Best Speech Of The Convention

Even though he was the last one scheduled to speak, Adnan Barqawi quickly became the talk of the Republican State Convention for Virginia. He joined the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech and rose through the ranks. What got the crowd to their feet -- one of many -- is when he said he became not a hyphenated American. But a whole American.

Enjoy:





Linked by Riehl World View.

Thanks to Rick Sincere for getting the videos out there so soon.

Best Cover of Don't Stop Believing Evah

Thanks to JustKarl.

Wrap Up

Updated and bumped: It's official
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Not official yet. But it is sounding like Cuccinelli and Bolling are in.

Nothing about the Party Chair yet. Must still be close.

I have to say that the location from Bloggers Row was excellent. If this was a Miley Cyres concert, I would have to have been a relative of either Billy Ray or Michael Eisner. The old media was near the back. Heh.

UPDATE: Having to leave a bit early for personal reasons. Something about wanting a check deposited and about not wanting the lights shut off. Thanks to the guys at Bering Drift, they have the final result.

Patrick Muldoon, John Brownlee, and Dave Foster move to elect Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli by acclimation as the Republican nominees for LG and AG respectively.

Place goes nuts!

“I will endorse [Sen. Ken Cuccinelli], support him, do everything I can to ensure he is the next attorney general of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” said Brownlee.

Cuccinelli thanked Brownlee and Foster for running a hard and fair campaign.

Bill Stanley also moved that Pat Mullins be elected as chairman by acclimation

Just For Dave - I know he will get a kick out of this:

Found it over at Hotair



From Dave: Very nice.

Day Two

At the Virginia State Convention.

With a few primative tools, I was able to fashion a connection to file this.

And a hike to the nosebleed section to secure an actual laptop to, you know, actually live blog.

Bob McDonnall gave a good speech. Seing how he was running unopposed on the Republican side, it's a forgone conclustion he will be the GOP Candidate.

The big wait now is for Attorney General, Lt. Governor and RPV chair.

Ken Cuccinelli had the rock star intro with his speech and everyone in the crowd waving the classic, "Don't Tread On Me" rattlesnake flag (note to self, I have to get one of those). The lights went out and an audio montage started to play with clips of the recent news talking about nationalization of banks, so called domestic terrorist (Tea Parties.. Yeah, right..) and other items. Then the smoke and lights. I almost expected 'Rock and Roll Part I'. Ken looks to be the favorite of the crowd here. When the other candidates mention his name, it's not a good sign when the cheers drown out their speech.

UPDATE 2:40: George Allen just finished speaking. Eric Cantor is speaking now.

Line up other speakers for the Virginia GOP to help fill the time until all the voting has been done for the other three races.

Breaking rumor; Cuccinelli is the Republican Canidate for Attorney General.

More here at the Wrap Up.

"Thanks For Voting, Now Eff Off"

H/T to Paranoid Polly.

One of the neatest things I saw last November when I was working at the precinct was when a very nice middle aged lady came in to vote for the very first time. It was awesome to see someone -- for the first time in her life -- to want to be part of the democratic process. I hope she keeps it up. But when I read this last night, it agitated a slow burn inside. I'm reprinting the entire posting here for those who do not want to link over.

Who says that liberals aren't racist? Shorter Frankie Teardrop: Vote how we tell you how to vote. We only need you as a means to our ends.

The disgraceful California Supreme Court decision today to let Proposition 8 stand is a setback, not a defeat. Make no mistake, Prop 8 will come back up for vote, and when it does, it won’t have the record turnout of Blacks and Hispanics that we saw in the 2008 Presidential election to pass it. That, together with effective countering of any Mormon efforts to support Prop 8, will ensure that next time, Prop 8 will be killed.

he same record turnout of Black and Hispanic voters that was a key factor in getting Barack Obama into the White House was unfortunately a double edged sword; in California that same ethnic and racial demo also was instrumental in the passage of Proposition 8.

The majority of Blacks and Hispanics voted in favor of Proposition 8, and with the vehemence the church communities in these demos came out and rallied against Prop 8, it’s no wonder.

Over 35 anti-gay, black pastors in California even went so far as to coerce hundreds of marching Los Angeles school children to encourage blacks to vote "yes" on Proposition 8.

Steve Lopez of The Los Angeles Times describes the quasi-fascist spectacle:

"The uniformed children were a nice touch Tuesday at the Crenshaw Christian Center, marching out of school with U.S. flags -- like good little soldiers in a holy war -- to hear ministers preach against the evils of gay marriage. ...

The Yes on 8 banners read: ‘For Children. For Families. For Our Future.’

Apostle Frederick K.C. Price stepped to the microphone. 'I believe and teach the Bible,' he said, pausing briefly, as if nothing more needed to be said.

But he went on to quote Genesis, saying marriage is that which occurs between a man and a woman. To veer from that course, he suggested, would ‘jeopardize our children's future.’"

Price and the Crenshaw Christian Center teamed up in public support of Proposition 8 together with one thousand other black and Hispanic congregations with about 3 million followers total, and he said this about Propostion 8: ""We shouldn't do anything to jeopardize the future of our family and our children."

It’s a blessing that the next time Prop 8 is put to a vote with the people of California, it won’t share the ballot with the historic "Obama Election" and Black and Hispanic turnout will be lower, despite the pro-Prop 8 rallies sure to be organized again by community and church leaders. We can again expect Mormon money to pour into pro-8 ads and, next time around, this will be the biggest factor in a Prop 8 re-vote. We must prepare now to counter the Mormon ad machine with our own messages to kill the abomination that is Prop 8.

Next time, it will be killed.

First Attempt at a Live Blog

I'll be at the Republican Convention covering the progress for the races in the commonwealth of Virginia. I have a tin can at home tied to a string stretched out to the convention center so I will have to tap everything in by binary. We'll see how everything works out.

UPDATE: The string broke. Something about laying out 30 miles of twine and someone is bound to muck with it. Wrote out a note with a charred stick and plank of wood to remind me to bring a laptop for Saturday.

Now This Biden Gaff is Funny!