Who would you choose as a "Mystery Speaker" for our convention?

[napkinz]

... living or dead, real or fictional


edit:

(If the GOP could put up an empty chair and claim President Obama was sitting in it, we could put up a rack with an empty suit and claim it's Romney.)

[Fumesucker]

1. Barbara Ehrenreich

http://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/

[Skidmore]

2. I wouldn't choose one to begin with. It was a gimmick to detract from the candidate

in case he couldn't deliver. People need to hear the President rather than be distracted by a shiny object.

[napkinz]

3. Of course it was a gimmick

I'm just trying to have a little fun with it.

[ailsagirl]

5. I have to say I've never heard of a "mystery guest" at a political convention before

Smacks of desperation.

[ailsagirl]

4. John F Kennedy

[Fla_Democrat]

6. No one

Why have a 'mystery speaker'? Just list who will be there. By following the RNC's lead, and using a gimmick they pulled, it validates it, and makes us look weak and petty. (My mystery speaker is better than your mystery speaker) (I couldn't come up with a flashy idea on my own, so I took yours)

Keep your mystery speaker
Keep your chair talking
We're just gonna lay out the facts, and see you in November.

[deutsey]

12. Yeah, whenever I hear "mystery speaker" I always think of

[liberalmuse]

28. So do I, LOL!

The Republicans have gotten ridiculous.

[rbrnmw]

7. Our mystery speaker spoke last night

[Lifelong Protester]

52. Good one!

I think you are right. That 'performance art' was helpful to the dems, no doubt about it.

[RagAss]

9. Andy Kaufman !

[napkinz]

42. Tony Clifton!!!!!!!

[RagAss]

43. How great would that be?

[napkinz]

65. If you believe they put a man on the moon!

[JHB]

10. The Ronald Reagan of 1938...

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...letting him explain why he wanted to join the Communist Party (not the Democratic Party), and why they turned him down for being too flaky.


Now that would be a holographic Reagan worth seeing!

[cloudbase]

11. President Eisenhower.

He could go on in some depth as to how the modern Republicans have moved from the ideals that made this country great.

[Motown_Johnny]

69. good choice

I was thinking Thomas Jefferson, but Ike might be able to sway some of the old folks back to our side.

[BootinUp]

13. Brad Pitt and or Angelina Jolie?

just a thought. I'm sure there are better ideas out there.

[C_U_L8R]

14. Clint Eastwood

back for an encore. That was epic !

[Iggo]

22. This right here.

[JHB]

23. He can explain to the Republicans that the joke was on them...

...for crapping on him about his "hear the roar of our engines" commercial during the Superbowl.

[Erose999]

15. Teddy Roosevelt. Or if I had to pick somebody living... Henry Rollins

[gollygee]

16. We could have Invisible Obama too

We could have both Obamas. LOL. I bet we could talk Invisible Obama into coming.

[TBF]

17. Emma Goldman. I would also take FDR in a pinch. nt

[Rectangle]

18. Springsteen, although he won't do it. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

19. Ronald Reagan, giving his speech from 1948:

This is Ronald Reagan speaking to you from Hollywood. You know me as a motion picture actor but tonight I’m just a citizen pretty concerned about the national election next month and more than a little impatient with those promises the Republicans made before they got control of Congress a couple years ago.

I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946. Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House, said very solemnly, and I quote, “We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions”, unquote. Remember that promise: a real increase in income for everybody.

But what actually happened? The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers’ wages have increased by only one-quarter. In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages, and the small increase workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices, which have also bored into their savings. For example, here is an Associate Press Dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York. It seems that Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved up that he could live out his last years without having to worry. But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation, which ate up all of his savings, and so he’s gone back to work. The reason this is news, is Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.

Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948; an increase of 70% in one year. In other words, high prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits…

Tax-reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher-income brackets alone. The average The average worker saved only $1.73 a week. In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program. This was the payoff of the Republicans’ promises. And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States: Democratic faces.

I can hear the heads exploding now.

[JHB]

24. you win. This is even better than 1938 commie-Reagan

[Amonester]

45. Yep. Invisible Reagan.

Or even, make that the hologram of him giving that exact speech.

[Schema Thing]

20. Well Betty White, of course.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Frederick Douglass

But it might be too cruel to let him see what happened to his party.

[Tennessee Gal]

25. I don't think they should, but my pick would be George Clooney. nt

[cbdo2007]

26. Jesus

He'll lay the smack down on the repubes.

[WI_DEM]

27. Nancy Reagan simply saying "win one for the gipper and re-elect

Barack Obama."

[ehrnst]

29. Barbara Jordan (nt)

[bemildred]

54. +1.

First name popped in my head.

[BlueStreak]

30. Gallagher. Crushing invisible watermellons with an invisible sledge hammer

[larkrake]

31. Clooney

[stlsaxman]

32. Sissy Spacek.

[ananda]

33. George Clooney...

... talking to Invisible Jesus!

Yeahbuddy

[SDjack]

34. George W Bush -- who would remind us why we need to vote DEM. nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

35. Invisible Obama

With a special guest appearance by the chair...

[Lucy Goosey]

36. George Takei, based on his reaction last night...

He tweeted the following:

George Takei ?@GeorgeTakei
Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was to imaginary Obama in an empty chair. I'm drafting a DNC speech to imaginary Romney in an empty factory.

I say let him deliver that speech!

[hifiguy]

40. Ouch. That is most excellent.

George Takei rocks!

[bwood]

37. Andy Griffith

He had a lot of good high road sermons. I always felt he was the best orator of civil discourse.

[Panasonic]

38. JFK with his inaurgation speech

TBH with you guys..

[Zorra]

39. Bobby Kennedy, hands down. nt

[Auntie Bush]

41. George Clooney would get the crowd on their feet.

[GeorgeGist]

44. It's become like mystery meat.

Don't go there.

[PD Turk]

46. Bill Hicks

Now there was a guy that didn't know the meaning of pulling punches

[Earth_First]

47. Dennis Kucinich with a Wellstone holographic mystery, mystery speaker... n/t

[spanone]

48. john lennon

[mnhtnbb]

49. Maya Angelou.

[Tom Ripley]

50. Fred Willard

[Spirochete]

51. Eastwood will be a tough act to follow

We may have to get Lindsey Lohan...

[Lifelong Protester]

53. Paul Wellstone.

Teddy Kennedy.

I second the nominations of Betty White and Emma Goldman.

The REAL Susan B. Anthony.

Alice Paul.

Lucretia Mott.


Even James Garfield.

[riverwalker]

55. Patricia Carroll

the CNN camerawoman, insulted by racist RNC attendees. Her grace and dignity in handling the incident is remarkable. I would love to hear from her.

[Fozzledick]

56. Barney Frank - debating a kitchen table.

[Fozzledick]

57. On second thought, Ronald Reagan Jr.

He's an articulate spokesman for progressive positions, and would cause extreme, painful cognitive dissonance in the hard-core Republicans who worship his father.

[napkinz]

66. Actually, that already happened.

Ron Reagan -- as he prefers to be called -- spoke at the 2008 convention.

It was a great moment. A Reagan at a Democratic convention!

(Ron and his sister are so unlike their father, and their brother Michael. It's so refreshing.)

[donheld]

58. Bradley Manning

[mmonk]

59. Jesus of Nazareth.

[1-Old-Man]

60. George W. Bush, at least the guy should be able to speak his mind at one Convention

and we could all sit back and laugh and laugh and laugh and then start bringing up the bad times and reminding everyone of just how we got into this intractable mess.

Oh, and on top of that, who would have seen this one coming?

[Pryderi]

61. ANN RICHARDS!!! N/T

[1-Old-Man]

62. Now that I think about it ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The greatest President in this nation's history would be a good mystery guest.

[Horse with no Name]

63. President Bartlet. n/t

[napkinz]

67. with our without James?

[arely staircase]

64. ike

message:

let's build great things and be wary of the mic.

[Sancho]

68. MLK of course...