Last night we watched an ultra-right nobody smarm her way through a pointless and idealess acceptance speech that was more out of 1972 than 2008.
But I am more outraged tonight, and it was because of John McCain and the people in that hall.
Watching the Republican delegates stand in rapture of their war hero, hanging on his every dull and flatly-delivered word, it reminded me of just four years ago.
In 2004, blocks away from the rubble of the twin towers, these pathetic, two-faced "humans" yukked it up on the convention floor as speaker after speaker trashed another war hero, John Kerry.
They called him "girly-man". They wore purple band-aids. They accused him of wanting to literally give up the United States and hand it over to Osama bin Laden.
Amongst the delegates on the floor, they accused an American war hero of faking his wounds, of being a coward, of shooting the enemy in the back and even of killing unarmed Vietnamese.
Watching these people now elevate heroism in Vietnam into the key prerequisite for the presidency literally makes my stomach turn.
To watch as John McCain literally cheapened his experience by harping on it over and over and over again. Watching as he said "I have the scars" and then watching those two-faced hypocrites scream with glee was yet another example of how bereft of principles and ideas the Republican Party of 2008 really is.
John McCain says we need to keep with history, but that is wrong. History has caught up with them, and they are running for their lives. Why else would a party that literally said our lives depended on re-electing George Bush would completley erase him from our history. His name was never mentioned; the Washington he created was attacked by the GOP nominee. But the policies of George W. Bush were not repudiated, they were embraced. From taxes to "security" to education, to health care, John McCain offered nothing beyond the George Bush script.
As Barack Obama put it so perfectly: they may talk about change, but you are on your own.
McCain's pitch is: the Republicans came to Washington and Washington changed us; the government is broken. So put me in charge to fix what I've broken. How? With the same failed policies that shattered the government in the first place.
Tonight we saw the last throes of a party completely out of gas. A party completely out of ideas. A party without an identity. A party with literally nothing to offer.
Beyond bile, beyond more of the same, more of the tired rhetoric and the failed policies they are desperately trying to get us to forget, the Republican Party has nothing to offer any American.
I truly believe this is their 1968 convention and that 2012, with Sarah Palin as their nominee, it will be their 1972.
They have nothing to offer, they've run out of gas and history has caught them. It is time to bury this Republican Party and work for a new lasting majority to effect real change.
We have two months. Then we get to erase the Bush Administration and truly make history.