# The Republican national Convention **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 18, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729 "2016-06-18T21:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 29
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/561 "2016-07-20T00:11:46Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Hawaiowa? Fine, and you? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/562 "2016-07-20T00:16:37Z")
Okay, seriously: what effect will controversies like the walkout and the vote counting thing affect November? Probably relatively minor, but I can easily see it being used as further justification for conservative anti-Trumpers to harden their positions and be more vocal. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/563 "2016-07-20T00:21:37Z")
Naw. Czarcasm was right. Trump’s in charge. The Republicans are the Party of Trump. All this deadender stuff won’t amount to a hill of beans in November - especially since half of them will still turn around and say with a straight face that Hillary is even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/564 "2016-07-20T00:24:46Z")
So he and Congressional leaders going to hold hands and happily cooperate fully to implement his agenda if he wins? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/565 "2016-07-20T00:26:03Z")
I’m relieved that this procedural glitch is past. I feared they might descend into fisticuffs and mayhem, requiring police intervention. Who might charge in with truncheons and crack some Republican heads. That would have been bad. Unless the No Trumpers! were yelling “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!”. That would still be bad, but it would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/566 "2016-07-20T00:30:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > If only they were gagged too. And had a real whip, instead of those fake political ones. The whole thing would be a lot less boring. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/567 "2016-07-20T00:34:14Z")
Oh my lord. Someone rubbed a lamp and the Genie of Cockfighting popped out to support Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/568 "2016-07-20T00:35:50Z")
Oh my lord. It’s the Governor of Arkansaw. The class level just dropped 17 points. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/569 "2016-07-20T00:41:11Z")
Lol , more plagiarizing as the Attorney General of Arkansas steals Ann Richards line about a real Texas accent and uses it as a real Arkansas accent. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/570 "2016-07-20T00:49:24Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > So he and Congressional leaders going to hold hands and happily cooperate fully to implement his agenda if he wins? Presumably. They agree on all the important points: 1. Hillary Bad. 2. Something is Up with Obama 3. Tax cuts for millionaires 4. We’re going to build a Wall! (presumably using equal parts Trump Industry employees and a bunch of guys standing outside Home Depot) 5. Hillary should be in jail 6. Mr. Trump is a very classy fellow 7. Muslims shouldn’t be coming over here with their unamerican terrorism 8. Jesus is good. The Bible is good and very classy. 9. Repeal Obamacare. Replace it with something better. 10. Torture works 11. America is now great again, after Obama ruined everything ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/571 "2016-07-20T01:03:37Z")
NRA whack job followed by a Christian woman professional golf player. Did I take the brown acid? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/572 "2016-07-20T01:07:35Z")
And now Trump again, even though the candidate doesn’t typically speak until the last night of the convention ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/573 "2016-07-20T01:12:33Z")
I have NEVER seen the Turtle so animated. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/574 "2016-07-20T01:14:54Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Presumably. They agree on all the important points: > > 1. Hillary Bad. > 2. Something is Up with Obama > 3. Tax cuts for millionaires > 4. We’re going to build a Wall! (presumably using equal parts Trump Industry employees and a bunch of guys standing outside Home Depot) > 5. Hillary should be in jail > 6. Mr. Trump is a very classy fellow > 7. Muslims shouldn’t be coming over here with their unamerican terrorism > 8. Jesus is good. The Bible is good and very classy. > 9. Repeal Obamacare. Replace it with something better. > 10. Torture works > 11. America is now great again, after Obama ruined everything You forgot one: Figure out what’s going on. We can’t let any Muslims in until we do that. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/575 "2016-07-20T01:26:26Z")
Is there precedent for an expected convention bump to actually become a convention dip? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/576 "2016-07-20T01:31:47Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > You forgot one: Figure out what’s going on. > We can’t let any Muslims in until we do that. So the Trumpster has said. No Muslims can be allowed in the country until we find out what’s going on. So I assume that at some point in this convention he will announce that his first act as president will be to establish a Committee to Find Out What’s Going On, with the explicit goal of finding out what’s going on, and issuing a full report by a certain date which I assume will be titled “What’s Going On: A Report on the Findings of the Committee to Find Out What’s Going On”. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/577 "2016-07-20T01:36:50Z")
Hillary may be the first candidate to get a bounce from both conventions. The roll call was strange and seemingly endless, they announced their votes and sometimes the non-Trumpian votes would “stick” and sometimes they wouldn’t. “We cast 25 votes for Trump and 15 for Cruz!” “Gotcha! You’re casting 40 votes for Trump!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/578 "2016-07-20T01:38:49Z")
By the time you figure out what is going on, something else is going on. Just different enough so that you don’t really know what’s going on. Wince, and repeat. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/579 "2016-07-20T01:45:15Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Oh my lord. Someone rubbed a lamp and the Genie of Cockfighting popped out to support Trump. I’m not watching the convention, so I don’t know to what you’re referring. I assume (or perhaps ‘hope’ is a better word) that you were not speaking literally. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/580 "2016-07-20T01:48:31Z")
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