Live Thread: RNC Convention Day Three.

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[ConservativeMan55]

Primetime

"A Land of Opportunity" 7:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT

Convention Call to Order Representative Shelley Moore Capito (WV) Deputy Permanent Co-Chair

Presentation of Colors FDNY

Pledge of Allegiance Sarah Pyszka, Pittsburgh, PA

National Anthem Central Baptist Choir

Invocation Archbishop Demetrios Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of America, New York, NY

Governor Linda Lingle (HI) Temporary Convention Chairman

The Honorable Brian Sandoval (NV) Attorney General

Senator Rick Santorum (PA)

Rolling Roll Call of States

The Honorable Michael Steele Deputy Permanent Co-Chair Jennette Bradley Assistant Secretary of the Convention Bonnie Garcia Assistant Secretary of the Convention

Vice Presidential Nominating Process

Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Primetime Continued

The Honorable Elaine Chao

Representative Rob Portman (OH)

Lurita Doan (VA) and Patricia Stout (TX)

Representative Paul Ryan (WI)

Music Third Day

Michael Reagan

Tribute to President Ronald Reagan

Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey (MA)

Governor Mitt Romney (MA)

Music Sara Evans

Keynote Address Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) Biography

Mrs. Lynne Cheney Biography

Vice President Dick Cheney Biography

Music Brooks & Dunn

Benediction Bishop Rene Gracida, Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Corpus Christi, TX

[Numbers Guy]

Andrew Sullivan has gone into full meltdown over Zell's speech. Poor baby. Usually when he goes off the deep end I get annoyed (like his review of "The Passion"), but tonight's post-Zell rants were so far out that I was laughing while reading them.

[cyncooper]

It is not to be borne...we're mad as Zell!

[Carolinamom]

Dem. punsters' bottom line tonight: Republicans are not nice; they're mean. (Implication: "WE are not mean.")

[jwalsh07]

What did McCain say now?

[NYCVirago]

Nora tells Chrissy that listening to Zel's and Cheney's speeches tonight showed her that "they don't want to just win the election; they want to DESTROY the other party."

For pete's sake, the libs' side is the one who calls Bush Hitler. You can't get much more hateful than that.

[asgardshill]

The Secret Service needs to start requiring background checks on the press or something.

If they don't already, then they're derelict in their duties and should be fired en masse.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Yes "cousin edddie" I bothered to read your post. In it I found this:

I have a very bad feeling..

Seen it before, it's an old dance.

[StarFan]

I pray we can find a transcript of his speech. It was thrilling to listen to it for a second time and be able to watch his face instead of looking at my monitor. He didn't look as angry as the media has portrayed, just firm and resolute.

Nutmeg, just when you think this convention couldn't get any better, the next night tops the last. Tomorrow will be the crescendo and if the focus group on MSNBC is any indication, GWB should fare very very well in the polls. The rats are cornered and dangerous so we shouldn't let our guards down until November 3rd.

[Diddle E. Squat]

That stupid metrosexual dolt in black glasses that CNN is using at this convention as 'comic relief' is such an annoying fool, and of course completely liberally biased.

[valleygal]

Wow, good to see you...I'm reading the whole thread cuz I watched the speeches. My girls missed the speeches so we're watching the replays on C-span. Missed the best half of Zell's speech though, :(

Wished I taped them.

[comebacknewt]

Zell's speach won't play well in NYC. It won't play well in New England, and it won't play well on the West Coast. However, I really believe this speach will wake up a lot of Southerners and (perhaps more importantly) Midwesterners.

There are a lot of very conservative people in the Midwest who pull the RAT lever each election out of habit. Having a sitting Democrat Senator tell them that their party cannot be trusted to defend the country and that he is now supporting Bush will make a difference with some of the people.

In a close election like this, that alone could be enough to move some states from F'n to W.

[joebuck]

"Nora tells Chrissy that listening to Zel's and Cheney's speeches tonight showed her that "they don't want to just win the election; they want to DESTROY the other party."

LOL. Boy, that's exactly what I want my opponant saying about me when we've engaged in battle.

[Howlin]

but I'm afraid you've failed to notice a crucial change that has recently occurred - the media's power to spin an issue however they wish, and thus to define reality, has been fatally pierced

I think you may be right. I've never thought of it that way....but it makes sense.

And it accounts for the SHEER PANIC I'm watching on TV right now.

[bray]

Zell gave a speech from a man who's hurting deeply from the loss of his party. He was one of the original Scoop Dems who have been abandoned by a Party he loves and wishes had not gone the way of Kennedy & Clinton. He is a National Treasure and has more spine in his pinky than the entire Rat Party he belongs to.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Torie]

I saw McCain clapping once over a Cheney line. FWIW.

[Howlin]

Vets being booed live on MSNBC. A guy just back from Iraq.

[Feiny]

Please tell me your kidding.

[AF68]

By and large, the legacy mainstream media hated Zell's speech because it was a resounding success with undecided voters and Reagan Democrats.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Listen. It's a sure bet that GWB ain't gonna speak like Zell. He doesn't need to do so. Zell is one pi$$ed of Democrat. But he is NOT afraid to proclaim to the world how his party went off track.

Zell's speech was totally necessary. I spoke with an aide of Sen. Grassley who lamented the sorry state of the country when a party politicizes national security. Someone had to throw down the gauntlet and say enough.

None of this is gonna redound to Bush's detriment. The MSM no longer has a headlock on the American people. Good folks in OH, WI, WV, FL and PA will hear this speech and say AMEN. It's a pity you gotta live in a puss pocket like NYC. Maybe if you got outta there you'd know what it feels like to be an American!

[Feiny]

They are broadcasting from the protest area, so that tells you all you need to know.