Rand Paul is nuts, and along with Ted Cruz (who is just as nuts), Scott Walker and Paul Ryan we see the future of the Republican Party. So put on your seatbelts, make sure your airbags are in working order and tune in your tinfoil hats. Talk radio nutjobs are coming in 2016, and they have brought the adorable Ayn Rand back from the dead.
Mike Huckabee steered clear of the Todd Akin controversy to tell us that “President Obama believes that human life is disposable and expendable at any time in the womb or even beyond the womb.” I guess that black guy with the funny name is now guilty of infanticide as well as baby murdering, destroyed the constitution and taken religion and guns away from us. He’s worse than Hitler!
The most raucous non scripted applause from the floor was 2 and a half hours into it when Governor Martinez said the line, “When I was 18 years old I carried a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum revolver!” Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, Republicans like better than people carrying around .357 magnums.
Paul Ryan was a less than expected. Sour boring delivery of a poorly written speech. I thought what with his sad upturned worried eyebrows, the widows peak and the haircut he was going to smile fangs or turn into a werewolf at any moment to add some pizzazz to the thing.
All in all, the second night of speeches and cheers repeated the night before War on Unions, War on Women and War on the Poor. A War on Poor Women is the winning formula for the GOP with Paul Ryan as it’s intellectual leader. Really. I never really thought of Republicans as scumbags until I heard the term TEA PARTY.