There comes a time.....

.....when you should stop editing and publish the damn thing. And that time is now. I started this post on Thursday evening, didn't like it and saved as draft; worked on it on Friday but Ernest & Julio got a grip on me and I didn't finish it to my liking; so I'm just going to put it out there and move on. So there.

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What a week this has turned out to be. Still no real time for blogging, but things are starting to heat up. The VRWC bloggers are starting to take batting practice for the pennant race that is the electoral home stretch. I'm very nuanced between just going to ground and chucking it all or building a really fookin' tall soapbox to stand on.

There's a subtle appeal there: just go to the booth on 2 November and vote my conscience and let the rest of it go; no more arguing with complete strangers about the economy, no more debates about Iraq, no more sparring with total idiots over tax cuts / supply side economics / and how the donks consider YOU rich. Peace. Solitude. Rest.

But letting go is difficult. I just cannot stand by and watch my country get hijacked by the left. I love my three children too much to allow don henley, MoveOn, michael moore, WaPo, CBS/CNN/NBC/ABC (and their ilk) to influence the direction of governorship of our great country. What a tragedy it would be if the uneducated "touchy-feely" morons actually got their way.

I started copying links / quotes to a NotePad file when I started my daily adventure through the Blogosphere tonight, thinking that would speed up the process. Wrong. I've got more links than I could properly blog in a regular work week.

Sigh.

I am heartened though, by some very un-scientific data I have been collecting. Long time readers will remember my previous posts regarding bumper stickers. I've been out on the streets of Moscow on the Huron more this week than I had in the past month or two, and I'm still not seeing all that many john kerry bumper stickers. Oh, sure, they're out there; but not in the number that you would expect for one of the most liberal cities in the country. In fact, it is my observation that the kerry bumper stickers are matched one for one by the GWB bumper stickers. In AnnArbor? WTF? The times they are a'changing.

A few observations as the GOP convention approaches: a while back I linked (over at Supply Side Politics) to Jim's essay at Smoke on the Water on the 1968 conventions and their relevance today. The DNC has had their convention, replete with protestors in cages; with no major disruptions. The GOP starts their convention on Monday. The major old media networks have decided to limit their coverage of the GOP convention to one hour per night, per an old media news story earlier this week (or last week, I don't remember and can't find it quickly enough to meet my deadline). If you believe the hype, there are as many as 250,000 protestors heading to NYC even as I type, bent on "shutting down" the Republican convention.

Bring.It.On. If I were on the "What do we do if protestors disrupt the convention" committee of the RNC, I'd say let it happen. Let it happen but have the teleprompter ready for who-ever is speaking at the time: prompting remarks contrasting the fact that the GOP didn't put the protestors in cages like at the donk's convention; an "off hand" comparison of the protestors to terrorist (the angry few spoiling things for the open minded many). I'd send a runner out to find the "leader" of the protest, and usher him / her to the podium to present their case. Bejeezus, would that be funny. Just picture some amped up MoveOn type suddenly put front and center and asked to cogently explain their disagreement. I'd pony up "pay per view" money to see that.