Yes, Ezra Pound’s from Idaho it’s actually Walt Whitman, and I’m an idiot.
[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers.
It must be admitted that when I read this particular article:
In a move that seemed to surprise many members of Maine’s Republican Party, a group of tea party-style activists redefined the party platform at the convention Saturday.
After the vote, in which a vocal majority supported a wholesale replacement of language worked on by the party establishment since at least January, a string of delegates congratulated Horatio “Ted” Cowan III, a retired marine electrician from Rockland who wrote the adopted amendment.
…I mostly snickered at The Outrage over what happens to be a fairly straightforwardly party platform that should have a good deal of appeal to conservatives, libertarians, and populists. I personally would have argued the hard line on illegal immigration and same-sex marriage, but the former is an argument over tactics and 53% of the voting population of Maine disagrees with me on the latter anyway. So, really, business as usual, nice to see that the Ron Paul people were actually participating in local party structures like we had been asking them to do throughout all of 2008… and, yeah, Maine’s lost to conservatism, so let them have their fun.
Then I read a few more details of what actually happened. Continue reading The Maine GOP’s barbaric yawp.