The Republican National Convention isn’t all sunshine, cotton candy and benign protester-on-protester shout-fests. There are always problems at these major party events and Cleveland is, of course, no exception.
It’s just that the Cleveland Republican National Convention’s problems have been stranger than most. While Tampa faced a hurricane and New York had throngs of anti-George W. Bush protesters hoping that street art and monkey effigies would effectively alter foreign policy, Cleveland has a cruise ship virus and defiant band leftover from the 1990s.
Although some delegates may be queasy at the thought of casting their official vote for Donald Trump, the delegates from California are stricken with an entirely different stomach ailment. Down for the count with the norovirus—a digestive bug that causes extreme sickness and spreads like wildfire in enclosed spaces—the entire delegation is holed up in a hotel an hour and a half from the Quicken Loans Arena.
They’re quarantined lest they send the virus spreading wildly through the entire RNC.
And although delegates routinely enjoy musical performances from country acts and stage shows taking a brief sabbatical from Branson, this year’s Third Eye Blind concert proved a bit too hot to handle.
Taking a break from their rigorous schedule of neighborhood block parties and suburban food festivals, the 1990s alternative rock band turned up at the RNC. But instead of playing their hits, the band played obscure tracks from their seven discs (seven!), peppered with rants about the Republican party’s stances on LGBT rights and climate change.
Unfortunately for the band, when they packed up they were still Third Eye Blind, so the GOP likely won this round.
