I missed 90210 for this

After wasting my evening watching the exciting Republican National Convention Tuesday night, I realized I would have been more entertained and informed if I had watched the debut of the new “Beverly Hills 90210.”

Obviously, the excitement was not on the convention floor. Apparently, it was at the many parties sponsored by the lobbyists that run Grampy McSame’s campaign. It started with Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. The good news is he will leave the comedy to Al Franken when Franken unsets him in November.

A series of unknown and uninspiring speakers led up to the Bush/McCain satellite speech. The one exception was batty Michele Bachmann, but her speech was not very noteworthy.

Laura Bush good some good applause, and she did a good job of spinning Bush’s record. The line that got the biggest applause was “he kept America safe.” She apparently forgot about the attack on Americans soil on his watch on Sept. 11, 2001. His response was to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans so he could invade a sovereign country that had nothing to do with the attack.

Bush’s prepared speech was the same old stuff, and we don’t need eight more years of that.

“The angry left?” I know this, I’m angry that he has sullied this country’s honor just to line the pockets of his cronies. Bush/McCain claims Grampy McSame will tell you when he disagrees. I would like to hear something that Grampy disagrees with Bush/McCain on. He has flip-flopped on that small 10 percent he didn’t vote with Bush on.

Somebody woke Fred Thompson up to give the keynote speech. He used some untrue things to props up the VP nominee, but that is to be expected. Apparently, being the mayor of a city smaller than Howell and able to field dress a moose qualifies her to lead the free world. Being the Washington lobbyist and Hollywood actor he is, Thompson sold the convention faithful a bill of goods.

It seems kind of ironic that Thompson can bring up the military service of McSame’s sons, but they go berserk when Palin’s daughter is brought up. Why is that? Most of the speech was on his POW experience. I still don’t see how that qualifies him to be president alone. Thompson describes the torture McCain endured in detail, so why is he endorsing the U.S. disgusting torture policy?

All in all, it wasn’t a bad speech, even if it was filled with outright lies and half-truths. It makes you wonder why we saw none of that from Thompson on the campaign trail. Perhaps he might have won more than just three delegates.

I skipped Lieberman’s speech. I couldn’t’ stomach the turncoat.

Ward flips from McCain campaign and flops to Thompson camp

According to the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, Rep. Chris Ward, R-Brighton, has backed off his previous endorsement of Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, for the Republican Presidential nomination and switched his allegiance to former actor and lobbyist Fred Thompson, if he runs.

It’s not really earth shattering news for those people living outside of Livingston County, but it speaks volumes about the Republican minority floor leader. This is a pretty big flip-flop. Some nine months ago, Straight Talk America, the political action committee for the then prospective presidential candidate McCain, (R-Ariz.), announced in early September of 2006 that four state representatives from Michigan will join the organization as legislative co-chairs, including Rep. Chris Ward, who was named co-chair of the Straight Talk America Michigan Legislative Advisory Team. Ward was quoted in subscription only MIRS saying:
“Senator McCain is very popular among members of the Michigan state legislature and we look forward to working closely with him in the 2006 Elections,” said Representative Chris Ward. Representative Ward is in the GOP leadership as the House Majority Flood (sic) Leader.

That’s a heck of a flip-flop; going not only from endorsing McCain but also working for the candidate. It makes you wonder what the real reason for the change. Apparently loyalty is not a trait Ward is familiar with, and according to the P & A the decision is based on just one issue, immigration. Ward even modeled the alleged camping finance reform he was working on after the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, only Ward’s version so favored Republicans it died in the last session. Yet Thompson voted for McCain-Feingold when he was a Senator. Ward claims his “change of heart had more to do with Thompson than with McCain.”

I once had a lot of respect for McCain, a former Navy pilot and POW in Vietnam. Actual veterans are rare in the party that claims to support the troops, and Thompson is just one more Republican politician from conservative Hollywood. I lost a lot of respect for McCain when he allowed George Bush to get away with smearing his family and military service.

I just don’t get Republican’s infatuation with Thompson. Speaking a few lines a week in the TV series “Law and Order” qualifies you to be president?

Thompson only served one and a quarter terms in the U.S. Senate representing Tennessee, and he served in the Senate some eight anonymous years from 1994 to 2002, his only elective office. He was elected to serve the remaining two years of the term of Tennessee’s favorite son, Al Gore, when he was elected Vice-President. Thompson’s longest stint at anything has been as a Washington lobbyist from 1975-1992. His lobbying efforts helped usher in the deregulation of the Savings and Loan in 1982 that led to the S & L crisis in the late 1980s that cost U.S. taxpayers more than $125 million.

He has been such an apologist for Bush’s failed polices in Iraq it’s ridiculous at a time when the rest of the GOP hopefuls are running from Bush, and Thompson even made a commercial that falsely tried to link the 9/11 attack to the occupation/civil war in Iraq. This is the man Republicans want to be president without him even being involved in a debate with the other candidates.

I guess this does away with the myth of “liberal” Hollywood, and it goes the way of the “liberal” media lie.