and Cold Warrior gave a wealth of input, all from Saturday’s meeting. I’m looking foward to next year. Didn’t get to meet Moe, bummer.

Off to see some beautiful Georgia countryside, then back to CA tomorrow.

Erick, Caleb, et al. - Saturday was an outstanding day - well done!

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Cool dude, huh?

There are also some alleged pics of Obama’s mom., allegedly taken by F. M. Davis. Can’t paste them here. Reason: Pornographic.

I had a great time Saturday. I’ll be posting my own diary (with pictures) about the event later once I get back home this evening. It was great getting to meet so many great conservative candidates for office. It was also nice getting to put some faces with the names of so many great RedStaters.

I’m already looking forward to next year’s gathering.

But, I am curious—what happened to EPU’s “net 80″ diary that was on the front page yesterday. Or, at least I think it was on the front page…

I mean…I remember commenting on it…or, at least I thought I did.

And, I REALLY remember JadedByPolitics—insightful as always—-asking if I was a Quisling. Boy, I could have sworn he said that. It seemed so real. After all, it sounds like exactly the kind of clever, constructive, Madame Defarge-like thing Jaded would say…

How could I have imagined all of that?

Let me see… is there an expiration date on this half-consumed case of Two-Buck Chuck?

Saturday was awesome. All the speakers were fabulous and I was relieved that it was NOT about personalities, it WAS about policies, platforms and how to organize.

Readers, these are a great group of folks running Red State.

I bumped into Ms. Cheney and Victoria while they were waiting for their ride (funny I saw no SS) & had us a nice little chat.

Two things,
I’m still in awe of what a gracious and intelligent woman she is and

As I told her. I hope she runs.

She is off the charts.

Oh, well. I knew he was a servant of Satan going in.

I haven’t scanned around much, but wonder if the RS event got any National press coverage?

If I’m not already following your twitter feed, email me at leon@redstate.com and I will add you. Great to meet everyone!

If I’m not already following your twitter feed, email me at leon@redstate.com and I will add you. Great to meet everyone!

pics sent?

As someone whose political experience has been limited to voting, listening to talk radio, and reading blogs, I appreciate what you at Redstate are doing to educate people like me.

Thanks to a column I read several months ago about becoming active in our local Republican group, I went online and printed the application, put it in an envelope, addressed it and left it sitting on my desk. I’m a school teacher so it sat on my desk for the two months of summer vacation. Last week I had to grab something from my classroom and saw the application sitting there. I put it in the mail immediately.

After listening to the informative speakers at the Redstate Gathering, I now know what to do next. I’m going to give the application a couple of days to get to our County leader and then I am going to call and find out if my precinct has a chairperson. If we do, I will attend the meetings and volunteer my efforts. If we don’t, I will volunteer for that position. I am also joining my local Republican Women’s group.

Thanks for the education, Redstate. Not only that but thanks for the opportunity to hear the speakers on Saturday. I took something positive away from each and every person that spoke.

My brother is trying to convince me to become actively involved in a third-party. I am trying to convince him that conservative, small-government people can take back the Republican Party.

Thanks so much to all who toiled to make this gathering possible. It meant a lot to me.

Now, where do I send my pics?

Thank you all,
Kelly

I had a wonderful time networking with so many people. I got pictures with Marco Rubio, Michael Williams, Liz Cheney and Erick Erickson of RedState. It was a truly inspiring weekend. It was so amazing to be around all the great people who attended and spoke. One of the requirements for speakers was that they had to stay and interact with all us common folk…turned out they were more then happy because they were common folk too. The speakers didn’t use notes…or teleprompters…they simply spoke common sense from their heart out of love for their country.

For those who couldn’t attend this year, I hope to meet you next year.

I lost the who gets the “mad miles” this year, so I’m off to CA at oh-dark-thirty tomorrow morning for a lovely two weeks with SWMBO’s relatives. At least I get a little Country Music and some poolside reading time.

I had to work the entire weekend and couldn’t get it off.

Enjoying the reports and looking forward to the pics! I hope there’s another planned for next summer.

It was good meeting the folks I met, and for those of you that didn’t meet me, I was the guy that was saying something that I’ve since found out is mistaken: NBA players aren’t guaranteed a salary of $1 million+ until they’ve been in the league at least six years. Still, everyone but NBA rookies are guaranteed a salary of >$500K, the amount that the government wants to limit the salaries of bailout companies’ CEOs to.

My overall point, however, is still valid: Fortune 500 CEOs do more for the economy and deserve to make more money than NBA players.