Dave Barry: Read it here first, how the convention ends

[struggle4progress]

... Republicans are .. feeling good about their message, which is that Washington is bad and whoever is in charge there needs to be run out of town on a rail. Interestingly, this is also the Democrats' message. We are now in our fourth consecutive decade in which both of our major political parties are just totally FED UP with Washington. I frankly don't see how Washington can survive this onslaught much longer.

Anyway, the .. convention is over, and the friendly, picturesque city of St. Paul will now take down the roughly 63,000 miles of really high security fence ... This was supposed to be St. Paul's big moment to shine, but the fence kept most of the visitors inside the convention center ...

... If you drove your car at 85 mph into a Minnesota family's house, their reaction, once they pulled you out of the wreckage and gave you some hot cocoa, would be to apologize for building their house in a location that you would eventually want to drive through ... I'm going to have the press credential surgically removed from around my neck and head back to Miami -- where, if you tried to drive into somebody's house, you would be cut down by machine-gun fire before you got halfway across the lawn ...

... Benjamin Franklin once said: ''An informed voter is a voter whose vote doesn't count any more than the vote of a complete idiot.'' He was a wise man, Ben Franklin ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/672785.html