The Convention Blog

When the deal ends it ends totally. After the thursday night session, sitting in my hotel room,  it was satisfying to know that we had gotten to the end. This was made clearer friday morning when suddenly half of the cars that had been in the hotel parking lot were gone, the army was gone [...]

It was given the number of groups lined up to  take him up on the offer. Conservatives would like to, Obama wants to and the protest groups literally did fight this week. McCain did the job that needed to be done even if Conservatives didn’t like it nearly as much as they did with Sarah [...]

Wednesday was diversity night at the RNC with the bulk of the warmup speakers coming from minority communities and/or being female. This kind of signalling is important to show these communities that the Republicans are interested in having their business and it doubtlessly hasn’t ever been more important than it is this year. The 2004 [...]

First, we can’t upload photos from here because the internet connection available just isn’t good enough. I have a bunch of pictures but no way to upload them. Maybe friday. The weather has turned into what one would expect from Minnesota. It is now quite cool here instead of the 95 degrees and heat that [...]

Courtesy of our friends at the MA Republican Party, I have a guest pass for this week’s events here in St. Paul. This means that I can ride on the official buses, sit in the area and generally wander around the Xcel Center. The bus ride is unusual in several ways. First, the bus comes [...]

We have no idea what will happen here after this afternoon. Nobody does. This is because there is no way the Republican Party will allow itself to be seen as being indifferent to human suffering in the wake of a natural disaster for the second time in a few years. This is truly a lose-lose [...]