Delegates wore NOBAMA T-shirts and shopped at stalls selling Obama Waffles. They were enjoying themselves, hunkering down together, declaring their difference from the grudging consensus that was coalescing, just down the road on Capitol Hill, behind Obama’s vision for America.
I ran into Joe the Plumber one more time, at a book signing at the same moment that actor Stephen Baldwin, the right-wing brother of Alec, Daniel and William, strolled across to greet him. The two burly men shared an awkward hug.
“I’ve been prayin’ for ya!” Baldwin told Joe.
Joe looked bemused. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m trying to get the conservative thing to be a little hipper here,” Baldwin responded.
He gestured to indicate the room, the conference, perhaps the conservative movement as a whole. “Because you guys could do with some help.”
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