So Much For A "Moderate" RNC

[Edgewater_Joe]

I did watch the RNC. Talk about running the gamut of emotions!

First there was the hi-LARITY of the early hours: the faux "RNC" reporters, the video pictures of Broadway (apparently the conventioneers won't walk TWO BLOCKS EITHER WAY to see the REAL marquees?), the bad-SNL "cab ride" of Ferret-Face Gillespie, and the gone-to-seed Up With People singers warbling WEST SIDE STORY in all their uber-Caucasian glory. (And as an aside, what a crappy stage -- you can see empty seats, the podium is feeble, and the crowd is reacting with all the enthusiasm of a last-place baseball team's home crowd in mid-September. Bad image to show for an incumbent President.)

Next came the 9/11 emotional pornography, complete with requisite mixing of the nothing-to-do-with 9/11 Saddam and the still-on-the-loose Osama Bin Forgotten.

Then we had John "Kill Me Now, God - Please?" McCain, oozing discomfort and bile-swallowing while giving his biggest applause and reaction line to ... Michael Moore?! Good job, John -- thanks for driving a few more moderates into FAHRENHEIT 9/11!

Finally, there was the vile and Hitlerian Rudy Giuliani, overtalking with a rabid furiosity that drew lots of hateful "BOOS" and blew to Hell the whole idea that this is a party of moderates.

The conclusion? If you like fear, hatred, and Lawrence Welk reruns, Vote Bush/Cheney.

Woo.

Can't wait until tomorrow (yeesh).

[Sparkly]

1. I liked the irony of preaching "love"

Didn't McCain say something about the importance of "love?"

Great irony, considering how they villify Kerry.

[indie_voter]

2. Does anybody wonder if this will backfire

like the 1992 Rebublican convention?

I thought that was nuts, this is beyond crazy.