Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people?
With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing.
Our convention was different. We gave the stage to everyday Americans who hunger for change and stepped up to make phone calls, knock on doors, and raise money in small amounts in their communities.
You may have missed it, but we also showed the country a video with the faces and voices of those organizers, volunteers, and donors from every corner of the country.
“Honestly, it would take an idiot to want someone who spoke as if she was running for PTA chairwoman to be placed in the second highest office in the free world, directly under a 72-year-old cancer survivor. Unfortunately though, that’s exactly the voting bloc the Republicans are counting on to give them another four years in the White House after this disastrous eight: Idiots.”
Chez at Huffpo.
| Ron Paul’s ‘counter-convention’ | ||
Call it the real Republican convention. At least that is how Ron Paul, a US congressman for Texas, and his supporters billed their campaign’s Tuesday night “rally for the republic”, in which they called on the party to “return to its roots”. From the looks of it, Paul, who suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination in June, could almost be accepting the party’s presidential nomination himself. Almost 15,000 people came from all over the country to hear him speak. Paul, who spoke at the gathering on Tuesday night, was joined by an ensemble of right-leaning politicians, thinkers, artists and media personalities, from US television host Tucker Carlson to Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor. |
