The Republican national Convention

Politics & Elections
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The 2016 Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland, Ohio at the Quicken Loans Arena July 18-21, 2016.

What will the format be? In past conventions, there have been speeches over several days, from all of the Republican luminaries and VIP’s. Prime speaking slots are often given to some “up and comers” so that they can be spotlighted.

Speakers usually laud the presumptive nominee, and trash the opposition.

Finally, the person is nominated, there are more rousing speeches, and it culminates in a well prepared acceptance speech from the candidate. It’s now become more of a coronation, in effect.

This time, it may be different.

Irrespective of the on-going campaign to prevent Trump from being the nominee (Dump Trump), it sounds like the convention might be a Trump-tacular time, with Mr. Trump dominating the proceedings in their entirety, giving a speech every night, overshadowing literally everyone else in the party, and culminating in a “night of winners”, with such D-list celebrities such as “controversial and hot-tempered former college basketball coach Bobby Knight; former pro football player Herschel Walker; Dana White of the UFC mixed martial arts company; boxing promoter Don King; former college basketball coach Digger Phelps; and others.”

It’s going to be an interesting convention to be sure. I wonder if it will be on pay-per-view.

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If Trump gets his way, it could be the best the Republicans can hope for. Up and coming Republicans don’t want too close of an association with the trainwreck that is The Donald’s campaign. He could use each night of the convention to rile up the diehards and put on a great big Reality TV spectacular. And if there is a floor fight over his nomination, he won’t be there to witness and/or be a part of.

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Don King? Last I heard, he was firmly denying that he had endorsed Trump and wanted nothing to do with him. Did that change?

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According to the linked article, Trump had not confirmed with ANY of the people he mentioned. He was just confident that they ALL would LOVE to be associated with him and were WINNERS.

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You forgot to mention the Vice Presidential nomination, vote, and acceptance speech.

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Only way I would pay to view it:

If on “Winners night” there is a Trump vs Don King wrestling match. Winner cuts the hair of the loser… :stuck_out_tongue:

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From the linked article, I don’t think Trump is really thinking about that. Not really important.

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So all the “winners” who have “endorsed” him are sports figures? When does Chris Cristie get to speak? Oh, never mind he’s a loser!

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With Bobby Knight there, there should be no shortage of chairs

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Or set it on fire. Whatever that is on Trump’s head, you know it’s flammable.

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When he gets back from fetching The Donald’s Mickey D’s order.

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Will Christie get to do the keynote like last time? It was so great, “Me me me me me me me me me me me… oh and by the way vote for our nominee.”

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You’d have to pay me and ply me with a lot of liquor to get me to watch it.

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Will be more entertaining than any since 1968.

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In a story with so many awesome parts, this part has to be my all-time favorite part:

Trump’s gonna speak for 45 minutes each night!? This is going to be a magnificent trainwreck! Trump has the best trainwrecks!

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There has to be a drinking game - like whenever Trump refers to himself with a superlative or something.

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Better use an eyedropper if you expect to make it past an hour.

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Jesus, are you trying to kill people? They wouldn’t last 10 minutes.

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Will there be riots in the streets in Cleveland?

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There will be some kind of confrontation. Perhaps Cleveland can keep a rough lid on it, with a massive security deployment. In any case, I’m pretty sure they’ll rue the day the RNC picked them.