Oh yea. I'd trust this guys opinion.
Wouldn't you?
Posted on 02/21/2005 5:07:43 PM PST by EveningStar
Welcome to the furthest right reaches of the right: the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC for short. Here, evolution is a wild hypothesis, "Log Cabin Republican" is a slur and young women know they have to wear short skirts to get ahead.
Thursday through Saturday, young conservatives and established Republican activists got together in Washington, D.C., for the annual ritual of meeting, greeting, sitting and eating together in service of "the movement." Young activists were groomed, contacts were made and the Republican machine hummed along.
Needless to say, triumphalism permeated the proceedings. The Republicans, having just held the presidency and consolidated power in Congress, are perhaps entitled to some gloating. But out-and-out arrogance was the order of the conference, as well, and that is what threatens to undo Republican gains in the long term.
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It sounds to me like this guy really has an axe to grind and that whatever good points he may have are drowned in a sea of hyperbole.
I forget.....was Bill Clinton in CPAC???
Bitter loser. He thinks this is how conservative women succeed and live their lives?
The Log Cabin is a trojan horse designed to get the Republican Party to embrace the radical gay activist agenda -- they're non-endorsement of President Bush demonstrates that their single issue is more important to them than the party and conservatism.
Only a liberal would be upset at conservatives exercising their First Amendment rights to speak and assemble freely...
This is just another anti-Bush, anti-Republican, envious gay guy who knows how to type.
the author is an ignorant jackass
"But precious little libertarianism came from the stage, and what little did was seldom well received."
Poor little whiny libertarian. It was a Conservative conference , you nit wit!
I don't think that all Log Cabin Republicans agree with one another.
I'm a conservative Republican and I have some views that would be considered libertarian, however this guy's tone turned me off.
Oh yea. I'd trust this guys opinion.
Wouldn't you?
Please try not to make this guy's case for him, OK? :)
Ok! I won't comment on those pimples that need to be popped.
I was there.
The only thing short about the skirts was the supply of them. It was so damn cold and windy that most women wore pants.
Bad boy. ;)
Wow! Does his Mommy know where he is at 10 PM? Has he achieved puberty? Has he finished junior high yet? Where the heck do the liberal rags get such critters?????
Nothing Trojan about them (no pun intended). They've been gay advocates since before the word gay was perverted.
I walked into one of the hospitality rooms at a convention in the early 70s not knowing what they were (or what gay meant).
The food was good until I finally caught on to what they were trying to explain to me they were.
He's not a liberal. Check his blog.
The booths were great---FR had two different booths there, one national and one D.C. with a guy in pajamas.
By the way, although I'm in my 50s, I have to say that Republican women are quite beautiful on the whole. I can't imagine any Dem get together had half this many hotties.
They just had to do it, didn't they? (rolling eyes)
It was funny!
Was DQ there?
But isn't there truth in that?
You lift your skirt to get a fast boyfriend, not a job!
DQ?
Dairy Queen?
Dan Quayle?
Neither of those two were there. Did you have someone else in mind?
Conservative has usually meant small, constitutional, limited government. Barry Goldwater was far closer to a Liberterian than what the Republicans seem to be morphing into.
The party needs to keep up the push toward smaller Constitutional government, but the news from this conference doesn't look good.
Quayle, of course. Too bad he was not there. I would like to see him more active again. He took a bruising in the past from the MSM, but time has a way to heal things. Dan Quayle's a committed conservative and a man of integrity, and America can never have too many of those.
"Only a liberal would be upset at conservatives exercising their First Amendment rights to speak and assemble freely..."
I remain baffled as to why people on the right in general feel the need to eat their own to give them a so-called "independent" mindset. It's a bunch of crap. The left will accuse you of being arrogant whether you do it or not, so why not have fun and stomp the boots a bit?
Apparently, everyone is right on the edge between what is fringe right and center right, too. Am I the only one that noticed this? I hope not.
find later
To complain about triumphalism and arrogance may be just the whining of a loser. It's something that should be guarded against, to be sure, but this was a conference of and for conservatives. Fair and balanced it was not, nor IMHO should it have been.
I enjoyed Ann Coulter's speech, but the best presentation I heard was made by Newt Gingrich.
The Libertarian Party had a display, as well as the ACLU (!), the Objectivist Center and (of course) the Log Cabin Republicans. I cannot recall at any time seeing anyone speaking to the ACLU people.
I spoke to them.
I was intrigued by Barr's and Armey's involvement with them. I took their literature that claims to have won conservative victories against the government.
I haven't yet examined that claim to see if it holds water. I have considered, but have not made a decision yet, to become a member and attend some meetings to see if I can have any influence in 2nd Amendment issues. Right now the only opinion they get is their own liberal viewpoint. Perhaps if they had some input from our side, they might be able to make better decisions.
Okay, I like to dream, but I know NOT talking to them won't help. They have helped to defeat some nasty stuff in the past like the "Know your customer" plan.
Since I didn't go to listen to the speakers, I don't know for sure that he wasn't there, but I don't remember him being on the program. I think that he has moved on from politics.
| whatever good points he may have are drowned in a sea of hyperbole.
What? When did the "seal the borders" crowd get taken over by the Christians? I missed that. Our author tells us that, "This party, among its most hard-core supporters, is not about freedom anymore." What party? Was this the Republican convention? If it was, why is he surprised there weren't more Libertarians? If it's not — if it's really just a convention of everybody to the left of the Democrats — then what the Hell is he talking about? Finally, we have the provincialism of the Kid Mind. He tells us that "Santorum made the revealing choice of referring to marriage as 'the ultimate public good' -- i.e. a product or service that the government must provide because the free market won't." There is no evidence in Santorum's biography that he ever took Econ 101. He probably has no clue that "public good" is a term of art to economists. Santorum probably thinks that "public good" means "good for the public." So now we know that Ryan Sager has taken Econ 101, but he's kind of a doofus about how often big shots will sprinkle their speeches with terms they heard somewhere, but don't really understand. As the Christians would say, "I hope to God nobody paid Ryan Sager to write this drivel." It really isn't very good. It's disconnected, not a little mean-spirited, and shows a lot of evidence of having been tossed off in a hurry. Perhaps Mr. Sager got lucky with one of the short skirts on Saturday, and this piece was due on Sunday. We can hope. |
Um, Ryan, that would be the anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant crowd. Geesh...
Not everyone thought so. We (the FRN, who sponsored the national booth) were approached by no less than two officials from the American Conservative Union who asked "There's a guy walking around in his pajamas, is he with you?
Now that's crackerjack writing that lost me before the sentence was over. Ugh!
CPAC ping! (Barf Alert)
ping!
I do have a pretty sophomoric sense of humor but I try to know my audience. ;)
Exactly.
I consider the border tha same as I do my front door.
Approach in a non threatening manner, knock, and ask for permission to enter.
Coming in any other way could get you shot, regardless of race, color or creed.
Perfectly said, Badray.
The ACLU has a lot to prove with me. If they were consistant, I'd consider backing them, but I don't like their 2nd amendment stance at all, and I think they censor religion when they shouldn't.
Don't be so close minded, DM!
:) HA! Just kidding!
check out post 36
BTTT!!!!!!
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I think so. He tells us that Tamar Jacoby was booed for defending GWB's immigration reforms, but says "the message" in the boos was that "We Christians can do this alone."