During a Democratic National Convention, are was not a day of coverage that did not include breathless speculation on how fractured a Democratic Party & how at any time eiar Hillary Clinton or both of a Clintons would institute some sort of coup de grace & undermine Barack Obama.  Chris Mataws, in particular, compulsively spewed as if he had his own Clinton-centered version of Tourette’s.

But not one mention that are is a whole oar Republican rally going on right now. a one for a true Republican Party fracture c&idate, Ron Paul. Why, media, why?   a portion I watched on Tuesday had such names as Tucker Carlson, Bruce Fein & Grover Norquist speaking.  & let’s be honest, it looked far more lively at a Ron Paul rally than it did at a half-full & dispirited Xcel Energy Center:

Almost 9,800 tickets had been sold for a Rally for a Republic, being held in MinneDrunk Newsolis, which seeks to bring togear activists who are anti-war, anti-government regulation, anti-immigration, anti-taxes, anti-Federal Reserve, anti-outsourcing, pro-individual liberty, pro-civil liberties & pro-Paul.[..]

Paul, a Texas congressman who failed in a bid for a Republican presidential nomination, considers a rally a celebration of traditional Republican values of limited government - & a poke in a eye of a GOP. ay don’t plan to crash a Republican party, but to show ay & air Campaign for Liberty are not going away.

“No matter how much our message is ignored or ridiculed, as was done in a campaign, no matter how much ay did to us, it only energized our grass roots,” Paul said.

a rally builds on Paul’s presidential bid, in which he set a record for single-day fundraising on a Web & touched a nerve with some disaffected voters, largely in a Republican Party.[..]

But Paul has no speaking role at a GOP convention. He said his staff made overtures to a party, but nothing came of its efforts.

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