jgapinoy on July 7, 2008 at 8:18 PM

And humans are mostly water, I guess that makes me f*cking Aquaman.

You need to buy one of my patented McCain Colon Shaped Scuba Regulators because you have a serious brownnosing problem.

The only fight about conservatives there is going to be at the convention is whether to throw them out the window or through the door. This election is over for conservatives. Let the lemmings run wild. We wandered in the wilderness for decades before Reagan. Four years is a light walkabout.

Misterpeasea

McCain is mostly conservative.
You do have MDS.

The platform is one of the things that has kept me from voting Republican in the past. Just an FYI.

I voted for W. in 2004 because of his stance on the Long War. It allowed me to overlook the party platform.

Rest assured, Dems will beat Repubs with the platform.

How many Republicans bother to read the party platform? Most of the delegates won’t make the effort, mainly because it does nothing to bind candidates to the party positions. Few if any voters of either party will even skim the party platforms, and even the media will use it only as a reference. It’s a document meant for activists within the parties to stake out ground and for factions to demonstrate influence over the dion’t direction of the whole.

Democrats would be happy to advertise unpopular sections of the Republican platform. Don’t assume that it is electorally inconsequential.

A convention fight happens when candidates use their delegates as bargaining chips. Even then the fight means something only if there are enough free lance delegates to change the nomination.

The only thing new about this convention is how they are going to reveal McCain’s platform which is being massaged now to lure back conservative voters but will have no value since McCain is already the nominee regardless of what is in the platform

This is messing up the Wapo propaganda machine. The only convention fight I see are the Hillary delegates playing cold shoulder to the Obamians.

Everyone will want to see how Bill enters the DEM convention arena, and how the crowd reacts. We will not see anyone kissing his royal behind. That happens backstage. If it doesnt happen, that will the story of the conventions

McCain is a conservative (and anybody who disagrees has MDS and secretly wants Obama elected)!

Why would he want to change the Republican Party platform? To make it more conservative, right?

For the interested, please sign a petition demanding Barack Hussein Obama furnish America with a legal, certified, readable birth certificate. Because, the images of Barack Hussein Obama’s birth certificate that have been posted on the Daily KOS, and on Obama’s web sites, have been analysed as being FORGED.

Birth Certificate Now

We already know how they will report the events. Deomcrats unite in aura of love and peace, Republican crash and burn while eating their own young.

fogw on July 7, 2008 at 10:20 AM

You forgot the closing images, my friend:

Obama – youthful, eloquent blank Messiah, speaking of change to 80,000, at stadium, out of control inspired young people…

McCain – old fart, tired Vietnam vet, speaking to 20,000, indoors, uninspired diaper-wearing seniors…

A conservative-controlled platform actually helps in that regard, and it will help build badly-needed enthusiasm for the upcoming Congressional races.

How, if, as you write, no one pays attention to the platform?

WaPo stirs the pot on a “platform fight” at the GOP convention

Screw the Washington Compost. Just another rag attempting to gum things up. They really should have their nose under the camel’s donkey’s tent, to make ensure that socialistic jihad is heading in the right direction. /Sarcasm

A very conservative platform will provide the Donks with targets they can hold up and attack.

njcommuter on July 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM

Yeah and McCain’s virtually identical platform as the Democrats would be bulletproof from criticism, right?

Platforms are worthless and nobody pays attention to them but I’m hoping that the fight does happen and McCain and his mindless supporters truly understand who dearly it has cost them to go out of their way to stomp on social conservatives and evangelicals.

McCain’s arrogance has cost him the election and he’s simply too stupid to understand that fact. A fight at the convention will be a wake up call so he can actually “enjoy” his landslide loss in November with full knowledge that his defeat was by his own creation in alienating the GOP base in an attempt to woo left-of-center voters away from being part of electing the first black President.

Well there we go. Don’t stand for anything, don’t tell anyone what you believe and they can never criticize us. We can promote “hope” and “change” and everybody can piss gold.

Big Orange on July 7, 2008 at 11:50 AM

Remember Rush’s rule of life which says, and I am paraphrasing, “liberals can’t win national elections without pretending they aren’t liberals.” We should not be afraid to stand for something.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatforms.php?platindex=R2004

What in that platform is crazy?

Outlander on July 7, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Amen and amen

I do seem to remember the Democrats wanting to have a very short platform just to avoid giving their opponents any ammunition. I’d suggest following the lead of the Dems on this issue.

thuja on July 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM

Well there we go. Don’t stand for anything, don’t tell anyone what you believe and they can never criticize us. We can promote “hope” and “change” and everybody can piss gold.

***Is it a good idea to clearly define who McCain’s opponents are in an article being read by mostly conservatives?
Buddahpundit on July 7, 2008 at 10:08 AM

We (conservatives) had the opportunity to put up a serious contender for the nomination. We managed to only succeed in needling Fred Thompson to give it a shot, but he didn’t take off. McCain won by default, and it’s our obligation to support him in those areas where we agree (Iraq, deficit hawking, judges, and domestic drilling) and to persuade him to move to our position in those areas where we do not agree (shamnesty, anthropogenic global warming, ANWR, and campaign finance). Defining anyone within the GOP as an “enemy” of the party’s presumptive nominee is a horrible mistake, IMO.

The Dem Covention will be a mudwrestling match over identity politics.

profitsbeard on July 7, 2008 at 10:43 AM

You forgot the talking points put out by leftie groups that the Denver police have a “brown note” generator that they intend to use for crowd control. It might be wrestling, but it won’t be mud wrestling. . .

The Dem Covention will be a mudwrestling match over identity politics.

We already know how they will report the events. Deomcrats unite in aura of love and peace, Republican crash and burn while eating their own young.

right2bright on July 7, 2008 at 9:07 AM

Brilliant! The WaPo has nothing but concern for us conservatives. Ha!

Have a great week everyone!

But Ed, I thought you were a big McCain fan. Is it a good idea to clearly define who McCain’s opponents are in an article being read by mostly conservatives?

I’d rather marginalize myself by not voting for him and making my frustration with the GOP known. Better than
continuing to marginalize conservatism WITHIN the party.

They’ll have to move back to me before I move back to them.