Convention Planning Officially Starts ... Now!
Oh sure, journalists, potential delegates, Twin Cities residents and various others have already started planning/bracing for the '08 RNC, but some people do their Christmas shopping in December, too. Now, with the mid-term elections over, it's like the day after Thanksgiving: now we can officially begin preparations for the next big event.
With depleted numbers in the Senate and the House (and full Democratic control of both bodies at the state level), Republicans will be coming to town in a fightin' mood, no doubt. Bring on the pugnacious pugilist pachyderms!
It will be interesting to see if they call on Michelle Bachmann, she of the conversations with God and the gay-bashing legislation and the denial of global warming. She and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who narrowly held off DFL challenger Mike Hatch, were the two bright spots for the GOP in Minnesota.
Pawlenty is a bit more of a moderate -- that is to say, at bit more rational; if he chats with the Almighty, he keeps it to himself -- and there's already talk that he may not finish his term. Because, y'know, other things might come up. Night manager at White Castle or, like, a post in a new Republican administration, or some such thing. Expect to see him at the podium in Saint Paul, perhaps wearing his SPAM shirt or wielding a hockey stick or offering up some other bit of Minnesotan culture. Yah, you betcha, gov, we love it when Minnesotans confirm all the simpleton stereotypes of our fair state!
He'll be in the spotlight, no doubt; ditto Norm Coleman, who takes full credit for the "revitalization" of downtown Saint Paul, a boast that serves as proof that the former-Democrat man is delusional, unaware that ego does not translate to accomplishments. The former is in full bloom, its vibrancy apparent every day; the latter, less so, as the streets of the capital city are sadly vacant after 5 p.m., though if there is a hockey game at "the X" -- future site of the Convention -- there are plenty of people ... in the parking ramps and jamming the half-block between the ramps and the X.
Michelle Bachmann, though, may not get the prime-time treatment. We shall see. And it will depend on what the Republicans decide to be: Are they the party of values and family and tradition and all the other code words for fundamentalist Christianity and governence by same? Or are they, most of all, the party of capitalism and low taxes and small government, in which the ultimate deity is the Almighty Dollar?
With depleted numbers in the Senate and the House (and full Democratic control of both bodies at the state level), Republicans will be coming to town in a fightin' mood, no doubt. Bring on the pugnacious pugilist pachyderms!
It will be interesting to see if they call on Michelle Bachmann, she of the conversations with God and the gay-bashing legislation and the denial of global warming. She and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who narrowly held off DFL challenger Mike Hatch, were the two bright spots for the GOP in Minnesota.
Pawlenty is a bit more of a moderate -- that is to say, at bit more rational; if he chats with the Almighty, he keeps it to himself -- and there's already talk that he may not finish his term. Because, y'know, other things might come up. Night manager at White Castle or, like, a post in a new Republican administration, or some such thing. Expect to see him at the podium in Saint Paul, perhaps wearing his SPAM shirt or wielding a hockey stick or offering up some other bit of Minnesotan culture. Yah, you betcha, gov, we love it when Minnesotans confirm all the simpleton stereotypes of our fair state!
He'll be in the spotlight, no doubt; ditto Norm Coleman, who takes full credit for the "revitalization" of downtown Saint Paul, a boast that serves as proof that the former-Democrat man is delusional, unaware that ego does not translate to accomplishments. The former is in full bloom, its vibrancy apparent every day; the latter, less so, as the streets of the capital city are sadly vacant after 5 p.m., though if there is a hockey game at "the X" -- future site of the Convention -- there are plenty of people ... in the parking ramps and jamming the half-block between the ramps and the X.
Michelle Bachmann, though, may not get the prime-time treatment. We shall see. And it will depend on what the Republicans decide to be: Are they the party of values and family and tradition and all the other code words for fundamentalist Christianity and governence by same? Or are they, most of all, the party of capitalism and low taxes and small government, in which the ultimate deity is the Almighty Dollar?
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