Meanwhile, at the Cow Palace...

While doing the cable shuffle last night, monitoring coverage of the 2004 Republican National Convention, I fell across C-SPAN. Bless their hearts, they were running Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech from the 1964 convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco...complete, uncut!

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue..."

Don't expect to hear anything as stirring as that at this week's convention...or at any other time during this crummy campaign.