Utahans at the Republican National Convention

I like Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah).  He seems to me a quieter, less theatrical, more effective, less personal ambitious, and far less abrasive Ted Cruz, committed to the Constitution and deeply knowledgeable about it.  (Given who his father was, that’s hardly surprising.)

A friend and I had lunch with him when he was first considering a challenge to then Senator Bob Bennett.  My friend was trying to convince him to run.  Since I had had direct dealings with Senator Bennett and liked and respected him enormously as a person, I held back a bit.  But I’m quite happy with Senator Lee.  And so I found these items interesting:

“Mike Lee Fights the RNC Machine”

“In Cleveland, Mike Lee Ponders Conservatism’s Future With or Without the GOP”

Finally, there’s simply too much of this sort of thing continually swirling about Mr. Donald Trump and around the edges of Trumpism, which seems to me to be saturated, to a remarkable degree, with rage and bitterness and, sometimes, threats of violence:

“Manafort Jokes About Reported Death Threat on Utah Delegate”

Or if, for some reason, you can’t access the article above, see here:

“‘You should die’: Trump supporters threaten Utah delegate, she says, at Republican National Convention”

However, as the strong Soviet leader Joseph Stalin once observed, if you’re going to make an omelet you have to break some eggs.  So let’s go on to some serious reporting about the Convention from my go-to guy Dave Barry:

I wasn’t aware of this one when I posted the other day:

“Coming to the GOP convention: Naked women! (We are not making this up)”

And then there’s the little matter of Melania Trump channelling Michelle Obama.

As one wit over at National Review remarked last night, it’s going to be a bit awkward on Thursday when Mr. Donald Trump reflects on the lessons he learned as a young black man growing up in Chicago.

At least Mrs. Trump didn’t claim to be the son of a coal miner.