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Delegates watch campaign videos of presidential candidate Mitt Romney after RNC chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the convention to order at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Monday.
TAMPA, Fla. -- With Hurricane Isaac moving west of Tampa, Republican convention organizers said tonight they are “full speed” ahead with the next three days of events.
“We expect no change over the next three days,” said Russ Schriefer, a Romney adviser, on a conference call with reporters. “We are full speed planning ahead with our Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday schedule.”
Schriefer, however, said the campaign is monitoring the storm’s path closely and are leaving open the possibility of more changes.
“Our thoughts are with the people in the path of the storm,” Schriefer said. “We hope they are spared any major destruction."
Tuesday’s events will begin at 2:00 pm ET with convention business, then the roll call, and nomination of the vice-presidential candidate.
Tuesday night will be highlighted by the keynote speech of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Both will speak in the prime-time broadcast televised hour between 10:00 pm ET and 11:00 pm ET. They will be the only speakers in that window.
But Schriefer also pointed, in particular, to former Sen. Rick Santorum’s speech earlier in the evening. The former Pennsylvania senator is expected to focus his speech on “work,” and possibly hit on welfare.
Santorum’s speech is “going to be particularly good,” said Schriefer, who noted that he had read both Santorum’s and Christie’s speeches. Santorum will stress his family upbringing, being a son of immigrants and “how work is such an important part of the tradition of this country,” Schriefer said, stressing that Santorum was a “leader in the fight to reform welfare in 90s,” and that he “believes strongly in dignity of work.”
“It’s going to be very good,” Schriefer said.
Schriefer also addressed the potential controversy with Ron Paul delegates. Paul said yesterday he wouldn’t “fully endorse” Romney and his delegates gamed many of the rules at state conventions to get an outsized delegation on the floor of the convention.
“In terms of disunity, we are a big party,” Schriefer said. “We have people with different opposing viewpoints. I don’t think this a particularly divisive point of view people are divided on. We are all united in defeating Barack Obama. I guarantee that, on Thursday, we’ll be 100 percent united behind Mitt Romney and defeating Barack Obama for the good of the country.”
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It's amazing to me how double sided people are. It took 8 Bush years and billions of dollars spent on an unncessary war to get this economy in the shape it's in. Greed was the cause and who was in charge...Republicans! Obama has been in office 3.5 years and it's his fault things has not bounced back as fast as everyone would like. As most things its easy to fall fast and hard to build back up. It's going to take time.
In my opinon he has done the best he can do with an obstructionist Republican congress and Senate. They vowed to destroy him by not working with him and sacrifising the good of the country. In my opinion all the Republicans in Washington need to impeached and sent home in shame for obstructing the justice of the people.
And Only 3 1/2 for Obozo to TRULY PHUCK IT UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION. What a Prez!!! King of Incompetence , but quick on inaction!!!
Nice try, but what is the liberal excuse for the Democrat Congress from 2006-2010, and now the Democrat Senate? Why hasn't anything been done except for Obama Care which the Republicans had NOTHING to do with. They were literally locked out of the room and the Democrats voted it through. Who's fault is it that now Obama Care is going to cost Americans and illegals a lot more money and less care? Why wasn't an effort put on creating jobs and fixing the economy. Obama could have gotten anything he wanted done, but didn't. Reid obstructing the Senate and holding out bills that both the Republicans and some Democrats wanted brought to the floor to vote on? You liberals leave out all the facts and change things around to suit your warped minds and then want to blame someone else.
If the convention is going full speed.............where are they going????
Hopefully, going to the moon to build Mitts new mansion so he can invite Gingrinch to dinner. LOL
9 years ago the Republicans in power told us outright lies about Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction so they could use it as an excuse to invade Iraq and overthrow Hussein, thinking we would be welcomed as heroes and given free access to Iraq's oil reserves, the second largest in the world.
The result? No oil. A trillion dollars in war debt and counting. And 4,000 young soldiers lying dead in the ground with another 20,000 plus with no arms, legs, or eyesight.
They also removed all the restraints put on the banking industry back in the days of the Great Depression, allowing uncontrolled speculation and market gambling that enriched the heads of the financial industry but almost bankrupted the country to the sad economic state it is in today, and for which they try to put the blame on Obama.
Now they're having their convention where they'll tell you why they should be elected and allowed to run the country again.
You going to vote for them? Are you really that stupid? Or maybe you're brain is rotted and you just can't remember who it is that screwed this country to the wall from 2000 through 2008.
It amazes me the lack of common sense some people have.
We obtained bad infomation on Hussein, and yes that sucks, but to say "Republicans lied" is pure political BS. Seems you either don't know,or choose to forget how many Democrat's were involved in those committees, or how many voted for the war in the first place.
You think JUST 4,000 soilders died...if you do thats ignorant....I can see the confusion though. When Bush was president we got the tally number every night on the nightly news, then Obama got in and suddenly....nothing. Got a news flash for you baby...your jaw would drop if you knew the real numbers.....ya know the ones who died under Obamas watch,because of HIS decisions, course its more convienant not to know those things huh?
Course I don't expect much from people who really think the war was about oil, as some claim. Let's see...were the only society in the world who invades a country, takes control, rebuilds infastructure, schools, hospitals, gives humanitarian relief, spend BILLIONS doing it. Then helps those people set up a government and turn everything back over to them. What part of an intellegent persons brain thinks any of that list is about oil? If it were about oil, we'd occupy the country indefinately, and take the damn oil. We don't do that, we NEVER have!
Remove all the restraints from Banking from the great depression? What fool gave you that information?
When the banking system was "deregulated" they were still left with 88,000 pages of regulation. Can you tell me specifically what was left out to your dissatisfaction? Yes there was uncontrolled speculation, and thats horrid I agree, but you do realize that before they were deregulated there was nothing in that load of rules that would have prevented that either?
Not to mention we are now part of a Global marketplace. U.S. regulations have no effect on Europe, Asia or anywhere else. Even if our bankers were squeaky clean, which we all know they are not, it still would have happened anyway! What part of you people don't understand the domino effect when it comes to global finances?
Grant you there are exceptions to the rule. The Caymen Islands. Which is a perfect example on the division in our country.
The Caymen Island have LESS regulations than the U.S. did in the 1920's. Because of this, those regulations are easier to understand AND ENFORCE. Currently, as of the last year of statistics, they have less than 3% fraud COMPARED to our banking system, and were basically UNEFFECTED by the global downturn. These are all facts, and quite easy to look up.
LIBERALS...complain that the rich invest here. They preach on how much lost revenue this is costing our country. Never mind that when you pull your money out of the Caymens it and ANY gains you achieved are taxed immediately (Guess to a liberal, anyone with a 401k is a tax dodger too)
CONSERVATIVES think Why cant our system be more like the Caymen Islands, where everyone, not just the rich benefit?
Yet a liberal, calls a conservative stupid?
Look, if your a committed Democrat, thats fine by me. More power to ya. I'm impressed people are actually involved, since so many arent. But please do EVRERYONE a favor....
A. Do research and look up history before making claims....it wastes less time and keeps you from looking like a fool.
B. Back your beliefs with facts...Not emotions, rumors, opinions, or what some blogger wrote in his mom's basement last week.
C. Be willing to swallow your pride. Neither side is perfect, and huge mistakes have been made on both sides of the aisle, were never going to solve the problems we have to solve if all we do is care who has a (D) or (R) after their names.
D. Quit the name calling. Just cause someone has an opinion that differs from yours doesnt mean they are "stupid" or their "Brain is rotted", also, until you do stop this foolishness, please don't complain that our country is divided, because your part of the reason it is.
Wow...What an Endorsement!!! Sounds like the Post KNOWS the Creep Lying POS!!!
THE WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA
Finally, the Washington
Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you
know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely
liberal.
So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the
following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event
and a news story in and of itself.
At last, the truth about
our President and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through
the protective wall built around him by our liberal media.
__________________________—
I too have become
disillusioned.
By Matt Patterson
(columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now,
historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing
phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the
witch craze of the Middle Ages.
How, they will wonder, did
a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he
could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful
military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future
historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the
Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid
of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often
did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
ambitions.
He left no academic
legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then
there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating,
America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor";
a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political
sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking:
how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for
history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in
the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close
associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an
unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But
because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom
to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if
they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given
a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his
skin.
Podhoretz continues: And
in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate
and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave
him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the
curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his
finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative
action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating
sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed
primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about
themselves.
Unfortunately,
minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals
routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take
no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates
which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals
aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem
resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -
that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America
did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of
achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was
good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was
told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois
; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough
for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if
not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008,
many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about
Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -
conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and
speaks in the hoariest of clichï and that's when he has his Teleprompters in
front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all.
Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over
Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for a 100
years.
And what about his
character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his
troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is
embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness,
so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect?
The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act
responsibly?
In short: our president
is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect
to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that,
will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
Well, I am a Left-Leaning Non-Partisan Independent and I read this Opinion Piece by
and found it to be typical Right-Wing, Hate Obama, Republiclan BullschMITT!
It's hardly anything but a simplistic attack piece using many of the oft repeated LIES of the Right Wing Extremeists. You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves for trying to pass this load of crap off and anything but PROPAGANDA!
Now, what you really should check out is this...
It's only 30 minutes, available online, and was made by the Newt Gingrich SuperPac - Winning Our Future.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/12/anti-romney_movie_by_pro-gingrich_pac_when_mitt_romney_came_to_town.html
BTW, Newt will be a featured speaker at The GOP Convention, on Thursday between 7 and 8 PM. His speech is listed on the GOP Agenda as follows:
Remarks by former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and wife Callista Gingrich
Posting this the 1st time felt so good I had to come back for another scoop!! My FAVORITE Passtime...sticking it in Obozo and his dumbas* Liberal supporters.
THE WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA
Finally, the Washington
Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you
know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely
liberal.
So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the
following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event
and a news story in and of itself.
At last, the truth about
our President and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through
the protective wall built around him by our liberal media.
__________________________—
I too have become
disillusioned.
By Matt Patterson
(columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Years from now,
historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing
phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the
witch craze of the Middle Ages.
How, they will wonder, did
a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he
could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful
military, execute the world's most consequential job?
Imagine a future
historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the
Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy
non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid
of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often
did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential
ambitions.
He left no academic
legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then
there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating,
America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor";
a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political
sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking:
how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for
history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in
the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close
associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an
unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But
because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom
to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if
they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given
a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his
skin.
Podhoretz continues: And
in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate
and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave
him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the
curse of racism to rest?
Podhoretz puts his
finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative
action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating
sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed
primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about
themselves.
Unfortunately,
minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals
routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take
no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates
which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals
aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem
resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist.
Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin -
that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing
is.
And that is what America
did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of
achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was
good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was
told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois
; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the
Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough
for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.
What could this breed if
not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008,
many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about
Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people -
conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.
The man thinks and
speaks in the hoariest of clichï and that's when he has his Teleprompters in
front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all.
Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over
Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for a 100
years.
And what about his
character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his
troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is
embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness,
so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect?
The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act
responsibly?
In short: our president
is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect
to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that,
will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have
gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
Well, I am a Left-Leaning Non-Partisan Independent and I read this Opinion Piece by
and found it to be typical Right-Wing, Hate Obama, Republiclan BullschMITT!
It's hardly anything but a simplistic attack piece using many of the oft repeated LIES of the Right Wing Extremeists. You guys ought to be ashamed of yourselves for trying to pass this load of crap off and anything but PROPAGANDA!
Now, what you really should check out is this...
It's only 30 minutes, available online, and was made by the Newt Gingrich SuperPac - Winning Our Future.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/12/anti-romney_movie_by_pro-gingrich_pac_when_mitt_romney_came_to_town.html
BTW, Newt will be a featured speaker at The GOP Convention, on Thursday between 7 and 8 PM. His speech is listed on the GOP Agenda as follows:
Remarks by former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and wife Callista Gingrich
(Another political Parody song by Bruce-1628250, sung to the tune of "Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?")
NEW Romney Song!!!
(Mitt Romney's Supporter's Song)
(Sung to the tune of "Cecilia" written by Paul Simon)
Bruce ...don't give up that burger flipping day job......None of your lyrics are your own.....kind of like the tunes Obama has spent the last 3+ years humming, and bleating. The Man known as Obummer never had an ORIGINAL thought in his life. And his most repeated excuse for failure......pick any one you want...he has many.
How funny is it that duh Ann and Mittens want us to believe that she bought his shirts from COSTCO? They are trying way to hard to try to have us believe that they are like regular folk! LOL... On with the clown show! Popocor... check! Drink.... check!
I'll add this Lori57. Whilst the GOP convention is yucking it up with drinks and Welsh cakes and harsh criticism of the left, Schriefer says" oh and we hope the people in the path of the hurricane Isaac are spared destruction"??? Ryan addressing his upbringing while a destructive HURRICANE is bearing down on the poor folks down south??? Talk about arrogance and unfeeling hypocrites! Their detachment from the real world will be their undoing. Flip-flop, obstructionist, vaginal probing, all while a hurricane is hitting us. Shameful!
Lori
Good point. So you must have gone to Columbia and Harvard to relate to the President... is that what we should believe?
M.J. - CT.... your point? Guess you really didn't have one with the nonsense you just posted.
John Boehner gave the opening speech... LOL. NO punch whatsoever! The clown show better do much better than that! Can't wait to hear stepford wife try to convince the country that Twit is just a regular guy and shops at COSTCO! Chris Christie giving the key note speech..... Mr. obnoxious, rude, loud mouth! What a show! I'm outta popcorn... gotta go!!!
"war on women" .... michelle bachman reported "fully endorced" todd akins ... WOW .. TALK ABOUT A DUMB WOMEN ENDORCING A DUMBER MAN ..... TAKE HEED LADIES .... where do they find these idiots ... damnnnn
"Full speed ahead", now that we've squashed any grassroots movement trying to send a message to our Grand Ol' Party. It's official, the GOP is a top down organization. The men behind the curtain set the agenda and the actual people are just there to clap along and chant "USA" when signalled to.
VD- Don't you get tired of hearing yourself talk ??? GEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ !!!!!
ROMNEY - RYAN 2012 !!!
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