I like Thad McCotter, and it’s not like Bad Thad is awful. It’s just that Good Thad is sufficiently good that when he’s not in that mode it’s noticeable. Regardless, Good Thad was at the SRLC:
What the whole thing: it’s well worth your time.
Tag: srlc
#rsrh Find this ‘heckler’ and buy him/her a beer.
Because this moment at the SRLC was perfect:
“‘It’s been 60 years since we went to war in Korea,’ said Paul. ‘Why do we have to have troops there?’
“‘North Korea!’ yelled a heckler.”
#RSRH Quote of the Day, Ed shouldn’t have bothered edition.
Hope springs eternal, I guess:
One of our passengers in the van opened the door to engage them and asked them if sex was a human right, to which they shouted “Yes!” Maybe they’d like to explain how that works when one can’t find a partner f0r that kind of activity, but that would presume that they understand the concept of human rights at all. Since they’re arguing that health care and housing are “rights,” I doubt they would grasp the dilemma.
This is from the SRLC, whose counter-protests were apparently… lacking. Mind you, given the way that the Left’s faux-populism has been shown up lately by actual grassroots activists, possibly I am merely judging progressives by a standard that they are simply inherently incapable of meeting.
Pawlenty skips SRLC for MN NG troop return.
Well, this is gratifyingly not 2012-related:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will miss a major Republican gathering next month of possible 2012 GOP presidential contenders and instead will attend a welcome home ceremony for troops returning from Iraq, a Pawlenty spokesman tells CNN.
The two-term Minnesota governor, who is considering a bid for his party’s presidential nomination in the next election, was scheduled to attend the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
[snip]
Instead of going to New Orleans, Pawlenty will appear at the April 10 welcome home ceremony for the Minnesota National Guard’s 34th Red Bull Infantry Division. The approximate 1,200 troops are finishing a long deployment to Iraq. Pawlenty was also at the unit’s sendoff.
I was contemplating going to SRLC myself, but my excuse for not going is much more prosaic: I can’t afford to. Which is life.
Anyway, as you may remember, I had a chance to utterly ignore time limits and ask him a couple of questions at CPAC; he’s stereotypically Minnesota Nice. It’s also gratifying for this story about him picking greeting his state’s troops over a political meet-and-greeting to be not put out as a partisan political issue.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.