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Since the Very Serious People are all obsessed with the Very Serious Question of Elena Kagan’s softball skillz, thank gods for the potty-mouthed humor blog Wonkette, who will tell us about Maine’s Insane Klown TP Party…

Earlier this week we learned that the Maine GOP, during its state convention, replaced its standard platform with a hilarious four-page teabagger e-mail that one local reporter could only describe as “a mix of right-wing fringe policies, libertarian buzzwords and outright conspiracy theories.” It turns out, though, that this was only the second most comical thing that the teabaggers did during the convention. Some folks, while caucusing in a rented classroom at the nearby middle school, got it in their heads that the classroom’s teacher was a commie liberal indoctrinating the children with commie liberalism, and so they just dug through all of his stuff and trashed the place.
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“The Republican State Convention was held at the Portland Exposition Building, which is on Park Avenue, near the middle school. Party members from Knox County caucused in a classroom used by eighth-grade social studies teacher Paul Clifford.
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When Clifford returned to school on Monday, he found that a favorite poster about the U.S. labor movement had been taken and replaced with a bumper sticker that read, “Working People Vote Republican.”
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Later, Clifford learned that his classroom had been searched. Republicans who had attended the convention called Principal Mike McCarthy to complain about “anti-American” things they saw there, including a closed box containing copies of the U.S. Constitution that were published by the American Civil Liberties Union…”

Yes, a bunch of Republicans called a guy named McCarthy to complain that the Constitution was “anti-American”.
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Also, only Wonkette seems to properly appreciate the lulz involved when the Republican National Committee rejected both wrinkly old John McCain (Phoenix) and glossy humanoid pretender Mitt Romney (Salt Lake City) by choosing Tampa, “the nation’s lap-dance capital”, as the site of the 2012 Republican Convention. Hey, I believe the last RNC national convention in Florida was Richard Nixon’s 1972 coronation!
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And finally, to meet the new mandatory Elena-Kagan-related quota, Wonkette informs us that Orrin Hatch forced Kagan to admire his sparkly yet underpowered antique weapon, in front of the cameras, because that is how he rolls.

Wonketteer Jim Newell is rapidly becoming one of my favorite journalists.

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