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mick063

(2,424 posts)
11. Another to add to the list
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 10:00 PM
Aug 2012

Last edited Sat Sep 1, 2012, 01:11 AM - Edit history (1)

So far:

too many porta pottys at their rallies.
too many empty seats in Michigan.
too many booked rooms in Las Vegas (the casino wants them to pay up for their reservation commitments)
too few of viewers of the GOP convention (down 31% from four years ago)
too few of folks to show up for Herman Cain's capitulation gala.
too many unsold tickets for "Rock the Red".


As you can see......I'm keeping a running tally.

There simply isn't enough angry old men too keep it going and when they do show it is a blase affair. This is Darwin economics at it's finest. They are being destroyed by the very philosophy they swear by.

The angry old men have prescriptions to pay for and the billionaires are investing in television instead of the grass roots. Why? Because it is the manner in which CEOs are accustomed to with regard to communicationg with the ordinary Joe. They scoff at community organizing and put money down the television sink hole instead. What is lovely about all of this is that TV watchers have left TV advertising behind with the advent of automated digital video recording. The billionaires have no idea how to create a movement except to invest in "skipped" TV ads.

Edit: Look for some new legislation to be purchased by the billionaire club prohibiting people from using tecnology to skip their advertising. I'm not joking. Look how tough it was to stop unrestricted phone solicitation. Especially when it is used for political purposes.

maybe those empty seats are invisible Obamas? rurallib Aug 2012 #1
Wheeeeeeeee!!! Yea really! nc4bo Aug 2012 #2
excellent! handmade34 Aug 2012 #3
I'm jealous LOL nc4bo Aug 2012 #8
I've posted a few already... handmade34 Aug 2012 #12
Charlotte, that bastion of Marxism arcane1 Aug 2012 #4
A pleasant place to be in the midst of so much redness! nt nc4bo Aug 2012 #9
LOL! Cha Aug 2012 #17
And the 'Pubbies got their panties in a wad because DWS took a walk down radio row @ RNC (nt) apnu Aug 2012 #5
probably not that the ticket sales were too low .. zbdent Aug 2012 #6
I remember a teabagger convention where they reserved rooms nc4bo Aug 2012 #7
Gee, who'd a thought a place called Bojangles wouldn't be pro-GOP... nolabear Aug 2012 #10
They just named the place that. Typical corporate crapola. nc4bo Aug 2012 #13
Another to add to the list mick063 Aug 2012 #11
Dear God...there's actually a building called "Bojangles Coliseum"? Ken Burch Aug 2012 #14
When I moved to NC and my best friend came to visit, I suggested going to gateley Aug 2012 #24
Yes!! Best biscuits ever!! nt nc4bo Aug 2012 #25
Bojangles is a Southern restaurant chain jmowreader Sep 2012 #29
OK. Still, you can see why the name might jump out to somebody from another region. Ken Burch Sep 2012 #30
It jumped out at me when I moved there... jmowreader Sep 2012 #33
"Harper's" once published a "barbecue map of North Carolina" Ken Burch Sep 2012 #34
Whole hog is now joined by pork shoulder in eastern NC jmowreader Sep 2012 #35
Was it ever considered a "mixed marriage" Ken Burch Sep 2012 #36
Less country "music", less ignorance. Dawson Leery Aug 2012 #15
Hey, they're only for being anti-Obama so long as it's profitable. Lone_Star_Dem Aug 2012 #16
Just think of all those empty chairs! Raster Aug 2012 #18
Think of all the unused portable toilets! Initech Aug 2012 #20
No shit! Raster Aug 2012 #21
Empty portapots are also empty "chairs" LOL nc4bo Aug 2012 #22
Literally in this case! Initech Aug 2012 #26
I am loving this - the Republicans are failing left and right! Initech Aug 2012 #19
In NC, it's just one small sign.... nc4bo Aug 2012 #23
Charlie Daniels???? AlbertCat Aug 2012 #27
A fiddle contest in Georgia against the devil mick063 Sep 2012 #31
"organizers blame politics" AlbertCat Aug 2012 #28
Aint that the shits Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2012 #32
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