Photobombed by Former State Rep. Pete Lund

Former State Rep. Pete Lund photobombed my photo with outgoing GOP chairman Bobby Schostak.

The voting has begun!

As an inferior at this party, I must wait in the back until all the delegates vote before I know if I'll be elevated and allowed to vote. I'll sit here and protect the delegates from ISIS and smart meters while I listen to the cool jazz playing over the public address.

The (as yet) unquoted GOP president.

These candidates keep quoting only two Republican presidents when Chester A. Arthur clearly had the best quote of any standard bearer of the Grand Old Party: "I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business." - Chester A. Arthur

Didn't he have a copy of "Cold Ethyl?"

As far as the convention lunatics are concerned, Chris Arndt could not have picked a worse guy to nominate him for Administrative Vice Chair than State Senator Mike Kowall. They are booing the senator and muttering "tool of the Establishment" (a theme this weekend). Chris' pick of "I want to be Elected" by Alice Cooper for his campaign song is appropriate.

Darwin Jiles campaign song: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

Darwin Jiles, Jr. plays his campaign video for Ethnic Vice Chair. He just plead to a gun crime after he shot somebody, and is now stating how he can reach out to the inner cities and gain GOP votes. Everybody duck, Darwin is in the house - Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot.

Dutch is back from the grave!

I thought that President Ronald Reagan was dead, but he just came back to endorse Norm Hughes on a video.

Observations from last night

When outgoing Chairman Bobby Schostak stopped by to address our caucus, he wasn't virtually ignored. He was absolutely ignored. But, how else would delegates treat the most successful state party chair in Michigan GOP history?

Overheard by tinfoil lined hat crackpot while waiting to vote: "They keep telling us to get along. I'm not getting along with them, they have to listen to us now." Sister Crackpot, somewhere Rodney King is weeping at your lack of cooperation.

One of the candidates for state committee actually campaigned for the position by advocating jury nullification. Hmmm.

Word from the 8th Congressional District Caucus is that Tea Party extremists Bruce Little engineered the takeoff of the committee last night. This, in a district with an actual republican representing them in congress. God help Mike Bishop, something I'd never thought I would say.