Posted on 02/07/2008 10:50:40 AM PST by Trueblackman
I arrived at CPAC this morning around 10:30, the first thing I noticed was several buses from out of town with young McCain supporters taking talking points from old persons.
As I milled around for nearly 2 hours, even did a segement with G.Gordon Liddy. McCain's supports roved the floor after Vice President Cheney's Speech, trying to sale McCain as "A true Conservative and a vote against McCain means a lost of appointments to the federal bench and a chance to work with open minded Democrats!" several operatives tried a number of times to sale me on this point and that McCain is the candidate that can bring all of us together, right!!!
I also noticed that several RLC and Republican groups also had tables at CPAC and were also trying to sale McCain as well.
With all this being said, I can assure you that when the media is trying to sale you on MCCain getting a warm welcome at CPAC, that the room will be filled with his 1,000-2,000 supporters he had bussed or driven in and why do you think he waited to 3pm to give his so-called speech?
Unfortunately for him, he’s going to be following a class act—Romney.
MCcain in now the Republican nominee,watch the old media turn on him like a pack of wild dogs.
They got what they hoped for,a Republican nominee that has no chance of winning in November.
The old media will now be free to try and help the dems destroy MCcain.
Hey John,when you lie with dogs.....
and a chance to work with open minded Democrats!”
As if Teddy Kennedy and Russ Feingold are “open-minded Democrats”...
I’s say most liberals are mindless....
Keep up the on-site reportage!
I think it is hilarious that McLame has to bus in supporters to CPAC! I hope there is video!
A true leader would make Democrats work with HIM!
Oh no! We need you and the other Conservatives to be there!
Somebody needs to boo him!
Oh no we can’t boo him we have been told, so with that I left.
Maybe McCain will take a cue from actor Jack Palance and will do one of those one handed push-ups to convince us he’s not so old. Then again Jack Palance is now dead, aint he.
The media won’t turn on McCain until after the convention and everything is positively in place.
Good report TBM....
“You do not work with open minded Democrats, your record is that you habitually surrender to the close minded ones.”
Not at all true. The problem is that all Democrats are open-minded to McCain’s ideas.
Egads.... It’s going to be difficult to get out of the habit of attacking McCain, even though he is the GOP nominee.
Great idea. I will do the same.
The RLC has also place their people so that when McCain’s Speech is over, he will be praised as a leader. Seems the Blue Bloods have their stuff together on selling McCain.
Who are "they"? the 4.7 million people who voted for McCain so far?
We fall for an anthropomorphic fallacy, thinking the Republican Party is a person with machiavellian tendencies who dictates the results of elections.
In fact, the party is simply the 40-60 million voters who see fit to call themselves republicans, and who individually decide what they are looking for in a President.
They of course are misled and cajoled by the media, by talk show, by the candidates, by opinion polls, but in the end, these people walk into voting booths and push the button for a candidate.
There isn't a whole lot of different to people calling themselves republicans but walking away from the party if they don't get their preferred candidate, and people who claim they will move out of the country if their guy doesn't win the general election.
We conservatives have complained for years about moderates who left the party and voted for democrats instead of supporting our conservative candidates.
Now we will do the same thing to them. Not because there is a person called "GOP" and we want to get them back for what they did to us, but because we are no better than they are, we just want our way or the highway.
The GOP as a party wants to win elections, and if we want them to be conservative we need to show them that conservatives are PART of the party and can be counted on, and that they can win elections while appealing to us.
Abandoning the party doesn't really send that message, it sends the message that they better find more moderates because conservatives can't be trusted.
Heard that too. I was waiting to hear that McCain cancelled the speech after hearing Laura Ingram make comments introducting Romney about everybody “calm” down now. Hilaraious. Several jabs by Laura today....
Ask them why they thought they could promote by their endorsements, a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, gun grabbing, flip-flopping RINO like Willard Myth Romney as a conservative presidential candidate.
Yeah, but they can’t stop you from throwing up on the shoes of the guy in front of you!
No, they're open minded alright. That's why their brains fell out long ago. Gotta keep your head closed or that can happen.
Which RLC are you talking about? Surely not the Republican Liberty Caucus, is it? I can’t imagine they’d support McCain.
Were the members of the Commingtang or the Politburo ever so willing and excited?
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