This item may fall a little short of diary worthiness, but it is so delicious that I couldn't let my fellow Kossacks miss it.
The Robert Novak column in today's online edition of the Chicago Sun-Times contains this gem of irony that might have been turned in a few hours too early.
[Edit - I left out this paragraph.] Republican insiders were surprised when Paul Manafort, prominent in national Republican circles for over 30 years, was passed over as John McCain's national convention manager in favor of a relatively unknown P.R. executive.
Doug Goodyear, CEO of the Washington-based DCI Group public relations firm, has not been an active political player in recent years. He ran the disastrous 1988 U.S. Senate campaign in New Jersey for Gen. Pete Dawkins, who lost to Democrat Frank Lautenberg.
Manafort has been a major operative at every Republican National Convention, starting as an aide for President Gerald Ford in 1976. He is a lobbying partner of McCain national campaign manager Rick Davis, but McCain does not want to hire a heavy contingent of lobbyists to give Barack Obama an easy target. Manafort also is in disfavor at the State Department for representing the pro-Russian former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.