Hardly anybody wants to speak at Trump's convention

[spanone]

A slot at the Republican National Convention used to be a career-maker — a chance to make your name on the big stage and to catch the eye of the Republican donors and activists who make or break campaigns.

In the year of Trump: Not so much.

With the convention less than a month away, POLITICO contacted more than 50 prominent governors, senators and House members to gauge their interest in speaking. Only a few said they were open to it, and everyone else said they weren’t planning on it, didn’t want to, or weren’t going to Cleveland at all — or simply didn’t respond.

“I am not attending,” said South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who is overseeing the high-profile congressional Republican investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of the attacks on Benghazi. Gowdy, who said he was taking his family to the beach instead, hasn’t gone to conventions in the past and didn’t plan to now.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hardly-anybody-wants-to-speak-at-trumps-convention-224815#ixzz4CnrkkU4T

[bdwker]

1. Good.

it will be him and Christie.

dumbsh*ts

And wait till some delegates pull some guns and start shooting.

[maveric56]

17. And Palin.

Quite possibly Ted Nugent.

[sangfroid]

22. I foresee

Lots of puppets. And trained animals.

[raven mad]

28. Palin has a brain the size of a flea.

And I think I just insulted fleas.............

[tallahasseedem]

2. I want them to...

instant election ads from our side!

[redstatebluegirl]

3. He said this morning if they don't endorse him they can't speak at the convention.

That leaves lots of people out, except Chris Christie the lap dog.

[spanone]

4. perhaps david duke will give a speech?

or maybe they'll have free rides in the parking lot?

[ailsagirl]

18. That photo is... unbelievable

[raven mad]

29. Actually, it's not.

I was 11, my brother 7 - at a motel in the south. Playing outside while mom and dad got showers, and said we could go to the pool. Heard music, people laughing on the other side of a small hill. Being kids, we peeked. A typical travelling carnival, like at our church in summer.

Yep. Klan rally.

We had heard/seen TV - and ran all the way back to the motel room, little brother crying, me too scared to cry.

[ailsagirl]

30. Just amazing

I'm amazed (tho' maybe I shouldn't be) that the KKK is still alive and well. I hope its numbers have lessened over the years, at least.

Yechhhhh

[raven mad]

31. I think it has, only to be replaced by RW fundamentalists.

I am all for Christians but agree with Mahatma Gandhi................ this all started with Ronnie Rayguns, and has gotten worse as those who are uneducated (not stupid, just uneducated) follow along like sheep.

[3catwoman3]

19. Shouldn't it go without saying that if you are...

...engaging in an activity that requires you to dress up in ridiculous garb and hide your face while doing so, that you are doing something you shouldn't be doing?

The whole KKK thing with the costumes/uniforms and wacko "Grand Dragon" etc designations just seems so juvenile and sophomoric (with apologies to juveniles and sophomores).

[raven mad]

32. If you posted this as OP.........

I'd K&R it all night long.

[3catwoman3]

33. Thanks. Do you think I should?

I think all secret society things are creepy.

[raven mad]

36. Heck yeah! Only club I ever belonged to..........

was the Motorcycle Tourers, and they aren't secret.

[kimbutgar]

27. I once was in Cour d Alene Idaho for a wedding

The wedding was in the evening so my husband and I drove around the area during the day and saw a fair. We decided to check it out as we were parking I noticed people dressed in white and the more I focused on them I realized they were the KKK. I froze in fear and told my husband to drive away from there quickly because I am a light skinned black women I knew this was not the place for me to be. My husband is white and didn't understand why I was so anxious to get the hell out of there. It turned out we had drove to nearby Hayden Lakes which is a white supremacist area.

This picture reminded me of that incident. I laugh about it now but I was really scared that day.

I have gotten the stink eye from white racists because I look like I could be many different nationalities. I see them looking at me trying to figure out what I am. The only place that never happens to me is in Europe.

[3catwoman3]

35. I am as melanin deficient as it is...

...possible to be without being albino, and I would have wanted to get the hell out of there, too.

Any endeavor that requires one to wear a costume and mask,, past the age of 12 on Halloween, means one is up to no good.

[raven mad]

37. LOL! I was 11, and as tan as a Florida kid living on the coast could be.........

Dad was a JFK Democrat - and yeah, we left the motel and drove another 2 hours. This was during the big airline strike.

[Gabi Hayes]

10. or speak to the press!!! did you see that?

[redstatebluegirl]

11. Yep, I love your pics in your sig line :-)

[Gabi Hayes]

12. hey hey, we're the monkees!

just found that one. think I'll make a trumpbushtrumpindrome with that one

[Gabi Hayes]

13. too bad too big too much trouble to photobucket it for size

[Lance Bass esquire]

5. Ted Nugent, Palin, Hannity, Rosanne Bar can't wait n/t

[Fritz Walter]

8. And Scott Baio!

[bdwker]

6. idiot and bigger idiot

[malaise]

7. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Ru chickens run!!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

9. trey gowdy....first known Zika virus case!

[3catwoman3]

20. He looks like one of the various aliens from...

...STAR TREK TOS. It was an episode that featured Clint Howard, younger brother to Ron Howard - The Corbomite Maneuver.

(I'm not a total geek - I had to google the name of the episode.)

[Gabi Hayes]

21. clint with his faced smooshed longitudinally in a huge vice

gowdy is uglier than a pan of worms!

as is his soul

[awoke_in_2003]

24. I have Space1999

Last edited Mon Jun 27, 2016, 05:59 PM - Edit history (1)

UFO, and Star Treks TOS and TNG on my Hulu watchlist. No, I'm not a geek

On edit: I just added ST: Enterprise. Been meaning to watch that.

[malaise]

26. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahhaha

A first rate ReTHUG MORAN!

[maryellen99]

14. Don't forget his BFF Vince McMahon nt

[Gabi Hayes]

15. forgot why I came here: isn't it the BEST to see these halfwits scramble around for

weasel words. you KNOW idiots like Gowdy would head their grandmas over the head with a shovel to be up on that podium in front of the nation.

that's just how BAD they're feeling it right now. and, please, Doncom, keep feeding it with those imbecilic tweets and your always off-base reactions to the days' events, be they local, national, or international

has he weighed in on abortions yet? you KNOW, if he hasn't, that they're trying to craft something for him as I type. somehow, unless I missed it, if he was in total control, he'd be tweeting away some immediately contradictory babble. he has to, because he's been on every side of every issue, and no matter what he says, he'll contradict something he's already said

has somebody already said that? ha............



looks kind of like al franken

[MFM008]

16. First that's scary

Second Rump is the kind of guy who can speak all 4 days remember he has great words...lots of great words.

[Gabi Hayes]

25. he has the BEST words. go to settings and put it on half speed. I am doing this with

everything he says on youtube from now on.....only way I can take it

from the comments:

Every Trump sentence has words. Sometimes three words. Or two. And they're great sentences. Terrific sentences. They're great. With repeated words. Terrific repeated words. Not very big words. Every Trump sentence has words.

[Gabi Hayes]

34. chris hayes rerun is covering this as I type

talking about RNC crackdown on renegade delegates

this could be SWELLER than anything!

remember when they were beating the shit out of people on the floor, including Dan Rather at the 68 convention?

Good times!!!!

that's what cost the dems the election

I've always thought that ANY demonstration always benefits the republicans, no matter who's demonstrating, or who's beating the demonstrators