# 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:** 60
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1182 "2016-07-22T03:33:33Z")
He is my champion, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1183 "2016-07-22T03:33:47Z")
Okay, the “I’m with her/I’m with you” thing was cute. A slogan isn’t an enforced loyalty oath, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1184 "2016-07-22T03:34:03Z")
Voters are going to eat this up. He will be ahead in the polls by next week. ---
**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 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1185 "2016-07-22T03:35:27Z")
Is Baron tall or is Trump short? Kid is only NINE. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1186 "2016-07-22T03:35:36Z")
Wow, you think this speech alone is going to give him a six plus point surge in the polls, including whatever Clinton gets? That’s a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1187 "2016-07-22T03:35:38Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > I’m not believing anything he says that isn’t factual. So basically, you believed him when he said his own name? ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1188 "2016-07-22T03:35:57Z")
The carny barker has dropped the mike! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1189 "2016-07-22T03:36:15Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Voters are going to eat this up. He will be ahead in the polls by next week. No way. I don’t see anything here that will move people that aren’t already in his camp. ---
**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 22, 2016, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1190 "2016-07-22T03:36:30Z")
The nightmarish tirade from sweaty Orange Hitler is finally over! ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1191 "2016-07-22T03:37:49Z")
Well that was…xenophobic? I must say I like Trumps vision where we all pay lower taxes yet the government magically has more money to spend on infrastructure, helping out with student loans and providing childcare for working women. It’s amazing how his plan manages to spend so much more on all of these things as well as increasing military spending and veteran’s benefits while at the same time drastically limiting the money coming in. It’s almost like the numbers can’t possibly work. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1192 "2016-07-22T03:38:51Z")
So, who is doing the factchecking on his tirade? ---
**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 22, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1193 "2016-07-22T03:39:02Z")
After all this and having read a bit on Twitter about what people like and dislike, I am pretty sure I could successfully win a nomination for president as well. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1194 "2016-07-22T03:39:06Z")
73 minutes. He had a lot of explaining to do. . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1195 "2016-07-22T03:40:22Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > 73 minutes. He had a lot of explaining to do. > . And yet managed to explain absolutely nothing. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1196 "2016-07-22T03:41:00Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > So basically, you believed him when he said his own name? There’s more to it than that. His grasp of the facts is awful, but some things he’s right about: such as the political class being clueless and more disconnected from the public than ever. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1197 "2016-07-22T03:41:39Z")
They’re playing the Stone’s “Can’t Always Get What You Want” ---
**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 22, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1198 "2016-07-22T03:42:17Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Any booing that might have started at I am proud to be gay would have looked damn silly when he then went on to be proud of being a Republican and most of all an American. They were booing Cruz while he ended with “God bless the United States of America”. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1199 "2016-07-22T03:42:49Z")
So to sum up: I’m going to solve all our problems in my first week in office! And it’ll cost you nothing! It’ll be beautiful, believe me. And Hillary Clinton? Isn’t she just awful? Nothing here made me like him any better than I did before, but I do think he helped himself with this speech. I do think there will be a small convention bounce, maybe 3 points? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1200 "2016-07-22T03:43:52Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > There’s more to it than that. His grasp of the facts is awful, but some things he’s right about: such as the political class being clueless and more disconnected from the public than ever. If the public bought into his act, then they are just as clueless as any so-called “political class”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729/1201 "2016-07-22T03:45:07Z")
> [@leftfield6](#): > > We saw the copy of the speech earlier. This is not a good performance. This convention needed a home run to salvage it. This is at best an infield single, maybe even a reaching base by throwing error level performance. FINALLY! An explanation I can understand! WITH the catcher sharing all the signals to the entire park. FTR, there’s no sharing in baseball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-republican-national-convention/757729.md?page=61)