Axis of Fedora Update Manchester NH 12:50 p.m.

Stacy McCain’s plane was run­ning a tad late but once he was in the car we scooted North. At first I believed we might try to hit the San­to­rum Event in Tilton NH for 1 p.m. but Stacy anx­ious to get an ini­tial post up asked me to keep an eye out for the first McDon­alds off of 93 north so we could post.

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The Man­ches­ter Air­port exit pro­vided such a stop but when we got out of the car the first thing we noticed was a satel­lite truck parked across the street:

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Next to the Air­port Diner

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As Stacy was anx­ious to file and less fool­hardy than me when it comes to dash­ing across busy streets he went inside to start working.

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while I inves­ti­gated what was going on across the street.

It turns out CNN was bas­ing their morn­ing cov­er­age from their morn­ing cov­er­age from the place and planned to be there tomor­row (I won­der if my friend Dana Loesch might be there tomor­row?) A crew from a Maine Tele­vi­sion sta­tion was shoot­ing and talk­ing to locals. They were kind enough to pose for me:

They had been get­ting mixed results as the nat­ural cam­paign exhaus­tion is set­ting in on folks here in NH (going first comes at a price.

I was about to leave when they pointed out that can­di­date Christo­pher Hill who I remem­bered from the Sarah Palin Tea party express event was there. I intro­duced myself and Mr. Hill was kind enough to give me some of his time:

One might ask why bother with a can­di­date who is unlikely to go very far, but Hill’s story was actu­ally the type of story I’ve heard over and over from Tea Party peo­ple. Peo­ple who over the last two years par­tic­u­larly were sick and tired of what they were see­ing in Wash­ing­ton and finally decided to DO some­thing about it. Granted for most folks get­ting involved doesn’t involve run­ning for pres­i­dent but it was and is the same drive that has made a dif­fer­ence in the last elec­tion and will likely make a dif­fer­ence in this one.

You can dis­count Mr. Hill’s quixotic pres­i­den­tial bid but those who dis­count the pas­sion that dri­ves it will shortly find them­selves in the polit­i­cal wilder­ness, just ask Ben Nel­son.

Update: Here is the ini­tial report from the National desk of Stacy McCain mean­while Angel Clark answers the ques­tion why some nice young man hasn’t snatched up Mea­gan McCain:

“If he had endorsed San­to­rum, I mean, I would be like slit­ting my wrists on the table right now,” Meghan McCain said about her father’s endorse­ment of Mitt Romney.”

There is no gen­tle­manly way to say what I’m think­ing right now so I’ll leave it at that.