McCain's Repuke Convention doomed

[maseman]

Why?

1. Convention starts on Labor day evening. Notorious for people traveling home from a three day weekend and much lower overall TV audiences.

2.Couple that with a major hurricane hitting the US coastline.

3. Back to work/back to school for millions week.

4. The NFL regular season kicks off next Thursday night during his speech.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Talk about bad planning. They're hurtin' units.

[Growler]

14. We have to give some credit to Howard Dean

He intentionally set the Dem convention late in August to box the Repukes in: they had to go after the us, but not so late that McCain couldn't spend his GE money effectively.....

[Arugula Latte]

2. They probably want as few people as possible to see their little Freak Show.

I know I would if I were them.

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

3. "Twins City"

Say it loud.

[PM7nj]

7. The Minnesota Twins

[crimsonblue]

22. wow

I only now got the Twins baseball team name. Haha I feel retarded.

[PM7nj]

4. I bet the media still gives their speakers more coverage than ours got.

:banghead:

[maseman]

5. Nah

They can CONTROL the message better when they are talking...

[C_U_L8R]

6. Things just don't go your way when all your intentions are bad

and these ones are absolutely rotten

[AlCzervik]

8. the 2008 rnc will look just like the 2004 rnc minus the Schwarzenegger who is rumored

to not be going, he;s to busy ruining our state. Their convention is going to really boring.

[trueblue2007]

9. pass this YouTube Video around. McCain = the Extremely UGLY American

Gees he is creepy looking. I couldn't stop watching it.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=gJHNizBm_BY

[beac]

20. I had almost forgotten how INSANELY creepy that speech was.

The comments on the vid are hilarious...

My favorite is "THE HOT BABIES NEED DEHYDRATED WATER" :rofl:

[Bobbie Jo]

10. 5. They suck.

:puke:

[Booster]

11. I was telling someone earlier tonight that I can't imagine what they

are going to come up with for a "feel good" convention. What the Hell do they have to brag about? Nuthin'.

[cameozalaznick]

16. Feel good??!! They don't care about feel good...

They're going to spend the entire 4 days carving up Obama. Bet on it. There won't be any ideas. Or vision for the direction they want to take the country. It will be a non-stop, wall-to-wall Obama bashing of the first degree.

[FrenchieCat]

12. So one one will see the wilting lettuce ....and the pundit heads can make shit up.....

[eleny]

13. Nothing short of a Hello Dolly type production will get my attention

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Yeah, and they're burying Bush/Cheney appearances on Labor Day too, right?

[DogPoundPup]

17. The MSM will rerun it day and night like they do McWorse's negative ads

for free. The MSM will figure something out. Minimum of hurricane coverage so noone has memeories of Katrina/lil bush&McWorse partying together, so on and so forth like that.

[VolcanoJen]

18. Oh SNAP I totally forgot NFL Kickoff on Thursday!!!

That is some seriously shitty timing!!!!! :rofl:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

19. If Gustav hits the Louisiana area, the juxtaposition

is only going to remind the entire country of Repuke incompetence, big time.

Given this week and the likelihoods of weather, this is going to be a very, very bad week for the Repukes.

[quakerboy]

21. Given that their speakers are Smush and the Dick

I would guess that they are not terribly keen on lots of coverage.

Anyway, what better to draw that contrast between Barack the popular and McCain the POW!!!!!!! than a huge convention vs one that isn't even newsworthy, that not even the repubs want to show up to?

[TheDonkey]

23. The NFL kicksoff against his speech is that for real? DAMN

MASSIVE FAILURE

[maseman]

26. Not only is it the NFL kickoff

But it is the Super Bowl Champs NY Giants versus the Washington Redskins. FYI...most of the state of Virginia, a battleground state, are Redskins fans. Seems like a boneheaded move.

[PatSeg]

24. You forgot

5. It is a REPUBLICAN convention! (Boring as hell)

[grantcart]

25. NPR is reporting that Schwarzennneger likely to cancel so that he can stay in CA

for budge crises lol.