[tgslTakoma]

This year saw a strong and growing Free Republic related presence at CPAC, with booths held by Free Republic, the Network, RightTalk, Second Amendment Sisters, DC Chapter, and Seekingthetruth's 0Cents.

Thanks for starting FR, Jim. Look at how it's grown over the years, and imagine how much more it still can grow. I'm impressed!

DC Chapter members who worked at the booth during the weekend: Angelwood, exit148, bufordP, L_VonMises, Mrs. L_VonMises, BillF, Staytrue, Doctor Raoul, kristinn, xthe17th, LisaFab, Ed, Daryl, daughteroftgsl and tgslTakoma. Others chapter members also stopped by to visit with us in free moments during the weekend - AlwaysFree, scholastic, trueblackman, James Parmelee, taxman and sauropod. Call out if I've forgotten someone.

And finally, here are a few more photo links. (Now it's time for me to get to bed.)

It was great to meet the many FReepers who I had not met before this weekend, and it was equally wonderful to see all the FRiends I have met in years past. Until next year then!

NYC GOP chick and Sauropod stop by to visit, and pose with GWB

Exit 148 gives GWB a boost

Dwarves debate drones on

The DC Chapter booth was always busy. And it is extremely heartening to us that so many people already know of our rallies and protests when they stop to talk to us.

Our 2nd year with a booth at CPAC. Our reports and rally photos show folks how much fun activism can be!

Angelwood shows me her certificate from Senator Rick Santorum; In appreciation for all her hard work on the Judicial Nominees 39 hour filibuster in November 2003.

Saddam, Fighter pilot Bush and Warrior Nurse

I can't get everyone to look at the camera at once. Sheesh!

Doctor Raoul unmasks to pose with Warrior Nurse

Trueblackman stops by the DC Chapter table to say "Hey"

[tgslTakoma]

Ping!

[TaxRelief]

Thank you for the compliments. We are crazy about these kids.

Anoreth belongs to Tax-chick, and Taxdeduction1 is a joint project of Huber and myself. (Anoreth was our guest.)

[nutmeg]

New thread! The DC Chapter CPAC report and photos!

[nutmeg]

ping!

[WVNan]

Best report I've seen from CPAC. Thanks for all your hard work tgsl.

[YaYa123]

FABULOUS Report!!!

You guys are magic to the max. I love you.

[Libertina]

Great report tgsl! It was great to see you all and I loved your costumes - they garnered a LOT of attention! BUMP

[Taxman]

WOW! Great report, great pix, tgslTakoma.

You and the rest of the DC Chapter FReepers outdid yourselves this year. Thanks & congratulations to all DC Chapter members who contributed thier time and money to make the booth such a success!

Sure did enjoy visiting with old FReeper FReeper FRiends and meeting new ones. All the action was definitely at your end of the room (and in the Bar, of course)!

Dagnabbed shame that the stuffed shirts who run the Sports Bar wouldn't let daughteroftgsl in for a sandwich & a coke with her mom & her mom's FRiends -- OTOH, y'all did get better (& cheaper) food and much better service by not joining us. We missed you.

Can you top it next year? I'll wager you can!

Jim -- see what you started? Thank you.

[sauropod]

Cool report.

Now that I finally have webspace to host pics (after how many years?), your report is an object lesson on how to correctly do one.

Thanks.

[Tax-chick]

It's probably a good thing I wasn't there; I'm terribly fond of Marines in uniform ...

It's great to hear that my daughter "Anoreth" was a credit to the family and her hosts; I'll inform her Dad (Der Net-Knight, currently unFReeped, but we're working on him!). All the brothers and sisters were impressed when her photo appeared on the *computer*!

[RottiBiz]

Outstanding report and pictures!

Thanks for sharing.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Great Report!
With so many great places to chow down in Crytal City, why stay at the Marriot.
Next year I'll provide a list.
No, The Crystal City Resturant will not be on the list.

[firebrand]

Excellent report and photos, as usual. (How do you get those nice boldface captions on Webshots?)

[maica]

Fabulous report. Thanks for all your continuing work!!!

[L_Von_Mises]

Great report!!!

Working in the booth this year was a hoot and very encouraging. The amount of students at CPAC this year gave me added hope about the future of this great nation. This was my tenth year at CPAC and each year it seems like more students attend each year. They were all extremely enthusiastic about the whole experience. A huge contrast from the fools that I see at the ANSWER rallies - clean and mature.

I spoke to one student that got his university to pay for a large contingent of conservatives to attend because it was a club activity. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall as the university officials were cutting that check.

Many of the visitors were not familiar with Free Republic so I gave them a quick overview and made sure that they all got one of the flyers with the URLs for both the forum and the DC Chapters' websites. Also sent many over to the main FR booth and the network to talk to people there about both the forum and getting involved in their part of the country.

They loved the photos from the Freeps as well as the video Staytrue put together. Most also watched Billf's great powerpoint presentation. They showed that we can have a lot of fun and still get our points across.

Met a lot of wonderful conservatives as well as some notables over the three days. Looking forward to next year.

[nutmeg]

The DC Chapter did an excellent report on CPAC, and there's loads of pictures!

[Doctor Raoul]

He looked at me like I had lost all my marbles, and just shook his head.

TRANSLATION: Pot calling kettle something or other......

[Doctor Raoul]

Bob Barr was doing a radio show at the end of the aisle we were on, so Doctor Raoul stopped over to visit with him after his show ended. Doc had a gag gift for him.

Barr is such a nice guy, he didn't quite understand the liberal battle cry :Mean People Suck". I had to explain that the libs love that bumper sticker, how they just assume the moral high ground and feel free to be mean, telling people they suck.

Guess it's a good sign he didn't quite get it at first. It's really a good example of the Bizzaro World of liberals.

[Doctor Raoul]

Great job, loved the report.