Reports from the Washington Hilton are coming in, and don’t you wish you were there….
Tom Tancredo appears to have mental health issues:
But the audience’s enthusiasm seemed to slip slightly when Tancredo got to the climax of his speech. He discussed the threat from jihadism abroad and multi-culturalism at home as being equal and invited the audience to join him in a battle for Western civilization. “Charge into the breach with me!” he yelled. “This is our culture! Fight for it! This is our flag! Pick it up!” When he gets to that point – I’ve seen him do this before — he sends out a vibe that some people in the audience appear to be uncomfortable with.
Within a couple of years I expect we’ll be seeing Tancredo wandering unkempt through the New York subway, shouting incoherently and scaring the tourists.
Mitt Romney may be a little behind the curve on basic foreign policy, but he picked up a key endorsement from Jack Willke, a major “pro-life” activist and former Brownback supporter. Soren Dayton reports that Romney’s Values Voter speech was fairly well-received, mainly because he was telling people what they wanted to hear, which always goes over well, and for which Multiple Choice Mitt has a special talent. Still, Romney’s people again seem to be behind in their research: according to Dayton, much of what Romney promised the Family Research Council folks was stuff that had already been accomplished. Overall, the result for Romney was as mixed as ever:
In general, people that I talked to after the speech felt like he had said everything that he was supposed to say. He had performed very, very well. But it wasn’t enough for them. They wanted more. And they felt like he was performing. And it was clear that there was some substantial anti-Mormon bias in the room.
NBC’s Matthew Berger previews the speech Rudy Giuliani will give today. In a surprise move, “he will likely tout his leadership on 9/11 and how he cleaned up New York City.”
Finally, Townhall reports that the Thompson campaign will be live-blogging Sunday night’s debate in Spanish. I give them credit: this is a pretty good idea. Unfortunately for Thompson, conservative reaction to the move is probably pretty well summed up in a comment by one “Jack Shiite”:
Well…It was nice knowing you, Fred. Hey, at least you half tried…
Hasta la vista, Freddy.
3 Responses to “It’s All Happening At the Values Voter Summit”
Keep up with the wonderful reportage, particularly stuff about Fred Thompson. He’s a good replacement for the trainwreck fix I used to get from Michael Jackson and then Britney Spears. This Tom Tancredo stuff is solid gold too!
Something to say?
“They felt like [Romney] was performing.” Yeah, I really like watching these fish in the bowl on my desk, but… I don’t know… sometimes it just feels like they’re swimming.
Left by The Sleep Thief
October 20, 2007 at 3:33pm