GOP Convention is in St. Paul - Minneapolis -

[kentuck]

Best known in the last couple of years as the location of the Airport of the "wide stance". This is rich. No doubt many Republicans will fly into that airport on their way to their Convention, so they can talk about gay marriage and the evils of homosexuality? :-)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

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Just look at Mr. Rove. Some Democrats are outraged that he is now employed as a pundit by Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal as well as Fox News. Instead of complaining, they should be thrilled that Mr. Rove keeps inviting Republican complacency by constantly locating silver linings in the party’s bad news. His ubiquitous TV presence as a thinly veiled McCain surrogate has the added virtue of wrapping the Republican ticket in a daily and suffocating Bush bearhug, since Mr. Rove is far more synonymous with his former boss than Mr. Obama is with his former pastor.

The Democrats can only hope that Mr. Rove will be a color commentator, so to speak, at the conventions. The parties’ weeklong infomercials are shaping up as quite a study in contrasts. For all the fears of a Democratic civil war, the planets may be aligning for a truce, and possibly a celebration. As fate has it, the nominee’s acceptance speech is scheduled for the night of Aug. 28, exactly 45 years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified the nation with “I Have a Dream.”

The next day brings another anniversary: Mr. McCain turns 72. And then, on Sept. 1, comes the virtually all-white G.O.P. vaudeville in Minneapolis-St. Paul. You’ll be pleased to know the show will go on despite the fact that the convention manager, chosen by the McCain campaign, had to resign last weekend after being exposed as the chief executive of a lobbying and consulting firm hired by the military junta in Myanmar.

The conventioneers will arrive via the airport whose men’s room was immortalized by a Republican senator still serving the good people of Idaho. This will be a most picturesque backdrop to the party’s eternal platform battles over family values, from same-sex marriage to abortion.

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[annabanana]

1. heh! I certainly hope that there are some snap-happy democrats

hanging around the Minneapolis Airport. I want to see each & every prominent Repug pass in front of the Men's room.

[kentuck]

2. It does seem that it would make it a little "awkward"..

for them to start talking about same-sex marriage and family issues? :-)

[stellanoir]

3. I lived in the Twin Cities for a short while.

The peculiar thing was that St.Paul was so Eastern in it's architecture and culture.

Minneapolis was so-o-o Midwestern in so many other ways.

They were only a river apart.

Still both cities took better care of their homeless, underprivileged, mentally ill, and addicted people, than any city in which I'd ever lived prior to then.

Impressive.

Their above ground pedestrian subways were pretty cool also.

They always plowed their roads efficiently also.