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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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Consider Obama's foreign policy failures:
His failed personal effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago.
His failed personal effort to negotiate a climate-change deal at Copenhagen in 2009.
His failed efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran that year and this year.
His failed effort to improve America's public standing in the Muslim world with the now-forgotten Cairo speech.
His failed reset with Russia.
His failed effort to strong-arm Israel into a permanent settlement freeze.
His failed (if half-hearted) effort to maintain a residual U.S. military force in Iraq.
His failed efforts to cut deals with the Taliban and reach out to North Korea.
His failed effort to win over China and Russia for even a symbolic U.N. condemnation of Syria's Bashar Assad.
you see the crap they have
Consider Romney's lack of ALL important qualities as a human being and as a leader. Aren't you embarassed looking for flaws on a genuine and decent man, while ignoring the clear and apparent shortcomings of his compeltely unworthy challenger? There's a name for that. It's called bias.
What are your thoughts on the voter fraud in progress to keep the "wrong kind" of voters away from the polls. (this oughta be good!)
Martha-You forgot to mention Obama's accomplishments. Selective amnesia?
Did Obama fail to cure cancer?
My Gawd right wingers ate a pathetic bunch, blame Obama for their own failures
If a right winger ever took responsibility it would shock the world
the mark of the beast..will come from you people who vote for the devil who loves to use god in almost every word..I warn you of walker of Wisconsin..you told me i was the liar and voted him in..your mess will be your own doing .if you vote more far right in
The Republicans know that once Obama is reelected, the economy will jump, home buying will increase, the stock market will spike, unemployment will drop to 6% and the dark cloud of oppression will be lifted.
Why? because there will be no incentive for them to continue their obstruction.
your right ..
That's the funniest post of the night......you actually think that Obama has had major legislation blocked and you actually think that Obama's plan will work despite all the prior evidence of his plans not living up to expectations.
Larry, they will obstruct anyway. They have no concern for this country.
This is what i have been telling you people..Romney's own words the supreme Court has to change laws.. birth>>>>and you people laugh at me saying i am the crazy one..and don't worry the blue law will come shortlyafter.they don't want Obama to pick another supreme judge they want Romney to..the mark of the beast party..
the far right have already change corporations are people...and look what we have today thanks to the far right supreme court Judges..they change what our founders left us for protection from scum..and gave them the keys to do what they want
Yep
Why doesn't Twitt Robme just have one of his sons speak for Mr. Crispy Creme?
Why should Ann Robme even bother with a speech? The only snobby, self-centered thing she hasn't said yet is "Let them eat cake."
She could give a really really short "speech."
Kind of hateful tonight are we?
Full speed ahead? More like full reverse back into the Dark Ages!
"Full speed ahead"?
That's something Thurston Howell III would say as he crashes the raft into the reef.
What is Mitt's position on ...
hunger in America? Starve!
minimum wage? Lower it!
abortion in case of rape? There is no "legitmate" rape!
undocumented immigrants? Self deportation!
health care reform? Stop calling it Romneycare and kill it!
top income level tax rates? Eliminate them entirely!
middle class tax rates? Raise them throught the roof!
education? Privatize the whole thing and make it more profitable for investors!
military budget? Increase it and make it more profitable for investors!
Wall Street regulation? For Pete's sake, deregulate!
gay marriage equality? Gays have always been able to marry....women!
campaign finance reforms? I like the "reforms" just fine the way they are now!
voter fraud? We definitely need more of that, our ID initiatives will help us a lot!
best ways to fool voters into voting Republican this November? Gee, didn't we just cover that?
Yeah, I guess we did. So why exactly did you NOT contribute 40 million dollars of your OWN money to your 2012 campaign (like you did in '08?)
Must be the savy businessman...never bet your own money on a losing game!
Just finished reading excerpts about the late Lee Atwater and how he conducted racist strategies GOP and adopted by Gingrich,Rove, etc., as well, esp. using code words of instead of "@!$%#, @!$%#" as he phrased it; "We can't do that anymore." Toward the end of his life like George Wallace he repented of his racist attitudes when contemplating meeting his Maker. Maybe a lot more people should ask the question:" Am I pleasing God with my racist attitude?". I believe that some would actually be foolish enough to say yes! Lord help them repent!
CRAIG, Amen to that brother. Atwater was the lowest of the low. He got religion a little too late I'm afraid, only when he knew he was about to depart this world. And the legacy of his sleazy practices live on in today's GOP.
Fear naught, the "Southern Strategy" is alive and well on the Right.
So just how were they adopted and how can you support the party that recently had a former KKK member in it?
Why?
Say hey from, BC. Ca. Connie rollin his eyes @ ya
trollS alert AOOOOOOOOGAH trollS alert
breathe cowboy17 breathe you are turning blue
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hope this bovine excrement set s yer pubes on fire. sorry for the hit an run, babies Frieda yellow bikini is calling me back there.
C me at the Rnc Con. i'll be pointing the middle digit rt AT you ,!,
p.s. I have a treat for you, all lined up for tomorrow anticipation makes you feel great oooOOOooooOo
eye roll lol
VOTE R&R
No wonder our country is in so much trouble. Just look at the comments here. People are so radical, uncivil, confrontational, and opinionated. How can we possibly expect our elected officials to be any better? After all, it is a "government of the people" and the people are nasty to each other.
Tell the GOP to quit lying and get out of the way so Obama can bring us to full recovery.
It is amazing that when conservatives have no clear thinking pattern, they lie and talk with such anger and misery. If they were truly confident in their policies they would show some common sense, not like someone in grade school.....If they were so confident in winning they would let everyone vote...But liars..thieves and wallstreet goonies only know how to hide their money oversees...
They'll have their little deficit clock up there. Yes, it's true, the Republicans in the House and Senate have blocked all attempts to slow that debt clock. Forbes reports that Obama has spent less than any president since Eisenhower, and Clinton had balanced the budget so it's extremely clear which party deserves the blame for the debt.
If the Republicans get the White House, the economy is doomed. They will go back to their free spending ways and get us into ground wars where we cannot achieve lasting victory and that we cannot afford.
This is just how they are, and what they have done for decades.
They talk fiscal restraint when they are not in the White House, but whenever they are in the White House they borrow and spend like drunken sailors. Even Ryan was just a rubberstamp for the exorbitant spending of the Bush administration. The last truly fiscally responsible Republican president was Eisenhower.
We simply cannot afford another Republican president
DEFICITS DON'T MATTER when a conservative is in the White House.
Deficits didn't matter til Bush made them over $1 trillion and Obama kept them that way and seems to want to keep them that way forever....
Darth Vader said that and the gop went along with him and kept raising the debt ceiling.
http://occupy316.org/2011/07/14/past-increases-of-debt-ceiling-since-kennedy/
Everytime the Republicans hold a CONvention I check to make sure my wallet is still on me.
FULL SPEED AHEAD! Isn't that what Captain Smith of the Titanic said as the reports of icebergs in the area?
Full speed ahead? Does that mean that the 3 1/2 years of right wing obstruction will come to and end and they will start to do the peoples work.
Maybe todays GOP will stop coddling the rich as they off shore our jobs and hide the profits in off shore bank accounts so they pay no tax.
Maybe they will call off the vagina patrols and probes and start respecting womens rights.
That would be a no, no and a third no. Todays GOP... some American we have become.
It means the GOP will lose control of the House.
Be honest.....The right wing could hardly obstruct anything for the first year and a half. Then it couldn't do hardly anything to obstruct most of Obama's plans. Obama still got 95% of what he wanted passed.
I agree! We want to keep Michelle in the white house. The only First Lady in history that can peel a banana with her feet.
You are the GOP's best and brightest... no wonder you hacks are in trouble.
Cyber.....no place for that junk on here. That is a disgusting hateful comment......go spout that somewhere else, or better yet, don't even think like that.
And the Democratic Convention is in Charlotte NC.
Wouldn't it be something if a hurricane hit there too?
So Santorum is speaking at the GOP anti Obama party
And Rick said in the primaries that you're better off voting for Obama than Romney
I wonder if he meant what he said.....
Or will he shake his etch a sketch....
Hahahahhahahahahahaha
Was Rick lying?
We'll soon see his true colors
Towing the Party line hoping for a Cabinet Position. I hope He holds His breath. :)
Is Grover Norquist speaking?
The former GOP president isn't welcome
But the lobbyist who runs the GOP should be there
They are all there passing Hookers around.
god rained on gop party because they are against women.
The GOP isn't against women
They just think they are like dogs
Creatures to be controlled and made to live how they are told
KOCHTOMANIA
Greed is like a gambling habit,
the adrenaline from a dose of "success"
creates desire for another and another
in a destructive self-propelled spiral, like
the So-called Subprime Mortgage Crisis.
How many crises does it take
to prove regulatory controls
protect capitalism?
Every time they've been removed,
we spiral out of control,
And the registers ring
for the One Percent.
Reagan deregulated the S&Ls
causing the S&L Crisis.
Bush deregulated energy
causing the energy crisis.
Bush/Clinton deregulated the banks
causing the Great Recession.
The KOCH-funded Neo-Birch Tea Party wants
even LESS regulation. Are they mad?
No, narcissistically greedy.
With credit swaps and short-selling the
One Percent profits nicely from crises.
And “Entitlements” just get in the way.
Get it? We’re their yo-yos.
If you do, get angry,
enough to do something about it.
If you think the last crisis was bad
wait 'til a Rand-wrong Republican
returns to the White House.
Randism’s a communist cancer conceived
in the Crimea. The subversives have names
like Rand, Birch, Koch, Coulter, Beck and Limbaugh.
You don’t need to be a genius
to get this, just brain dead
not to.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will ... save ... that ... malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A
Did Mitt Romney say that?
How many times did the government get overly involved and manipulate the market in those examples you gave above? How many jobs are pushed overseas because of the regulation lovers? Why do you hate the middle class so much that you would rather see communities die than corporations survive?
Actually, looking out for ones own self interest is important. The problem is when greed becomes the be all and end all. There is nothing wrong with a consumer being greedy and trying to find goods and services at the cheapest price. There is nothing wrong with an employee leaving a position for a promotion or pay raise somewhere else. There is nothing wrong with a business raising prices or cutting costs in order to compete. All of them are about the same level of greed. The problem is when you want others money without working for it, when are greedy and you envy the success of others, when you use the government to force others to give to you, or when you stop thinking about your neighbor and refuse to help those in need.
And so the answer is, THE GOVERNMENT SHALL RULE THE PEOPLE CAUSE THE PEOPLE CANNOT RULE THEMSELVES. What are you saying exactly you moron??
Put
Then I assume you also it's just greed that makes a company line the pockets of the CEO and Board of Directors at the expense of the people actually doing the work? After all greed is good. It's all about profit, right?
But it was Henry Ford who gave his workers raises when he realized that they didn't make enough to afford the product they were actually making. By doing so he lessened the profits of his company in the short-term. But in the long run he helped build a middle class who could not only afford the cars they built but were also able to afford to buy other goods other companies made. Thereby growing his company in the long run.
Funny how that works? Sometimes not being greedy works to everyone's benefit. Not just the one company.
Dsb.....Well I don't exactly know what you mean by line the pockets of CEO's, but I think that it is reasonable to pay the best CEO's about the same amount of money we pay back-up QB's in the NFL. You are taking the Ford story out of context as well. Business doesn't work that way......particularly today. What would happen if Ford gave everyone a $10,000 raise.....would they buy American made goods or would they spend most of that on Toyota's and Toshiba's? You also need to remember that Ford was making higher profit margins then than companies are today. Ford had more room to play with.
Tell you what!
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