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K8-EEE

(15,667 posts)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 10:48 AM Aug 2012

So who IS going to speak at the RNC convention?

No Dubya, no Darth Cheney, no Quitter, no Bachmann....all we hear about is what disgraced Republicans won't be speaking, and of course they don't want to give Ron Paul the mic.

Somehow I doubt we will be hearing from Herman Cain about the great 999 plan that set the GOP world on fire just last year.

All their heroes have crashed and burned, so who WILL be speaking? The only one I've heard anybody mention is Chris Christie.

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rurallib

(62,413 posts)
3. there's that teenage conservative Johnathan
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:02 AM
Aug 2012

--- oops --- no he quit them also.
Maybe someone will give the story on Obama's plot to assassinate himself?

no_hypocrisy

(46,097 posts)
4. Chris Christie is supposed to be the keynote speaker.
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 11:02 AM
Aug 2012

Although IMO I think he's doing it for himself when he runs in 2016.

K8-EEE

(15,667 posts)
7. Seems to me the establishment GOP is "distancing" itself from the baggers
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 02:46 PM
Aug 2012

b/c for one, if they let them yammer on they will get more response than the dull and unliked-by-the-base Romney, for the other it will let Dems tie Romney to nutball baggers and scare off indies in the general.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. Chris Christie, mos' def. Maybe Rubio, Jindal, Portman, Pawlenty....
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:19 PM
Aug 2012

Whichever ones do not get picked for VP. Then the VP pick will have his own moment in the sun.

I wonder if they'll hire a bunch of "minorities" to perform, to make them appear more inclusive, like they did the last time?

AlinPA

(15,071 posts)
10. Santorum and Huckabee for sure. They will have the religious nuts drooling and talking in tongues
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 03:45 PM
Aug 2012

and handling snakes.

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
11. Herman Cain and Allan West for obvious reasons. Also Rubio and any other RW cuban expat
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:42 PM
Aug 2012

they can scrape together.
 

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
14. Christie Creme, and I figure
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 07:03 PM
Aug 2012

we'll get the obligatory lame attempt at stand-up from Rudy Giuliani.
He's a good Romneybot and they love to trot out the self-declared "Mayor of America" to wax poetic about the aftermath of 9-11.

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