It looks like the Arizona State Republican Convention will be a big yawn. The state party has succeeded in so tightly scripting the process that there will be no serious alternative to the Unity Slate, which will not be revealed until delegates arrive on Saturday morning. More importantly the two plausible factions that could mount any kind of serious challenge have not been able to unify.

The disaffected conservatives mostly in CD 3 and the small but fervent Ron Paul faction have been unable to agree on one unified strategy according to reports. We have lost some of our better sources within the conservative camp due to links that one of our writers has with the state party and the Ron Paul group is tighter than a secret society. Nonetheless we are getting a few reports from contacts on the fringe and it sounds like each side will be proposing their own separate slates. Math must not be their strong point since neither has the numbers alone to accomplish anything. The conservatives are stuck on the pro-life issue and the anti-war stand of the Paulistas does nothing for the far-right.

Four years ago the big news was the election for National Committeeman but this year the two national positions are uncontested.

Bring a pillow.