George W. Bush.
Making America a good place in which to do business? Good. Meat for we libertarian carnivores.
Level the playing field to sell American goods and services across the globe? Eliminate the minimum wage! Yeah!
To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
George W. Bush.
Making America a good place in which to do business? Good. Meat for we libertarian carnivores.
Level the playing field to sell American goods and services across the globe? Eliminate the minimum wage! Yeah!
George W. Bush.
Government must take my side? Dammit, the government must only take my side against the foreigners and criminals who would harm me. Not against my fellow Americans or American governments.
George W. Bush.
Liberty constantly expanding? Great shot kid, don’t get cocky.
Am I the first with a Star Wars allusion? Does it matter?
George W. Bush.
The drifting toward tragedy if America’s uncertain line: very good. He said it would not happen on his watch, but not that his watch is the only answer. Good perspective.
Government improving lives but not running lives? Hmm. Trying to improve lives involves a certain amount of power that’s on the road to running lives. Government should impact peoples’ lives minimally.
George W. Bush.
Education spending and socialist senior support is good. Sigh.
Tax relief. Wooo!
You’re expecting more insight from me at this pace?
George W. Bush.
Now a role-call of the family, and the supporters/predecessors (Cheney and Reagan).
Already structured like an epic poem.
Coincidence?
George W. Bush.
We can already see the valley? A little early to hang that banner on the aircraft carrier.
Especially since it’s too close to an allusion to that whole 23rd Psalms thing.
There his is. The nominee, George W. Bush.
Anyone who bet against him accepting the nomination, you have now lost.
Must have been mighty long odds and almost worth a $2.00 bet to win a million.
I think I just recognized the mating call of the wild big jawed Nevada woo woo woo woman.
Fred Thompson.
The president threw the first pitch from the rubber in Yankee Stadium while wearing body armor.
That’s more manly than wind-surfing, bungee-jumping, playing hockey like a thug, and falling down on snow slopes, werd, because he did it and didn’t make a show of it.
Fred Thompson.
He’s got a good voice, and he’s played respected authority figures (See Die Hard II: Die Harder).
Also, I liked his commercial message in support of the Bush Doctrine (What warning did the terrorists give before 9/11?)
I should have told Stephen Green that the first person to a Ghostbusters II allusion wins.
I guess it’s too late now.
George Pataki.
Final allusion to the Statue of Liberty as a uniting symbol that can make all of us feel good: reminiscient of Ghostbusters II.
I almost expect a cut to Yohanna de la Torres to in the observation deck of lady Liberty with a healthy dose of mood slime.
George Pataki.
A dilemma for the maestros: Previous nights have had the barn-burner speaker preceding the cool resolve speaker. I guess Pataki’s supposed to be that crowd-riler, but the organizers couldn’t pick someone who would overshadow the nominee.
Man, picking speaker slots must have been like organizing the line-up card for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals.
George Pataki.
In the hands of a monster, a box cutter is a weapon of mass destruction. Good line, and good point for further reflection in which this blog cannot engage while its author hen-pecks words with one hand while trying to drink with the other.
“We’ve already been attacked.” Cheney said that last night, didn’t he? Or was it Miller?
George Pataki.
Talking about wanting a president who would ask the right question when attacked, “What do we do now?” when the wrong question is “Why did they do they hate us?”
A dig at the Clinton administration for not reacting strongly enough to earlier attacks, given in the form of “I wish they had acted more strongly.”
Partisanship, or sincere hope? If you ask, you impugn Pataki, and Republicans, as Americans and as humans.
George Pataki.
Google allusion, to John Kerry, when he says Kerry has to Google himself to know what his current position is.
Winning one for the Gipper? Good crowd response, but hmm.
Democrats losing one with the Flipper? Perhaps I should wait for the next note in the symphony before judgment.
George Pataki.
So he’s the attack dog tonight, highlighting the contrasts between Bush and Kerry.
Do college professors call them Compare and Attack Dog papers now?
The new “And he did” refrain counterpoints the “But not John Kerry” bit from Steele two nights ago very, very well.
What orchestration!
George Pataki.
Bravo on recognizing contributions from other states after 9/11 and making those delegations stand. The United States of America.
George Pataki.
Am I the only one who thought his promise to be brief was an applause line?