Posted on 02/26/2015 10:48:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Farage spoke with Daily Mail Online after a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
* The UK Independence Party leader tried to buck up American right-wingers who see their tea party goals dissolving in a sea of centrist Republicanism
* He insisted that UKIP is 'not just retired half-colonels who've always voted Conservative ... We're dragging them from across the spectrum'
* Bashed David Cameron for refusing to publicly identify ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John,' saying 'we should have heard it weeks ago'
* Complained about 'politically correct' groups like CAGE 'saying and shouting things that if you and I did them, we'd find ourselves behind bars'
* Farage addressed controversies involving Richard Crouch and Rozanne Duncan, admitting: 'Yes, we get people who say stupid things in UKIP'
Nigel Farage warned Thursday night in America that the U.S. Republican party will become a dinosaur – not an elephant – if it continues to embrace the political center.
'I suspect that if the Republican Party sticks with the establishment it will lose,' he told Daily Mail Online after a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The GOP 'has got to reach the Hispanic community, but it's also got to reach that blue-collar community that Reagan got to vote for him in huge numbers. I'm not sure at the moment that they're positioning themselves to do that.'
CPAC is an annual three-day mecca for constitutional evangelists, anti-Obamacare shock troops, full-throated abortion opponents and gun rights activists. Many of them think the Republican Party is only slightly less liberal and nanny-statist than the president.
Farage fit right in, keeping backstage handlers waiting for his appointment to test a lapel microphone while he smoked a cigar in the cold....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
CPAC is an annual three-day mecca …Uh, no. The liberals are all about Mecca.
Mecca is Obama to the MSM.
“who see their tea party goals dissolving in a sea of centrist Republicanism”
Indeed.
“He insisted that UKIP is ‘not just retired half-colonels who’ve always voted Conservative ... We’re dragging them from across the spectrum’”
Now we conservatives can do the same. Like it or not, there are A LOT of DEMOCRATS that own AR-15s and other guns.
Perhaps it’s time to bring them in, as the THREAT IS NOW REAL, not theoretical, anymore.
UKIP does bring them in across the spectrum. I have FB friends who have joined from the far left to the conservative right. Amazing.
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