Liveblogging National Tea Party Convention – Friday AM
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 5, 2010, 10:09 AM
Businessman, democracy activist and Memphis Tea Party organizer Mark Skoda was one of the opening speakers this morning in Nashville.
Smart Girl Politics led a breakout session this morning on “Conducting a Voter Registration Drive.” One of Smart Girl Politics goals is to focus on educating conservative women. As part of that goal, SGP members members Michelle Moore (r) and Bridget Blanton led the meeting.
Michelle Moore, SGP Director of Technology, and Bridget Blanton, SGP National Voter Registration Coordinator, led the training session at the event focusing on Women in Politics and Voter Registration. Michelle Moore will be tweeting the conference this weekend. The Smart Girls give a voice to smart, strong, well-informed conservative women. The Smart Girls are the women who will take back this country.
Smart Girl Politics is committed to providing a conservative community for women to express their opinions and ideas in an open and welcoming environment. SGP is dedicated to reaching out into the community to engage, educate, and empower conservative women to take a more active role in politics. And finally, we will debate and develop clear positions that encourage conservative activism in order to counter the negative activity of popular culture that is often found in the main stream media.
Michelle opened up the session and was terrific. She made St. Louis proud. Michelle said she found a home in Smart Girl Politics. She says she is inspired and empowered by the strong women of this movement.
Bridget Blanton stressed that to build on the success of the recent conservative wins in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts voter registration and get out the vote efforts will be critical in this year’s elections. We need to get people registered and out to the polls. We need people on the ground. We need a consistent voter registration in each community to promote your group, tea party and increase the number of local supporters. A positive message of freedom and limited government led to the wins in recent months. We must be courageous and stand up for what we believe and we can do this with voter registration. It is important for conservatives to get active today. Bridget has been registering voters for years and knows how it is done. She has spent hours and hours out attending community events in California signing up voters. Bridget is a real conservative hero.
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Chisum commented:
Hooray, more Beautiful Conservative Women!
DINORight commented:
All of the above is true – go Smart Girls! Also essential: a collection of the data, like the DNC and ACORN have amassed, so that whatever is done is captured, and can be maximized upon.
Michelle Malkin blogged on this yesterday, and linked to Hot Air and Anita Moncrief’s blog to illustrate the database’s VAST information tracking. Without that essential piece of technology, the Tea Party movement will be working overtime and falling behind – the opposition has a one-up on this and have been working on it since at least 2006.
Time to catch all the techies out there in the Tea Party movement – and get them on this task!!
myna commented:
Good! Forget all old feminist group like NOW or CodePink. They do not represent mainstream women. These are all just DNC shrills.
Opus #6 commented:
Smart Girl Politics ROCKS!
I have been a member since early 2009, and they have been more than polite to me. They allowed me to start a “bloggers club” to encourage networking and beginning bloggers.
Some of my closest blogging friends are from that club. Great group of women.
http://smartgirlpolitics.ning.com/group/bloggerclub
Dell commented:
Outstanding!
A Standing Ovation for the ladies involvement and excellent contributions to the “cause”.
It’s about time we learned there are many more intelligent females around that Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and Olympia Snowe.
These ladies are a breath of fresh air!
And a special tip of the old fedora to:
Founding Bloggers for sponsoring Jim’s efforts to keep us informed.
Militant Conservative commented:
I love stong women. They speak thier mind know that men have thier place in society and really good women tote a gun or don’t mind if I do. Conservative women are prettier too, because they are happy not surly like the Libs. LOL Rock on!
Dell commented:
I guess we all have that weakness for the beauty and brains of conservative women….so much so that we forget our standard line…
Powder Is Dry!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Note to editors:
Tommy “Two-time” in paragraph two: “…goin’ to get the members members…”
The Truth is Out There.. commented:
Why are conservatives SO hateful and then turn around and talk about how mean and angry Dems are?
To say that conservative women are anything better than liberal women, and vice versa, is so immature and juvenile it isn’t even funny.
The consistent mockery of anyone who doesn’t agree with you is what is truly hateful, and so pathetic and redundant that it ISN’T funny.
Guess what? I’m a liberal and have my CCW permit in Missouri and am not afraid to carry a gun. I bet that concept completely blows your mind!
You don’t have to be a close-minded, hateful bigot. And if this new organization was truly about empowering women and educating them on politics, it wouldn’t exclude anyone. But like anything conservative, I’m sure it’s a one-sided education being provided.
Opus #6 commented:
Nice try, Mr. “out there”, #14.
“I’m sure it’s a one-sided education being provided.” Doesn’t sound like you did your homework. Did you know that in America we are allowed to disagree about politics, policy and just about anything else? Sorry you take exception to the SGP group, but you seem to be afraid of an organization you do not take the trouble to understand. You don’t get to tell us what to do.
The Truth is Out There.. commented:
One of Smart Girl Politics goals is to focus on educating conservative women
The Smart Girls give a voice to smart, strong, well-informed conservative women.
Those are quotes from Jim’s article. And I’m saying your group isn’t truly about empowering women, it’s about convincing them they should be conservatives. As A WOMAN, I personally take offense to that. I think all women should have an opportunity to be empowered and educated regardless of political leanings.
Wake up!
Chisum commented:
I don’t know which I find more amusing, your interpretation of two simple sentences or your claim to be female.
However, I am enjoying the name calling and sweeping generalizations.
Project much?
Chisum commented:
Oh look!
Another extremely polite progressive.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/05/landrieu-to-republicans-shut-up-about-my-louisiana-purchase/
And this progressive is a role model for his party. Hey dems, you asked for him and you got him. Enjoy!
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/05/franken-blasts-obamas-lack-of-leadership-in-meeting-of-senate-democrats/
Chisum commented:
Oh look! More name calling from the left.
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2010/02/05/rep-weiner-calls-senator-lieberman-the-derogatory-term-for-er-um-wiener/
Chisum commented:
Speaking of Al Franken, you must see the video of Felix the Singing Cockatiel.
I haven’t laughed this hard in a while.
Where’d the bird go? There he is!
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/02/hows-that-al-franken-going.html
Tootoo commented:
Dems are a Total Failure, and their president is gross too. He is 10000% fail. Cannot wait till this failure is out of office. We will have a party.
czekmark commented:
Wow!! The conservative women really rock, good looking too.
Dante D\'Po commented:
Bridget Blanton is a rock star out here in California. We love her!! She needs to run for office… now. She’s the next Sarah Palin! Go, Bridget, Go!!!