I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

and Jackson Browne covering JT songs

no, of course not, but ryan's flogging of entitlement cuts sure as hell does.

Really really wish Obama had pushed something like Isabell Sawhill's suggested entitlement changes or even the Bowles/Simpson recommendations. To not suggest anything was ceding the idea high-ground to the ideologues of the Right.

Jesus Alfred if ever we needed a reminder of just how ossified Rolling Stone got.

you mean brian wilson isn't one of the ten best new bands?

Also hoping Huntsman tries to give a speech but bursts into tears instead, screaming "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE" and locks himself in the bathroom for several hours sobbing into a live mic

do you guys dig how fucking batshit the GOP convention is going to be

does ayn ryan undercut the ron paul riot?

cuz even if they didn't have enough to get him on the stage there are a loooot of ron paulies that got themselves made into delegates

Rand Paul forgoes his speech and instead shoots a round of skeet with homemade leaflets titled "Sherrie Law"

Rand Paul forgoes his speech and instead sings Steve Perry's "Oh Sherry"

Four words: Haley Barbour strip tease

OK I was going to find the excelsior thread to give DJP some luv but I'm too busy barfing now, sorry.

Rand Paul trades licks with Ted Nugent on live television - for best mileage here, "trades licks" can mean whatever you want it to mean here

Jan Brewer and Bobby Jindal perform their renowned comedy act "Pious and Biased"

Not since Britney and Madonna

Reagan body exhumed and hoisted on stage so that Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich take turns fucking it while Nino Scalia quotes from his dissent in Lawrence v. Texas

OK I was going to find the excelsior thread to give DJP aero some luv but I'm too busy barfing now, sorry.

Michele Bachmann's husband does a dance routine to "Where Have You Been" while wearing Chick Fil A pasties

Halfway through Rick Perry's speech, it slowly dawns on everyone that he is graciously accepting the party's nomination

AAAAAAH

This all needs to happen.

Cut to George Will at some point, a look of silent panic on his face.

full text of John McCain's remarks to the 2012 Republican convention:

Thank you all very much. Tonight, I...you assholes. You fucking assholes. You goddamn fucking assholes. Fuck, fuck, fuck...fuck you. Fuck you, and fuck you. You goddamn, fucking, fucking, fucking...you fucking assholes. My dick. Suck my dick. You assholes.

I'm actually just hoping Lynyrd Skynyrd (who are really performing, and no I don't wanna talk about it) turns in such a marathon performance of "Free Bird" that the whole convention gets thrown off schedule.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd of 2012 is not the Lynyrd Skynyrd of 1976 (literally!), but I hope that prediction comes true.

lynyrd's been super right-wing for a while

pretty christgau is just listening to nu-lynyrd to get pissed off

Lyve [Sanctuary, 2004]
Maybe the Allmans supported Bush too, though I bet not; maybe that fox Ronnie Van Zant would have turned into Charlie Daniels, though he would have nuanced it. But Daniels is Donald Fagen up against the backup-singer cheerleading and golden-oldies smarm of Johnny Van Zant, and where the Allmans replaced their mythic front line with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, who jam at least as tight and hot, Gary Rossington didn't anchor that peachy a guitar section to begin with. A few of the post-Ronnie songs are surprisingly decent--"Red, White and Blue," for instance, is about Johnny's neck, hair, and collar. But you know what else it's about, and in case you don't he has four or five ways to rub it in, including thanks to God for the lovely Nashville night. Not Memphis, not Jacksonville--Nashville. C+

God & Guns [RoadRunner/Loud & Proud, 2009]
"You can take your change on down the road/And leave me here with mine," Johnny Van Zant begins one of the two songs that take up the title theme after has run through the pleasures of home, the perfidy of woman, and the mixed blessings of the music business for the umpteenth time. Like the wary younger sibling he's always been, Johnny will always hold onto a quarter and settle for what he knows, or thinks he does. Really, he ought to have some inkling that nobody worthy of his trepidation wants to ban hunting, burn the Bible, or slam old Uncle Sam, although actually that no smoking sign means exactly what it says. On the other hand, "Unwrite That Song" would make a nice B side for Darius Rucker. C+

I'm not predicting this, but I'm also not saying it's impossible.

http://i.imgur.com/MMbYs.png

I would be very surprised if Michigan went for Romney -- even my right wing relatives can't stand him.

Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2012 is the proverbial small business.

Also, given its lineup, Skynyrd in 2012 is a job creator, too.

Johnny Van Zant may run Lynyrd Skynyrd, but he definitely didn't build that.

are there poll numbers for people who won't vote for romney just because of the mormon thing? a lot of christian churches preach that mormonism is a cult and not to be trusted/taken seriously or even considered a part of christianity.

okay i found a number...

CNN) – Bias against a Mormon presidential candidate hasn’t budged in 45 years, with 18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/21/bias-against-mormon-presidential-candidate-unchanged-since-1967-poll-finds/

18% ain't chicken feed...

and they do note that 20% of americans said they wouldn't vote for a catholic right before kennedy won the election, but romney is no kennedy. there is no great fervor for him like there was for kennedy. or obama.

also, there's probably more crossover between anti-catholic or anti-mormon (or racist) sentiment and the republican party base than there is between the same and the dem party base.

well no because you're discounting liberal atheist latte drinkers

if they don't vote for candidates who are religious then they have never voted in an election and never will

Echoing Nicole re Michigan in this unemployed age. The west side of the state being racist and conservative has never been enough to swing the vote alone, and even some people there are horrified by Mittens.

These are also not "likely voter" numbers, some may be crazy 99-year-old cranks who are the same exact people who answered the survey about George Romney. Would not put any stock into it at all.

Not that the east side is not also racist, but they're a lot less conservative, is all I'm saying.

It never occurred to me until now that maybe he was named Mitt because of Michigan's shape?

Too bad he wasn't born in Fla.

Just saw Romney and Ryan are being interviewed together on 60 Minutes tonight. Will tune in.

18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.

bet a lot of them would consider it if that mormon's opponent were a muslim alinskyite, among other things

I think it says a lot about the progress we've made as a nation that it will be down to a Mormon vs. a Muslim.

(Irony: non-Muslim that detractors think is a secret Muslim vs. real Mormon that said Mormon probably wants to keep quiet.)

p. sure you meant black panther vs. bigamist

the guy who secretly hates white people -vs- the guy who secretly has to hate black people according to ancient mormon law

tbf it comes more naturally to many americans than 'ancient' law

Seriously. Visiting home and talking to ppl is like a one-woman consciousness-raising comedy act.

One in which the laffs come from watching me take a lot of deep breaths.