I’m not yet sure how much of the Republican National Convention I’m going to watch.
Keynote speech? Sure. Except I don’t know who’s giving it.
Presidential nominee acceptance speech? Absolutely, if only to see if Donald J. Trump veers too wildly off script.
This I do know: The Party of Lincoln/Reagan is going to become the Party of Trump.
God help ’em.
I’m still trying to figure out how the Republican Party establishment plans to speak glowingly of the man they’re about to nominate for the presidency of the United States. He has spent the bulk of the primary season hurling insults in every direction, including at the Republican Party brass! Political memories often become surprisingly short, but they also have this way of retaining insults for an amazingly long time.
Which leads me to believe that the establishment types are going to have little time on the podium during the four-day event in Cleveland.
It’ll be left to the assorted celebrities who’ve lined up behind Trump’s insurgent candidacy. He’s been crowing all along how he doesn’t “need” the power brokers who run the GOP. We’re about to learn whether his boasting will come true.
Just suppose, too, that absent any public service record that the Trumpkins can tout, what will be left for them to say from the convention podium.
Oh! I think I know. They’re going to unsheathe the long knives and plunge them into the Democratic nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
She will be portrayed as the daughter of Satan. They’re plan — in the words of the late GOP chairman Lee Atwater — “peel the bark” off the Democrats’ presidential candidate.
Yes, indeed. Given that the Republicans are going first in this year’s political nominating convention cycle, they’ll get to set the tone for the campaign for the White House.
Rest assured, Democrats have their own burdens to bear with Clinton. So, they’ll be loaded to the teeth when they convene their convention in Philadelphia right after the Republicans adjourn their convention in Cleveland.
Get ready, folks, for a heck of a wild ride beginning next week.
