Posted on 02/07/2008 8:12:39 AM PST by Grig
February 07, 2008 Read More: Antics
CPAC to all CPAC-ers: Don't boo McCain
John McCain may have it easier than he expected today when he commandeers the podium at CPAC this afternoon. Conservatives from all over will predictably fill the room to the brim to listen to what the now GOP front-runner has to say, despite a hate/love relationship with the guy.
CPAC it seems, is directing its loyal goers to not boo McCain. They must be more excited that McCain has finally signed on to appear after years of snubs than they want to let on.
During registration last night at the Omni Shoreham a registrant was asking to upgrade his CPAC package and then proceeded to ask what time GOP front-runner John McCain was going to speak today. “Oh good,” he said to the response -- answer: 3 p.m. today-- “I hope they boo him out of the room.”
“No, no no no no” came the reply from the person registering him. “We’ve been instructed to tell participants not to boo McCain.”
“Are you kidding me?” the shocked CPAC-goer asked.
“Well we want to seem above democrats and we don’t want the booing to be the story,” the CPAC person declared. When asked for a response CPAC's Ian Walters told us: “We would hope that our folks would be polite and give him a fair opportunity to be heard.”
Can we hiss instead?
“We would hope that our folks would be polite and give him a fair opportunity to be heard.”
They have heard him, thats why they want to boo him. McCain should hear from them.
BOO!!!
Getting orders not to BOO would make me BOO LOUDER and LONGER.
empty room instead?
I am booing as loud as I can right now....and I will BOO even louder at the ballot box.
I agree it would be classless to boo him but you can still walk out.
While McCain’s career has been demonstrably disloyal, you peons WILL be loyal and there will be no expressions of disloyalty to the disloyal allowed.
Oh what would I give for a Cheney/Bolton 2008 ticket. Would be soooo sweet.
Make it clear to him, that he's UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Conservatives care about the United States so much ...
that they're willing to DEFEAT McCain to save the nation!!!
McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!!
"Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them"
McCain was reluctant to speak to conservatives to begin with. My suspicion is that the “no-boo” order was one of his conditions for accepting the invitation.
I had the feeling this would happen. Everywhere McCain appears people are told to shut up.
C a PAC of weenies? I hope not.
Hey, if I really wanted to be a jerk, I'd tell everyone to show up in black pajamas and coolie hats and just stand silently.
I’d piss on the floor
I guess it’s fine to cheer for him, right? I hope they ream him and he flips out and starts telling every to go %*#@ themselves.
“They have heard him, thats why they want to boo him. McCain should hear from them.”
Double Dog Dittos and Amen to that, Grig!!!
Let McQueeg hear what CPAC thinks of him loud and clear!!
Yeah, please don’t boo him.
Instead, chant “YOU SUCK”
Not boo the Troja n horse sneak who has done more than any other to undermine the conservative cause in the last 5 years?
I know it is “unhip” to be an “extremist”, but it looks like I have moved sharply to the right of CPAC
throw him a head of lettuce....
If I was there every time McAmnesty said something even vaguely conservative it would sound like a Ricola commercial.
They could always just turn their backs to him.
And we're supposed to show respect to that liberal RINO sell-out?
I don't freaking believe this.
Or turn your back to him the whole time. I hope someone there records it with their cell phone or something. I doubt the media will show it. They can just keep the camera close in on him and make people think everyone sat there in rapt attention.
Can’t we all just calm down? /sarc
Perhaps complete, utter silence. Enough so to hear a pin drop. Keep it that way until he shambles from the room, snarling.
They don’t have to boo. Anyone against McCain should just walk in with a sombrero on and sit quietly.
Leni
They shouldnt boo or be uncivil.
Let liberals do that crap.
I would prefer he be asked some tough questions and get him on record for certain things he claims he is for now.
But I imagine he will be making all kinds of conservative claims and promises anyways I am sure.
Just give him polite applause, and go ga-ga when Romney speaks. He’ll get the message.
Must be against the McCain-Feingold act to boo a candidate...
Duct tape across the mouth, sitting quietly in the seats.
Cheney’s in better health than McCain, he’s younger, he’s a conservative and a proven leader. McCain’s a loser.
BIGTIME ‘08!
We’ve been instructed to tell participants not to boo McCain.”
Why?....will he fly into a tantrum? Will he get his feelings hurt?..... B.S. on this profound Asshat!
¿Como se dice “booooo” en español?
If I boo amnesty will it hurt his feelings?
“Why?....will he fly into a tantrum?”
Oh please, please, please!
Just calm down.
/s
That won't work. McCain is positively Clintonesque with the ease of lying. After years of siding with the Democrats, he has made it an art on telling HUGE whoppers about how he's sooooo "conservative."
Sorry...McCain should not only be boo'd, but pelted with $50 heads of lettuce.
The boo's will follow.
Oh please, please, please!
It would be fun to watch his wheels come off!
Aaaack.......too much coffee...
He should be greeted with stone-cold silence and any booing should be reserved for the the Q-and-A when he tells the audience to shut up.
When he leaves, chant “Na na naaaaa naaaaaa... hey hey hey... goodbyyyyyyyyye!”
McCain having a Howard Dean meltdown right about now would be soooooo wonderful to see. Liberals and the MSM would be utterly heartbroken. Then we could finally clear the path for Romney.
They’d kick me out then. What a load of crap this is.
What a bunch of spoiled, immature crybabies on this thread.
Whatever happened to class? Does anyone honestly think that WF Buckley or Reagan would approve of this behavior?
This is not professional wrestling. It is a serious discussion of the future of the country, the movement, and the party. “Boo-ing” (along with “pissing on the floor,” etc.) is just completely crass and out-of-line.
The behavior of some so-called conservatives is making THIS conservative take a second look at McCain!
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