At the RNC, a benediction that wasn't

So what’s been the most shocking thing to come out of GOP-presidential-nomination-land in the last couple days?

Was it the presumptive nominee’s decision to announce his running mate with a lengthy speech about himself? The interview in which, when asked about that running mate’s vote for a war that their Democratic opponent also voted for, he said the difference is that that his guy is “entitled to make a mistake every once in a while”? The fight his campaign picked with the Republican governor of the swing state in which the convention is taking place?

The convention hall itself offers several contenders: two minor celebrities turning the campaign’s ugly subtext into uglier text. Rudy Giuliani’s unlikely enthusiasm. The would-be first lady’s Rickroll, or her speech cribbing lines from the actual first lady’s speech eight years ago. A floor fight right out of Hollywood in which a rebellion among delegates was narrowly beaten back by the campaign.