Just when I was adjusting to Mitt Romney as --- -- ---

--- well, as --- ah -- er -- um --- the 'Anti-Obamanation' ! That is to say, he ain't no Ronald Reagan - but he ain't no Dim Socialist Community Organizer either.

Anyway, just as I am beginning to accept the fact that he was the best the RNC (and their insiders) could come up with this year --- I look at my calendar!

It's July 16th!! So what you ask? Folks, the Republican Convention kicks off in Tampa in just six short weeks. Plans are being finalized - they've probably already started cooking the food and sticking in the fridge. Balloons are being blown up - red, white and blue tinsel is being chopped up.

What's missing from this picture?

Neither Mitt(ens) Romney, nor his people, nor the RNC has extended an invitation to Governor Sarah Palin to keynote this convention and wake those silver hair old members of the RNC up and get 'em fired up!

Millions of Tea Partiers are gonna nod and go back to sleep. Millions of youngsters are gonna mistake the Republican Convention for a rerun of an old Lawrence Welk show and flip the channel thinking they tuned to PBS by accident.

What in God's name are Romney and his people thinking? Sarah Palin and the conservatives might not need Mitt Romney -- but he sure as hell needs her and them.

Here's something you won't believe - as of today -- he has not even invited her to ATTEND the convention, much less asked her to speak.

I've heard of many forms of suicide, but political suicide by not reaching out to the brightest star in the Republican sky wouldn't seem to be a characteristic of a successful businessman and POTUS wannabe, does it?

If you know somebody connected to the RNC with an IQ over 60, give 'em a call....