Puppet Show And Spinal Tap

The Republican Party is not what it used to be.

Citing a lack of interest, the Nevada Republican Party has called off its state convention and will instead pick its delegates to the national convention by private conference call.

The state party broke up its original convention in April when supporters of Ron Paul hijacked the proceedings and tried to elect delegates for their candidate to the national GOP convention in September. Party officials tried to reconvene on July 26, but they needed a quorum of 675 and received only 300 RSVPs, according to local reports.

"With so many people concerned about the economy, it simply wouldn't be fair for us to ask delegates from all over the state to spend money to attend a convention if we know that a quorum won't be present," state party Chairwoman Sue Lowden said in a release.

This is similar to the fact that they held a competitor conference to Netroots Nation in Austin to "confront" the progressive blogosphere, and yet nobody knew about it, the attendance was pathetic, and their keynote speaker (not the Republican nominee, but the Libertarian one) paid to come to NN and wander around.

What a pathetic political party that is right now. Of course, it's up to us to make sure they have many more years in the wilderness.