric, delivered in a whining, callow fashion. At least that’s what it sounded like to me, listening to it on the radio while driving. Condoleeza Rice had a lot more class, although she spoke on a very general level about America’s position in the world. She didn’t mention Obama and mentioned the Romney-Ryan ticket about 4 times. Some commentators in the spin room thought Susanna Martinez gave the best speech of the night. She talked mostly about herself, her background and her family. She mentioned Mitt twice in her speech — nine minutes in to her ten-minute speech and again just to say people should vote for him. After CR and SM, Ryan came across as a petulant attack dog.
I didn’t watch, but one of the savviest political observers I know did and had a different view (fwiw):
“Paul Ryan killed it. The big losers tonight were Chris Christie (as of this moment NO ONE in the GOP thinks he’s the frontrunner in 2016 or 2020) and Mitt Romney. If Romney gives a speech that is better delivered and/or better received than Ryan’s I will eat my proverbial hat.”
Paul Ryan needs to be branded as a liar right away. Those baby blues and the awe shucks routine he did in his speech will be the first that many people ever see of him. Sure, they’ll say “Oh yeah, I’ve seen that guy before,” but they won’t make the connection that he’s closely associated with all of the stuff he accused the President of in his artful presentation. You want to buy a car from this guy. He knows it and he’s going to exploit it.
Expect a response, not to any of the substance of the speech hopefully, because no one would have absorbed any of that anyway. But people might feel that they “trust” him now because he came across as the kind of guy they’d all like to be or to date.
He must be branded as the fraud and liar that he is somehow. He’s the charmer that came along, got your daughter pregnant and dumped her – after he got granny to part with her nest egg.
He’s evil.
Lives on the same block that he was born on (his family owns the whole block). Yadda Yadda Yadda same something or other.
This means he has been totally unaffected by the economic turmoil of the past thirty years.