RNC Diary: Ace Buzzkillington, Reporting

I got some negative feedback for my unenthralled response to Chris Christie's convention speech. But if anybody thinks my reporting was disenchanted, let me introduce you to some Nobel-prize-winning buzzkill: VS Naipaul's almost super-humanly grouchy reporting from the 1984 Republican convention in Dallas. (H/T Kapil Komireddii)