• February 13, 2012
  • HOW TO MAKE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS LESS TERRIBLE: “All [Democratic conventions since 1976] have just been television shows, scripted, fake, and boring, the American political equivalent of Olympic opening ceremonies, without the panache. And so when the editors of TNR asked for 500 words on how to improve them, I offered just two. Tear gas.” [The Plank]

{ 23 comments }

Strictly for the Tardcore August 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Wait, did I miss something and the RepubliCon is a bastion of awesomeness now?

ManchuCandidate August 19, 2008 at 3:02 pm

Roman Orgy

eatsshootsleaves August 19, 2008 at 3:02 pm

[re=63197]Strictly for the Tardcore[/re]: Two words: Zell Miller.

Also, the Republican Convention will be AWESOME this year if McCain picks Lieberman: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12646.html

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE JESUS.

shortsshortsshorts August 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Let McCain’s batshit crazy mother speak at the Democratic convention, and then allow Reverend Wright to speak at the Republican convention.

Nader can have a corvair parked on the stage, and Paultard can show the teleprompter to his followers that says everything IN VERY LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS BECAUSE IT MAKES THE POINT MORE BETTER.

NoWireHangers August 19, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Tear gas? Come on. Mushrooms.

AngryBlakGuy August 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm

…anal stretching?

Strictly for the Tardcore August 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm

[re=63200]eatsshootsleaves[/re]: Dammit. Forgot about Miller.

MARCdMan August 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm

In keeping with this whole cockfight/bloodsport theme from the previous post, I suggest they ritualistically slaughter John Edwards, or at least let Jesse Jackson cut his balls off.

Jobbotch August 19, 2008 at 3:05 pm

[re=63200]eatsshootsleaves[/re]: Yes yes yes. Make it so, Yahweh!

The Incomparable Tiny Valdez August 19, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Make the Clintons give their speeches in matching his-and-hers swimwear.

grendel August 19, 2008 at 3:27 pm

How about McCain’s first wife? Get her and some other Repub first wives… are any of Newt’s exes still alive? Maybe they can tell us interesting stories about the kind of magazines the Repub powerbrokers keep under their mattress (hint, it’s the buttsecks)

Sussemilch August 19, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Al Gore method: Simulate 50 years of glacial melting by flooding Invesco Field with 1/2″ of water every minute. We’ll <3 the green lobby & chase away the boredom, get Wolf Blitzer to do a blow-by-blow of the damage, and see if Hopey can really walk on water.

PrairiePossum August 19, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Hopey should enter the stadium riding a red, white and blue unicorn. I wouldn’t use tear gas. It pollutes the environment. Tasers would be really awesome though.

TGY August 19, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Drinking. Games.

Make them official! Every time Hopey says ‘change’, for instance.

Also, invite Ron Paul to speak.

Tybalt August 19, 2008 at 3:50 pm

[re=63206]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: It’s the Dem Convention. That what those long lines on the floor are for.

american mutt August 19, 2008 at 3:55 pm

[re=63254]TGY[/re]: I think I’ve decided that I’m going to have a Hopey drinking party game at my place. Everyone is invited. Or maybe a Hopey remove-an-article-of-clothing-everytime-he-says-change party. In which case I should invite some different people.

pondscum August 19, 2008 at 4:14 pm

What happened to the drug orgy? That sounded pretty awesome.

johnbpt August 19, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Mayor Daley knew that the tear gas doesn’t work without the riot batons.

bitchincamaro August 19, 2008 at 4:49 pm

Ask Congress to come back to work and re-instate the Draft. A guaranteed crowd pisser.

thefrontpage August 19, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Haven’t all of us at Wonkette been saying now for at least six months that the idiotic, ridiculous, stupid conventions are just huge, stinking, stupid wastes of time, money and resources? And these media entities sending reporters out to these stupid wastes of time, money and resources? What about all of these so-called “BUDGET PROBLEMS” that your’e having? It can’t be that bad if you’re sending dozens of people across the country, racking up airfare, hotel, food, gas and transportation costs—in the tens of thousands of dollars. STUPID! Better to use that money on more staff, raises for the poor people you have there now suffering it out, or actual resources to report on investigative news stories that actually mean something. Because these conventions? They don’t mean a thing. They are stupid, they are obsolete, and they should be cancelled.

WernerHerzogsBear August 19, 2008 at 5:20 pm

[re=63364]thefrontpage[/re]: Yes, but what about the poor pimps and coke dealers in Denver and Minneapolis? The Conventions are like Black Thursday for them, and whores gotta eat too.

WernerHerzogsBear August 19, 2008 at 5:21 pm

Oops, meant “Black Friday.”

Sabre_Justice August 19, 2008 at 7:10 pm

One word: Wii.

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