I was at the 2008 Republican National Convention and on the convention floor when Sarah Palin give her GOP-VP-nomination-acceptance speech. It was kinda scary. So this video is pretty satisfying.

My favorite moment at the 2008 convention: asking the GOP's youngest delegate, who was thrust before me and the "Real Time" camera crew by her media rep, if she was a virgin. When she refused to answer the question I said, "We'll have to take that as a 'no,'" and she got upset. Then I explained to her that the GOP backs abstinence-only for kids her age and so the question was legit. She conceded the point and gave me a hug.

I was, she said, the first gay man she had ever touched. She was, I told her, the first straight teenage Republican whose boobs had ever been pressed against mine. In Minneapolis.

Memories!