I guess I’m waiting to see Charlie Crist’s undoubtedly uninteresting and uninspiring convention speech.  If there was a Ron Paul contingency running around the Democratic Convention, I’d be looking about to see that, but alas I’m down to this exercise in comparison sakes of a new genre of political convention speech givers — the party switcher.

Look!  Todd Akin’s making use of Crist!  He’s running now against the Corrupt Republican Party bosses that … have the crime of… um… dumping him.  Until he recovers in the polls, at which time they’ll gingerly back him as well they can without tainting the national brand and dragging down, say, Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

3…2 … 1.  Comment winner.

The problem that Akin has is that nobody in Missouri ever heard of Charlie Crist.

Won’t the Convention speech change all that?  Just like the Artur Davis speech at the Republican Convention has raised his Q rating to an all time high such that now you can’t turn around without hearing everyone talking about Artur Davis.

Funny thing on Artur Davis.  I saw some Republican blogs talk up the speech as speaking for disaffected Democrats with the smug question of who is Charlie Crist going to speak for.  I have yet to see a proud chest bumping from Democratic blogs on Charlie Crist, who seems like he was a good enough governor…

… he probably lost the Republican rank and file not when he accepted Obama’s stimulus funds, but when he kept early voting lines up and running … didn’t he learn anything from Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris?…

… but isn’t really speaking for anyone but his attempted political future — and no Democrat is under the illusion that he is doing anything but that.   He may find himself stuck in the middle, not able to weave and bob between new constituencies.  (Or maybe he can win people over by …er… coming out?)

Apolicy-wise, I mostly associate with having to make a youtube video as part of a litigation settlement apologizing to David Byrne.

Looking at the sidebar, I see this question in “Politico’s Most Popular”.
Where’s Al Gore?
Hm.  Actually, hosting his Current TV coverage of the coverage, sans Keith Olbermann.   But  this line of questioning seems to be a favorite past-time at Convention time.  Like “Where is George Bush”?  Also I note a story on the front page of USA Today… part of the unraveling of North Carolina’s Democratic Party, I suppose… “Where is John Edwards”?  Hidden away as far out of sight as can possibly be, I would say.

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