Well, I’m Sure That It Doesn’t Have Anything to Do With the Fact That You’re Nuts
Over at the Texas Republican Party headquarters the only sound you hear is a spoon banging on a high chair tray, and an occasional waaaa…waaaaa.
Texas Republicans are whining that they aren’t getting preferential treatment at the Republican National Convention. They are peeved that they have been “relegated to “the boonies” at a remote golf resort.” Yeah, you read that right – the boonies at a golf resort.
“If I weren’t state chairman, if I were a delegate, I probably wouldn’t go,” state GOP leader Steve Munisteri said of the late-August presidential nominating event.
Uh, Steve, Dude, I think that’s what they were shooting for.
After all, you are the party of —
And Texas Republicans, you’ll be delighted to know, are not near as stoopid as they act. They have one thing semi-figured out:
Munisteri said the state’s political donors, volunteers and activists are being taken for granted. Others suspect Rick Perry’s failed presidential bid — and attacks on eventual nominee Mitt Romney — are bringing punishment upon the Texas GOP.
Ya think? Ya think Mr. Oops might have something to do with it?
In truth, it was the perfect storm. National Republicans don’t want people remembering the Bushes, Rick Perry or that Texas Republicans wrote the craziest damn platform ever put on paper, even if it is written in crayon. And then there’s that whole having to frisk the Texas delegation at the door for guns. That’s real time consuming.
You’ll want to know that Texas Democrats are only 15 miles away from the convention site in Charlotte. They aren’t whining. They are proud of their Presidential candidate and figure that just being there is important enough.
Thanks to Elizabeth for the Toon and Mary for the story.
I hope they have some enormously large buildings at the convention or else these guys’ egos just won’t fit. Poor babies–just one more hardship.
1I wonder what their seating will be at the convention hall? That should provoke additional wailing and gnashing of teeth, it they hold true to form.
2Oh, poor babies. As in the waaaahhh type. I’m thinking of the “S” word. That would be schadenfreude, not sympathy.
3Actually, the national GOP platform on education is the same as the Texas Repug platform – but you aren’t supposed to be so stupid as to have it in writing, so it could be quoted. That’s why the national GOP is trying to put in some distance, so they won’t be associated. In reality, they want the same things. The nationals still want to gut education, for an easier public to manipulate.
4What gets ME is the way that no matter who you ask about public education, EVERYONE is for it and isn’t really aware about funding. Just ask. Ask at the grocery store, the doctor’s office etc. They sort of don’t get the connection. Or something.
5That’s spot on Marge. My mother is a retired school teacher and is appalled by the cuts in education but she thinks our president is the devil incarnate and the rethugs an answer to prayer. There is a complete disconnect here. I just don’t get it.
6J.J., You Democratic delegates from Texas are probably not being put up at a golf resort, but I bet it’s a place where they leave the light on for you.
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