GOP Convention 2012

    “We will roll back Obamacare on day one!” [U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (NH)] In Marxist theory, the term “false consciousness” refers to the ways in which the proletariat is led to identify with the ruling class and to invest (too) deeply in the notion of class mobility.

Personal responsibility, fiscal accountability, and rugged individualism are leitmotifs during Tuesday afternoon’s session.

Evocations of the forefathers abound. From the country’s actual founders to the “Reagan Rooftop”, the GOP is careful to cite its sources.

Katie McGowan and Jon Winet are in Tampa to document the 2012 GOP National Convention. Below is their first dispatch. Tampa, Florida August 27, 2012. While waiting on the Iowa delegation during the day off, we head to Hilton Clearwater Beach to visit the New York delegates. A group of volunteers welcome us to the […]