Republican National Convention '08

[innerSpaceman]

And I suspect he sucked caulk below decks on navy ships, but has self-loathed his own gayness ever since he was daily buttraped in the Hanoi Hilton and started to like it.



Yeah, that's low and disgusting. McCain's not high on my list right now.

[JWBear]

The right wing is accusing the California Supreme Court of legislating from the bench on their same sex marriage ruling. That's recent.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by JWBear

The right wing is accusing the California Supreme Court of legislating from the bench on their same sex marriage ruling. That's recent.

The Ninth Circuit Court is notorious among talk radio listeners for being horribly liberal.

By the way The Daily Show was again great tonight (covering the last day of the RNC). The reporters all went into the arena and asked everyone what "small town" meant since that seems to be the theme for the Republicans.

[Now if you ask me, I think "small town" is code for "White Church-Going Protestants" but...]

Across the board people seemed to say, "Well, a small town is where marriage is between a man and a woman." So apparently gay people aren't allowed to live in small towns. Or they don't make them that way there. Uh-huh.

[innerSpaceman]

And they accused Massachusetts' Supreme Court of the exact same thing.

It most certainly does NOT refer exclusively, or even primarily, to the United States Supreme Court.

In fact, it rarely refers to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since they are the "Supreme" of Supreme Courts, their rulings are not usually demeaned with the legislative monikor, since they can not be appealed to any higher authority.

But because State Supreme Courts have that one higher authority, their rulings on Constitutionality are demeaned with the legislative perjorative.





By the way, it was the infamous Vietnamese Teabagging Torture that finally broke POW McCain and had him wanting to kill himself. He mentioned that incident in his speech last night, conspicously leaving out the important element of faggotry.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I didn't claim that it was only federal Supreme Court, that was just the last time I recall hearing it.

Regardless, I've heard it used for abortion, gun control, gay marriage, affirmative action, you name it. If a Supreme Court ruling falls in line with what's considered a liberal view point, it's decried as "legislating from the bench", no matter the subject matter. I've heard it aimed at so many things I can't possibly agree that he was aiming that specifically at the gay haters.

[scaeagles]

I was actually surpised to hear that McCain's speech drew a significantly larger TV audience than did Obama. Found that to be very interesting....though I don't have any idea what it means.

Edited to add - oops! I misread. McCain had 38.9 million watching, Obama had 38.4. I had originally read that as 34.8. So more, but not significantly more.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'd be curious to see the historical numbers on that. I would think whichever speech is 2nd gets some level of help simply for being 2nd. After a week of convention talk and the talking-head-gasm that follows the first acceptance speech is certain to drum up more interest in what's to follow.

[scaeagles]

I don't know, you jerk-wad! I take back my oops. McCain CRUSHED Obama drawing over 10% more viewers! Admit it and that OBAMA is DOOMED!

(Posting this right after I posted #1842 in the "yes we can" thread....just a little joke....and yes, I know my math was off)

[wendybeth]

That's okay, Scaeagles- you're the reason they created NCLB.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I don't know, you jerk-wad! I take back my oops. McCain CRUSHED Obama drawing over 10% more viewers! Admit it and that OBAMA is DOOMED!

I think it's because McCain's speech came right after a football game so a lot of people already had their TV sets on.