With the distraction of the oncoming tropical storm Isaac,
and the cover of endless droning on cable news stations speculating about how
Republicans are going to sabotage their chances in November with more
foot-in-mouth speech controversies that the media could focus on instead of the
economy and national debt, Democrats decided to take no chances and stormed the
Republican National Convention in Tampa Tuesday, chasing out Republican
delegates and nominating Todd Akin as the Republican nominee for president.
Akin erupted a firestorm of controversy recently over his comments regarding
“legitimate rape”, and since Democrats were not certain they could use ‘guilt
by association’ tactics sufficiently to blame Mitt Romney for Akin’s views,
they decided to leave nothing to chance and simply take over the Republican
convention and nominate Todd Akin as the Republican presidential candidate. Since
this type of invasion is unprecedented, which saw Akin actually nominated at the real Republican convention, and the national convention nominee is
always by tradition the official party contender, it looks as though the legal battle over
the validity of Akin’s candidacy will go on until well past the election, by
which time it will be too late for Akin to be removed from the ballot, and the
election will have been decided. Reince Priebus, the RNC chairman, said: “They
caught us with our pants down. We certainly weren’t expecting decisive action
from the Democratic party. I guess we’ll just try again with Mitt Romney in
four more years and hope for the best. Unless of course this backfires on Democrats and Akin is elected president. Then the joke will be on them.”
