Linda Lingle

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Baltimore) will fly to Ohio on Thursday to speak on behalf of Barack Obama in a representational presidential debate.

Cardin will spar against Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle (R), who will represent John McCain. The debate will be held at Park Synagogue Main in Cleveland Heights.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - It's hard for Delphine Peck to get bored at national conventions, even though she has been attending them since 1948.

Peck - an alternate delegate --  pointed to Gov. Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii) as one speaker she found exciting at this years Republican National Convention.

So, the Club For Growth is peeved that "the party's most steadfast elected economic conservatives" will not have prominent speaking roles at the Republican National Committee Convention in two weeks. No surprise there -- the Club is always goading their party in one way or the other.

"With the Republican Party’s brand in shambles, it is important for the Party to showcase those leaders who are currently in office fighting to preserve the limited-government, free-market principles the GOP used to stand for," the release said.

But they probably should have stopped themselves there.