Republicans Plan To Descend on Charlotte for Elaborate Counter-Convention

[Poiuyt]

As Barack Obama launches on a four-day tour through battleground states, as well as the battered Gulf Coast, in advance of the Democratic convention, Republicans also planned their carefully choreographed descent on Charlotte for what ABC News calls “an unprecedented counter-convention.”

Although Democrats also had people in Tampa, Republicans plan to counter the Democratic message with as many as 50 “communicators” who will be stationed right outside the gates of the Time Warner Cable Arena. And there will be plenty of gimmicks and props, including “You Build It” Legos, “You Build It” Monopoly and plenty of Kleenex “because breaking up is hard to do.”

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/09/01/republicans_get_ready_for_counter_convention_in_charlotte_north_carolina_for_dnc.html

[Panasonic]

1. Okay. First Amendment Zone is now in effect. All Republicans wishing to protest has to go to

Bikini Atoll to protest. That's about 7k miles apart. Should suffice.

[Marie Marie]

2. That's OK. You bring the Legos, we'll bring the Etch-A-Sketches.

good thinking on the Kleenex - you are going to need them.

[Cha]

8. LOL..yeah, they'll need them to wipe

the crap up they've BUILT!

[Raine]

22. They won't need many Kleenix since they haven't built squat, bwahahaha! nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. They're not all that good at conventions, so...

I doubt a counter-convention will be much more than a mahjor embarrassment.

[catbyte]

4. An "Elaborate Counter Convention"?

They couldn't even manage to stage their OWN convention without fucking up. The way they mishandled Romney's roll-out Thursday night convinces me that operatives from the DNC successfully infiltrated the RNC. I am 57 and I've never seen anything like it.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI

[dogknob]

5. Watch them get lots of TV coverage. n/t

[freshwest]

13. Yep. They'll be getting all the interviews. Dang librul media!

[Bjorn Against]

6. A whole bunch of empty chairs are going to show up.

[nc4bo]

7. So they couldn't sell out a anti-Obama country pig-pickin concert so now they're going to try this..

Hope some of our DUers can keep us updated on the goings on.

[progressivebydesign]

9. Don't those people have jobs??? Or is this another Koch Bros financed trip? n/t

[freshwest]

14. Definitely the latter. $400M hires a boatload of brownshirts. Worked in 2000.

[Cha]

10. Of course, they are. That's all they

can do is Heckle Jekyll and HIDE.

Tell them to go find Lyin' Romney's MF Tax Returns.

[jberryhill]

11. "Descend.." yeah, that's one thing they are good at

Because just when you thought they couldn't get any lower, they manage to open up a whole new basement level.

[freshwest]

15. Got a point there.

[mick063]

12. Hope they don't rent too many porta Pottys again.

They continue to embarrass themselves with rows of empty chairs. In that regard, Clint's monologue was rather symbolic.

Thinking of the recently failed "Rocking the Red" anti Obama concert that was canceled due to low ticket sales.

It bears repeating. They continue to embarrass themselves with these "rallys".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. I'll bring some empty chairs so they'll have someone to talk to.

[madrchsod]

17. their convention was a sad joke

so now abc thinks the republicans can pull off..."an unprecedented counter-convention"

wow...abc and the republicans are really delusional...

[Zalatix]

18. Betcha the riot cops won't even bother showing up.

[Archae]

19. You think all 4 of them will show up?

IF they can find babysitters, or bail their leaders out of the local drunk tank...

[Raine]

20. Bwahahaha they couldn't stage their official convention, it sucked! It was the most poorly managed

convention I've ever seen. I can't see they'll do any better with their Leggos, building blocks and other childish toy convention. What a joke!

[cthulu2016]

21. I can understand them wanting a do-over