Posted on 03/04/2013 5:01:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What happens at CPAC 2013 will divide the past from the future. Conservatives will chose between nostalgic pleasantries or a dynamic horizon. Conservatives will consolidate one way or another. In my view, conservatives will choose the future and they will choose Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin.
There is a division today in what is called conservatism, although it should be called something else. It has been forming for several years and will come to clarity and decision in CPAC 2013. The new directions — states’ rights, sound money and constitutional government — of what might be called the gnarly conservatives will come to clash with traditional or what might be called "nice" conservatives (“the establishment”). The nice: Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Dr. Ben Carson. The gnarly: Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent.
Since last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved from participant to key speaker at the CPAC conference. Cruz will take leadership, and a rising conservative movement will begin to form and will run the century.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin writes this morning: “The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is taking a lot of guff, rightly so, I think, from conservatives over excluding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and groups like GOProud from its gathering. When the newest conservative hero, Dr. Ben Carson, tells you you’ve screwed up, maybe it is time to rethink the strategy of systematically shrinking the tent.”
And there you have it in a nutshell...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Sadly so will "Me Too Mitt"!
I wonder who will have more support......
Yes, she will also speak at these two events:
Governor Sarah Palin to Deliver Keynote Address at Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Award Gala
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986454/posts
Sarah Palin Heads Roster at Leadership Forum at Southeastern University (Florida)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993112/posts
Sounds like the COUNTRY likes them, since they won elections.
Remember, that Ford Beat out Reagan in Kansas City in 1976 and promptly lost.
Then Reagan and George Bush went at in 1980, remember "spookynomics?", so to please the GOP-E Reagan chose GHWB as his running mate the rest is history.
The History of the GOP pushing Moderate after Moderate on us, then choosing VP candidates with more "gravitas" to placate the conservatives. This was most prominent in '08 and '12.
Thanks for the replies. It’ll be interesting to see how she positions herself over ther next two or three years, and the same for Ted Cruz.
Someone needs to be ready to head the next Bush off at the pass.
Yes, last I heard she will be there and she will be speaking.
Sadly so will “Me Too Mitt”!
I wonder who will have more support......
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I would support Sarah Palin in a heartbeat and over anyone else. I am liking what I see in Ted Cruz and I find Dr. Ben Carson interesting, but I still don’t know enough about him.
I will not support Christie or Bush.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Ronald Reagan - CPAC 1975
Cruz is off to a great start but the eGOP is going to bury him. Cruz is the complete opposite of the eGOP as far as I have seen, so if he doesn’t fall in line with the eGOP they will cut off all support.
Like my tagline, huh? LOL
I would submit that both Coolidge and Reagan had strong Libertarian beliefs that strengthened their understanding of the Founders knowledge and teachings, especially the precepts of Natural and Common Law instead of Statutory or Man-made Law. We need more like them.
We do have one, but half the people here like nothing better than to ding her.
No way near half, but a small group of repetitious, agenda driven loud mouths spouting MSM, liberal pundit and liberal comedian talking points on just about every Palin thread.
It's easy to determine their true character by who they parrot almost word for word.
Real liberals or dupes of liberals are one and the same to me at this stage of the game, worthless for the fight ahead.
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On that I wholeheartedly agree!
George Soros spent sixty or so million dollars on his Secretary of State Project. Obama cut his teeth working in Project Vote, an Acorn spin-off. We have no audit trail for voting, nor any way to reconstruct one. Germany and Israel, among a few representative governments, use paper ballots. Germany recognized the fraud and returned to paper. Israel is under some pressure to replace their paper with machines, but too many of their world class automation engineers have shown the frailty of machines. Automated voting, scanners, touch screen machines have virtually all been penetrated, and by grad students, often as term projects.
Our parties have both resisted a return to verifiable voting processes. Today audit trails don't exist, but few care. Many states have paid crony voting equipment vendors to replace last year's equipment, the machines found to have stubbornly flipped votes, and to have been hacked by so-and-so.
Alan West challenged his election, and challenged, and challenged. Every challenge resulted in different results, but he not only faced deep - taxpayer funded - pockets, and crooked judges, but probably realized, if he didn't before, that there were no data to verify the result, even as he uncovered more and more fraud. The best he could have hoped for would be a new election, one which would have cost his constituency millions, and one which the courts would probably have thwarted.
Without trustworthy elections political discussion is masturbation. It may make some feel good, but there can be no results from the effort. Without paper ballots, counted in the the same room, in full view of volunteers from all parties, with the ballots secured and stored unless there is a court ordered recount, elections tell us what the SEIU wants us to hear - and they are very clever propagandists. They want to divide what power centers that could coalesce to resist their complete control of our government. Claims of recalcitrant voting groups serve the purpose. We don't know that Mitt Romney lost the election. We don't know how Jews or Blacks, or Hispanics voted. We don't know how many people voted. We do know that many precincts reported more voters for Obama than there were eligible adults. We know that precincts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan reported over one hundred percent of registered voters voting when typical participation was seldom over forty percent.
No SEIU employee would dare report the truth. Most of them are unlikely to have any role in the counting, except for absentee ballots, also counted by the SEIU in most states. Numbers are reported from behind an impenetrable wall. Observers are allowed in some states, but their value is low to none, since if there is any paper or electronic trail, it is entirely managed by SEIU operatives, and very few, who are both well-paid, and fully aware of the price for exposing the fraud.
Mitt Romney should know about this enormous problem. Perhaps he assumed that there are checks in the process? Perhaps Mitt presumed, as have so many, that the damage caused by revealing how completely unverifiable our voting processes are would lead to a struggle - possible violence? Perhaps he believes it is a sovereignty issue; states manage their elections through their secretaries of state? Our government is being destroyed, in large part, because elections do not represent the wisdom of voters.
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