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The Republican National Convention Needs To Rock
The Federalist ^ | 8/19/20 | David Marcus

Posted on 08/20/2020 2:32:51 AM PDT by Libloather

It’s kind of amazing. The Democratic Party has at its disposal pretty much all of the talent in Hollywood and yet their boring infomercial of a national convention makes watching tomatoes turn red look like the Super Bowl. Calling it boring is an insult to boring people who can at least be calm and soothing. The DNC is just flat out unwatchable. I’ve been wondering why, and I think I figured it out.

Among the myriad jobs I had in my 20 years doing theater, one of my favorites was being a stage manager. It’s a great job. I wrote a joke about it once. How many stage managers does it take to screw in a light bulb? One. Said with deadly seriousness. It is the stage manager who makes everything happen when it is supposed to happen. A live event is fraught with potential mishaps. The stage manager gives everyone five and makes sure the lights come up. The problem with the DNC? They made it a movie when a convention needs to be a theater production.

So here is a little free advice for the Republicans. First of all, in the name of all that is good and holy, there needs to be some kind of audience. I don’t care if it’s 10 people sitting in a Dairy Queen parking lot, we need to see actual people reacting to speeches and nominations in real time. I get it, Democrats are dedicated to the idea that we all have to live in hermetically sealed households with masks on until Trump is defeated. The GOP must send the opposite message.

Feature the fan base.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: convention; democrats; dnc; gop; republican; trump
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To: polymuser

Trump knows how to do tv events. The Repub convention should be a hoot.

Democrats have noting positive to offer, so Mr. Trump has a lot of ammunition to use against them.


41 posted on 08/20/2020 11:27:48 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: napscoordinator

Indeed it would be, though inasmuch as Biden is afflicted with the same sort of SENILE DEMENTIA that Mother passed away from in 2017, I NO LONGER ridicule him.= He is PITIFUL & I do not expect that he will still be alive by Christmas.
(I saw/lived through how FAST that Mother fell apart mentally in her last 5-6 months.)

“Dr. Jill” needs to take him home to spend his last days as comfortably as he can.

Yours, TMN78247


42 posted on 08/20/2020 11:41:43 AM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, F'by 241836)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
According to ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC and even FOX, the “RNC speeches have been divisive, mean-spirited, uninspiring.

What we’re hearing from the right-wing GOP is not who we are as a nation, and smacks of the desperation Trump is feeling due to his lagging poll numbers.”

How’s that for composing, in advance, next week’s MSM scripts?

43 posted on 08/20/2020 12:04:46 PM PDT by daler
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