Chaos on RNC Convention Floor (not Racism)

I'm at a loss for words for all of this overt racism. They're well beyond the covert racism and into full blown aryan pandering.
 
Between these two items and Romney's campaign advisors "we won't be dictated to by fact-checkers" quote from this morning, I'm absolutely disgusted not just with Romney and his campaign, but by anyone who would think of voting for him.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Between these two items and Romney's campaign advisors "we won't be dictated to by fact-checkers" quote from this morning, I'm absolutely disgusted not just with Romney and his campaign, but by anyone who would think of voting for him.[/QUOTE]
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/glenn-j1.1.1.html

Ron Paul has been shafted many many times by Republicans because I firmly believe they refuse to let him in because he actually wants to change all the corruptness in the government. They want Romney to win for the sole reason of keeping the nice little pay offs they are getting from everyone.

It's sickening, and while I am not the one to discuss politics, being around people who are in the know really opened my eyes.

I hate Romney with a passion.
 
I'm not sure how I understand a bunch of folks disrupting the RNC because one old white man is getting more attention than another old white man is any form of racism.

hm.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']I'm not sure how I understand a bunch of folks disrupting the RNC because one old white man is getting more attention than another old white man is any form of racism.

hm.[/QUOTE]

Do you read? It is plain as day that I amended the thread that the chaos was not race related. That was was followed by a story about the guy throwing peanuts at an African American reporter which is an obvious racist attack. Any further talk about Ron Paul was not about race. Please keep up.
 
[quote name='Sir_Fragalot']http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/glenn-j1.1.1.html

Ron Paul has been shafted many many times by Republicans because I firmly believe they refuse to let him in because he actually wants to change all the corruptness in the government. They want Romney to win for the sole reason of keeping the nice little pay offs they are getting from everyone.

It's sickening, and while I am not the one to discuss politics, being around people who are in the know really opened my eyes.

I hate Romney with a passion.[/QUOTE]

While I don't doubt some of the accusations in the article you linked, the problem when it comes to Paulistinian cries of oppression are twofold:

1) Paulistinians, on the whole, have never seen a conspiracy they didn't like. There are too many false negatives (i.e., phony conspiracies) that his supporters will vehemently embrace. Worse yet, the less evidence there is to support said conspiracy, the greater their veracity of the event (because the absence of evidence is, to them, clear evidence of a well orchestrated coverup).

2) Paul supporters require victimhood to feel relevant in the GOP. They can not accept that they are a small portion (estimated at 10%) of self-identified Republicans, so rather than recognizing that and working towards growing within the party, they claim that they are the true voice of the majority, ushered out by the body politic of the GOP.

Now, don't get me wrong - I do believe Paul supporters are deliberately silenced. But it's more due to Paul and his supporters conspiracies of the new world order, the "amero" fears, their desire to reduce and eliminate collusion between government and corporations, their recognition of teeming conflicts of interest b/w regulatory agencies and corporations (and throw the federal reserve in there for good measure) - Paul supporters are both an embarrassment to the party as well as a threat to the corporate interests that have become the modern Republican party. Corporations would do very well if Paul was in office, but they do better with pro-collusion Republicans.

(on that note, I empathize with the desires of Paul supporters to reduce corporate corruption - but unlike them, I see the profit motive of corporations as that which drives greed and corruption, so therefore greater deregulation, which they see as the panacea to that corruption, is not at all what would eliminate that link in my view. They view the world through a gov't-is-always-the-villain lens, where I see the need for a motivated offender to initiate corruption - which means corporations first.)
 
It amazes me how when a large group of people get together, they devolve into a bunch of stupid children. All individual thought dies, and they become one mass, thinking with one mind.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']I'm not sure how I understand a bunch of folks disrupting the RNC because one old white man is getting more attention than another old white man is any form of racism.
[/QUOTE]

Of course you don't.
 
[quote name='Clak']It amazes me how when a large group of people get together, they devolve into a bunch of stupid children. All individual thought dies, and they become one mass, thinking with one mind.[/QUOTE]

Have you never been to a sporting event? Never took part in the wave?
 
[quote name='eldergamer']Have you never been to a sporting event? Never took part in the wave?[/QUOTE]
Pro sports? Nope and nope. I'd rather sit at home and watch, big crowds always breed stupid people.
 
Libertarians going to the RNC convention to support Ron Paul believing that ANYTHING will happen good for them. That's the straight up definition of utterly, cravenly insane. The best part was them shouting you down with "USA". Beaten to death with fervent faux nationalism.

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They hate you. They've always hated you. Get over it.
 
I didn't know throwing peanuts at black people had racial overtones. I'm serious. Can someone explain the significance of it for me? Edit: (Oh, wait, it's reported that someone shouted this is how we feed the animals-I assume that was an attack on the camerawoman's race, but at the RNC it's not outside the realm of possibility that it was a slam on CNN-dunno, I wasn't there.)

Regarding the RNC, I watched about 10 minutes of it. Saw Santorum's last part, and Artur Davis. Santorum...I hate that man as much as any other politician I can remember (Bachmann, Peter King, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi) but that was the best speech I have ever heard from him in my life. Not because I agreed with much, if any of it, but in terms of speech skills, and rallying cry for his audience. That was a good speech, mechanically.

Artur Davis' was exceptional. They (RNC) nailed so many things they needed to: A)Black guy, B)former Democrat, C)former Obama campaigner, D) Light non-offensive/racist humor, E)Horrible haircut. I hadn't heard of him before, but I was rather impressed.

I still say Obama will win in a landslide (10pts or more), but between the Romney campaign and Obama campaign, I changed my mind from voting for Obama just because I feel like I should start voting again, to intentionally not-voting, as my vote. Both candidates have policies that potentially endanger me personally, so I'm not sleeping with a bear instead of a lion. I'll be over with the monkeys, masturbating and throwing poo.
 
[quote name='berzirk']I didn't know throwing peanuts at black people had racial overtones. I'm serious. Can someone explain the significance of it for me?
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Throw peanuts at monkeys.
Do same to black people because haw haw this is what a monkey looks like.
Monkeys are animals and/or less evolved than humans.
Therefore black people are less evolved and more animalistic.
Chanting "this is how we feed animals" is a nice touch.
 
[quote name='Strell']Throw peanuts at monkeys.
Do same to black people because haw haw this is what a monkey looks like.
Monkeys are animals and/or less evolved than humans.
Therefore black people are less evolved.
Chanting "this is how we feed animals" reflects that there's always been a racial overtone of "black people are less evolved/more savage."[/QUOTE]

Yah, I read the animals line later. The throw peanuts at monkeys thing though-that was news to me. I've been feeding monkeys wrong all along. I heard of peanuts for elephants, but have only fed monkeys sliced fruits. Didn't get the link until the animals line. RNC at its finest.
 
I love how some of you keep on believing you're not republicans. I don't care who you vote for or what party, if any, you're registered with, your attitudes are republican to the core.
 
[quote name='Clak']Pro sports? Nope and nope. I'd rather sit at home and watch, big crowds always breed stupid people.[/QUOTE]

I was going to call you out on being hypocritical, but I guess you're just an intellectial elitist.
Come on, everybody loves the wave!

(I'm as anti-social as the next guy. I hate going "WHoO! YEAH!" But I still do the wave)
 
Oh I like sports, but the ones I like either aren't played here much or if they are it's nowhere near me.
 
[quote name='DurbanBrown']id rather be a republican than a democrate. but if i had it my way, it would be neither.[/QUOTE]

NPP representing.
 
[quote name='cancerman1120']Do you read? It is plain as day that I amended the thread that the chaos was not race related. That was was followed by a story about the guy throwing peanuts at an African American reporter which is an obvious racist attack. Any further talk about Ron Paul was not about race. Please keep up.[/QUOTE]

Sorry - I honestly didn't see that, as I don't see posts from that corner of Vs.

As for the switch in conversation, I can't imagine any of our spectacular forum members would take to throwing vaguely related incidents into a topic to throw it off course and pull the topic in THEIR direction, after all the times they've accused me of and attacked me for doing that.
 
[quote name='speedracer']The wave is bad and you should feel bad.[/QUOTE]

Astros just won their 40th game of the season, so you certainly know what it must be like to feel shame.

Assuming the Lastros are indeed your team.

What does stink about modern baseball? Hearing the organ play "Blister in the Sun." That shit'll make you feel olllllld.
 
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