Ralph, Get Off the Couch

++homage to a bit Doug Payne and I used to do.

++Was Clint Eastwood's act supposed to be how Andy Kaufman would do his performance comedy at that age?

++This morning's buzz was still about the empty chair. Have you said "Good morning, to your chair today?"

++Mark Halperin tried to say this morning that Clint was unscripted but Lawrence O'Donnell knew the Romney aide in charge and pointed out that the chair had to have put there.

++President Obama sent out a tweet with him in a chair marked President,"Sorry, it's taken."

++The name George W. Bush was absent the whole convention. Even Jeb who tried to defend him only referred to him as his brother.

++Did anyone think while you saw the countless people testifying to the charity and kindness of Willard whether he committed a kind act after he ran for the Senate in Massachusetts? It didn't seem like it.

++Is the threshold qualification for President having run a business? That's why Romney said last night and has said throughout the campaign. What about Ike,JFK,LBJ,Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or failed candidates John McCain and Bob Dole?  The only businessmen I know off the top of my head are Hebert Hoover and George W. Bush. Not a lot to recommend there.

++Did anyone catch the short image in the bio pic of Romney the black maid in her uniform?

++I guess everything got too much for Steve Benen, who has documented Romney's lies for the past few years. Steve went straight last night in his analysis of the acceptance speech and said that Romney missed a golden opportunity to lead by dealing with the tough issues. Instead, Romney's bottom line was Obama hasn't done enough,I'll do more--Trust me.

++Paul Begala said "he couldn't generate enough wattage to power a refrigerator light." Begala touched on something I thought about. The speech by Rubio pushed Romney out of prime time mirroring the disaster of the McGovern late night acceptance speech in 1972.  It seems the GOP now run their conventions like they do their wars.

++Romney mentioned America 53times in his speech,Americans 35 times, Medicare once, never mentioned social security, welfare or entitlements,only 1 mention he was Governor and no mention of Iraq and Afghanistan. USA! USA!

++Nate Silver said he played in safe by trying to run as a generic Republican. Today, Nate has Obama's chances at 71.6%. If you take states where Obama's odds of winning are over 50%, he takes 26 states,including D.C. for 332 Electoral Votes. Yes, there has been a four point bounce in the Reuters/Ipsos poll but Obama at the stage of Romney's acceptance is in a far better place than when he ran against McCain.