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Saturday night (before I made the mistake of going to RiverSplash) I was able to attended the Waukesha County Reagan/Lincoln Dinner at the Country Springs Hotel, thanks to a few generous donors. And I was really happy to be there, and inspired to be with so many other Republicans.

The reception was rather nice; I got to touch base with a few of the volunteers from the Walker Campaign, and I’ll hopefully be seeing more of them between now and November. The State Senators and assembly were really approachable and fairly nice as well. It was great just to be able to shake hands with all of them and meet all of the area representatives, and let them know that MUCRs are more than willing to help them out campaigning this fall.

Don Taylor is awesome by the way. I’d really like to sit down one day and pick his brain about campaigns of old, being a Young Republican and listen to his stories about campaigning for Republicans like Barry Goldwater was like.

The dinner itself was pretty good. James T. Harris was a great, energizing emcee and that really knew how to work the crowd. I’m plan to start listening to his radio show, if he is half as entertaining on the show as he was at the Dinner, the show should be amazing. I also got to sit at the kids table, which was actually pretty nice because I got to meet a few future MU conservatives and some from other schools as well.

Paul Ryan was one of the speakers, probably my favorite of the evening, though that is by no means a knock to Reince Priebus or Scott Walker who also spoke. It might be an overstatement to say that he’s my generation’s version of Ronald Reagan, but its pretty close. He’s an inspirational rock star Republican that makes us proud to be conservative.

Also I’d like to comment on the McCain Town Hall that I was able to attend with about 8 volunteers, mostly from MU and some from Madison, and we all got premo seats. If you caught any of the coverage on TV you probably saw me in the fifth row behind McCain. First of all it was great to see those volunteers there and I know that what they did was appreciated. Being able to get students to an event like this gives me some added confidence going into this fall.

Things were a bit hectic at first, but overall the organization of the event was pretty good. All the people on the McCain team or RPW that I talked to about were really great people. I was really impressed by McCain as well, I feel like he’ll be slapping Obama around in all of the debates this fall. I felt like his answer to the question about social security was pretty good. I also agree about alternative fuel sources, though I disagree abouth the belief of climate change, however he skirted the issue about drilling in Alaska. And I was most surprised by the fact that the one question that caught him off guard about Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America since McCain wasn’t familiar with it and for a few moments it almost became a Paul Ryan Town Hall.

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