BlogBash 2013
Today is BlogBash, which Ted Cruz will be attending, and which Rand Paul and the NRSC support:
(Protip, guys: try memorizing the lines before you say them. It’s only a couple of sentences at a time. You can do it. We can see your eyes moving as you read and it looks shifty. This advice will come in handy later.)
Stacy McCain has a piece about it here, in the American Spectator. The bad guys have tried to derail the event, and have predictably succeeded only in making it a hotter ticket:
In recent weeks, Kimberlin and his allies have attempted to shut down Blog Bash, contacting the venue and threatening protests against the event. If Kimberlin thought he could intimidate conservatives, he was sadly mistaken. Tickets to Blog Bash have become so highly coveted that many VIPs can’t get in, as the club’s president Ali Akbar pleads that fire-code capacity won’t allow any extra attendees. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz made the guest list, as did 2012 presidential candidate Rick Santorum, and yesterday the National Republican Senatorial Committee announced that it was co-sponsoring the event — a rare gesture by the GOP establishment, reaching out to conservative bloggers who are often critical of the Republican Party leadership.
I choose to focus, not on the negatives of predictable efforts by soulless partisans to shut this down, but on the positive aspects. Bloggers will get to mingle with Ted Cruz, one of the brightest lights in the Senate, and meet each other, in many cases for the first time. It’s a great thing and I’m glad it’s happening.
that is not linking to spectator Mr. P
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:34 am“It’s not about 2014,” Obama told Organizing for Action this evening, per the pool report. “I actually wanna govern, at least for a couple of years.”
Neo (d1c681) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:41 amfeets, it linked me to my own email account.
did it link you to your email account? to my email account? is P hacking us all?
feets, I was going to quote you on this anyway, “No one tells me anything”; “blogbash” kind of sounds like “beerbash” or bratbash”, both of which would likely be interesting as well
The MD in Philly that knows less than Dana about Catholicism (3d3f72) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:52 amI think this is it;
http://www.blogbash.org/
narciso (3fec35) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:57 amThanks, happy. Link fixed.
Somehow I had grabbed the URL for my Gmail instead of the McCain article.
Patterico (9c670f) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:59 amyes blogbash is new to me is it competing with CPAC for attention if so I like that cause CPAC is
not something I’m super proud to be associated with in a political way
cause of it’s embarrassing what with all the anti-gay stuff and the palin and the trump and the petty mean girl antics of the people what run it
but then over at the blogbash we’re being treated to the whimsical social con stylings of rick santorum
make it stop somebody
I like this rand paul ok but I resent this idea that i have to take him seriously as a presidential candidate
we’re gonna find that one of the biggest damagings food stamp has wrought is how drastically he lowered the bar for the credentials expected for presidential candidates
on the other hand except for the exorcist Team R ain’t exactly pumping out the presidential material in any meaningful quantity
on the other hand if I get a move on I can probably stop for a breakfast burrito
otherwise I get to the office and there’s all those leftover pastries from the argentinian bakery I got for to celebrate the new pope
I’m just tickled to death how bold and fresh-thinking the pope committee was this time
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/14/2013 @ 8:16 amIt’s a much bigger location then the Omni Shoreham, which I attended four years ago, or the Ward Parkman.
narciso (3fec35) — 3/14/2013 @ 8:19 amSomehow I had grabbed the URL for my Gmail instead of the McCain article.
Comment by Patterico (9c670f) — 3/14/2013 @ 7:59 am
Aha, that’s why it sent me to my Gmail.
Had I known I would have sought nomination as the official representative of Patterico’s Pontifications, the event being only a short drive away. (BTW, I have no other plans tonight in case you can still swing it. I promise, I will not do anything embarrasing- my 12 yo daughter can vouch for me that sometimes I can keep that promise…)
feets, enlighten me, I don’t know who “the exorcist” is that you refer to (and you should link to audio of Tubular Bells)
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/14/2013 @ 8:38 amMr. Governor Jindal is the exorcist Mr. Dr.
and even though he’s a weirdo lifeydoodle I really like him and he’s been so good for Louisiana and he’s just a great guy and he’s probably the only one what could make me break my no-more-voting-for-lifeydoodles vow
unless he gets all crazy with the anti-gay lifeydoodle cheez whiz in the primary like Rick Perry did
I’m just in no mood for a repeat of that
but anyways if Mr. Governor Jindal is to stand any chance at all he needs to be inoculated against the exorcist thing
so the sooner it gets out there out there out there and becomes old and tired the better for him
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/14/2013 @ 8:59 amThanks feets, here you go (not exactly the version I remember on the radio, but close- cultural history for the young, never saw the movie though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hbQpjYtbps
While I was looking that up I came across the following (what can you say when Clapton is playing 2nd guitar…):
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/14/2013 @ 9:06 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6cw8Ob2sk
wow I didn’t realize that song went that far back
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/14/2013 @ 9:18 amComment by happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/14/2013 @ 9:18 am
You must be one o ’em young pups.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 3/14/2013 @ 9:22 am‘splains everything, Lucy.
Jeebus, happy! Is there anyone left for you? I mean, given that Voltron and He-man are really cartoon characters and all…
Strabo (2c1248) — 3/14/2013 @ 1:05 pmThe BlogBash president’s name is Ali Akbar? That’s more than a little bit awesome.
JVW (4826a9) — 3/14/2013 @ 2:10 pmSomeone tell Mr. Paul to get rid of that hair club thing.
Enjoy all the blogger courtin’ and gladhanding but don’t take any Malaysian travel brochures I wouldn’t take.
SarahW (b0e533) — 3/14/2013 @ 2:58 pmMr. He-man’s a vehement anti-tenther is my understanding Mr. Strabo
what part of “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution” does he not understand?
master of douche more like
happyfeet (4bf7c2) — 3/14/2013 @ 4:54 pmJVW: agreed, Ali Akbar and the Blog Bash is definitely a 444 kind of thing. Check out Ali here, obviously he’s an only in America kind of guy!
By the way, is it just coincidence that 444=2*2*3*37.
bobathome (c0c2b5) — 3/14/2013 @ 6:05 pmSheridan and the Kimberlin crime family are having a collective sad over Blogbash.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/14/2013 @ 8:32 pm