I just registered for the Defending the American Dream Summit being held here in Austin on July 18 and 19.
The Summit is being hosted by Americans for Prosperity and RightOnline.
For years, the left have been building a superior online political infrastructure, cultivating a powerful online community of activists, dominating the blogosphere, and leaving conservatives at a severe disadvantage in a web 2.0 world.
For conservatives tired of being left behind, we invite you to RightOnline. Join leading conservative bloggers and new media experts, America’s foremost experts in grassroots mobilization, representatives from influential conservative organizations, and hundreds of citizen activists this July 18th and 19th in Austin, Texas.
Guest speakers and presenters include:
- Michelle Malkin — the woman most reviled and demonized by the Left, perhaps more so than even Ann Coulter, which makes her one of the most widely read and admired bloggers and political pundits on the Right.
- Michael Steele — Former Maryland Lt. Governor —labeled a “Sambo” by leaders in the Democrat party for having the temerity to be 1) black, and 2) Conservative.
- Bob Barr — Libertarian Presidential Candidate
- Robert Novak — Syndicated Columnist who wrote the infamous column “outing” Valerie Plame.
- John Fund and Stephen Moore from The Wall Street Journal
I’m excited about the opportunity to meet so many of my fellow conservative bloggers and do a little face-to-face networking — it gets lonely here in liberal Austin.
If you plan on being in Austin for the summit, let me know. I’ll buy you a beer and recommend some must eat places.
I’m also excited that we will in effect be countering the YearlyKos Nutroots Nation convention , which is being held this year in Austin on the same weekend.
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The Nutrooters will be downtown, where they’ll be closer to the bars (and the city jail). The Conservatives will be at the Arboretum.
Downtown’s a little closer to my house in West Austin, but the Arboretum is quicker and easier to get to (still only about 9 miles away).
Downtown really is a better location than the Arboretum. However, since the Conservative convetion is less likely to devolve into a bunch of kids getting drunk and angry, I guess the proximity to the downtown bar scene probably isn’t quite as important.
Though I would have liked to have been closer to the nutroots crazies.
Just to point, laugh, mock, and perhaps engage in a little agitating. Like right-across-the-street closer.
I’ll probably make it downtown for a little of that anyway. At least on Thursday night when the Kos Kiddies start showing up — I guess their convention can start on a typical work day since most of their attendees are 1) employed by left-leaning news organizations, 2) professional activists (thanks Daddy Soros!), or 3) unemployed college kids on their summer break.
Maybe I’ll get lucky and run into Ezra Klein or John Avarosis — the Left’s poster boys for Effete Urban Queerbaits. Though in a crowd of Kos Kiddies, picking out the effete urban queerbaits from the not-so-effete angry feminists isn’t always so easy.
Just for the record…not everyone on the left is an effeminate wuss. Just like not everyone on the right is a bigoted loudmouth asshole compensating for a tiny penis.
[Editor --- What is it about men on the left and comparing penis sizes? Do lots of that do you?]
That’s a hard thing to do in Austin, period.
Wow the wingnut wlefare all-stars! Lemme guess – Regenery Publishing will have a booth, right? They’ll have an awful lot of returned and discounted Malkin and John Fund books to dump on all the mouthbreathers.
Don’t forget to swab some Vick’s around your nostrils, so the smell emanating from the hippies and anarchists won’t make you nauseous.
I need to let my daughter and her husband know. They seldom venture into Austin, and stay in the Round Rock burbs, as they don’t care for the general crowd in Austin. Sure don’t want them getting caught up in the maelstrom of maladaptive mutants that will be on display.
I wasn’t necessarily talking about you, Robbie…somebody’s got a guilty conscience.
Darn, I’m out of town for most of July or I’d be there in a heartbeat.
My daughter and her family have been forewarned. She assured me she wouldn’t have gone into town anyway.
She and her hubbie are interested in the gathering at the arboretum, though.
Hubbie? Punk around much n2l?
Please listen everyone. Many of the above comments just alienate others who may wish to work with us in order to protect our freedoms.
I have worked for Ron Paul and given my time as well as my money to him. And I am considered VERY Liberal/Progressive. So, please, stop the rhetoric. It does NOT HELP our movement. It just hurts us by causing divisiveness and conflict and the alienation of many.
To me we are enslaved because of our attitudes. We cannot join forces and fight the NWO if we debase one another.
[Editor --- cookoo, cookoo]
Most of my friends (both left and right) are against this war, want to get rid of the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, and wiretapping laws. They support several of the other issues we Ron Pauler’s believe in. They want fair elections as we do and don’t want CODEX as law.
There are many issues we can WORK ON TOGETHER ! Joining forces is how you WIN the BATTLES as well as the WAR.
[Editor --- Paulbots like you have no desire, intention, or ability to win the War. You want isolationism. Which, ironically enough, you've accomplished....as a political party.]
So, for the sake of our country, our Freedoms, our Lives, stop the name calling, the mud slinging, and be open to those who may not agree with you on many of the issues. Let us not be ignoble. We will not go far with the constant bickering and name calling. The NWO certainly appreciates the infighting, hence the RED HERRINGS they love to throw us. Remember, Divide and Conquer?
Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are on good terms and try to work together when they agree it is for the common good. Ron Paul thinks of him as a “a friend” from the other side of the isle.
We need to do the same. Welcome debate as well as welcome one another. Otherwise we will be screaming our self-righteousness in FEMA camps.
[Editor --- Welcome debate? Sorry, but your belief in a "New World Order" makes it impossible to debate with you, as you are not a sane person.]
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn and you will not be condemned”
Evelyn, you lost me when you said you supported Ron Paul. The rest of your words were scrolled.
Only when you comment here.