Listening to the speeches from those addressing the Tea Party Convention this last weekend had me spending a lot of time deciphering the “code words.”

I swear, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve been a political junkie for over 20 years, I probably would have succumbed to the litany of euphemisms and couched labels designed the cover their actual beliefs.

This is one of those times I find it problematic that society is so politically correct. I mean, here we are, being treated to a media circus, and nobody — not the speakers or even the audience — knows what anyone else at the Convention is really saying!

For example, when Tom Tancredo spoke on the first night, did anyone really understand what he was talking about when he said: “Some things we can deal with in just a political way — which is, you know, by the votes we cast. Other things will require a commitment to passing on our culture.”

Or, when Sarah Palin said in her keynote speech on last Saturday night: “This is about the people, and it’s bigger than any king or queen of a Tea Party. And it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.”

You can almost feel what they really want to say. You know it in your bones. But that pesky political correctness keeps them from really letting loose, from putting their views out there, from telling their truth.

So, I propose a simple solution to this problem — a modest proposal, if you will.

I propose that, for 72 hours, we shelve all this politically correct maneuvering and let everyone just say what they want to say.

That is, for 72 hours, we see, hear and experience the unvarnished political truth.

No longer will someone like Tancredo have to explain and re-explain what he was getting at when he spoke about how a lack of a “civics literacy test ... put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.”

Instead, he can just come out and say what he really means: “All those dirty little Black and Brown people elected one of their own to a public office that should only be held by decent, God-fearing white men.”

Or, instead of the little dance Tancredo was doing when he said, “The President and his left-wing allies in Congress are going to look at every opportunity to destroy the Constitution before we have a chance to save it.”

Now he can take a deep breath and just let it all hang out: “This country belongs to us white people, and no n****r and his ‘Jew York’ communist rabble are going to tell us otherwise. If they try, we’ll lynch them all!”

And it’s the same for Sarah Palin. No longer will she have to mince words, either.

For three days, she’ll be able to set aside the innuendo and euphemisms like: “They [the terrorists] know we’re at war. And to win that war, we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern!”

For this brief moment of unfiltered free-flowing drivel, we’ll get the real Palin: “Those sand n****rs need to be blown all to Hell, and if that half-breed squatting in the Oval Office won’t do it because he’s worried about ‘international law’ or f***ing ‘democracy,’ we need to put someone in there who will!”

She’ll no longer feel compelled to hold back when saying, “this is the movement and ... America is ready for another revolution.” She’ll be able to complete her thought and tell us all that “America is ready for another revolution ... just like the one y’all tried in 1861.”

It might be hard for some folks to handle the unvarnished truth. I can understand that. We’ve become so accustomed to euphemisms, coded language and bumper-sticker politics that the truth seems almost quaint.

But for 72 hours, we can put all that aside, relax and let the honesty enema do its work, flushing out all the “truth” that’s hidden away in the bowels of the Tea Party Nativists.

And once all of that “truth” is flushed out, and everyone can utilize all their senses to determine what it is that the Nativists are peddling like soft-serve ice cream, we can begin to give a new and socially-progressive meaning to the phrase, “shovel-ready.”