The 2010 Smart Girl Summit In Pictures (42 Pics)

04 Oct, 2010 by John Hawkins

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This past week-end, Smart Girl Politics held its 2nd Annual Smart Girl Summit in Arlington, Virginia.

It was a two day event that had about 200 attendees. Since people are undoubtedly wondering, the ratio of women to men at the event was about 15-to-1. Additionally, percentage wise, there were more minorities at this event than most of the other conservative events I’ve been to lately. I’d say that roughly 10%-15% of the crowd were minorities.

I was there covering the event for Human Events. I also was on the journalism panel with Kerry Picket and co-moderators, Elizabeth Blackney and Melissa Clouthier. The panel went well, but unfortunately, I had a battery issue with my Flipcam Mino, so I didn’t end up getting a video of the speech.

There was an impressive array of speakers at the event including Michele Bachmann, S.E. Cupp, Dana Loesch, Debra Burlingame, Rachel Campos Duffy, Leslie Sanchez, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Liz Cheney, and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (PS: I got a chance to speak for a few moments with Cathy McMorris Rodgers. She assured me that not only does she support defunding Obamacare, but that the GOP will enthusiastically attack the funding of Obamacare if they take over Congress.)

The speakers were very good across the line and when you got a chance to talk to them away from the stage, they were extremely friendly. Just to give you an example, on Thursday night, I ran into S.E. Cupp outside the hotel. Honestly, I didn’t recognize her without the glasses — which makes me think that maybe Clark Kent’s glasses on/glasses off Superman disguise makes more sense than I may have thought at first. In any case, S.E. Cupp was just sitting around talking to bloggers and two of them later told me S.E. spent two hours plus just hanging out, enjoying their company.

Of course, we all headed out each night after the day’s festivities had ended. Usually, we started in a restaurant and ended up in a bar. All in all, it was a great event that I’d highly recommend. We had a good time at the event, we had a good time afterwards, and even though I’ve been doing this for a long time, I learned some things during the panels. So, if you’re wondering whether you should go next year, I’d definitely give the event a big thumbs up.

Now, let’s get to what everyone’s really waiting to see: The pictures. Most of these pics are of the people I hung out with at the event, although I’ve started getting into the habit of getting snaps with the political celebrities I run into as well. Enjoy!