The Bad, The Worse, and the Ugly

From all accounts, the last night of the Rethug convention was a whole lot less than successful. The major networks limit their coverage to a critical primetime network hour, in which the candidate is introduced and speaks. (Even more critical given that Wednesday night's cable viewership of the convention was surpassed by "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" a show on TLC). Last night, the campaign team of plutocrat humanoid replica Willard "The Common Man" Romney committed political malpractice, allowing in prime time another self-promoting Rethug (in this case Sen. Marco "Polo!" Rubio) to fluff himself for 2016, and scheduling the "performance" of octogenarian Clint "Deadwood" Eastwood, which was breathtaking in its vulgarity and incoherence. Talking to an empty chair seemed to suggest that Deadwood's verging on senility.

Willard's campaign missed the opportunity of showing a national audience a slick film about their candidate's life, and testimonials from "average" Americans about how The Common Man would make such a fine President by ensuring the gap between the middle class and the 1% continues to increase. You could sense in the random remarks this morning by the usual political pundits and Willard's surrogates (including Queen Ann herself) that the campaign goofed up in its scheduling and staging on the final critical night.

(photo: Either Deadwood's trying out for the role of Elwood Dowd in a revival of "Harvey" or he's missing a few bullets in his gun)

BONUS: How tweet it is:

This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama.

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 31, 2012