# 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:** 44
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/862 "2016-07-21T03:33:10Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > She was waving at the crowd but she held the classic pose just too long to explain away. > Bend the elbow, keep the hand moving at the wrist. That’s how you greet a crowd. She’s smart, I’ll give her that. She held the pose just long enough to give herself plausible deniability if anyone questions it, and they will, and she is looking forward to it. Nasty witch. ---
**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 21, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/863 "2016-07-21T03:52:09Z")
The Secret Service is investigating a Trump advisor who said that Hillary Clinton should be shot. > **[Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Clinton Should Be Shot](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/secret-service-investigating-al-baldasaro-clinton-shot-treason)** > > The Secret Service said Wednesday it would conduct the "appropriate investigation" after an adviser to Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware… > [@](#): > > New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro, who is a delegate for Trump and advises the businessman on veterans issues, said in a Tuesday radio interview that Clinton should face a firing squad over the Benghazi terror attacks. > > "This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason,” Baldasaro declared. > > Baldasaro again repeated his line Wednesday during an interview with the conservative radio show “Liberty Roundtable” that was broadcast from the Republican National Convention. > … > The Trump campaign was forced to walk back an interview Donald Trump Jr. gave on that same radio show earlier this year. Trump Jr. was interviewed by phone by guest James Edwards, a friend to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and a white nationalist who hosts a show syndicated by Liberty News Radio. The campaign said it was unaware of Edwards’ beliefs. I think the more interesting thing in this article is the fact that a radio show that featured a white nationalist as a guest, and is broadcast on the same network that features a show hosted by that same white nationalist, was broadcast from the convention. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/864 "2016-07-21T04:00:05Z")
> [@splatterpunk](#): > > Remember that time at Thanksgiving, when you were at the kids’ table, and kept trying to get the attention of the adults by tattling on some other kid, and the adults kept telling you to go play? > > Go play. No, actually the other kids got pissed because the grown ups kept butting in to get my opinion on stuff. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/865 "2016-07-21T04:05:16Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > 1. Ted Cruz goes rogue and does not endorse Trump. Senator Cruz didn’t go rogue. The campaign vetted his speech in advance, and he was allowed to speak anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/866 "2016-07-21T04:05:29Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Heh, my 87-year-old mother is sitting there listening to Mike Pence bloviate, and chanting “Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.” So what? Old people can be liberal too. My 85-year-old mother is. ---
**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 21, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/867 "2016-07-21T04:11:37Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > So what? Old people can be liberal too. My 85-year-old mother is. She must be so proud. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/868 "2016-07-21T04:11:56Z")
Wow, three straight days of Hillary Hatred, in the end, wears one out. Thanks, Mr. Cruz, for making what was turning out to be pretty much a wall-to-wall snoozefest into something briefly interesting. Whatever else one may say about the guy (in my case, that he is an utterly loathsome, smirking, fanatical toad); he certainly isn’t afraid to lead with his chin. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/869 "2016-07-21T04:15:37Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Wow, three straight days of Hillary Hatred, in the end, wears one out. Thanks, Mr. Cruz, for making what was turning out to be pretty much a wall-to-wall snoozefest into something briefly interesting. Whatever else one may say about the guy (in my case, that he is an utterly loathsome, smirking, fanatical toad); **he certainly isn’t afraid to lead with his chin.** Why not? You could stop an RPG with that thing. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/870 "2016-07-21T04:16:59Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Senator Cruz didn’t go rogue. The campaign vetted his speech in advance, and he was allowed to speak anyway. Well, I would say he went rogue and the Trump campaign was stupid to allow it not realizing this would be the headline of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/871 "2016-07-21T04:19:23Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > He said the word Trump exactly once so far. And that was when he was talking about how much he loves playing Whist, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/872 "2016-07-21T04:19:42Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Senator Cruz didn’t go rogue. The campaign vetted his speech in advance, and he was allowed to speak anyway. That’s the story the Trump camp is telling, anyway. I don’t know. Are [these the faces of people](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-unity-225915) who knew hours in advance what Cruz would say? ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/873 "2016-07-21T04:21:36Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > And that was when he was talking about how much he loves playing Whist, right? 🙂 I had to Google “Whist” which is unfamiliar to USAians. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/874 "2016-07-21T04:21:39Z")
What were they chanting while Pence was speaking, other than “Lock her up”? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/875 "2016-07-21T04:22:44Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > That’s the story the Trump camp is telling, anyway. I don’t know. Are [these the faces of people](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-donald-trump-unity-225915) who knew hours in advance what Cruz would say? > [@](#): > > But he wouldn’t say Trump’s name. If he thinks Trump is so dangerous, why does he refuse to speak his name? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/876 "2016-07-21T04:24:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > What were they chanting while Pence was speaking, other than “Lock her up”? “We like Mike” at one point. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/877 "2016-07-21T04:30:28Z")
Donald Trump tweeted: > [@](#): > > Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn’t honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal! That confirms it. Dummy Trump knew Cruz would not endorse and let it happen anyway. Trump is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/878 "2016-07-21T04:35:14Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > What were they chanting while Pence was speaking, other than “Lock her up”? The reaction to dull Pence sounded more like snoring than chanting. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/879 "2016-07-21T04:37:34Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > If he thinks Trump is so dangerous, why does he refuse to speak his name? Obviously, it’s to infer that Trump is as dangerous as He Who Must Not Be Named. And by that I mean Hastur, but you Melania plagiarism supporters can pretend it means Voldemort. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/880 "2016-07-21T04:47:48Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Donald Trump tweeted: > > That confirms it. Dummy Trump knew Cruz would not endorse and let it happen anyway. Trump is an idiot. Uh, I don’t think so. He is a RINGMASTER and this is his circus. Every good show has a villain. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/881 "2016-07-21T04:51:39Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Donald Trump tweeted: > > That confirms it. Dummy Trump knew Cruz would not endorse and let it happen anyway. Trump is an idiot. It could very well have been that the Trump campaign approved Cruz’s speech without bothering to read it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=45)