The connection was down at our table, that's part of why the light posting. Also, I decided to take in the speeches from the main hall, not watch the TV's as most bloggers seem to do. If I'm going to blog on something "live," you should see it live imo.
All in all, a good crowd here, lots of young people, which is positive for the movement. But clearly conservatives are in a different place, as is the Republican Party. I sense it's going to be a long Fall. And there may be infighting and fractures going well into next year, if not longer.
I spent some time talking with Kieran M Lalor, running for Congress as part of Iraqi Vets For Congress. I believe there are eight of them running now.
Hopefully no connection issues tomorrow.
Hello Dan and friends.It is I Darth Malice(Aka Spc Theo herrera)Here at Camp Bucca Iraq.To everyone please vote McCain.We have wars to win so let's stp screwing around.Yes McCain is a pain but better than Hildabeast bringing back Carter style appeasement!
Posted by: Darth Malice | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 06:13 PM
I like how you guys are still fixated on Hillary like Super Tuesday never happened. You better start warming up your slurs and smears for Obamarama, cause otherwise you'll all look like damn fools come November.
Posted by: IslamoLlama | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 06:41 PM
Mitt just announced he's suspending his campaign, can all the wishing and hoping and praying for a miracle now cease?
Posted by: docweasel | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Hey, DM! Long time no hear. I hope everything is well with ye and your company in Iraq.
I'll support McCain if he picks a strong conservative VP to kick him in the rear and keep him from trying to mount Ted Kennedy's leg if he wins.
If he starts running to the liberals though, I am not too sure there is much that can be done, assuming Hills and Obama don't crush him in a landslide.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 08:20 PM
Hey Dan:
Keiran M. Lalor (not John Hall - he's the Dem seated currently in the NY-19 CD) sounds pretty spot on. I'll definitely be supporting his run this year. I believe he is running with the endorsement of the NY Constitution Party (unballotted as yet), though he will likely try to get on both the NY-GOP line and the Conservative Party of NY rows.
Gotta love NY state's funky fusion politics.
John Hall may have been a good musician, but his leftiness is not good for NY nor for this nation. Especially when Hall is rubbing shoulders with George Soros.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 08:26 PM
Old news, Doc Weasel.
There will be no miracle, outside of John McCain's conversion to Christianity, a selection of Jeff Sessions or some other hard core conservative, and a commitment to absorb and run with Mitt and Fred's principles.
Such would be a miracle, that and Johnny Mac (now set up as the inevitable paper tiger) not getting plowed under with ridiculous ease and utterly humiliated by a 538-0 Obama landslide.
Barring the early resurrection of Calvin Coolidge, I'll be busy digging in for the next four to eight years, and am going to have to devote a larger than normal portion of my annual home budget to increasing my stock of preparedness items, guns, and ammo. I've got some stuff to replace that has been laying around in various hidey-holes since the previous Clinton administration... I might have to rotate that stock as well. :)
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 08:34 PM
heh, sucks to be you, I guess, seek ;)
I'm gonna be livin' the high life
Posted by: docweasel | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 09:35 PM
Actually weasel it must suck to be someone who can't even be magnanimous in victory.
Posted by: Terry Gain | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 09:47 PM
doc kinda reminds me of McCain, Terry. I'm not looking forward to pulling that lever for McCain this fall, I tells ya.
Posted by: templar knight | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Good to hear from ya Seek..Tom Coburn would be a great pick.Unites SoCons and Econs
Posted by: Darth Malic | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 07:25 AM
Now this is a candidate I can contribute to, even though he won't be mine (I'm in #22 with the anti-American psycho Maurice Hinchey).
Posted by: Peg C. | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Ooog. I feel for ya, Peg. Ol' "Pinch me Hinchey" definitely has his issues. I bet he was down there at the George Soros BBQ this winter.
For DM: Although Tom Coburn's CPAC ditty for McCain (what I heard of it) didn't wring anything resembling a standing ovation out of me, I'd support him on a McCain ticket in a heartbeat.
I just hope that McCain's almost Ron Paulian sounding CPAC oration as touching on creating smaller government and not letting the AMT overwhelm we'uns who have a house payment to deal with was not the soft touch before the cudgel upside the back of our heads.
Posted by: seekeronos | Friday, February 08, 2008 at 11:50 AM