John Podhoretz today on the threatened wall-to-wall demos planned by lefty pinko hippy-types during the RNC in NYC:
Now, here’s the best thing from my perspective. By all means, go nuts. Walk around the city naked. Hang Bush in effigy. Get into fights with cops. Misbehave. The more exposure you get for such conduct, the more you will be seen by those swing voters out there in middle America. If you think they will prefer such hijinks to the sobriety of George W. Bush, you have been growing too much hemp in your garden.
Of course, if you conduct yourself with impeccable taste and decorum, you will soon bore the reporters, and they will stop covering you and start following around the delegation from Wyoming.
Kind of a catch-22, isn’t it?
For the past year or so, the conventional wisdom has been that the Republicans made a huge mistake in coming to New York City for their convention. The truth is very nearly the opposite. Had the convention been in a Red State city, like Dallas or Phoenix, the descent of several hundred thousand protestors would have seemed like an invasion – and the less experienced, more easily rattled police forces in those cities would have had no clue how to handle the invaders.
Read the whole thing, it’s a hoot.