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Thoughts from CPAC
Most of the big wigs are being shown live on the news. From Media Row, so far we have had the pleasure of watching Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Scott Walker, Kellyanne Conway, Betsy DeVos, Reince Priebus, and others. We are taking a Secret Service hotel sterilization break due to Vice President Pence coming.
Like most political conventions, the real action is outside in the halls, breakout rooms, and media stars (Jesse Watters is very popular). This convention is part post-election celebration, part thanking the faithful, and part planning for the future. The one takeaway from today thus far was seeing the elusive Steve Bannon telling the crowd he is intent on ensuring every promise Trump made will be fulfilled.
With my trusty “producer” and good friend Melissa @6foot2inhighheels, we are scoring interviews while competing against actual reporters and real media outlets. Tenacity is the key to success!
One thought I wanted to share is about the incredible, nay, overwhelming numbers of young students attending. There is a massive millennial (and younger) presence and many of these kids may have just voted for their first President ever. These future politicians and activists are very optimistic. They interact with each other and ask us old folks about seeing Reagan/Bush in the old days.
Said one twenty-something: “In 2012 we didn’t riot or have temper tantrums after losing an election we thought we would win. We just disagreed. But thanks to the Progressives’ post-election hysterical behavior, the youth is adopting conservativism.”
The young student activists at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bodes well for the future indeed.
More to come.
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I’m so glad to hear about the young people!
I’m not too sure about that. Me thinks electing Trump was the ultimate temper tantrum. :)
Yep! But we do our tantrums within the system because we are Conservatives! (and grownups)
I went to a talk at SMU last night about the Russian Revolution. The speaker mentioned Steve Bannon. Liberals will not allow conservatives to escape from domestic politics in ANY lecture.
Oh dear. Et tu, SMU?
It was a retired Yale prof.
Conservatism is the new counter culture.
You still missed out Dave, I’m at Sharks Cove in Manhattan beach drinking Makers Mark and watching the world go by while waiting for Roman to barge his Russian bear ass in to my life.
Say hi to all the dedicated brethren.
Whew
No wonder the politicos hate him.
Tell Roman he gets my next round. Oh.. and #GKG!
Holy Cow if you haven’t heard the Dana Loesch speech, or the Ted Cruz/Mark Levin conversation, or the Steve Bannon/Reince Priebus conversation, stop what you are doing and go watch them. I mean it. Search for CPAC and it will lead you to the videos.
Sabo does it best
https://youtu.be/HURDNyZC0ac
Agreed. Also highly recommend Robert Davi’s intro to VP Pence.
Thanks for the heads up.
You consider my fully contemplated vote for a man who is fulfilling conservative, freedom-enhancing policies as a tantrum? Don’t mean to sound harsh, but the motivation to vote for him and understanding his appeal is not obvious to many.
Wow. “Bond Villian goes talk-show host” – I love it. Thanks, Davi was fantastic.
That’s what you’re doing? Wow, what a mental image!
Why did the Secret Service have to be sterilized?
I know they had that hooker scandal in Colombia a few years ago, but sterilization just seems to be a bit much to me.
And you didn’t tell me? I’d have been there in a New York minute.
Hear hear! While it was a no-brainer to NOT vote for Hillary, my vote for Donald Trump required hours of contemplation, conversation, reading of his history, and even some sleepless nights. When I pulled that lever, I purposely did not vote straight-ticket. I had firmly decided to pull that lever specifically for Trump and I did. I did it to save America, not out of anger.
With that said, though, I think Marci was trying to be humorously celebratory.
Gotcha! Pace to all.
Thank you. Yes. :)
SMU has been lost for a little while now. Remember the indignity of having to have the W Presidential Library there?
I have to start going to hear speakers at SMU. I always hear about them after they have taken place. Was this at the Bush library?
I’m watching Trump now at CPAC. He is an incredible communicator. He just tells funny stories in which lobbyists and government bureaucrats are the villains. I just realized that no other Republican candidate could have told these stories.
I voted for who I thought could win, but in retrospect, I now see that Trump was the only one who could have pulled this off, and for the reasons you state above. He caught the imaginations of people from both sides who were hungry to hear someone finally say what they’d been thinking without caring at all what anyone else said.
I have been watching and it looks like a great event. Lots of young people in attendance is great news. We need them!
It was at the business school. There’s a talk this Thursday at 6:00 pm on Martin Luther at the Meadows Museum. It’s part of the Godbey lecture series.