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So, speeches are over, the balloons have dropped, the Republicans have abandoned Minneapolis-St. Paul with almost as much alacrity as they once did New Orleans and it's time for another listicle of shit I wish I'd found a reason to write about before now. More »
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Stop! It's Maverick time! Cindy will introduce the film to introduce her husband who will apparently talk forever and a day but I am such a dedicated blogger that I will mock the thing in its entirety while the energy brought to me by my bag of Twizzlers and my double cappuccino slowly dies, like the light in my eyes and the hope in my heart. More »
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Not to scare anyone, but I'll be back shortly after 8:00 ET to liveblog tonight's Republican Convention speeches, which include takes on Republicanism from Mel Martinez, Tim Pawlenty, "Snowflake" Brownback, the inventor of color-coded fear Tom Ridge and their main man, John McCain. Feel free to use this thread as an open forum until I get back. I know there's beer around here somewhere, and I'm going to find it. More »
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Last weekend, McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina told women to stop allowing the Democrats to win their votes on the issue of abortion, saying, "The Democratic Party has done a disservice to women by trying to hold women hostage to the issue of Roe v. Wade." In Carly's world view (and in her speech last night), the issue is the economy, not abortion. Carly might have been the only person at the RNC last night for whom abortion isn't that important an issue. More »
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Dear McCain Handlers, Please let Roberta McCain talk to reporters again. Not because she'll lose her son the Presidency — we think he might be able to do that himself — but because the campaign is more fun for everyone, including your candidate, when it's not all scripted and boring. It'll totally fit with your meme that John speaks his mind, and Roberta can tell charming stories about buying cars in France and when Johnny was naughty as a kid and Paris Hilton and we can hate him marginally less because we like cool old ladies. In fact, can you work with Biden's people to get Mama Biden and Roberta to do their own talk show? [Raw Story] More »
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Sarah Palin is taking the stage tonight to give the most important speech of her political career. And if the shouting crowds (and my utter lack of a internet connection as I type this) are anything to go by, there's not going to be an Eagleton moment. Anyway, it seems like I'll apparently be posting this after it's over, what with the complete lack of internet access that started when she took the stage, but that's the way the Internet crumbles. (UPDATE: A hard restart, um, restarted my modem! This bitch is back, too!) More »
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The start of Ladies' Night at the RNC is here, and it's a CEO sideshow, with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina speaking right off the bat to a half-empty convention center. I'm one of 3 people paying attention to the speeches, if the loud conversations and lack of working reporters are any guide. But, hey, I'm here and I can't find any booze, and they are two of the few women addressing the RNC during "prime time," so here's your first Ladies Night live blog, back here staring at famous people's asses again. More »
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Greta Van Susteren is one of Fox News' anchors and even after I kvelled all over Bill Hemmer last week, she was still willing to sit down for an interview. So I trekked over to the Fox News tent at the RNC yesterday to talk to Greta about all the gender issues going on in politics and the media. I was going to ask how the response was different to Fox at the RNC than it was at the DNC, but when I got there, I had to be cleared through security to go into the tent, which was set up to allow RNC delegates and attendees to walk through and gawk at the anchors anchoring and reporters reporting — I also passed a gauntlet of interns handing out plastic hats and McCain's head on tongue depressors — so I didn't really end up having to ask. From her presence and her obvious intellect on the air, I was figuring on her being tall and statuesque, if only because I assume that pretty much all strong, smart women are taller than me — but she ended up being short, petite and a complete force of nature. More »
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Phyllis Schafly, she who led the fight to make sure that the rest of American womanity wouldn't have the benefits of a constitutional amendment giving us equal rights, has her granny panties all in a bunch because the McCain campaign canceled a scheduled appearance by Sarah Palin at Schafly's event yestserday. Schafly, whose relevance in the Republican party has waned since it finished using her as a figurehead for why women don't need equality, thinks that someone higher up in the McCain camp should've called her to cancel Palin's appearance now that she's the VP nominee and has to prepare a speech. We're surprised she can get 800 people to cough up $100 a pop to see her give the same speech about how great it is to be unequal that she's been giving for 30 years. [ABC News] More »
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The thing about living in Washington is that you run into famous-for-DC people all the time because it's a relatively small place and everyone goes to the same 10 restaurants for work functions. Between that and being a lobbyist, I've met a lot of Republicans, big and small, and rarely are they ever less than gracious. Last night was the first time in nearly 10 years that I met someone who wasn't — Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser and lobbyist for foreign interests that don't necessarily have America's best interests at heart. Luckily, I have fellow Glamocracy blogger Asma Hasan to assuage my hurt feelings this morning. More »
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The Republican National Convention hasn't even officially started and already it's being scaled back due to Republicans not wanting to look like insensitive assholes (again) when a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast. In the absence of hangovers, parties or Madonna concerts to discuss this week, Kay Steiger of Campus Progress (still Conventionally blogging at Pushback and RH Reality Check) and I discuss hurricanes, Sarah Palin, polar bears, drilling for oil, Carly Fiorina, how we won't be voting with our vaginas and the most desperate need of our time — that Kevin Costner never star in another science fiction movie. More »
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