Live Blah-gging

I had the idea to listen to what the Republicans have to say about things. It started with a yawn. Is anyone there? It sounds like an empty hall.

Then came Mitt with a forced-sounding speech in which he decried the mortgage crisis and then complained that there is too much regulation. He demanded a change from "liberal Washington." This, after eight years of a conservative President. Hmmm.

Huckabee yelped about the need to give Americans more control of their money, but didn't have a peep to say about giving women control of their bodies. And though I missed the story that preceded this, he did say: "John McCain helped me have a schooldesk."

Ah Guiliani. After lauding McCain's war experience, he laughed --laughed!-- at Obama's work as a community organizer. Apparently, McCain has been tested. He has passed the Ultimate Test. No, no, he hasn't figured out "the Google". That wasn't on the test.

Then it was back to the old playbook: lower taxes, less government. (Unless somebody wants to have a war. Then we'll have bigger government, less privacy and we'll spend like there's no tomorrow. But that's, um, different?)

Well, Rudy got the crowd good and riled up for Palin, that's for sure.

And here comes Miss Wasilla now...

And we're off to a nice, if dull, speech. She's very average, which, I guess is the point. People seem to like her. But she's not saying anything new.

It's hard to listen to a long, political speech if you don't agree with the speaker. Not because I don't agree, but because it's so political. I'm not learning a whole lot about Republicans from listening to all this ballyhoo. Except I kind of am.

Ho-Hum. Blah. Signing out...