Cheney will be speaking on the first night of the convention.

It’s the same reason that I don’t watch slasher flicks, I don’t like being creeped out.^*

^*Though, interestingly enough, my second favorite film of all time, after Kurasawa’s Seven Samurai, is John Carpenter’s The Thing, which, unlike the 1951 film, hews much closer to the John Campbell’s novella Who Goes There.

I would argue that the tension in the story is very different, and far more engaging, than the standard slasher flick.