Posted on 03/02/2007 8:40:17 AM PST by areafiftyone
Okay, I'll post to you one last time....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dkCyRTzj8
c FR has changed and no, I don't think that it will go back to being the way it used to be; at least not for 2 years...if then.
Yeah and that's why I threw that caveat in at the end that I was in with the college students and younger crowd. I was also in a sea of Brownback and Tancredo supporters for most of the day. But the random people I talked to at the bar seemed to feel the same way. Tomorrow should be interesting, I'll definitely chat it up with a bunch of people to see how they felt about it and I'll try to report back on that. Also the straw poll results will give an indication of the way the conference actually felt a bit more accurately than my conversations with whoever I bump into.
Okay so you were there. But those who said it was boring had to have been predisposed to not like him. As for not talking policy, then they just weren't listening.
From the way the "true conservatives" talk about Rudy around here, it's a miracle he wasn't run out of the room.
The difference between the ovation for Huckabee and the ovation for Rudy was pretty telling.
Of course, I do only know what I saw no TV. But that's where this will all play out.
The audience IS 80% college students. The front has all the older people and they seemed to be much more pro-Rudy than the students where I was sitting. There was also a somewhat sizeable faction of student Rudy supporters (maybe 50 or so) that all came in together with homemade Rudy signs. I know they were organizing this on Facebook last week. They were all up in the front on both sides. Basically what I am trying to say is that a lot of the vocal Rudy fans were up in the front of the room which may have left the impression that he was getting more support/louder applause than he was. For comparisons sake, Wayne LaPierre, who spoke before Rudy, got bigger, longer, and louder ovations from the room as a whole. It was just a different kind of applause for Rudy. He got the star treatment but not the candidate treatment that I saw in particular for Tancredo, Brownback, and Romney.
I have to go to bed because I have another long day of CPAC tomorrow but real quick, first of all, nobody was going to boo Rudy. Everyone here is polite and respectful. The only animosity going on is between the Romney people and the Brownback people and it's pretty nasty. The booing has been reserved for the mentioning of names like John Kerry and Pelosi. Also, the room was I would say 60% full for Huckabee whereas it was jam-packed for Rudy so there were a lot more pairs of hands to clap for Rudy. The must-see events of the day for everyone here were Rudy and Coulter.
Um...and you don't see that as significant???
In post 1317 you said, "...I was at the conference all day and I was sitting in the front row of seats (behind the tables) when Rudy spoke. It didn't get over, believe me."
In post 1323 you said, "...that I was in with the college students and younger crowd."
In post 1326 you said "The front has all the older people and they seemed to be much more pro-Rudy than the students where I was sitting."
I'm real confused as to where you were sitting? Was it in the front row with the older people or the front row with the younger people?
Heard earlier tonight that Fred Thompson may throw his hat in the ring. What do you think of him?
And ps: I like Hunter also but still undecided
Just a silly, disconnected joke.
He did get in a couple of nice licks, though...like this:
REP. HUNTER: You know, I woke up to the commentary that one of the commentators was saying that the only reason that Hunter beat all those guys in South Carolina is because his Marine son has been there for a week. Well, I looked down at that army of consultants, everybody who was vertical in South Carolina was hired by the other guys, and I said, "You know, that's a pretty good match-up: One Marine versus 550 consultants." We did have the advantage! (Applause.)
Very funny! :-)
I'm no Sam Brownback fan, at least when it comes to his run for the presidency. I hated his speech. He's great in the Senate, and IMO needs to stay there.
hehehehe....
I was sitting in the front row before I wasn't sitting in the front row. Is this really how bad it has gotten, now people are accusing someone of flip-flopping on where there are sitting for a speech. There is a area in the front of TABLES as I said, that is where the older people are. Then there are a lot of SEATS, that's where I was sitting (in the front row) and that's where the students are. So I am right behind the front section of older people and right in the front of the section of younger people, thus I am able to perceive the reactions from both sides.
How lame and Clownish of you.
I guess that's why you found it necessary before to caveat your opinion as being observed from within the younger crowd and not a complete representation.
I think I'll rely on the observations of other participants that are just a little more solid.
They're a bunch of little girls.
Have no idea what you're talking about. Shove your Rudy where the sun doesn't shine.
irony bump
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