Politico is pleased to tell us that the “GOP Hopes to Stay out of Trouble in Tampa“:
House Republicans are officially worried that lawmakers and staffers will stray off the straight-and- narrow path at the GOP convention in Tampa this month.
With the advent of cell phones, anyone can be an opposition tracker, so members should be wary of doing anything questionable in public, Rep. Pete Sessions, the National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, warned fellow Republicans at a Capitol Hill meeting Wednesday.
“Let’s say you are going to have a cup of coffee. Perhaps, it’s a late night cup of coffee. Be careful,” the Texas Republican said at a conference committee meeting, according to several sources who attended…
Coffee, of course, is one of the many adult beverages which presumptive nominee Willard “Mitt” Romney does not drink. There is reason to believe some of his fellow Republicans lack such stern moral fibre. Politico finds one of them:
Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele said he wasn’t surprised there were worries.
“People get uptight about that stuff,” Steele said. “The Romney campaign is going to want a convention that is going to be much more reflective of his style.”
Steele knows firsthand how a scandal can cause issues for a political brand. He was ultimately lost his bid for another term as head of the party committee after news reports revealed that the RNC paid for donors at a strip club.
Steele, who said he didn’t want to “comment on anybody and their extracurricular activities,” said if convention officials tried to stop strip clubs from doing business, it could lead to even more harmful stories.
“People have an opportunity to make some money, take advantage of all these visitors coming to Tampa for five days or more, and so I don’t blame them for that,” he added…
Shorter Steele: Why does the Romney campaign want to punish America’s small businessmen, and women, in the hard-hit adult entertaiment sector?
And yet somehow one doubts that the restless Republican delegates will be satisfied with the sort of respectful family-friendly “pagentry and spectacle” described by the snoopy secularists at TNR:
As darkness fell on the wooded slopes of the Hill Cumorah on Friday, July 20, hundreds of costumed performers made their way through a crowd of Mormon faithful and a handful of non-Mormon onlookers. They had gathered at the birthplace of the Mormon religion—Mormons believe that Joseph Smith, with the guidance of the Angel Moroni, first found the gold plates of the Book of Mormon buried on the hillside—in order to witness the penultimate performance of the seventy-fifth annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, which consists of scenes from the Mormon scripture, such as “The Resurrected Christ Appears to Ancient Americans.”
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