Posted on 02/11/2011 10:06:58 AM PST by speciallybland
Just five years ago, the Conservative Political Action Conference still had a Doris Day feel, like a time warp to 1978, when everyone was still filled with nostalgia for 1961. Pat Boone was the musical act, and he played before a screen that showed flapping flags, rhyming the word “God” with the word “God.” It was an old stale act.
This year, I have seen several attendees with earlobe-stretching hoops, and Gary Johnson, a former New Mexico governor, got rousing applause from the main hall for declaring, “Legalize marijuana.” When Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, two icons of old conservatism, came out before the crowd on Thursday, they faced jeers of “draft dodger” and “war criminal” and a staged walkout by dozens of participants.
The reason for this shift won't even appear in the main hall until 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Ron Paul is a star here, even when he doesn't show up. When Rep. Paul Ryan, the head of the budget committee came out Thursday, he tried to connect with the youthful crowd by name dropping the superstar. “I understand that there are some Ron Paul fans here,” he said. “I'm the other Paul.”
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
His PAC was actively recruiting and subsidizing all of those rude punks at CPAC.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?301-CPAC-2011
Why don’t they create their own L(iberaltarian)PAC? Why do they have to co-opt a (formerly) conservative forum?
This is Alinsky like.
Make enough noise, and you’ll seem like a bigger group than you really are. It’s the basis of the “4 corners” strategy—put one person in each corner of the room and start shouting. It gives the impression there are people all over the room shouting, when in fact it is only 4 people.
Paul’s supporters descend on meetings like CPAC and make a lot of noise. It gives the impression they are a big presence, when in fact it is a small number of people. Proved by the fact that after the event, Paul’s influence is almost non-existant.
Very Alinsky like.
While I would not have a problem with Ron Paul appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve....I think his Don Quixote-like perennial quests for the presidency are really an excercise in futility. He will be 77 in 2012. I think we need to finde the strongest candidate pssible to take on BHO. This is a joke.
Where is the king shrimp kook alert.
STOP calling it “CPAC” and just freaking change the name to LPAC! Good Lord! QOProud and now Pot Smokers of the world Unite?! ENOUGH already!
These TEA Partiers aren’t conservative, they’re libertarians. While concerned about certain issues, they’re primary mission is to cripple and destory the Republican Party. They cannot sustain their effort as a third party.
Theirs is a poison that will allow liberalism to emerge and conservativism to whither and fade if true conservatives do not unite and stop this poison from spreading any farther inside the GOP.
The shear ignorant behavior to a former VP and others, who are conservatives, shows the dangerous path the GOP takes with Ron Paul and his hoop-eared, jack-booted thugs leading the way.
BUMP!
This annual DC gathering has gone from promoting constitutional conservatism to a three ring circus of performing libertarian kooks, Muslim radicals and GOProud homo's looking to moderate Republican Party politics. Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are CPAC's favorites. That should tell you all you need to know.
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The author of this piece is a total scumbag fellow traveler... in the worst of all connotations.
If the conglomerate of special interest groups at CPAC are unwilling to embrace the austerity measures propsed by Ron and Rand Paul under ANY circumstances in Ron Paul’s remaining lifetime, than the CPAC is truly not big “C” or small “c” conservative in ANY North American historical sense of the word, it is just another collection of big government dogooders with pork barrel interests and backroom dealings to sustain their looting of the treasury.
regards,
(still, austerity needs a better spokesman than Rand Paul, but Rand is better than his father at it)
I think your right.
I can see why some stay away now.
And it’s not where the conservative message gets out to the public anyways.
Ron Paul is a NUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Time magazine is a big fan of crack-heads and anti-American loons. Ron Paul supports are BOTH. Perfect.
Rude Punks is the perfect description for the Paul-bots.
BINGO!!!!! Just YOUTUBE “Ron Paul, Morton Downey Jr. Show”
Hilarious.
I did. First thing that came up was him pwning this big-government fat-ass...
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