Next Saturday, to be exact.
I first wrote about this back in January. At the time I just assumed we'd be long gone by now, but here we are, so it looks like it's time to batten down the hatches and board up the windows.
For one day, and one day only, Bakersfield is going to be the white hot center of the Wingnut Universe. I mean, just look at this lineup...
Dick Cheney
"Dr." Lynn Cheney
Karl Rove
Newt Gingrich
Rudy Giuliani
Mitt Romney
Bay Buchanan
Cal Thomas
Laura W. Bush
Michael Steele
Talk about a Disharmonic Convergence.
It's a once in a lifetime opportunity since the only other place you could see all these characters assembled would be a War Crimes Tribunal, and that's not gonna happen.
And headlining the event, The Abominable Snowgrifter herself, former Half-Term Governor of Alaska, Mama Grizzly-In-Chief, Sarah Palin. No wonder the tickets are $200; that woman won't step out of the car for less than $100K. No one ever went broke fleecing the right wing rubes. Why would anyone pay $200 to watch a bunch of boilerplate stump speeches you could watch on YouTube for free?
Whatever.
And just to prove they aren't out of touch, they're opening with America's "edgiest" comic, straight from the Nixon Administration, Rich Little.
I hope he does his Hubert Humphrey impression. That always brings the house down.
Looking over the schedule it appears to be incomplete. Nowhere on it do I see the part where the earth splits open and Satan claws his way out of the depths of Hell to address his assembled minions.
I'm guessing it comes after Rove, but before Palin.
You always want to finish "big".
