Indifference Clouds RNC

August 14, 1:39 AMCongress ExaminerIgor Derysh

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Courtesy of VicePresidents.Com

 "Nobody likes a funeral" claimed an anonymous Senate Republican press secretary, speaking to Politico.com about the upcoming Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

While Senator Barack Obama's acceptance speech sold out a 75,000 seat stadium in Denver in just 24 hours, Senator John McCain is having a hard time just getting his fellow Senators to show up to see him speak.

Six Senate Republicans, four of whom are currently running for re-election, have already announced that they will not be showing up to St. Paul for their party's convention. Many others are still deciding.

Several House Republicans have also chosen not to show up. A recent article in The Hill quoted National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Cole telling congressional nominees that attending the GOP convention could be a "waste of time."

Perhaps it is the entertainment. Vice President Dick Cheney, who will speak on the first night of the convention, no longer draws the same sized crowd he used to. President George W. Bush, also speaking on the first night? Well...what's left to say about him? Perhaps the same old, same old has even gotten Republicans down. Perhaps the GOP needs to drag Zell Miller (see below) back up on that stage and fire up that conservative bitterness.

Or perhaps it's just the party down the street.

On Tuesday, August 12, three Republicans, former Iowa congressman Jim Leach, former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee and former White House intelligence advisor, announced the formation of "Republicans for Obama."

If it is the lack of excitement, however, here is something all you Republicans can get excited about; an angry old white man: