Attending GOP Convention in Tampa

Partying at GOP Convention

As has been often said: "By their friends you will know them." In the case of politicians, on the other hand, it is difficult to identify their friends. Sometimes it seems their best friends are the ones who wrote them the biggest check  Perhaps in their case, you will know them by whom they invite and whom they do not invite to their big shin-dig. In the case of Mitt Romney, let's see who and what we find at  at the GOP Convention in Tampa this week.

Not at the GOP Convention:                          At the GOP Convention:

1. George W. Bush                                            1. Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy
2. "The Book of Mormon"                                  2. Donald Trump and his hair stylist
3. Catholic nuns                                                  3. Cardinal Timothy Nolan
4. Poor People                                                   4. Wealthy White Males
5. Undocumented Latino youth                         5. Sheriff Joe Arpaio
6. Romney's Federal tax returns                       6. Grover Norquist
7. Scientists                                                        7. Venture capitalists/vultures
8. Compassion                                                   8. Rolex time pieces
9. Mormon Tabernacle Choir                            9. Oil Oligarchs
10. Union worker and laborers                         10. Corporate Welfare Recipients
11. Quakers and Pacifists                                 11. Kalashnikov ak 47 owners
12. Single working mothers                              12.Wall Street Bankers
13. Rape victims                                                13 Anti-abortionists
14. Christian social justice                                14. Christian Indifference
15. Food-stamp families                                   15. Defense contractors
16. Middle class families                                   16. Cayman Island Bankers
17. Coal miners                                                  17. Coal mine owners
18. Ohio's disenfranchised voters                    18. Jon Husted, OH Sec. of State
19. Police and other "public leeches"               19. Lobbyists with checkbooks
20. Palestinians ("They don't exist.")                 20. White Anglo-Saxons


If you were not invited, fret not. Just send the Romney/Ryan campaign a sizable check ($50,000 or more) and they will invite you to their next skinny-dip in the Sea of Galilee. If you can't afford that, you don't belong.