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sarahs862

(4 posts)
6. another pretty boy with an awful haircut
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:30 PM
Aug 2012

God- this is what happens when you don't let a gay man touch you, they all have the "ken doll" haircut and nothing of value underneath the hair!

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
8. He's trying to convince us that the GOP is the populist party in America
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:31 PM
Aug 2012

that they are the ones who care. How the hell are they getting away with that without people scoffing and rolling in the aisles?

spanone

(135,795 posts)
10. i find it amazing that NONE of the minority republicans are upset over voter disinfranchisement....
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:31 PM
Aug 2012

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
15. Did I hear him say "we chose more government instead of more freedom"?
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:34 PM
Aug 2012

Didn't he get the words backwards or did I hear it wrong?

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
16. If you listen to the words of the speech
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:34 PM
Aug 2012

you can imagine Rubio speaking at the DNC. It's just a canned sermon you can use at any rally. Just replace Romney with Obama in the text. He hasn't said anything new or inspiring.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
17. He's a hit-them-over-the-head-with-a-club speaker
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:34 PM
Aug 2012

He screams at the crowd. He browbeats the crowd. He's an in your face speaker.

TheKentuckian

(25,020 posts)
18. Sadly, perhaps their best mix
Thu Aug 30, 2012, 10:45 PM
Aug 2012

of coherence, minimally creepy, not blatantly stupid, not just instantly repulsive, and not obviously in the Old Boy's Club.

But

He is pretty boring. Not the molestery boring of Jindal or the old man boring of Dole, just a plain old non-descript dullness like Weird Willard. They wrote him a fair speech that we'll hear similar from at our convention but he hasn't much oratory talent.

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