Posted on 03/02/2007 8:40:17 AM PST by areafiftyone
All day today we are covering speakers and panels at the 34th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. This morning, we'll hear from Republican presidential hopeful former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He will be followed by Reps. Scott Garrett (NJ), Tom Tancredo (CO), and others.
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Since I was typing as fast as Rudy was talking, I sure didn't watch every second. But several freepers did and said he didn't refer to his notes.
But be sure to ask every freeper on this lengthy thread since it's clearly so important to you. LOL
You'd rather he have lied about it? I thought it was nice that he went through so much trouble to explain how his perceptions might have been biased.
It's pretty easy to pack a room and get a TV audience to see what they want to see.
It's also not surprising that the Rudy speech would be packed, everybody wanted to hear what he would say because he's the front-runner.
I imagine the Romney speech was full as well.
I could be wrong, but I thought the loudest response was when Hunter said, "When I am President I will pardon Ramos and Campean."
And he had no shills or handlers at 8:30 AM.
BTW, considering the lousy time slot,Hunter did a good job energizing the crowd, IMHO.
Rudy is "populist" because he is popular. He's popular because on the war he takes the stand that we should win (and most people, even democrats, still think that), and because on social issues he lets people do whatever they want with no guilt or blame, and who doesn't like that other than those who see that as the downfall of our society.
He takes the popular view on everything, in a way that suggests that while he might be "principled" on each issue, he doesn't have much of a foundation of principles that guide his choices.
Meaning it's hard to discern a driving philosophy that would lead a person to think that we should tap people phones, but take their guns, that we should fight for freedom, but kill babies. There aren't a lot of people like Rudy, but that's because most people can't stand the cognitive dissonance.
Hillary has a problem with the issue of hope:
I'm not sure if I missed the point or simply ignored the obvious implication, but since you've recognized my superiority I won't argue with you. :-)
Thanks. I just wasn't sure if on this lengthy thread I was remembering what I read properly, so I thought I'd ask a person from each position (one saying there was, one that there wasn't), and I included you because I was pretty sure you were the person who I read that said he didn't use notes.
It wasn't a source of controversy, just wanted to know.
Okay; sorry for the snarky tone, Charles.
I think he did look at his notes breifly, from time to time.
If you watch the tape,he puts his glasses on and looks down a bit, and then takes off his glasses as he continues.
Just my opinion.
Along the same lines, Giuliani's omission of 2nd amendment issues (particularly when he immediately followed LaPierre's magnificent presentation) left a big elephant topic looming in the room. Otherwise, Giuliani's speech was quite good, and without the canned rhetoric and a million promises like several of the other candidates.
Sam Brownback said he was going to cure cancer in ten years...
Huckabee did a nice job, but I shuddered when he mentioned being a poor boy from Hope Arkansas.
I found Romney too coiffured, slick, camera posing, and the screaming young supporters he bussed and flew in there was too similar to George Allen's miserably failed spectacle last year. (btw--George Allen won last year's CPAC straw poll).
I'm no Tancredo fan, but he too provided a remarkably solid speech. I had originally written him off as having McCain Personality Disorder. He did quite well yesterday.
Yes, the response to Hunter's pardon promise was thunderous.
From previous speeches he has given I would say that he would do 40 minutes easily without notes, or if he had notes he wouldn't use them much, except to remind him what he wanted to cover.
He prefers to have as much contact with the audience as possible.
Well I am glad I was not around then as hatred is an evil distructive force when aimed at a person. Hate the sin but love the sinner. You should know that using a biblical reference as you handle.
The bible also instructs us to render what due to God and what is due to Caesar (our government leaders) to talk in that disreptctful way of your President is dishonouring of the Lord you profess to follow.
The only negative mentioned during discussion later was that Hunter did not address domestic policy during the speech.
Being the Hunter supporter I am, I must point out that, at the end, he said he had run over his time, and would take questions off to the side.
I recall another thread that showed a picture of that Q & A, and he drew a decent sized crowd in the hallway.
I believe your view is incorrect. I would submit that Freepers are more involved than the vast majority of citizens in politics, contributions, and activism. They are outspoken on support of our troops and protecting our freedoms such as right to life, 2nd Amendment, and traditional marriage. They do so in their communities, personal contacts, and on-line. We also sway public officials in more ways than electeds will care to admit by getting information out and exposing hypocrisy especially as the MSM ignores the truth. Remember Dan Rather?
BTW, why would you try to diminish what Freepers do or don't do in defense of our liberties?
Perhaps. IF that's the only onsite account that you've read.
Peach, you were probably just so busy typing away you didn't see them. He did have notes and several times put his reading glasses back on to check them.
He didn't read from the notes by any stretch. He just used them as a reminder of which point to make next.
Oh, okay. I did see him put his glasses on once but then he took them right off so I didn't know if it was to read something or to see the audience and he used them for distance.
Thanks for pinging Charles as well because he had questions.
Maybe spoke too soon with my guesitmate of half, but 30% is still very strong for this forum as socially conservative as it leans. And with the field being as large as it is, my guess is his number was the largest? I didn't see the poll.
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