Reason Magazine: Lisa Kennedy- 'Did the GOP Pick Tampa Because of the Strippers? And Did Mitt Romney Pick Ryan Because of His Hard-Bod?'

Source:Reason Magazine- I believe this woman is a Sarah Palin impersonator. But I beg you not to quote me on that.

"So the Republicans are heading to Tampa to whoop it up at their "Yes We Did Too Build It Ourselves" convention.

Florida in late August? Goodness gracious, it's not about the heat, or the humidity -- it's about the nudity!

There's a reason that Tampa was the backdrop for Magic Mike, the hard bodied hit movie of the summer: The city is packed ass-cheek to jowl with strip clubs catering to every customer niche. That's capitalism at its finest and something the GOP pretends to understand.

The moist evening air in the lightning capital of America ripples with anticipation the way that the chins of convention speakers such as Governor Chris Christie do at snack time.

Is it just a coincidence that the Mitt Romney picked Congressman Paul Ryan for his running mate?

Hardly.

Ryan is a highly public practitioner of the P90X "insanity" workout and is reported to have washboard abs that the ladies dream of taking out for a spin cycle or two.

Ryan famously wears his suits David Byrne style -- two or three sizes too big -- but as anyone who saw Magic Mike can tell you, oversized clothes just make the stripper-reveal that much sexier.

Local strip club owners aren't expected the GOP base to flood the red-light zones like Super Bowl attendees have in the past. One of them told the press, "The Mitt Romneys aren't going to go into adult entertainment clubs" and another opined, "I don't think those people are coming to party."

But maybe the top -- and bottom -- of the GOP ticket ought to skip the boring speeches and funny hats at the convention center and instead check out the fleshpots of Tampa.

And Mitt Romney could get to know the non-unionized independent contractors who work hard for their money and have overcome more than a few bumps and grinds to inject life into an economy that's limper than Liberace at a speculum convention.

Strippers, like the rest of us, built their business the old-fashioned way: They earned it. 

And a loosened-up GOP that showed some kinship -- or is that skinship? - with real working men and women just might be worth tipping a few bucks." 

From Reason Magazine

If the Republican Party had a choice between raising hell of a lot of money, I mean a frickin truck load of money (to keep it clean) or to stick with their so-called Christian, moral values and principles, what do you think they would do? Actually, scratch that, because I think the answer is obvious. 

It's one thing to play holier than now on TV and on blogs, radio, social media, etc, but when you are a national political party, you are in the business to win and that means raising a helluva lot of money. Even if that means raising money from sources that your right-wing says publicly needs to be outlawed (even though privately they love their strip clubs, casinos, prostitutes, and homosexuality) because you are not much of a political party, if you can't win major elections. 

Sure, the Republican Party could've held their national convention in West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, or some other third-world state that they have to have to have any shot of winning back The White House. But renting choppers and private jets, and boats (because there are not enough roads to get around the state) can be very expensive. 

So instead the modern Republicans Party picks a place and state that's doing very well economically and even financially, that could definitely go Democrat again in 2012, like in 2006 and 2008. Because ruby red states simply don't have the money and infrastructure to host hundreds of thousands of escaped mental patients (also known as the Christian-Right) in their states and let them have their convention there.