45 votes  Karen Kwiatkowski: What I Saw at the Convention  What
I Saw at the Convention  by Karen Kwiatkowski | September 1,
2012 (Published Aug. 31, 2012)  I spent a day of my life at the
2012 Republican Convention. The plan was to stay for full four
days, but the choreographed and staged "decision-making" made
the 2,000 plus delegates irrelevant. Republican Party members
hoping to see democracy in action were left staring at a fuzzy
gray screen, listening to static, beating their heads against
padded white walls. No free man would subject himself to such
idiocy. As Doug Wead so delightfully put it, the party has been
reduced to "ten fat men sitting in a room."  One of these fat
men is John Sununu. Watching him on Tuesday afternoon steamroll
the wishes of half of the delegate floor, and destroy what was
left of the integrity of the GOP, I was strongly reminded of
Nurse Ratched running the floor at the Salem State Hospital. In
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ratched dominates her fiefdom
sternly, with her co