It's all about the guns.

Noticeably absent in the highlights reported by the media from the speeches last night is any mention of the economy. I'll have to check the full transcript, but it seems odd that -- as a capitalist country, which essentially lives and dies at the hand of its economy -- not focusing on this might be seen as a gaping hole in someone's stump speech. I'm sure that will be rectified when they start touting all of the minimum wage jobs that have been created, completely ignoring the lack of funding for education (and therefore trained, smart, capable future American entrepeneurs) and focusing instead on more funding for guns. Because, really, guns don't kill people...they make a country grow! Hey, if we have enough guns, we don't need to have reasonable, sane, sensible, intelligent, creative, capable citizens. We'll just find someone who does have those things and bully them until they give it to us. It worked for GWB in elementary school (probably), it'll work for the country now. So, look out world...and pony up your milk money now before we get really angry and devote our entire budget to buying all sorts of crazy weaponry. You've been warned.

This has been a message endorsed by the Society for Fascism in America (RNC) (Betcha didn't know that's what those letters stood for -- is it their fault that they never learned to spell? No education funding!)