Bottom Up Politics

I boarded a Dean bus around 6:30 last night Thursday in Kalamazo; I was prepared for the 12 hour trip to DC. I wasn’t prepared for the number of people and their makeup.

When I first boarded the bus there was just me and the driver, two more shortly climbed on board. Over the next 15 minutes people started filtering in. By our 7pm departure time there was a full house.

As I said I wasn’t ready for the make up of the busload. They did not look like me. (read old white guy). I counted six families (Jack Hoogendyk and his family included) with children running from 10-18, and the parents along with most of the rest of the bus were middle age. On top of that they were well behaved. Did I forget to tell you though that the ride was 12 long hours?

I got very little to zero sleep. But around 7:30am we pulled up to the Marriot Gateway in DC. The rooms weren’t registered yet and bloggers row had a lot of trouble. They had tried, there were 15 stations with computers set up but the network they used only let on 2 or 3 work at a time and the speed was really slow.

We had at least 15 bloggers “discussing” the problem to no avail, but I had a chance to wander around the Marriot a little and finally I got registered next door at the Sheraton which had free WIFI which I’m using now.

I had hoped to do some live blogging but I’m too tired to think let alone blog. On top of that I left the usb cord to download my pics with. I have taken a lot of pics and the crowds were great the first day. The breakout sessions were awesome. There were some real pros at the various ones.

The rally at the capital had I would guess around 500. They were fired up and the speakers were pretty good.

The Reagan dinner Tribute was pretty impressive. In my book Mike Pence stole the show. There was easily 2000 people for that The main ballroom became full so d they had to open 3 other rooms and feed them with video.

I’ll fill in the details hopefully Sun. and add the pics.

Regards, Live Dangerously Be A Conservative