Fred’s speech to Young Republicans

eyeon08.com » Thoughts on Young Republican convention · July 9, 2007 at 10:44 AM

[…] 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. […]