Kudos to John McCain. He's making certain that this year's Republican National Convention is a veritable rainbow of "diversity," stretching all the way from ivory to eggshell, with a little cream in there for extra diversityishness…

"I think one of the things that is important, especially for John McCain, as unique a politician as he is, is to demonstrate the diversity and differences of ideology I would say of our party," [McCain's campaign manager Rick] Davis said.

"I think one of the things that people forget about is we are not a very monolithic as a party. We really want to show some of that."

It's so true! We do tend to forget the non-monolithicness of the GOP. Why, they don't just have caucasian males as elected officials in their party. They also have… other… kinds of people. Let's look at some of the people who are speaking…

Like, Joe Lieberman! He's not just a white man! He's a white Jewish man! And he's a Democrat! Well, not really a Democrat. Not anymore. But he's Democraty. There's definitely a certain ineffable Democratishness to him.

And then there's Rudy Giuliani. He's Italian. And that's kind of not white in a way.

Or how about Dick Cheney? He might not be black, but his soul is. That's something.

Oh, I forgot all about Laura Bush! She's a white woman… And she's not an elected official. How's that for diversity?