Twenty-year-old tactics excite convention-goers

Some ACT-UP rabble-rousers managed to get onto the convention floor today, blowing whistles and shouting slogans before being wrestled off to the bin. Republicans more shocked that the purity of their gathering was breached than at protesters' message ("Drop the debt" -- what mean?). Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Meanwhile, as the Republicans wheeled out all the cheery moderates they could find to soften their image for the cameras, far-right Republicans caucused, calling Michael Moore the anti-Christ and echoing the old culture war call to arms that lost the White House in 1992.