It wasn't all serious speeches and Democratic unity this week: there was a third-party interloper with a pretty convincing arrrrr-gument for his candidacy. Captain Morgan for president! You couldn't throw a stone without hitting wacky characters like him this week.

With his pirate wench running mates, the captain took over the outside of the Pepsi Center to bring his message of five-day weekends and lenience on global warming because he wants to "ensure the party stays hot, hot, hot."

Fun, after all, is an important plank in the party platform. Get it? Plank? Walk the? Pirates? Sorry.

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