"And then they came after me ..."

See a pattern here?

Monmouth County Fuhrer Adam Puharic used tactics reminiscent of Adolph Hitler at Saturday's Republican nominating convention when he simply repressed the dissent by not permitting entry to members who supported GOP Freeholder Anna Little, the corruption crusader who dared to question the County Counsel Malcolm Carton's billings and Freeholder Director Bill Barham's business partnership with a county contractor.

..."(W)e didn't want to give the dissenters an opportunity to grandstand," said Puharic. "They didn't want to win. They couldn't win. They wanted to grandstand, and we wouldn't let them." ...

"I’m a mayor and I can’t get in there," complained Fair Haven Mayor Mike Halfacre.

NJPolitics.com's Max Pizzaro -- "Puharic ... close(d) the hall to the press" -- was there and nearly had an orgasm on the GOP "wins."

Flash back to New York City, August 2004. The Republican National Committee choses the vastly Democratic New York City for its "nominating convention" for the re-coronation of George Bush. Republican Mayor Bloomberg had police for a year prior undercover stalking artists who were planning to protest that unitary executive. The New York Times on Sunday reported:

From these operations, run by the department's "R.N.C. Intelligence Squad," the police identified a handful of groups and individuals who expressed interest in creating havoc during the convention, as well as some who used Web sites to urge or predict violence.

But potential troublemakers were hardly the only ones to end up in the files. In hundreds of reports stamped "N.Y.P.D. Secret," the Intelligence Division chronicled the views and plans of people who had no apparent intention of breaking the law, the records show.

These included members of street theater companies, church groups and antiwar organizations, as well as environmentalists and people opposed to the death penalty, globalization and other government policies. Three New York City elected officials were cited in the reports.

In at least some cases, intelligence on what appeared to be lawful activity was shared with police departments in other cities. A police report on an organization of artists called Bands Against Bush noted that the group was planning concerts on Oct. 11, 2003, in New York, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco and Boston. Between musical sets, the report said, there would be political speeches and videos.

"Activists are showing a well-organized network made up of anti-Bush sentiment; the mixing of music and political rhetoric indicates sophisticated organizing skills with a specific agenda," said the report, dated Oct. 9, 2003. ...

Gasp! Bands. Did das Fuhrer Pulharic think of that one? He better get county Sheriff Joseph Oxley on it right away!!

Didn't they learn from "Jeff Gannon"?

The gay blog world that outed magical "journalist" Jeff Gannon of the GOPUSA.com's Talon News online "newspaper" has caught another impostor. You'll remember "Go Ahead, Jeff" as the short-lived member of the White House press corps on whom Bush spokesmen Ari Fleisher and Scott "my Scott" McClellan always could count for a GOP talking point "question" when the grilling got hot.

Well, the new darling at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington last week was Col. Matt Sanchez, 36, a returning college student. CPAC bestowed its Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award upon Sanchez. President Reagan's U.N. ambassador must be rolling in her grave.

Like James D. Guckert, who played the role of Jeff Gannon in the aforementioned scam, Sanchez is a gay prostitute, and also a porn star. Remember Ann Coulter, another of CPAC's darlings last week calling Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" and earlier predicting we'll see Dem candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton "come out of the closet"? I posted on that a few days ago.

Max Blumenthal wrote a good piece here for Huffington Post, but please be aware that some of the links to the gay bloggers have very graphic sexual images, including shots from Sanchez' professional portfolio. Sanchez makes his rebuttal at Salon.com.

The paradoxical newspeak of the conservative 101st Keyboard Brigade never ceases to amaze me. It seems as if you can almost bet that whatever they say they are is, in fact, the polar opposite. If your first language is newspeak, it makes perfect sense that gay prostitute/porn stars have a welcome mat at homophobic conservative gatherings.

Maybe CPAC would be better off if it took a page from Monmouth County GOP chair Adam Puharic's playbook primary-candidate contract that requires everyone to pay for a litmus test, er, "background check," that would go to the party chair to decide who gets to be recognized as "Republican."