{"id":2101,"date":"2012-08-17T23:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2012-08-17T23:04:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T06:04:16","slug":"rnc-2004-remembering-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"RNC 2004: Remembering The Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just had two weeks of the Olympics. Can we stand anymore excitement? In less than two weeks time, we&#8217;ll all be blessed with the thrill of the 2012 edition of the Republican National Convention starring Spiff Romney and that Ayn Rand lovin&#8217; fool, Paul Ryan. To prepare for this earth shattering event, we plan to do a little retrospective. We will present some unforgettable photo-toon highlights from the 2004 Republican National Convention. Who could forget when Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zell Miller and even Jesus showed up to cheer for the GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start out with that ol&#8217; maverick, Senator John McCain. At least he used to be a &#8216;maverick&#8217; back in the &#8217;80s. Actually, he was &#8216;maverick&#8217; only to other Republicans, because he actually would&#8230;you probably won&#8217;t believe this&#8230; compromise\u00a0 and converse with Democrats. It&#8217;s astonishing to believe but back before the 90&#8217;s, Republicans were somewhat civilized.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the &#8216;maverick&#8217; is responsible for giving the world Sarah Palin. That should have been a clue that maybe he was losing it. Seriously, does anybody listen to what Senator McCain has to say anymore?\u00a0 He said a few days ago, that Obama should replace Biden with Hillary Clinton. Really? That&#8217;s the best barb McCain can come up with to get under the Democrat&#8217;s skin? He should just retire to one of his eight houses and count all his money.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s his big moment during the 2004 RNC when he cemented his 2008 presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2119\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2119\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2119\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2119\" title=\"rncmccain\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncmccain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncmccain.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncmccain-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator John McCain sheds his &#39;maverick&#39; label and tags himself with the new moniker of &#39;partisan tool&#39;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just had two weeks of the Olympics. Can we stand anymore excitement? In less than two weeks time, we&#8217;ll all be blessed with the thrill of the 2012 edition of the Republican National Convention starring Spiff Romney and that Ayn Rand lovin&#8217; fool, Paul Ryan. To prepare for this earth shattering event, we plan &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RNC 2004: Remembering The Fun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,230,49,8,85,3,643],"tags":[578,234,646,147,9,575,21,98,596,19,647,645,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}