Cheney, Romney, McCain Take the Stage At CPAC

If you, like me, couldn't make it this year, you can still join in the choppy, slow-buffering fun via the C-SPAN live video feed.  Cheney has just begun his address and Mitt is due up at 12:30, followed by McCain at 3:00.

There's also a special feed set up to aggregate all the posts from the CPAC bloggers so you can stay on top of the excitement (it also has a bit of a lag).

If you need your updates faster, Michelle Malkin is liveblogging (presumably, through all three keynotes).

“To boo or not to boo?” is the hot question regarding McCain’s speech. One registrant told me last night that conference organizers warned him not to boo when he joked about it. Several groups are mobilizing various protests.

Having been on the receiving end of such theatrics on college campuses, I would prefer the recommendation of one Hot Air reader–who recommended this morning that the audience just sit in absolute dead silence.

That would speak volumes.

It would also afford McCain a modicum of the kind of respect he has long refused to show the conservative base.

I hope that McCain’s opponents will not rudely interrupt him before he has a chance to even make his case, such as it is. On the other hand, if he’s going to stand here and trash the base, condescendingly tell them to “calm down,” etc., grass-roots conservative activists have every right to make their feelings known.

President Bush and Mike Huckabee are the featured attractions tomorrow.