Herman Cain did a speech which fired up every neocon Christian Taliban in the room. He opened the speech with a line similar to what the RWNJ Pastor Dennis E. Terry, Sr. said - "we are a Judeo-Christian nation based on the faith of our Founding Fathers." This was the first standing ovation - every establishment hack jumped to their feet and started applauding. Then he went on about how religious our Founding Fathers were (yeah, WTF? I bet no one in the room have heard of the
Jefferson Bible.
)..Before that, when Cain was introduced by the county chair Susan Bryant and as she was reading his credentials, when she said "Chairman of the Kansas City Federal Reserve", I heard boos from 2 places. The guy behind me was one - wearing a Ron Paul button (we met later). And then the usual Cain nonsense reminiscent of his campaign trail days (we need to take our country back, we can fix America etc.). Then Cain went on a spiel about how he rose to the status of whites although he was black (he didn't use the exact words, but he was surely appealing to the "white guilt" in the audience.). I'm glad his speech was over when it was over.
There was a straw poll conducted.
Santorum - 205
Romney - 203
Gingrich - 82
Paul - 51
This is neocon Bible belt, guys, sorry...
Few of us, including Glen Bradley, his mother & and the guy who booed earlier, went to a nearby bar & grill afterwards and yapped about Paul and liberty and silver and raw milk etc., so that was good.
Next up is the Congressional District convention. Before that is the Ron Paul Rally on 03/24.
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