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RS at CPAC: Sen. Ron Johnson (R, WI).

I have a lot of these, and probably more getting generated tomorrow – but I didn’t want to not get at least one of these done this evening.  This clip is of Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who of course came out of nowhere in 2010 to neatly excise Russ Feingold from his Senate seat.  Which was personally one of the more satisfying results of the last election cycle: partially because Feingold’s assault on free speech was a constant irritation to me, and partially because the best presents are often the ones that you weren’t expecting.

At any rate, the Senator and I spoke briefly about CPAC.  Check out the video.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

#rsrh The Wi-Fi’s down at this point….

…which means that the video that I just put together via iMovie is going to have to wait until I get home. Heh. So much for on the fly video processing, huh?

Still, no worries; got a lot of useful footage today, which was the idea. There are a bunch more legislators and candidates and whatnot at CPAC than I remember from years past, and they’re more serious than I remember them being, too. Which is to be expected, really.

#rsrh (CPAC) Hey, I have a keyboard again!

Not unrelated to the fact that Blogger’s Row is filling up; I eventually found somebody with a charger with the right power connection.

We got a lot of New Media folks here today. And folks running for office: I’m hoping for a good number of candidate and politician interviews. Already got Richard Mourdock, who’s in the middle of a primary run for Senate in Indiana.

#rsrh Now here at CPAC…

And if you are here and you happen to have an iPad with a Logitech keyboard with you PLEASE stop by Blogger’s Row; I did not bring a charger for my keyboard and I am even now screen-typing.

More seriously, we’re hoping to get a bunch of interviews out of this, as usual.

#rsrh Just a reminder: I’ll be at CPAC this week…

…and hopefully I won’t have an almost-broken ankle to content with this go-round.  As always, feel free to stop by and say hi, particularly if you want to buy me a beer.  And as usual, I mostly plan to spend this doing interviews.  I don’t think that I’ve ever really been at one of the panels.

CPAC’s site is here: it should be an interesting vibe this year.  On the one hand, people are ready to crawl over broken glass to vote Obama out; on the other hand, people want to see the second page of potential candidates.  It’s this sort of dynamic tension that really makes American politics so interesting, yes?

CPAC 2011: Michael Williams (R PRIMARY, TX-SEN).

This should have been up last week, except that I came down with the plague, more or less.  Mike Williams is a former Railroad Commissioner for Texas*, an old friend of the site, and running for Senate: we spoke briefly at CPAC about the cycle in general.

Mike’s site is here.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Which has nothing to do with railroads: it’s an elected position overseeing energy production.

#rsrh Almost done with the CPAC videos…

…honestly, I probably have gotten the last two in tonight, but I didn’t for the reason of I didn’t feel like it.  I don’t think that I got whatever bug was going around at CPAC, but neither am I particularly high-energy level right now.  Besides, I don’t want to burn out.

Moving along… no, actually, there’s nothing to move along to.  I don’t know: here, look at my UK Times Word Nerd score. 555 is apparently not bad.