I get my delegate credentials in a couple of hours so I have time to bring you up to date. Bubba and I got here last night amid much wet midget people running around overloaded on ice cream and moose ears. It seems that the Texas delegation is staying at a water theme park on Labor Day weekend. It’s a nice place but a magic show with rug rats covering the floor did not lend itself to adult celebration.

The big talk here (Montana is also staying here) is what a delightfully charming disaster the Republican convention was. Seriously, after Clint Eastwood left the stage, they qualified for FEMA help. After Rubio left the stage, some optioning “Four More Years” signs for the the Romney campaign just lost his life savings.

After Romney left the stage, they turned out the lights because the Party is over.

So this morning, they gave us this nifty little convention guide that fits in your wallet. It folds out with the convention schedule and maps and the bus routes.

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Caucuses start tomorrow!

Paul Ryan is a stinker. A fibbing stinker.

Now he’s become Rosie Ruiz with a strange haircut.

Ryan’s claim of an under three hour marathon turned out to be a honkin’ lie.

Turns out that Ryan’s three hour marathon turned out to be over four hours and was called The Grannies Marathon. And it was 20 years ago. He hasn’t run since then. Except, for course, for now – when the truth his chasing his butt.

Bob Mac

Today, my father-in-law received a Romney solicitation which begins:

“I am running for President of the United States and because you are one of America’s most notable Republicans, I want to personally let you know why.”

They have a very bad mailing list. Poppy died in January. He voted a straight Democratic ticket starting in 1934. He had a PhD and expected
civilized people to use earned honorifics.

If they really wanted either a contribution or a correction, postage would have been a nice touch. Further proof that this outfit doesn’t have the sense God gave gravel, but they are spending all that money the Koch’s are sending.

Good. I hope they spend it all. I’ll recycle all their mailings.

Da Chipster

In the never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American Way, which sometimes seem to be contradictory goals, a victory was won on a key front which adavances the cause of all three.

My adopted state, Ohio, which is currently being run by a gang of smarmy, self-serving, conniving wretches (aka “Republicans”) has been given extra voting time on the weekend before the election.

This was the denouement of the recent “Obama hates the troops” brouhaha, wherein the Rightistas said that expanding the right to vote on that last weekend to everyone, not just military, was “anti-military.” Even though, four years ago, everybody could vote that weekend, anyway, and the military didn’t complain even once.

That, of course, did not stop the GOP from “fixing” a “problem” which doesn’t exist, only to have the “solution” make voting harder for key Obama demographics, including old people, working people, minority people and sentient people.

Such helpful, handy, unneeded, un-asked for and unConstitutional fixes are all the rage among the Rabid Right, who can’t win without lying, cheating, obfuscating and lying again, all while carrying a cross, wrapped in the flag, with a cherry on top (until marriage!)

The Republican OH SecState has managed to put the kibosh on the other weekends leading up to that one…so far! He’s even FIRED two Dem Election Board members in Montgomery County who tried to defy his imperial edicts. But this decision (as well as others in FL and TX) sets the table for more such victories in Ohio…and elsewhere.