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Old 08-31-2012, 03:00 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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What if they gave a national protest, and nobody came?

Finally we have the answer.

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Occupy RNC ends in tears, frustration | The Daily Caller

Occupy RNC ends in tears, frustration

by Zach Gorelick
August 31, 2012

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican National Convention protesters sobbed in each other’s arms as their weeklong series of protests came to an abrupt and unremarkable end.

As Mitt Romney delivered his remarks at the RNC on Thursday night, marking the end of planned events, demonstrators living in the “Romneyville” protest camp led a final march through the streets of Tampa.

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...and nobody paid any attention to them. -LA
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Old 08-31-2012, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Area 51.5
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Who?
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Old 08-31-2012, 03:29 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Who even knew there was an "Occupy RNC"?
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Old 08-31-2012, 03:40 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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I hold to strong conservative values, particularly when it comes to economics, but with the exception of that strange band between the extreme left and extreme right (where anarchy, rational or irrational rubs shoulders with totalitarianism) I don't know too many people who are interested in destroying "the system" -- only reforming it.

But if the scenes from the attached link are any indication:

Reporter's Notebook: Sh*t Occupy Tampa says [PHOTOS] | The Daily Caller

The overgrown children who vilify mainstream conservatism have about as much understanding of how things actually work as does a wild boar in full rut.
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Old 08-31-2012, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Southcentral Kansas
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Who even knew there was an "Occupy RNC"?
I didn't but then I stay with Fox News and they try to stay away from Obama oriented people. I do remember that they were going to demonstrate and then heard nothing from them. I guess MSNBC thought they had to keep up with speeches at the RNC and twist and turn what was said.
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Old 08-31-2012, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Pluto's Home Town
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The whole thing seems cheesy to me. Why can't a political party have a convention? Trying to screw it up is kind of against what this country stands for, IMO.

From the looks of that bunch, I suspect half of them won't vote anyway.
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Old 08-31-2012, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Since Bain Capital owns Clear Channel Communications, which has 866 radio stations and brings us such programming as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Fox News Radio, it's hardly surprising that OWS didn't get any coverage....is it?
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Old 08-31-2012, 06:04 PM
 
Location: California
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"occupy" and "tea party" are quaint old things aren't they?
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Old 08-31-2012, 06:12 PM
 
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The great liberal unwashed are faced with the stark reality that they may have to (gasp) find a job.
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Old 08-31-2012, 06:29 PM
 
Location: Limbo
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I had no clue there was an Occupy RNC.
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