COME GOP WITH ME

From: Boise Weekly | Date: July 25, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

It's my party; howl if you want to

First thing I'm going to do is volunteer to decorate the banquet room for next year's Lincoln Day dinner. I figure I can get some help from the Log Cabin fellas and do it up right. Honestly, does that damn elephant on the posters always have to be so fat? And after that, I'm going to push hard to get on the Guest Speaker Selection Committee. Enough of mutants like Ann Coulter. I'm going for Al Franken! Ha, he'll either have my fellow Republicans rolling in the aisles or choking on their own vomit. Either way works for me.

Whoa there, Cope! What are you ...

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