The 2009 Values Voters Summit will be held September 18th through the 20th. They have quite the impressive speakers list. They include such people as:
…and many, many more.
In addition to these, there are a number of people invited, but who have not yet accepted. Sarah Palin, Mark Steyn, and Bobby Jindal are among this group.
It should be good. I wish I could attend, but I shall have to content myself with video clips and transcripts.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Does C-Span cover this?
August 28th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Are they having another straw poll? If so, it will be interesting to see whether Mitt wins it again this year. He won the CPAC straw polls back to back.
August 28th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Here are some stats to “get ready” for the Value Voters Summit.
http://www.solidprinciples.com/blog/?p=908
August 28th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
It does look like a good lineup.
If they do have a straw poll, I hope that only people that attend are allowed to vote in it. It takes away the purpose of the events straw poll when anyone can do it. Huckabee would have won by a significant amount last year if only people who attended counted.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I find it stupid that these kinds of fundie shindigs underrepresent women all the time. Since it’s the men that’s been doing most of the sinning so far.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Some of the other confirmed speakers…
Rick Perry
Bill O’Reilly
Ed Meese
Bill Bennett
Gary Bauer
Ken Blackwell
http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/
August 28th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Palin should be at the summit, she needs to develop her credibility, and give speeches instead of her Face Book musings.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
No.7, Sarah Palin’s Face Book musings aren’t so amusing to Barack Obama, as they threaten to destroy Obamacare and his presidency. The only other thing that would be more lethal is having Palin pummel the messiah on the campaign trail wearing a skirt and high heeled pumps, and thats coming soon.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
No.7, Sarah Palin’s Face Book musings aren’t so amusing to Barack Obama, as they threaten to destroy Obamacare and his presidency. The only other thing that would be more lethal is having Palin pummel the messiah on the campaign trail wearing a skirt and high heeled pumps, and thats coming soon.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
No. 7, Sarah Palin’s Face Book musings aren’t so amusing to Barack Obama, as they threaten to destroy Obamacare. The only other thing that would be more lethal is an unleashed Palin running around the country in a skirt wearing high heeled pumps pummeling Obama at every corner. And thats coming soon!
August 28th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
If there is going to be a bounce for Obama, it’d start tomorrow. If it doesn’t, then we’re probably in the clear for the remainder of this healthcare debate.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:27 am
I believe Huckabee has won the Value Voters Strawpoll every year. This is different from the CPAC one where people are bused in and admissions paid to vote.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:03 am
The Values Voters straw poll last year was a fiasco IMHO. The rules were stated way ahead of time that anyone could vote who donated – then they come up with this crap “solution” of releasing “on-site” poll and internet poll numbers. I read reports that some people who were actually at the meeting/summit voted online to avoid long lines at the voting booths, but then comments like #4 get posted and bring the bile to my throat all over again.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Mitt Romney won’t get the nominee in 2012. I am disappointed in this Value Voters Summit because they have included Mitt Romney as guest speaker this year. They should have known better that Romney is not conservative. He flip-flop every issues what he stand for all the time. We Republican conservatives still don’t know what Romney stand for. That why he lost the 2008 primary election. Romney is hurting the Republican Party. Hope to see Sarah Palin run for President in 2012. She is a true conservative. I wish that Palin is the guest speaker instead of Romney. If Romney does get the nominee, the Republican Party will lose again in 2012. That what happened to John McCain in the last 2008 November election.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am
anonymous won’t get message, even in 2012. Me dispointed in ‘merica cause it make anonymous think she conservative. She not conservative, she dumbbell, and hurt Republican Party. I hope she go way before primary ‘lection cause she gonna help ‘bama get the president second time.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Why invite ex Gov Palin? She will just RSVP then not turn up like she has done for the last 10 or so events
. Kinda makes you wonder what she is afraid of.
It’s a lot easier to hide behind your computer and fire away with snide comments. Kinda like most of us
.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Requiem for the Right
The editor of The New York Times Book Review and the paper’s “Week in Review” section, Sam Tanenhaus is the biographer of Whittaker Chambers and is at work on the life of William F. Buckley Jr. In a new, short book, The Death of Conservatism, he argues that the right needs to find its footing for the good of the country.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214253
The Shifting Balance of Power
http://www.newmajority.com/the-shifting-balance-of-power
August 29th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Aron,
Reading Buckley’s “Up From Liberalism” was one of the key books that set me on the conservative path, but Buckley lost his way and cast his last vote for Obama. Requiem indeed.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Palin will accept, then say she never heard of it, and had never accepted. She’ll either be a ‘no show’ like last nights gig, or she’ll insist on the beauty queen walk on stage and wave thing again.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Heath, actually there’s the theory that it’s not Palin behind the keyboard, but a ghost blogger her PAC has hired. Too many big words.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
#14,sorry man,you need to open your mind and your eyes bigger so you can see who is the right leader,strong leader,smart leader,and has the ability to defeat Mr. Obama,don’t just care only yourself,if so you will be re defeat again.I don’t see Mrs.Palin as a national leader yet,and she can’t handle the government job,because just the gov job she can’t finish it. McCain and Palin are the same,both don’t have the power to defeat Barak,but when you compare Mitt to Barak,Mitt has more power, stronger,smarter, better look and more presidential than Barak,Mitt can beat Barak by landslide,no question about it.Just look what happened to America now by crazy for the good talker(John),not respect the track recorder(Mitt)why Barak took over America.
August 29th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Chances of health compromise take another blow
GOP senator signals fading hopes on health care
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5il892mEYzWO1CD8hZVloHcT8OukAD9ACNVP01
Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) Delivers Weekly Republican Address On Health Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnCO4WAjzGU
August 29th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
If Palin accepts then claims she never accepted, is everyone going to blame the Values Voter group for not knowing how to schedule speakers?
It’s all a plot you know.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
#12; People are bused in to CPAC because they come for all over the U.S. and need rides from their hotel to the event.
The money they pay are donations to the Republican party, that is my understanding anyway… You kind of made it look fixed.
August 29th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I have a feeling Mitt will not win the straw poll. I also believe they should only allow those who attend to vote.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
12. I think you’re a little mixed up. Romney won CPAC 2 years in a row, and as far as I know did not pay anyone’s admission to get the votes.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Actually Martha, he won CPAC three years in a row. He won values voters also last year.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
#13:
You can’t use an anomaly to brush off the point that I was making. The straw poll in 2007 did not represent the attenders at all (which should be the point, right?). It may have represented something else, but not the grassroots voters that took the time to attend the event. If you just included them, Huckabee won in a huge landslide.
“Of 952 votes cast on-site, Mr. Huckabee received 488, or 51 percent, a virtual runaway in such a crowded field. Mr. Romney had only 99 votes, or 10.4 percent; Mr. Thompson received 77 votes, or 8 percent; Representative Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, whose fiery speech on Friday was also well received, had 65 votes, or 6.8 percent; Mr. Giuliani had 60 votes, or 6.3 percent.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/straw-poll-results-raise-many-questions/
August 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
If anything anon, you provide some much needed comic relief!
August 29th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
28 – that doesn’t address people who attended the event but voted online so they didn’t have to wait in line. If they had been informed their vote wouldn’t “count” they probably would have just stood in line.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
27. I forgot.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Ben – 2008 is over… Let it go.
My original comment stands. Don’t announce the rules, then change the rules once the event starts and still try to consider yourself a legitimate event.
Values Voters Straw Poll was a fiasco in 2007.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Obviously, Mitt isn’t living in the past and maintaining hard feelings, because he’s on the speaking list for this year’s Values Voters Summit, too.
Good for him.
August 30th, 2009 at 12:41 am
LOL….the left in Virginia thinks the following story is a bombshell.
’89 Thesis A Different Side of McDonnell
Va. GOP Candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/29/AR2009082902434.html
August 30th, 2009 at 3:06 am
#34…….while at the same time the liberals are so worried about the past of Obama getting out……..Funny
Whatever happed to thos papers written Obama anyway?
What, they don’t want us to see his spelling mistakes?
August 30th, 2009 at 9:47 am
ICYMI…
Mike Huckabee appeared as a guest on Red Eye a few nights ago, and though I was unable to find the complete episode online, I would be remiss in my duties to not share the following segment with our red-blooded readers:
Yoga News with Lauren Sivan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqjRYlBMpQU