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RedState Gathering 2010

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 1st, 2010 at 10:30 AM  | 

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Click here to register for the RedState Gathering.

I haven’t put up a post recently about the Gathering, but I certainly hope you will attend.

September 17 to September 19, 2010 we’ll be in Austin, TX rubbing in the noses of the hippies our support for Arizona.

That Friday night we’re planning a pretty impressive surprise for both the attendees and a particular person who must remain nameless because well . . . the surprise is for him and for you guys too.

On Saturday, we’re building in lots of time to meet and hang out with your fellow RedState members, you’ll hear from some of the candidates we’ve been supporting and, as with all of our Gatherings, the candidates are paying their own way and agreeing to spend time with you because this is truly about you guys, not the politicians.

One thing we are going to do a bit differently this year is have an American Majority training session. I have become a huge, huge fan of American Majority and they have the potential to make us an even bigger threat to the left. The training is stellar.

But we don’t want this to be too much work. After all, it is Austin and we should have fun too.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for the RedState Gathering 2010.

We meet. We greet. We get geared up for November.

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  • Aaron Gardner

    I am sure this year will be even more impressive, especially with the American Majority training session happen.

  • http://JamesonLewis3rd.com JamesonLewis3rd

    Well. Hmm. I will make an adventure out of it; it will be the highlight of my six decades. I’ll take up a position on the periphery, bunk in the short comfy bed of my 318cid Dodge Pickup; I’ll hunker down, and keep a sharp look-out.
    I will howl like a distant, melancholy wolf if I see/hear anything.

  • usedtobelib

    I read yesterday (I think on NRO) a focus group was asked, “If he were a car, what car would President Obama be?”

    One answer was ” a wrecked Ferrari, ” but the best, the very best, and the one that made me stand up and cheer was “an Edsel”–full of great expectations but nothing but a big disappointment. What an incredibly great application of an image to this guy– all hype, a huge failure.

    I think that from this day forward Mr. Obama should be referred to as “Edsel.”

    I do believe it can catch on and wouldn’t that be effective?

    Erik, you have the power of words…

  • usedtobelib

    Found the link to “EDSEL”–

    http://article.nationalreview.com/437345/obama-the-edsel/jim-geraghty

  • taxpayer1234

    it would be great if you could move the event to Phoenix! You could do some very serious nose-rubbing there!

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    I’d gladly move it to Austin. Otherwise, we’ve signed a contract and are stuck. Getting out of it would cost $50,000.00.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica

    Ya’ll aren’t stuck.

    Austin is exactly where you need to be.

    The pathetic liberals think they own it and it’s precisely where conservatives need to set up shop!

    Right in enemy camp where you “ub their nose in the huge conservative presence down here.

    We’ve a LOT of young conservative groups in the area.

    It’s not just the weirdos that keep Austin hip and cool.

    No regrets. Austin was a good decision. Y’all can take the 30 minute trip down 35 and go tubin’ afterward. In September, it’ll still be warm and summery in Texas.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    What fun is being a conservative activist when all you do is sit around gossip with other conservative activists over the internt.

    If you want to earn your stripes, take the fight to the streets, hone your debate skills, learn your enemy, and drink a lot of beers doing it.

    Hell, I might go just because it is in Austin. Fun city.

  • Hooah_Mac

    I kind of have a thing I gotta do until January. I would love to meet all you folks in person.

    Keep up the good fight. Sorry I post so seldom these days. My prayers are with all of you at Redstate. God bless.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    I only live a little over an hour away from Austin!

  • brunk

    As a fairly-liberal Austinite, I encourage you all to come down, and welcome you in advance to our awesome city.

    Though I believe that ultimately the choice of Austin will play into your long-term best interests, I also believe that you will be somewhat surprised by the reaction to your presence here. Here are some reasons:

    1. contrary to popular perception, Austin is not much of a “hippie” town any more. It’s harder to find a hippie here than it is to find a cowboy – and that’s pretty darn hard. It’s all hipsters and yuppies and blue-collar folk now.

    2. yes, we’re liberal, but more of the libertarian, social liberal than the statist, economic liberal. Not only are we very well-aware of the red ocean surrounding us, we’ve been inevitably colored by it. You won’t be a turd in a punchbowl here, not by a long shot.

    3. Austin is probably the most accepting town of this size that you will ever have the pleasure of visiting. (I attribute this to the combination of the high education level and the heat, but that’s neither here nor there.) Nice suit in a dive bar? Not a second look. T-shirt and jeans in a fancy restaurant? Maybe you’re an internet millionaire. Have a seat.

    4. related to 3, we are also one of the most narcissistic towns you will ever visit, at least outside of Socal. Most people, if even made aware of your presence here, will simply note it and ignore it. Also, we’re a festival city, and we’re used to being inundated regularly by *much* larger groups of out-of-towners than yours.

    So, again, come on down, have fun, enjoy our city. But, if you’re expecting anyone to really notice or care, I think you’re going to be pretty disappointed.

  • Swamp_Yankee

    2. Austin is a mix. It has some conservative/rural flavor, even its just by association. I’m a Bostonian and I am that turd in the punch bowl.

    3. “Nice suit in a dive bar? Not a second look. T-shirt and jeans in a fancy restaurant? Maybe you?re an internet millionaire. Have a seat.” Bingo. My kind of town.

    I was a commercial fisherman, like my father and both of my brothers, but became a corporate lawyer. I am a conservative in a liberal city. A fan of country music and punk rock and hip hop. I just hate stereotypes, conformity and block headed and judgmental people.

    4. Still not nearly as narcissistic as as NYC – Beantown though, which is a good thing.

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  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    No amount of rah rah will change the fact that Austin’s roads SUCK on ice.

    Your city map looks like someone took a bowl of spaghetti and threw it on a piece of paper.

    You have way too many one way streets, and many of which you cannot turn and make a block.

    There are pothole that can swallow a subcompact car.

    Pedestrians will walk across any road, at any time, with no warning. (What’s up with that?)

    I hate driving in Austin. I will drive to the meeting and stay parked.

  • taxpayer1234

    on my part. No offense to the people of Austin intended! But with the AZ immigration issue, it would be quite the coup for RS to “buycott” AZ while supporting their immigration enforcement efforts. And sticking a finger in Obooby’s eye to boot.

    At any rate, have an excellent time–wish I could be there.

  • taxpayer1234

    the Corvair, the Pinto, the K Cars–all highly touted and all miserable failures.

  • brunk

    I just saw this, pardon the late response.

    No argument whatsoever. The drivers suck and you have to live here for at least two years before you start “getting” the roads. I don’t have a problem with quality, but that could just be acclimation.

    In any event, my post wasn’t cheerleading – there’s plenty wrong with Austin as well. I just didn’t consider those things germane to the “rubbing in the hippies’ noses” comment that I was responding to.