The Empty Convention really turned off my best friend's BIL who

[Skidmore]

has been a staunch defender of all things Bushian & R for the past 8 years.

To quote him:

> I was in the Land of Oz last night watching the Republican convention.
> It was another dimension. I have never heard so many lies and half-truths.
> Thompson and LIEBERMAN! The democrats should knock him off his
> democratic chair in the Senate and bounce HIM OUT THE DOOR. He's pathetic!
> And Cindy McCain sitting there smiling. The republican women are
> really Stepford wives. And that's the way republican mean like them.
> I also think the average IQ at the convention is well below 100.

[panAmerican]

1. According to KO, even their best speaker was a b-movie actor who coughed 70 times!

Of course, KO couched it in sympathy, saying that when he was in radio, there was such a thing as a cough button. He acted as if the sound engineers were nincompoops for not giving Fred Thompson such an option, considering that Thompson speaks like that ALL the time.