http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/08/freds-speech-to-young-republicans/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/08/freds-speech-to-young-republicans/comment-page-1/#comment-1061 Bluey Blog | Robert B. Bluey » Fred, Mitt Make Their Pitch to Young Republicans Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:38:01 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/08/freds-speech-to-young-republicans/#comment-1061 [...] I’m catching up on political news tonight and thankfully Soren Dayton and Marc Ambinder have made it easy with their coverage of the Young Republican National Convention in Miami. Soren has video of speeches by Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. Soren also scored an exclusive interview with Thompson. [...] [...] I’m catching up on political news tonight and thankfully Soren Dayton and Marc Ambinder have made it easy with their coverage of the Young Republican National Convention in Miami. Soren has video of speeches by Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. Soren also scored an exclusive interview with Thompson. [...]

]]> http://sorendayton.com/2007/07/08/freds-speech-to-young-republicans/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 eyeon08.com » Thoughts on Young Republican convention Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:44:38 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/08/freds-speech-to-young-republicans/#comment-1060 [...] Thoughts on Young Republican convention digg_url = 'http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/09/thoughts-on-young-republican-convention/'; digg_title = 'Thoughts on Young Republican convention'; digg_bodytext = 'All the enthusiasm was for Fred Thompson. Probably a quarter of the delegates were walking around with Thompson stickers. The news stories and the videos only partly capture the energy in the room for him. While his speech was a little bit of a let down on content the positioning was fantastic. I was struck [...]'; digg_skin = "compact"; digg_topic = "politics"; ( function() { var ds=typeof digg_skin=='string'?digg_skin:''; var h=80; var w=52; if(ds=='compact') { h=18; w=120; } var u=typeof digg_url=='string'?digg_url:(typeof DIGG_URL=='string'?DIGG_URL:window.location.href); document.write(""); } )() All the enthusiasm was for Fred Thompson. Probably a quarter of the delegates were walking around with Thompson stickers. The news stories and the videos only partly capture the energy in the room for him. While his speech was a little bit of a let down on content the positioning was fantastic. I was struck by the "you" language that was coming out him. "I’m here to thank you", "I’m here to help you." It was clear that Thompson is trying to channel the party base and the conservative movement. And it is clear that the party base, at least at the Young Republican convention, wanted it. [...] [...] Thoughts on Young Republican convention digg_url = ‘http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/07/09/thoughts-on-young-republican-convention/'; digg_title = ‘Thoughts on Young Republican convention’; digg_bodytext = ‘All the enthusiasm was for Fred Thompson. Probably a quarter of the delegates were walking around with Thompson stickers. The news stories and the videos only partly capture the energy in the room for him. While his speech was a little bit of a let down on content the positioning was fantastic. I was struck [...]‘; digg_skin = “compact”; digg_topic = “politics”; ( function() { var ds=typeof digg_skin==’string’?digg_skin:”; var h=80; var w=52; if(ds==’compact’) { h=18; w=120; } var u=typeof digg_url==’string’?digg_url:(typeof DIGG_URL==’string’?DIGG_URL:window.location.href); document.write(“”); } )() All the enthusiasm was for Fred Thompson. Probably a quarter of the delegates were walking around with Thompson stickers. The news stories and the videos only partly capture the energy in the room for him. While his speech was a little bit of a let down on content the positioning was fantastic. I was struck by the "you" language that was coming out him. "I’m here to thank you", "I’m here to help you." It was clear that Thompson is trying to channel the party base and the conservative movement. And it is clear that the party base, at least at the Young Republican convention, wanted it. [...]

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