Convention junkies can obsess details here!

[Gurtholfin]

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Yeah, there's even a big hockey meanie over on the D1 board who wants to kick me off of USCHO.

Not sure I'd call Dubbie a meanie. More of a simpleton/annoyance.

Hope this isn't like Beetlejuice where mentioning his name 3 times can bring him in coz he hasn't discovered the cafe yet.

Dubbie. Dubbie. Dub...

[bronconick]

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Not sure I'd call Dubbie a meanie. More of a simpleton/annoyance.

Hope this isn't like Beetlejuice where mentioning his name 3 times can bring him in coz he hasn't discovered the cafe yet.

Dubbie. Dubbie. Dub...

Oh, yeah. Him discussing politics. That would be lovely.

[Gurtholfin]

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Oh, yeah. Him discussing politics. That would be lovely.

i don't know, by precedent, he'd have to like and support (and LOVE) both Michelle Bachman and Al Franken. Could be fun...

[Old Pio]

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Tebow might want to give some thought to getting into politics.

Lord knows he can't throw a football.

He can throw it well enough to be a multi-millionaire in his mid 20s.

[FlagDUDE08]

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He can throw it well enough to be a multi-millionaire in his mid 20s.

He's also in the group of quarterbacks who throw with their correct hand (Steve Young and Mark Brunell being a couple others).

[ericredaxe]

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Neither here nor there... but wow, Clint Eastwood looks old...

[LynahFan]

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Neither here nor there... but wow, Clint Eastwood looks old...

And can't really speak very well...

[SteveP]

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And can't really speak very well...

I thought he spoke quite clearly

[LynahFan]

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Just too much pausing, fumbling for words, and "um-ing" for my taste - didn't really have a lot of stage presence, IMHO. I expected a more rousing, hard-line speech from him.

[joecct]

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What channel are you all watching?

Me: FoxN

And Mitt just a reminder -- having is not the same as wanting. If you get the big chair next January, reality sucks big time. It's not going to be easy.

[Kepler]

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Best comment of the night:

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[Old Pio]

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Neither here nor there... but wow, Clint Eastwood looks old...

He is old.

[Kepler]

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RomneyBot is running the GOP VP (Vapid Platitude) program pretty well, but the stainless steel articulated rotary joint that controls its head pivot seems poorly calibrated.

[joecct]

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RomneyBot is running the GOP VP (Vapid Platitude) program pretty well, but the stainless steel articulated rotary joint that controls its head pivot seems poorly calibrated.

William Kepler @wkepred
Time for change

OK, it's not you, but a distant relative (and don't be catty about it)?

[FreshFish]

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Not quite sure what to make of Romney's speech. A few too many vapid platitudes for my taste, though I suppose they are de riguer to "rally the base" these days.

I thought he missed an opportunity to lay out a real clear, concrete specific foundation behind his "five point plan." In fact, those two paragraphs were about the only time that genuine passion for the job really shone through, you could almost hear the bullet points and see the vision of the powerpoint slide show for those few moments.

I'm sure it's clear enough in his mind....I think it would have helped quite a bit if he elucidated a bit further just how powerfully integrated that five point plan really is:
> the low interest rates that are essential to keep the deficit from exploding due to the interest on the burgeoning national debt also mean that there is a lot of potential capital sitting idle on the sidelines
> the uncertainty of how much more severe the regulatory burden will become is intimidating entrepreneurs from taking even a modest risk
> the viciousness of the "punish the rich" proposals means people have to take extra precautionary steps to protect themselves, and that also is stifling innovation
> unnecessarily high energy costs impede business profits; anemic business profits impede hiring
> we need jobs

"I understand how by addressing all of these problems simultaneously in an integrated, co-ordinated manner we can unleash profoundly powerful synergistic effects: give entrepreneurs a chance to succeed in energy development, you put idle capital to work, entrepreneurs start purchasing things from companies that produce energy extraction equipment, people get hired both to extract the energy and to build the tools needed with which to extract the energy, which means these folks all have paychecks to spend on better food and nicer clothes which puts even more people to work."

that's the kind of thing I wanted to hear, and it wasn't there.

That virtuous circle is second nature to him; but it is a foreign concept to most people. He needed to make that sing, to turn it into concrete simple pictures for ordinary folk, and he didn't.

He demonstrated that he is a decent and earnest man who keeps his word. That's nice enough as far as it goes, Mitt; but in these times we need more than that.