I haven't seen much of the Republican convention. I've been too busy with important stuff. Monday I night I helped on my cub scout pack's parade float (I'll be doing the same thing tonight). My wife and I were mystified to flip on the TV and see McCain booed by the audience and a reaction shot of a large hairy man who bore a striking resemblance to Michael Moore. Fortunately, McCain repeated the line that started the booing and so we realized that we were seeing Michael Moore being booed by an audience (he ought to be getting used to it by now). I didn't find the rest of the speech too riveting so I caught up on my reading of Science News. We then caught the beginning of Giuliani's speech and boy, it was good, but we went up to bed about the time he started detailing how Germany failed humanity by releasing the terrorists from the Munich Olympics. My wife doesn't need her beauty sleep, but I sure do.
Last night I had to do some scout paperwork/planning, and I did manage to squeeze in some demon slaying with my Paladin before the Amazing Race, so all I saw of Schwartzenneger's speech was the walk backstage from the podium. We watched the Bush twins, who don't even look like sisters, and I thought that they were better than 99% of celebrety award show banter, which isn't exactly high praise. When George introduced Laura -- who seems to have more sense than to be a politician herself -- my wife and I wondered if anybody in the game going on behind him realized they were playing in front of a national audience. Laura was Laura, which means I'd vote for her for any office, but I can take only so much speechifying, especially those that have constant applause lines. So after discovering there wasn't much else on TV, we toddled off to bed.
Fortunately, Conrad has some insightful observations of his own.
