Posted on 03/21/2008 9:20:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Denver.
Denver is not equipped to handle any convention scenario other than a coronation, and certainly not the most (potentially) contentious national convention in 40 years.
It is important to point out that the state of Colorado, and the city of Denver, is currently nearly completely controlled by Democrats at every level of government. This puts these locals in a box, politically and from a law enforcement standpoint. This sets up a scenario similar to Seattle 1999 WTO debacle. I happened to be living in downtown Seattle during that awful experience, and what stands out is that the city and state (even the Federal Government at that time) were all controlled by Democrats at every level, even police chief. That meant they were politically unwilling to confront their own in the days leading up to the summit: that is, the anti-globalism/WTO protestors, greenies, and union members that were planning major marches, civil disobedience, and even outright mischief.
The reason is simple, they didn't want to alienate their own constituencies by seeming too heavy handed. The result was that by the time they had to crackdown, it was too late and with police state tactics, water cannons, gas cannisters, police in riot gear, and dusk to dawn curfews on the streets. There is still a lot of these scenes on YouTube and many disenchanted lefties are promising a repeat in Denver this year. Any variation of this would be a potential public relations disaster for the Democrat nominee in trying to win Colorado, and one that would virtually ensure not only a McCain victory in the state, but a stigmatization that could likely lead to major setbacks for the Democrat party in Colorado for years to come.
[Early afternoon update]
It's already starting, and it's still March:
Spagnuolo has been meeting monthly with city officials for a year, hoping to win the right to use Civic Center throughout the convention. He says 50,000 war protesters are coming for a march from Civic Center to the Pepsi Center on Aug. 24.
He said Thursday that he would not respect the host committee's permit and would occupy the park, even if it forced police to intervene.
Referring to the $50 million in federal security money slated for the convention, Spagnuolo said Denver police would need "$25 million to protect the Pepsi Center and $25 million to protect Civic Center."
I have no sympathy. When your political party encourages and welcomes brown shirterry (as long as it's aimed at "neocons" and "globalists," and "capitalists," and other evil people), this is what you get. Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
[Update at 1 PM]
More bad news for the donkeys:
In a sign of just how divisive and ugly the Democratic fight has gotten, only 53% of Clinton voters say they'll vote for Obama should he become the nominee. Nineteen percent say they'll go for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and 13% say they won't vote. Sixty percent of Obama voters say they'll go for Clinton should she win the nomination, with 20% opting for McCain, and three percent saying they won't vote.
That's already starting to show up in the national polling, where McCain is way ahead of both Hillary! and Obama. As I've been saying for months, the Dems have set themselves for a shellacking, because both of their lead candidates are unelectable in the general, and the internecine strife just makes it worse. Their only hope lies in a brokered convention, and a different candidate, and even then, it's unlikely that they'll recover.
Or, Clinton, Obama … idiots. ;-)
I hope to see riots inside the Pepsi Center in August.
It will be entertaining to watch as I munch on some tasty popcorn at home.
John Kerry is reporting for duty.
The dem convention will be a blood bath. Hillary will take no prisoners.
Well, everyone always points to Lincoln as a brokered candidate. But the dims are fresh all out of Lincolns and he was a republican anyway. This just makes it more of a shamed that McInsane is our candidate. Virtually any one of the other candidates would have kicked butt. Unfortunately it is becoming more and more apparent that the candidate selection process excels at finding the worst possible people for the job. The only reason that McInsane has a chance is that the dim party is so incompetent that they can’t even perform their most basic function, which is to select a viable candidate for president. Add to this the incompetence of Howard Dean in barring the Florida and Michigan delegates, to must win states and you have a party that isn’t fit rule Albania. And who was the genius that thought up proportional splitting of delegates and super duper delegates anyway? If you think about it for five minutes you come to the conclusion that a virtual stalemate is inevitable. At some point there has to be a close race where both candidates fail to garner the needed delegate totals. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Fascinating.
I’d expect businesses to plan on closing and battening down the hatches well in advance of this nightmare. I wonder how insurance rates will be affected for the convention, the preceding and post convention periods.
People will probably plan to be out of town for the period, as well. I doubt anyone who lives there, at this point, has a good feeling about it.
The Denver Riots Will look GREAT on HD Widescreen...
Just think...
Watercannons and tear gas, in 60-inch plasma glory...
The only problem will be the nationwide shortage of popcorn.
‘Their only hope lies in a brokered convention and a different candidate’
Not Gore again !?!?!
A Dem relative of mine has been predicting all along that this would happen and Gore will have the nomination.
“a stigmatization that could likely lead to major setbacks for the Democrat party in Colorado for years to come.”
Please let it be so. I am relocating to Colorado in the coming months.
Because this is being reported so hard and heavy, it’s a cinch it won’t take place. All the Stupordelegates have to do is go with Osama and make this nightmare go away. And so they will.
Gosh, I guess you have much to say. Paragraphs are our friends. As a patient and inquisitive person, I will take the time to break down your post, and digest the contents thereof. ;-)
And apparently the ‘rats are falling ‘way behind in their fundraising efforts to secure the $40 million they need to pay for the convention itself - Denver should be lots of fun this summer......
I’m about 8 miles north of downtown -which I can see from my back yard.
I wonder if I’ll be able to see the flames.
They didn't pull the troops out of Iraq and begin impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney minutes after Nancy Pelosi's celebration party.
Hell know no fury or violence like that between the factions of a political party that is non-violent, anti-2nd amendment, anti-war, tree hugging, and very very political correct. There will be blood, I tell ya.
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