High toned
Posted by TFG on July 4th, 2009
In media room at the SA Tea Party. Besides the fact that someone set it to BROIL, this is pretty fun.
That’s my big old foot.
I got a gajillion real pictures, but I couldn’t bring myself to jam a camera in anybody’s face. I’m a horrible Media.
Joe Wurzelbacher is a pretty genuine guy, and not the least bit of a dick. He talked to everybody who wanted to talk to him, didn’t try to hide out in the VIP area, had a smile on his face the whole time even though, jeez, he had to be hot for an Ohio boy.
Rick Perry gave a real down-home Texas stemwinder. I don’t think I’d ever heard the guy speak before. I saw him eat brisket, and he was very neat about it. He stuck around a really long time (3 hours) for a governor — I figured he’d have about 10,000 things to do on Independence Day.
Marcus Luttrell — well, the man’s just inspirational. Choked me up a few times. Hardly polished, and I get the feeling he doesn’t really like all the attention that’s come his way. I get the feeling he thought he’d just write a little book and kinda vanish. But it didn’t happen. I hope that, whatever these kinds of gigs take out of him, he really understands how much they mean to fat-asses like me, and that he finds that worthwhile. I couldn’t gather the courage to walk up to him and thank him, for all that he deserves it — I’m just not feeling that worthy.
Kudos to the fine folks who put this together and pulled it off. It flat couldn’t have been easy, what with everything.
By the numbers:
- about 20 bottles of water
- 2 pretty good chopped beef sandwiches
- 1 pretty lame hot dog (I hate freaking condiment packets)
- 105° when I parked at 3:30
- 98° when I pulled out at 8:30
- 5 beers
- 4 bathroom stops
- 0 porta-potty bathroom stops
- 2 cover bands that didn’t make me want to jab a pencil in my ear (that’s really something that amazes me, the effing hateful purist)
- 3 teevee trucks
- a smattering of single-issue loons (all well-behaved & polite, just really passionate)
- no eye contact with the single-issue loons (too old, ain’t got the time)
OK, then — the shower has been achieved, and I’m no longer crusty. Pix coming when I…whenever.
July 5th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Sounds like a pretty decent day. And scads hotter than it was here (not that I went outside much). I did all my hot work on the 3rd for a change.
July 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Actually – the Governor was a pretty cool and amusing guy, as well. I was surprised that he stayed so long, also – we were all thinking he would just swoop in from his car to the stage, do his intro and sign off on the Contract and then go off again.
Yes – my daughter and I both noticed that Marcus Luttrell didn’t seem to be enjoying himself much. He was very polite and amiable, very good about signing autographs and posing for pictures … but he didn’t strike me as being the gregarious sort of person, one of those who can instantly engage with people. I kept thinking of those men who raised the Iwo Jima flag and got pitchforked into unbearable and instant celebrity.
Evan Sayet was a total fireball – he and his son stayed way after the fireworks were over, the band had finished up, and we were clearing up and putting everything away. There were about twenty people, winding down at the bar in the main pavilion; sheriff’s deputies, staff at the ranch, a few volunteers and members of the committee – and he was there, until well after midnight.
We didn’t even get home until 1 AM – and we’re still tired!
July 5th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Gov Goodhair is in for a real fight with the cheerleader and he sees this tea party revolt as a good issue to win in aprimary an dget lot of national media attention. I think he is looking for a run at the big office or at least the VP spot. If he starts having an affair we know he is serous about a presidential run. Theses days it seems anyone who wants to be President has to have an affair
July 5th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I wonder about that “good fight.” I’m failing to see what KB brings to the table, but she hasn’t really done anything Texas governor centric yet, so we’ll see. I’ll say this, based on her Senate record, that she’s not a step in the right direction for me. Not horrifyingly wrong, but nothing outstanding.
Why do you still use the Goodhair line? Seems smarmy. It started out funny, but it’s not like it’s got a lot of laffs in it any more.
July 5th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I like Rick, no matter how much the media makes fun of him. If you think he needs an affair, you haven’t seen Anita. She is a babe.
July 5th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I was joking about the affair. Making light of all these dumb ass Republican and Democrats who are getting caught in affairs I call him Goc Goodhair becuase he has good frat rat hair, which is what he is. well he is an Aggie cheerleader, which is the same thing. He ain’t much. Neither is KB