Good to be back from my vacation.

I was on an "extreme wilderness vacation" for the last week. Canoeing the mode of transport, sleeping in a tent, no cell phones, no TV. It was great; however, I admit I was looking forward to getting home and finding out how the Republican convention went and especially "The Donald's" special surprise. I was rather disappointed when I found out that the Trump embarassment was quashed by Trump's cancellation due to Hurricane Isaac. I have to give the power of prayer over climate change its due, I guess.

So, then the convention. Ron Paul--out of sight, out of mind? I see no respect was given by the Republican National bosses.  A microphone was abruptly cut when Georgia was attempting to read the number of delegates accumulated by Ron Paul. Not realizing that another microphone was still on, someone snickered: "Well done! Whoever controlled the microphone did a great job!" Amazing since Ron Paul had about 500 delegates at the convention. This is probably an example of how the Pubs plan to treat women, children and the elderly and disabled.

I had understood the big theme of this convention was to introduce you to Romney and do a remake of his image. Did I get this right that no one actually talked about Romney? No one sang his praises? I guess no one wanted to be caught on tape so it would be played back in a liberal commercial 4 years from now.

Paul Ryan, VP hopeful. Even FOX NEWS wrote: "To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech." WHAT??? Did He!! Just freeze over? Then Mr Ryan goes on to say that he ran marathons in the high 2's? This boy has a SERIOUS problem.

Ahhh, Clint (the Hollywood guy) apparently did an imitation of this very Board by rambling on and on and putting words in the president's mouth. I did find a video of this and all I can say it makes me very sad to see how pitiful he looked. I sure loved his movies.

Then there was Ann--gave the same speech that Laura and Babs gave before. Rinse, repeat.

So how did Romney do? The actual nominee? 38 percent who viewed speech were less likely to vote for him. This is lowest net impact for a convention going back to 1984. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech received the lowest marks since Bob Dole’s in 1996. To tell you the truth, I did not even bother with it and decided to look at my vacation pictures instead.

I saw from reading the board the liberals here were very respectful of the Republican postings during the convention. It will be interesting to see if the Republicans display that same courtesy next week.