We have been having a lot of fun with the RNC. However, last night the participants turned from responsible citizens to an angry, ugly mob.
Hey, this plays to the base. But, it makes the rest of us think you are dangerously unhinged.


The Republican convention’s fixation on locking up Hillary Clinton is really disturbing

CLEVELAND — It’s pretty disturbing to hear a large crowd at a major party convention repeatedly call for the jailing of the leader of the other major party.

And I’ve heard that happen again and again at the Republican convention so far, as the clear favorite chant of the attendees is: "Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!"

It’s not just the crowd. Three speakers at the podium on the first day of the convention called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.

And Chris Christie’s speech on day two, while nominally a critique of Clinton’s foreign policy judgment, was framed as a "prosecution" of Clinton in which he repeatedly asked the crowd whether she was "guilty" or "not guilty."

Naturally, the crowd interrupted Christie four times with the "lock her up" chant. Indeed, the idea of sentencing Clinton to prison has been the only thing that’s really excited the crowd so far on this listless second day.

To me, all this seemed like a new crossing of a line and an ugly degradation of a norm in American politics.

Goose wrote:

We have been having a lot of fun with the RNC. However, last night the participants turned from responsible citizens to an angry, ugly mob.
Hey, this plays to the base. But, it makes the rest of us think you are dangerously unhinged.


The Republican convention’s fixation on locking up Hillary Clinton is really disturbing

CLEVELAND — It’s pretty disturbing to hear a large crowd at a major party convention repeatedly call for the jailing of the leader of the other major party.

And I’ve heard that happen again and again at the Republican convention so far, as the clear favorite chant of the attendees is: "Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!"

It’s not just the crowd. Three speakers at the podium on the first day of the convention called for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.

And Chris Christie’s speech on day two, while nominally a critique of Clinton’s foreign policy judgment, was framed as a "prosecution" of Clinton in which he repeatedly asked the crowd whether she was "guilty" or "not guilty."

Naturally, the crowd interrupted Christie four times with the "lock her up" chant. Indeed, the idea of sentencing Clinton to prison has been the only thing that’s really excited the crowd so far on this listless second day.

To me, all this seemed like a new crossing of a line and an ugly degradation of a norm in American politics.

And afterwards they had the  ... 




 

TheLagerLad wrote:

I suppose a better night from a GOP perspective last evening. The optics were better. The speeches were more coherent, and more effective.

I predict at some point down the road, Donald Trump Jr. will be running for president. Unlike his dad, he actually seems like a Republican. 

After hearing Christie's speech, and the way it was delivered, I'm shocked that Trump didn't take him over Pence for his Veep slot. 

Yes, the whole "Lock Hillary Up" chants and overall theme of putting Hillary in prison throughout the convention is really off-putting. I think Steve Schmidt, the GOP operative said it best when he said it had the feeling of something you would hear in a Banana Republic. We don't lock up political opponents in America. And that the Trump people could be overplaying their hand by returning to that message over and over.

That said, for me personally, every time I think about the whole private server, lack of security of national information, the attempt to hide public information, and how Hillary misled/lied to to everyone about it, it does angry up the blood. 

I thought Paul Ryan's speech was good. Of course, he has been the only speaker that I have heard that has been forward looking and ideas driven. The rest of the convention has been lacking that and I don't see that changing and that's going to be the biggest miss coming out of the convention.

What a novel idea for a politician ! 

Goose wrote:

Lager, I understand your anger at the email thing.
However, Christie, and the crowd went way overboard with the chant of "guilty", and "lock her up"  when talking about Libya, the Iran deal, and several other perfectly legal  policy initiatives. This is nothing short of criminalizing political opponents.
As you mentioned, something more fit for a banana republic,,,, and well beneath these great United States.

Here is the NEW Flag we will see at the Convention ! 

Last edited by tennyson (7/20/2016 7:10 am)

Goose wrote:

And, from the batsh*# crazy wing of the party,,,
Ben Carson wants you to know that he opposes "secular progressives," the "political elite," the media, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton — and Saul Alinsky and Lucifer.
No, that's not a reach,,,,,,,,


Comparing your political opponent to the devil.
Ben Carson,,, keeping it classy.
And to think,,, for all these years we have been over-estimating the intelligence of brain surgeons 


Ben Carson rails against Hillary Clinton, Lucifer
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Carson told the crowd that one of Clinton's role models, community organizer Alinsky, "acknowledges Lucifer" in one of his books, reflecting the views of secular progressives who would remove God from the nation's life.

"We will not be blessed, and our nation will go down the tubes," Carson said.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/07/19/donald-trump-ben-carson-republican-convention/87322298/