I saw a very funny example of the ineptness of the Occupy protesters today. I was at CPAC to speak on a panel on voter fraud and the 2012 election with John Fund, Catherine Engelbrecht, and David Norcross. We got to our ballroom as the prior session was winding up. It was being hosted by David Keene of the NRA and the panelists were talking about criminal-justice reform and the Second Amendment.
As the panelists were speaking, two Occupy protesters walked up to the stage and unrolled a big banner attacking Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas. Kobach is a very smart lawyer who worked at the Bush Justice Department and was elected secretary of state in 2010. He has raised the ire of liberals because of his support for common-sense election reforms like voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements for individuals registering to vote, both of which were passed by the Kansas legislature.
However, Kobach has also worked on immigration issues and helped Arizona legislators draft their immigration law that has been attacked by the Obama Justice Department. That law has served as a model for many other states, such as Alabama, that have passed similar measures in the wake of the Obama administration’s non-enforcement policy. Kobach was at CPAC to speak on an immigration panel.
There was only one problem for the protesters — they were in the wrong room (LOL!). Kobach’s panel was going on elsewhere in the hotel and he was not on the panel that David Keene was moderating or the one that was about to start. When Keene told the protesters that, everyone in the room started laughing at them and they sheepishly folded up their banner and left. They apparently never made it to the actual room where Kobach was speaking.
These are the folks who keep telling us that they know how to run things better in our nation. “What a bunch of maroons,” to quote the immortal Bugs Bunny.
please tell me there's some video of this...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLOL?
I always thought that Hans A. von Spakovsky was probably a 14-year old girl.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDavid Welker: I find it curious that you think 'dissing' 14 year old girls to be the height of sophisticated political commentary.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI can see why you might be thinking I am dissing 14-year old girls. I guess comparing them to Hans A. von Spakovsky could be interpreted as something of an insult. I sure wouldn't want to be compared to him.
But really, I intended to mock Hans A. von Spakovsky for his use of LOL.
Maybe he should text LOL to his "friends" while driving.
ROFLMAO! LULZ!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseUnbelievable.
And I always thought your were just a twit, but it now appears that you are a twit with likely pedophiliac tendencies.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI never made a pass at Hans A. von Spakovsky. I swear!
*eyeroll*
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe Occupiers make the protestors of my generation (the hippies and SDS) seem like a group of intellectuals.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWell, until you listen to Bill Ayers today. He's an elementary education theorist now. Any questions about what's wrong with public education?
Hey Hans,
This is a funny story, but you should have included Kobach's work on anti-ILLEGAL "immigration issues" right after you used the words "common sense" in your paragraph on Kobach's work on election reform.
And by using the word "however" to start the paragraph on Kobach's work on (anti-illegal) immigration issues, you kind of imply that this work is not "common sense" -- which is most-assuredly is.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseuhh google maroons. its a term for escaped slaves that are all fighty and stuff.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDavid, embarrassed by your 'occupying' comrades? If you're going to interrupt something, at least interrupt the right thing. Pathetic and juvenile.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThese are the folks who keep telling us that they know how to run things better in our nation. “What a bunch of maroons,” to quote the immortal Bugs Bunny.
I would point out that the Nazis provoked similar laughter from many Germans just before Hitler came to power and wiped the smiles from their faces.
We have already seen the murder and mayhem which is the distinguishing feature of the OWS movement. Even if the OWS protests of last fall seemed to be nothing more than an American version of the Beer Hall Putsch, the genocidal maniacs who make up the movement have the backing of the Obama administration, many Democrat politicians, and the vast majority of journalists. That makes them a very deadly threat to democracy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe only ones they threaten are themselves.
The threat of disease is rampant and likely to spread further each time these OWS clowns pi.ss themselves.
Honestly, they can't get out of their own way. Why would anyone else worry about them?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat's why we have the second amendment, but don't tell the demorats that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI attended the 3-day conference (including this excellent panel on voter fraud) and witnessed 4 lame attempts to "occupy" CPAC, none with more than 10 "protesters" involved and none displaying any more smarts than the misguided fellows ranting against someone not in the room (and yes, we all did 'laugh out loud' at their ineptitude!). I don't think the unions got their $60-a-day's worth from these "maroons".
One group's motto was "liberate the discourse" - which apparently they intended to do by preventing others from speaking. Again, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAmazing. Not one person in that group had the reading comprehension skills to decipher an event schedule? I'd be wondering what all that public education money had been used for if I didn't already know that it had gone to enriching union officials and undermining everything that America has traditionally stood for.
Of course if a Tea Party group had done some such thing at a left-lib event it would be ridiculed all over the mainstream media.
PS -- What does it take to get one of those stars next to my name? I've been posting for months and not one of my comments has been disapproved. I work during the day when the moderators are on-duty. Its depressing to make comments knowing that by the time they're posted the discussion will have moved on and my points will either be redundant or unread.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf they were smart, they wouldn't be liberals in the first place.
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