Hot chicks with conservatives edition!
Patrick Poole says bloggers were the red-headed stepchildren of CPAC, and adds:
This year’s CPAC was the largest on record. It was encouraging to see the large herds of students moving throughout the hotel. Unfortunately, the constant theme those students heard during this year’s CPAC was that the proper role of the conservative movement is as cheerleader for the GOP.
I must strongly dissent. Ever since George H.W. Bush violated his no new taxes pledge and announced the appointment of David Souter to the Supreme Court, the conservative movement has been the victim of nearly two decades of serial gang rape by the Republican Party and its leadership (George H.W. Bush, Trent Lott, Bob Dole, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Denny Hastert, George W. Bush, et al.).
Tying our fortunes to the Republican Party is the worst mistake that conservatives have made during the past half-century. Our salvation does not reside with the GOP, but by distancing ourselves from it. Many of this year’s CPAC speakers are the very architects of our political exile. Rather than coming to us in sackcloth and ashes for their total failure of leadership, they came with red meat one-liners intended to distract the crowd.
(h/t Joe, in comments)
That Michelle Muccio appears to me the most fit to the modifier. Let’s intensify it, what say? Blazing baby, scorches the eyes.
But bloggers remain red headed step children…Roger your blacklisting yourself was very successful.
Angela Saunders with Coloured Balls: Rule 5 Sunday…
Dan Collins tries to get into the act, linking to Robert Stacy McCain’s post on the CPAC Youth Movement (suck on that, NYT!). But RSM pleads tired, sleepy, so no Rule 5 goodness until later this afternoon; and I’ve a gun show to attend, so here’s……
Hot Air Force One Jet Setting Kathleen Parker tells us why Jindal was not so hot.
Tying our fortunes to the Republican Party is the worst mistake that conservatives have made during the past half-century. Our salvation does not reside with the GOP, but by distancing ourselves from it.
What does this dipshit expect conservatives to do, run off with that lunatic Alan Keyes to some fringe party? What a shit stupid notion.
This year I had the pleasure to be one of the official bloggers for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which is winding down as I write.
dork. They picked you a cause you are a dork in fitting with the dorkfest you were covering I think.
I must strongly dissent.
Who do you think you are, Jared Padalecki?
Bereft of ideas and locked in an abusive relationship with a political party that has shown nothing but contempt for conservatives, CPAC represents what is wrong with the conservative movement. In terms of representing the way forward for conservatives, CPAC is an epic fail.
CPAC is an epic fail. No shit, Mr. Anti-terrorism Consultant. You couldn’t see that from the agenda before you got there? Christ.
I kind of make fun of block voters, like blacks voting 05% for Democrats regardless of who the Dem is. Ditto gays, feminists, environmentalists, welfare queens, anti-wat peaceniks. They tie themselves to a party without ever considering what happens if the party quits caring about their issues and only pumps them for votes and money.
The GOP is not the party of conservatives. They despise us as much as the Democrats do. So why should I be tied to them? Because “where else will I go?” Not a convincing argument, and it’s apparent from their willingness to promote conservative policies that they need my real vote far more than I need their fictional leadership.
But I’ve already ditched the “R” after my name for “I,” so your mileage may vary.
Grrr. That should be “95%” and anti-“war.” Darn typing fingers… they’re letting me down.
The Left wanted Iraq to fail? But you knew this already:
“I wanted the Bush policy on Iraq to fail because the war and the ideas it was based were in complete opposition to my basic principles about how The United States should use its wealth and power. However, I was hoping that a magic genie would be found in Baghad that would create a situation where Bush’s policies didn’t work but with no loss of life, damage to property, expense or harm to our nation’s reputation.”
The problem is – I’m not Bobby Jindal so I don’t believe in magic.
So I repeat – damn right I wanted the Iraq war to fail.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/why-limbaugh-is-right-to_b_170815.html
At least he is honest, I disagree with most of the politics but a thought provoking article about Limbaugh and the left…
That’s sort of overreacty I think Ella. Mostly doesn’t it come down to a few wide-stancey R senators? Like 30 or so?
35?
I don’t see conservatives taking over the Republican Party anytime soon. I also don’t hold out much hope for the Burge/Goldstein OUTLAW ticket, sad as that is to admit. In the words of our esteemed host and CPAC lizard, we are screwed.
I think I’m going to make a pint of mojitos.
“The GOP is not the party of conservatives. They despise us as much as the Democrats do.”
That’s just as fucking delusional as saying the democrat part is not the party of leftists. We have a two party system. That’s not changing. By not supporting the Republicans, you are directly supporting the democrats. To believe otherwise is childish.
I’d be happy to join in with you happyfeet in naming names. I’ll start.
Top o’ the list we can do better without (and I know it’s cheating a little to take the easy ones first, maybe I shouldn’t, but fuck it):
Arlen Spector
Olympia Snowe
Susan Collins
John McCain
Lindsey Graham
Chuck Grassley
Richard Lugar
Mel Martinez (cheating again, I know, ’cause gone anyway)
Lisa Murkowski
George Voinovich (cheating, ibid)
Lamar Alexander
Richard Burr
Robert Bennett
Thad Cochran
Mike Crapo
John Ensign
That’s only like 16 so far, but I’ll retire to let you carry on.
Because you’re either with us or against us. If you’re against us, you might as well be with the terrorists.
Oops, slipped and fell into a pile of jackassery. Now I need a shower.
Jim Bunning for sure … corruption scandal waiting to happen, plus he’s not of this era
Judd Gregg … you can’t say he’s not a moron. You just can’t.
Pat Roberts … nothing personal but time to go
Kay Hutchison … same. it’s just time
ok so 20
David Vitter
John Thune
Orin Hatch
Mike Enzi
’tis easier to type the pro-ones
sessions
demint
coburn
king[iowa]
cantor
is pence on this list/ i think i remember a bad vote he had?
I am just as disgusted with the GOP as the next conservative. We need to reform the party, kick out the blue-bloods and have ourselves a genuine alternative. The hippies purged their conservatives from the Democrats, why not purge the hippies from the GOP?
Third party won;t cut it, I am afraid. All Perot did was give us Clinton.
It is easier to count the keepers pdbuttons, if only because they’re so many fewer. But King, Cantor and Pence be Reps, not Sens.
We need to reform the party, kick out the blue-bloods and have ourselves a genuine alternative.
Judging by the performance so far of new RNC head Michael Steele, I really don’t see any reform, purging, or house-cleaning happening.
we talking sens? [sense-seance-i made a funny!]
my mistake/
Outlaws!
and RedState on Little Bobby Jindal!
H/T: Allah
I’m disgusted with the GOP and I’m not even a conservative I don’t think. I’m gonna go see if Lean Pockets are still on sale at Ralph’s. Outlaw!
Also they have these new quesadilla ones.
we talking sens?
Jeez buttons, who know? What if MaObama’s Great Leap Forward turns into Elphinstone’s Retreat from Kabul? The big proggie experiment is such a clusterfuck, that, 4 years down the road, any “clean, articulate” GOP candidate just has to show up on time? We aren’t going to end up with a conservative party, let alone candidate, and in all honesty will mean sighing as we pull the lever again. As usual, the “least worst option” will apply.
The Ballad of Ace and Allah
The problem with that theory is that Brakabama won’t have any primary opposition which will free up democrats to vote for the shittiest republican running.
this was a thing at Ace person’s site baldilocks found. It is very sad. Barack Obama is such a loathsome fuck sometimes I just marvel.
It’s the weekend, ccoffer. No one’s paying me to think.
Oh. There are lots more piles of jackassery, waiting out there. Best be careful.
Coburn voted for the bailout. That was really the end for me with the Republican Party en toto. I called every representative in Oklahoma – Inhofe (against), my representative John Sullivan, Tom Cole, Mary Fallon, Frank Lucas (against), and Dan Boren – and Tom Cole’s office actually had the gall to tell me that if Coburn voted for it, why couldn’t I see that there must be some good in it and just accept it?
Coburn voted for Evil. It has been a long road, from Katrina and Harriet Miers to amnesty to the bailout, but I am done with the Republican Party. They’re out for their own power and their own remuneration, and they are (like everyone in government) people without honor or salvagable souls.
There are only a handful of exceptions to being Evil, and I just assume that their evil is dormant, else why would they be in government to begin with?
Anyone who voted for the TARP crap is stricken off my good list. Ditto amnesty. And that takes care of about the entire GOP delegation.
So, getting to the important matters, does the red haired homo sapiens in the picture look like Kelsey Grammer with a wig?
#31 “The problem with that theory is that Brakabama won’t have any primary opposition which will free up democrats to vote for the shittiest republican running.”
We can hope they think that Sarah is the shittiest republican candidate. :-)
I think that Poole is largely full of crap. I spent most of my time at CPAC either talking with people there or getting to know the bloggers who were there. I didn’t see the same thing he did, at all. Not only is he dead wrong about how CPAC treated bloggers, but he’s also wrong about who the people there are “tying their fortunes to”.
I only saw Poole one of the days and it seemed that whenever I came back by Bloggers Row he was sitting in the same seat, as if he had never moved. I can’t say that he spent the whole day there, but it sure as hell looked like it from my point of view.
However, if he had gotten out, he would have seen a ton of people, most of them young, who are more than ready to throw their shoulders into pushing the GOP into a far more conservative direction than it’s been heading the past decade.
Jimmie: I’ve been linking to you all weekend, and I also wrote about Poole. Mind you, I’m at home in my pj’s. I watch CPAC on Fox. But this point about Wilders getting a cold shoulder was confirmed by Pam Atlas. May Poole sat around all day. That doesn’t mean that his point about terror panels being non-existent is wrong.
Chaulk this up as one of these “agenda items” resulting from this this three-day gab-fest and shoulder-throwing event.
The first thing Republicans have to do is close primaries to prevent Dems from choosing our candidates.
From the GOP point of view, their biggest problem now is the diminishment of what used to be their greatest strength: Party discipline. The GOP is in a position where large blocs of voters don’t turn out for candidates anymore, mostly out of disgust. But it used to be that even when you disagreed, you still turned out to vote and support aganst the Dems.
For the conservatives, their biggest problem is in being conflated with the GOP to the point that they take cons for granted. They’ve stopped earning your vote.
Backwhen there used to be at least eleven cents’ worth of difference between them.