Republican Convention Open Thread—Wednesday—The Wasilla PTA Meeting Edition

No guarantees, but I may live blog Palin’s speech tonight.  It will all come down to if I hit the sauce or not.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 09/03/08 at 03:53 PM • Permalink

I’m gonna hit the sauce for sure, but Mr. Cracker may wrest me away from the computer. You never know. BTW, did you see the open mic oopsie involving Peggy Noonan, Chuck Todd and Mike Murphy? Gold, I tell ya—pure GOLD!

Yeah, HB passed it on.  I added it to the Ben Stein post.

As I’ve been assuring Chris, the Repubs are really good at putting on a good face (w/ notable exceptions like Stein), but deep down they know they’re fucked with this pick.  I forget where I saw it, but even some fundies aren’t down with the pick because they think Palin should be home with her kids.

The irony of all ironies is that I’ll miss Sarah’s speech because I have a PTA meeting tonight. 

I am going to be sure and scan the crowd for the 2012 VP nominee.

The irony of all ironies is that I’ll miss Sarah’s speech because I have a PTA meeting tonight.

God I love this election, and let me tall ya, I am glad McCain went all McMavericky with Palin, I can’t wait to see the whole happy clan on TV tonight.

I’m definitely gonna drink, but I’m still trying to figure out what phrase to use for Palin-Beer-Pong.

I am going to be sure and scan the crowd for the 2012 VP nominee.

Comment of the day!

I’m definitely gonna drink, but I’m still trying to figure out what phrase to use for Palin-Beer-Pong.

I started to write a Sarah Palin drinking game post, but every possibility ended with punching your cat/dog in the snout (hunting references) or punching your mate in the testicles/uterus (mention or sighting of Levi Johnson) or punching yourself in the face (mention of Track deploying on 9/11). I wanted it to be punchy, but not that punchy.

Kevin, shouldn’t that be corrected to say “Wassily” up there?  And how do you watch any of their (Repubs) convention stuff without hitting the sauce?  Except then I would start hurtling invectives at the TV screen so best just read about it tomorrow.

“I am going to be sure and scan the crowd for the 2012 VP nominee.”

Love it and truthfully at least 1/2 the people I have worked with in PTA’s would be better VP picks than Gov. Palin.

I have a bottle of Patron Reposado, and I’ve instructed my manservant Philo to duct-tape me into the office chair for the duration of the broadcast.

I have a kind of a “Heck, ya!” “Yup! Yup!” drinking game in mind—but it’s highly subjective, and I may have to just start awarding myself bonus shots the moment she opens her mouth. This woman is the Valerie Harper of Alaskan dialect-acting.

This is, uh, creepy.

I’ll have to catch this episode of the Wasilla Hillbillies in re-run tommorow , I’m heading to the Tampa Hard Rock to drink and piss away some cash in the poker machines. Besides , I don’t think I can take a full half hour of that woman’s voice.

This is, uh, creepy.

The Jed Report has that video up as well.  Creepy old man McCain can’t stop touching the Alaskan Red Necks or Rouge Cru as Palin likes to be known.

"even some fundies aren’t down with the pick because they think Palin should be home with her kids.”

That’s what Dr. Laura is saying (I think it’s on AmericaBlog or something like that.) Actually that’s pretty much what I’d expect Dr. Laura to say.

It’s Wednesday.  Why wouldn’t you be hitting the sauce?  No, no, never mind… I’ll just drink alone.  Again.

Quitter!

You’ve definitely got to be loopy to watch this crap.

Mercy!

Betty,
Loved the Peggy caught on mic ‘Bullshit’ comment.

Great stuff.

Do these people not know who Carly Fiorina is? WTF?!?

Geez, how many millions did these sad sacks spend on this convention and they couldnt’ve sprung for an applause sign?

Can’t y’all just feel the excitement in the house??

Carly lit the place on fire didn’t she?

Mercy.....

Wow, they keep throwing out “executive experience.” Really? Then that means our mayor, a lovely, smart, engagin woman who’s been in public life for 20 years is now qualified to serve as VP?

Hmm, let’s stay away from that.

Some assclown just proclaimed ... we need change from liberal washington to conservative washington. Did Al Gore win after all?

All you have to do is watch that video of Gov. Palin speaking at her church last June to get a little sense of whats she’s all about..

Yikes.

Huckabee: “You want something to change.”

Diapers?

I WANT MY FUCKING DESK YOU STUPID FUCKING REDNECK!!!!

Wow. I dint know there were no school desks before the soldiers killed people. Thank you, John McCain for the school desks. Long ago, students had to take their lessons standing up. Now that’s progress.

Bristol honey, you can put down the baby every one knows you got one growing inside you.

Say, how many more of these talking cadavers do I have to sit through before they bring out the Ice Queen?

Is anyone else hearing “Gooble-gabble, gooble-gabble. One of us, one of us”? It may only be in my mind, but it works perfectly with these crowd shots.

I’m playing spot the black man ... every time I do, I am forced to drink. Needless to say, I’m stone fucking sober.

count down to 9/11

Okay, I’m going to set up a live blogging thread for Palin’s speech.  Everyone can partake, but you have to keep it on topic for the speech.

We good?

We good!

Oh, before I forget…

FUCK GIULIANI!

9/11!

Giuliani’s swimming!

Giuliani .... noun, verb, POW ... take that bitches!

Take a drink Humboldt.

After listening to udy, I’m drinking like an 18-year old wannabe lush who just discovered the joy of fraternity keggers.

I saw the one non-white in the audience ... if you have a recorder on you can use it as a multiplier for more drinks.

Did Rudy even rehearse this shit? 9/11 9/11 yeee haaa I bet Levi was all over the drill her now!!!

"Change is not a destination as hope is not a strategy.”

What the fuck does that mean?

“A banana is not an almond as a penis is not a combover.”

They want to drill everywhere.  Is that really their new platform?

Change is not something you place in a little dish at the end of the day, chickens are best roasted!!!

I think my garden in Brooklyn may have a little wd-40 they can extract from next to the petunias.

Now Cindy McCain has a baby. This shit must be contagious!

And Rudy still has a lisp ....

Yikes, she’s really scary.

On the issue of veto’s, I guess she’s vetoed a lot of stuff that was actually passed through later when she realized she’d blew it.

Oh the bridge to Nowhere again.

She’s going to get sunk on that one.

Mercy.

I liked the little fundie code phrases dropped in there. “ A servant’s heart"--Krazy Katherine Harris used to plop that one in her speeches all the time.

This Palin lady reminds me of Katherine Harris, only with a face made of genuine human skin.

I gotta say the constant ragging and some would say elitist, thumbing of their noses at community organisers is real classy. It’s been a Hannity staple the last couple of weeks but they seem to have cottoned onto it as a way to disparage Barack Obama’s credentials.

And yet these nutbags have been raving all night about how big government is worse than a bayonet in the balls and that small communities are the lifeblood of America. We don’t need big government, all we need is to pull up our own bootstraps, a little self reliance and a bit of community organising. Wha?!

Oh, and not a single mention of W. It’s as if this is the parallel universe GOP convention, in the last months of the Gore presidency.

I live in a small town.  When I’m canvassing and people ask about Palin I say she was mayor of a town half the size of this one.  Then I ask if they think our mayor is qualified to be the president.

McCain’s not winning rural America with his VP pick.

I briefly caught a glimpse of someone who looked a lot like that tool Bower in one of the states’ delegations.