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Afternoon Roundup From Defending American Dream Summit

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SPECIAL UPDATE FROM GPW Now how his badge identifies Bruce as The GayPatriot. That’s how I’ve been referring to him in correspondence about the blog!

I have had the absolute pleasure of sitting on Bloggers’ Row at the DAD Summit today between the lovely and talented Mary Katherine Ham from TownHall.com and the equally lovely and talented Fausta Wertz from Fausta’s Blog and Pajamas Media Editor.

There have been some “roundup” stories that I thought I would put together:

Mary Katherine was unimpressed with Fred Thompson’s speech here today (as was I).

You kind of waaaaaaaait until Fred comes back to his point, very front-porch-talkin’-style. I like that kind of thing in real life, but on the stump, it feels a little disconcerting, like you’re not sure if he is gonna come back to the point and wrap it all up. It’s also a possible explanation for why Fred had to ask for applause at that recent event. His style can make you a tad unsure when you’re supposed to applaud. You know when to laugh, and he tells a good, dry joke, but he doesn’t get fired up, leave you with an impassioned thought and let you clap it out.

(She also has video of Fred on her post.)

Jim Geraghty from National Review Online’s The Campaign Spot has a series of reports from the Summit.

And there are videos up on YouTube from all of the Presidential candidates who spoke.  Thanks to the folks from Americans for Prosperity for posting these so quickly!

Biggest controversy:  The Ron Paul gang are furious that his speech was ended by music (think long Oscar speech) after 11 minutes, while Rudy spoke for almost 30 minutes.

Biggest irony:  Look who is having a board meeting right down the hall from 1,700 grassroots conservatives.  (*snicker*)

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Hey, I have a crazy idea…. the Human Rights Campaign folks should try walking down the hall, rise above their vitriolic stereotypes of Red State Americans and try for some good old fashioned outreach to ordinary Americans.

From my personal perspective, I’ve been WARMLY welcomed from many conservative fans of GayPatriot here at the Summit.  One woman even said “God bless you for being here.”

I value my personal safety, so I’m keeping my distance from HRC’s end of the hallway.   I’m not in the mood to get jumped by angry gays.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  3. wow, you obviously got close enough to take a picture….surprised they didn’t burn you at the stake. Perhaps your buddy Rush Limbaugh will get you some illegal drugs to calm your paranoia about being attacked.

    While your in DC, why don’t you head on over and have lunch with the 150 or so people who work in the Justice Department who graduated from Pat Robertson’s “law school”. I’m sure you’ll be greeted with open arms there.

  7. “And there are videos up on YouTube from all of the Presidential candidates who spoke. Thanks to the folks from Americans for Prosperity for posting these so quickly!”

    They seem to have forgotten Ron Paul. Can’t imagine how that could have happened…

  8. Please, HRC is welcomed by neither the liberal nor the conservative gay crowd – all they serve are the rich white men who donate them money, who care for neither political party, just the ones who preserve the most of their wealth and their privilege with the minimal amount of interference.

  9. Issn’t it funny when people with limited intellect get an idea stuck in their tiny mind and can’t let it go? How many times has Kevin repeated that “Pat Robertson law school jibe?” Sheesh. And it’s coupled with the usual childish name-calling. How cute.

  11. 4: I’m sorry…were exactly did I say people should be prevented or fired from working in the government because of their personal religious beliefs? What I’m referring to is a fundamentalist “christian” who has stated more than once that the way to get his fundamentalist beliefs worked into goverment is by having graduates of his law school work in places like the Federal Justice Department to effect policy and law that adhere to his beliefs (a number of which are anti-gay). It has been doucmented in many places that more 150 of these people have become part of Justice since Bush took office in 2001, many of them with little or no experience than the degree they received from a questionable institution. (I thought the teaching of law was based on the law, not a narrow religious doctrine) My guess is that the whole Attorney-firing/Monica Goodling issue is only the tip of the iceberg. In your incorrect response to my posting, should I gather that you don’t mind having people with this type of agenda working in the Justice department?

    9: funny…there’s the pot calling the kettle black since you and NDF are the most guilty of name-calling on this site.

  12. @12 Tranlated
    “What do you mean I said I don’t think people should work there because of their beliefs? I just mean that people shouldn’t work there because of their beliefs.”

  14. 14: Doesn’t matter….Rush always said drug users/pushers should be in jail, so I’m still a might confused why he didn’t go. Do we now make exceptions for the hypocrits…er…conservatives who just “made a mistake”?

  15. Doesn’t matter….

    So the truth “doesn’t matter” to liberals. There’s a shock. You liberals are so predictable.

    Rush always said drug users/pushers should be in jail, so I’m still a might confused why he didn’t go.

    Because even though the prosecutor violated Rush’s privacy, he still couldn’t make a case. Therefore they settled on an arrangement that if Rush “stayed out of trouble” for 18 months, the whole thing goes away. No admission of guilt and the prosecutor doesn’t make an even bigger ass of himself.

    Long story short, there was nothing to put him in jail for. Everybody who takes Oxy-C is addicted to it, whether it’s prescribed or not. They all have to be weened off it and he put himself through rehab.

    Do we now make exceptions for the hypocrits…er…conservatives who just “made a mistake”?

    No exception was made. Further, he’s not a hypocrit because he was saying that “people should lead a moral life and do the right thing”. His behavior didn’t change what’s right and what’s wrong. There’s no “hypocrisy” because what’s right and what’s wrong is still true.

    If he told you that you should not to do drugs, is he wrong in saying that you shouldn’t?

    Here again, you provide a perfect example of how liberals have no idea what hypocrisy means.

  17. Bruce, trying to return to the thread’s subject matter, the comments you replayed here about FThompson there hit home and underscore what I learned last month at Michigan’s GOP yearly convention… Freddie (his real first name) just aint no Ronald Reagan –no matter how much the RR crowd wants him to be.

    I heard his comments inside the Grand to Party activists and out on the porch to the press… he was tired, disjointed, meandering and trying to sound like there was some substance to the fluff. In a way, he was acting like a presidential candidate that suffered from no script, no scriptwriters, no direction, no supporting cast… and that may be it because he had practically no indentifiable supporters in the room beyond the small (5-6) people with whom he entered the room. Ouch.

    Here he is on the porch of the Grand Hotel; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5uFxQ5cwHg

    BTW, Mitt won the straw vote of 2,200+ attendees at 40%; McCain nabbed 30% and the balance went to Ron Paul and Rudy and Huckabee.

  19. I don’t know anyone who is a fan of HRC. This inside the belt-way top down approach has accomplished absolutely nothing. We should take a note from the religous right groups in terms of local organization and grassroots work. Politican movements do not start in Washington and spread out to the local communities. It’s the opposite. I don’t know why they don’t get that.

  21. Now how his badge identifies Bruce as The GayPatriot. That’s how I’ve been referring to him in correspondence about the blog!

    Clearly the best thing that ever happened to Bruce and his blog, was Mike Rogers exposing him. I wonder, when Bruce will send him a thank you note?

    [GP Ed. Note – Unlike Mr. Rogers, this blog is not my entire life nor reason for existing.]

  22. I think it’s rather obvious that most of those recent hires in the justice department were hired BECAUSE of their religion. Isn’t that discrimination against the more qualified candidates who aren’t so open or blatant about their religious beliefs?