Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust
One certainly can’t say that the Republican Convention doesn’t bring divergent individuals together. Sometimes, they’re the strangest of strange convention bedfellows.
After the preemption of Day One of the RNC extravaganza by Hurricane Gustav on Monday, the GOP was finally off and running on Tuesday. And this time it wasn’t necessarily running away from George W. Bush. They actually let him start the evening. Sort of. One of the network anchors noticed that Bush’s video appearance from the White House was talked over by other TV figures. Ouch.
You got the feeling all night long that everyone had just sat down to dinner, biding their time talking over the standard meat and potatoes while waiting restlessly for the Baked Alaska. The big event was still ahead. But for the first time in a long time, the culmination of this convention won’t on the last day, when the nominee is formally anointed and delivers the traditional “speech of his life.” The climax of this convention comes the evening before that, when Sarah Palin makes her first big formal speech. I imagine everyone in the arena on Tuesday night was looking around and wondering if the Xcel Energy Center, would be fuller on Wednesday for Palin’s appearance. Granted, most of the vacancies were probably results of Hurricane Gustav. I’ll give ‘em that.
This was a most interesting way to reintroduce one’s party and by extension, oneself and one’s campaign. Yes, John McCain was mentioned throughout the day, but what hung over everything was Sarah Palin. Was it perhaps because we already know McCain’s story? Fred Thompson, who was the warm-up act to Joe Lieberman, began with an accounting of McCain’s early days in the military. The memories were glowingly recited, only accentuating the positive. For example, we heard about the Naval Academy alright, but nowhere was it mentioned of McCain’s poor placement as a graduate -- 894th out of 899. I went downstairs to grab a piece of my husband’s homemade garlic bread and wound up having to appease our demanding dog for a few moments. When I finally returned, Thompson was still painfully intoning his way through a litany of every bruise and broken bone sustained during every long day in the Hanoi Hilton.
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