A few farts in Denver (Blackburn, Cantor, Romney).Tennesseans Blackburn, Frist will speak at GOP convention
WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Rep. Marsha Blackburn have been added as speakers at the Republican National Convention next week.
Former senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson is scheduled to speak Tuesday at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., and Blackburn of Brentwood also will speak that night, convention officials announced Tuesday.
Elsewhere...Marsha made "news" in Denver...
The party of President George W. Bush and his would-be successor, Arizona Sen. John McCain, has sent a slew of its leading stars to crash Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama's party in the electoral battleground state of Colorado.
"Barack Obama was AWOL, nowhere to be found on the issue of immigration," said Florida Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
Others played up tensions in the Democratic party fueled by New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's loss in the primaries to Obama, which has dominated convention coverage this week.
"When you talk to Democrats, there's a lot of disunity," said Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn at the same news conference with [Mitt] Romney and Diaz-Balart.
The Republicans hold their convention in St. Paul, Minnesota next week. Not a model of unity themselves, many party members are said to be staying away.
All the more reason to get into the Democrats' act. One Republican operative said this week would be "more fun" than St. Paul anyway.
