At first glance, Las Vegas hosting the 2016 Republican National Convention might seem odd.
Yet Buzzfeed has validated my Las Vegas 2016 blueprint, and thus my life, in a piece on how Vegas and the GOP need each other. The GOP provides cash money and Vegas provides the perfect stage to reach the American electorate.
Vegas has always embraced free enterprise. Indeed, it proves every day that there is little on which you cannot put a price. What a better business partner than the party that champions business?
In 2016, Republicans could spend on hundreds and hundreds of dollars on bottle service to score at Hakkasan, and the Vegas economy will be strengthened for it.
Just remember: ladies get in free before 11PM.
Already the RNC is making overtures:
Now the RNC is sweetening the pot with a willingness to move its quadrennial show to July — the quietest time in a town when the average high is over 105 degrees — and find ways to shrink the window that the Secret Service traditionally needs to secure the premises for a convention.
Vegas already has the infrastructure in place for a dynamite convention to catapult the 2016 nominee all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania. It also has these.
Opponents of the Vegas convention say the venue is inappropriate because the "Sin" in Sin City would be too much for social conservatives. But Vegas has been developing attractions for the whole family for decades now. Never before have there been so many entertainment options for the four quadrants of society: men, women, young, and old.
Little Sarah can go see Brittney Spears in concert, and older brother Sam can see the back-up dancers after the show.
Talk about energizing the base.
Both the GOP and Vegas are in need of fresh energy. The 2016 convention is the perfect place to start.
"The recession really hit really hard and we’re not back to where we were before," said former Nevada Republican Party chairwoman Sue Lowden, a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2014. "It would be good for us. We’re looking at new ideas."
The road to the White House starts on the I-15.