Right Wing Nation

So here we are in the auditorium. Sorry, but no moonbats outside — and they’re being very tight about security, and are making it very clear that howling and barking at the moon will not be tolerated inside. Sigh. I had hoped there would be some good pics.

Speaking of pics, I just realized that they’re allowing cameras in here, but my camera’s in my bag. Oh well. Maybe I’ll run and get it.

BRB.

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6:30

Got the camera, and the stage lights are on (sorry, I won’t be able to upload pics in real time cause this camera sucks). I’ve run into several ex-students. Security guards at each side of the stage. And we’re sitting almost directly behind one of the microphones, so we’ll be able to hear all the questions. There are HUNDREDS of people here, and the lines were really long. Only one moonbat in wackjob regalia so far (but I’ve spotted another seriously wacko moonbat I’ve known for years, but thankfully, she didn’t recognize me). The auditorium is close to full — they won’t be able to seat many more in here.

This is going to be serious fun.

An undergrad we were in line behind just came up to me and asked if she could take a picture of me in my NRA sweatshirt. So I’ve been immortalized.

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7:00

Possible moonbats at 2 o’clock. Either that, or conservatives that look like hippie wannabes. Much more likely to be moonbats. Maybe their heads will explode. Definite moonbats at 9 o’clock, drawing horns on Coulter’s pic on the program. Stealth moonbats. Shhhhh! Don’t tell anybody! There are LIBERALS here!

People are starting to get itchy. Random clapping. Don’t all these things start late?

A contingent in the back is shouting, “We want a date!” Nobody could hear what they were saying so it got real quiet in here for a minute. Funny. Ah. It begins!

“But enough about Jeanine Garaofolo’s ongoing problem with sobriety …”

They already threw out some distruptive drunk moonbats. And there was a standing ovation both for Ann, and the guards that threw the moonbats out.

She’s going off on John Kerry now. And my camera battery died.

“Bill Clinton, whose library will be the first presidential library to feature an adults-only section.”

More moonbats, and they’re being pointed out by the sane people. A chant: “Throw them out!”

Stealth moonbats — except for the nut in the sheet and the blonde wig.

“Boxer’s a great candidate for the Democrats: female and learning-disabled.”

“Liberals always like to play like they’re oppressed — so I say let’s oppress them.”

“There’s always a conflict of interest when people who don’t like America are asked to defend it.”

Another shouter. Couldn’t hear what he said — way in the back.

We’re waiting for them to get thrown out.

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Another one. And he’s being ushed out. And Q&A.

A polite question. And here’s a quiz: do you think the questioner is a conservative or a liberal?

Another polite question — though a boring one (Can you tell us about some of your cases when you were practicing law in New York?)

Another polite question, this time from (I suspect) a libertarian, about whether the drug war should be stopped.

A nutball. “Who would Jesus bomb?” Get the guys in the white coats.

Another one. “Why are you dressed like that?”

And the moonbats are parading out.

Another one, “I heard you said that women should never do anything out of the house.” Ann: “I do lots of things out of the house.”

Most of the questions have been good — but maybe that’s because most of the nutjobs are gone.

Well, not all. One moonbat, but she’s gone.

And yet another peacenik.

It’s a string of moonbats. The last good question we had was five minutes ago.

And this is the last question: What can Republicans do to get more of the black vote? And this question was from somebody I have met, and assumed was a moonbat. Interesting.

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Overall, I’m surprised there wasn’t more disruption, given the nuttiness of the student body (and faculty) at IU. Ann was a hardass about it, as she should have been, and stopped everytime some wackjob screamed something. All in all, though, it was much less of a zoo than I’d assumed it would be. She got to say what she came to say, and the uncivilized leftists who howled were tossed out on their ears.

I truly am sorry about the camera battery. I mean of all the times for it to die. But I wouldn’t have been able to get a really good closeup shot, so I guess it doesn’t make that much difference.

When one self-described liberal Christian asked her how she could defend her speaking tour, then turned around and called Ann a “nasty fucking Republican bitch,” I thought that about summed liberalism up perfectly.

And friends, I’m signing off. After I eat, I’m going to bed. I have to drive back to Pennsylvania tomorrow.

Good night.