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What did you think of Mitt Romney’s big speech? (If you’re having trouble remember, it was the thing that happened just after the Great Clint Eastwood Performance Art Meltdown of 2012, which we suspect was secretly arranged by the Obama campaign, those cunning devils.) Well, as it turns out, the Orlando Sentinel thought it was...
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Can you name the Florida state legislator who gave us the following quote* in Tampa this week? “I can’t wait until my term’s over and I don’t have to be part of this party anymore. They’ve gone crazy.” *Caveats: It was loud, and we’d been drinking. But even if the words aren’t dead on, the sentiment...
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We’re done here. Yes, the convention has two more nights to go. Yes, tonight is talking suit Marco Rubio’s moment in the sun. Yes, there’s a hurricane hitting New Orleans right now. Yes, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. But we’re not credentialed anyway, and we’ve had our fill of bullshit parties and obsequious glad-handing....
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We were promised Ann Coulter. We got Grover Norquist. Well, OK, we can’t say for sure that Ann Coulter wasn’t there—HomoCon had an open bar, after all—and we did spot a blond in the roped-off VIP lounge, but our companions assured us, as we marched over to START SOME SHIT, that it wasn’t her....
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Greetings, fellow conventioneers. My hangover and I are just waking up to discover, um, what the hell happened last night. Free beer (at Wonkette Drinky Thing) + free booze (at Homocon) = stumbling in stone-cold drunk at 3 a.m. (we must be lonely), or maybe later, because really, we lost track. But we did...
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  That image you’re looking at, the one of Dan Rather’s smiling face circa 1996, was on the back of the receipt a cab driver gave me last night. Welcome to Tampa, ladies and gentlemen. So tonight’s the night. The Repubs have officially nominated Willard Mitt Romney for president, Paul Ryan for vice president...
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The RNC has started sending us copies of today’s speeches, with the specific instructions that these are “embargoed until delivery.” But these speeches are dumb and boring and terribly predictable and inconsequential anyway, so we’re going to blow the embargo, because we can, and because embargoes are stupid, and because we really don’t care...
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The RNC has started sending us copies of today’s speeches, with the specific instructions that these are “embargoed until delivery.” But these speeches are dumb and boring and terribly predictable and inconsequential anyway, so we’re going to blow the embargo, because we can, and because embargoes are stupid, and because we really don’t care...
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The RNC has started sending us copies of today’s speeches, with the specific instructions that these are “embargoed until delivery.” But these speeches are dumb and boring and terribly predictable and inconsequential anyway, so we’re going to blow the embargo, because we can, and because embargoes are stupid, and because we really don’t care...
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The RNC has started sending us copies of today’s speeches, with the specific instructions that these are “embargoed until delivery.” But these speeches are dumb and boring and terribly predictable and inconsequential anyway, so we’re going to blow the embargo, because we can, and because embargoes are stupid, and because we really don’t care...
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