Scripts, Lies, and the Need for Scripted Lies
I haven't seen much of the Republican National Convention, despite being home ill for a couple of days.  I'm lucky.  Australia doesn't take all that much interest in the nonsense, except to puzzle about it, scratch their heads, and ask: what, really? That's it?  And we listen to them about anything? 

But I have heard some things that even at this remove strike me as (a) lies, (b) scripted pablum for the crowds, and now (c) Clint Eastwood proving that actors working without a script can't even manage to lie well but GOP conventioneers and all their good ol' hometown buddies will eat it up with a spoon, probably because they are equally suffering the onslaught of imminent dementia and really should be in a nursing home before they end up on a bus to Topeka (or Ames, if they're already stating from Topeka) and we have to call up the National Guard to round them all up and return them to their loved ones.

Because the National Guard are mostly in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Which is because of PRESIDENT BUSH, Clint, not Obama, which if you could remember longer ago than last week you might know.

Oh, and Joe Biden, well, compared to "F... yourself" Cheney, whom I think you got confused with the current VP, he actually is a pretty smart guy, if a loose cannon.  At least he's not "big time" at cursing people for calling him on his lies and other egregious behavior.

Sorry, Clint, no more late nights for you.  Time they strapped you into your bed.

Seriously, are they all really that stupid, even the ones we thought were smart?  Or are we that stupid to believe that any of them are smart?

What a disaster.  Not that any Republicans will care.  They're voting for their guy anyway, because he'll cut their taxes.  Well, he'll cut the taxes of the 1% they work for, and that's almost as good.  Almost worked for Reagan, didn't it?  Except it didn't.