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you lost me at… oh, never mind. that was 20 years ago.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Was Fred Thompson supposed to work the crowd into a frenzy? Granted, I am not a member of their base. But ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Maybe there’s a Law & Order rerun on A&E instead?

I will never forget the Republican convention twenty years ago. It was pre-Republican “revolution,” but it was just on the cusp of the religious zealots taking control of their party. The featured speakers that year were the Pats, Buchanan and Robertson. Talk about your pandering. Those ho-mo-sexshals sure were quite the formidable enemy to the Republicans back in the day. They somehow threatened the very fabric of our lives as a people those twenty years ago, all while a disturbing number of gay men were dropping dead of AIDS at an alarming rate.

The Pats did it for me.

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