CPAC was bizarre this year.
The fact they couldn’t define Conservative Principles tells me they don’t KNOW Conservative Principles. When the straw poll supported ru paul, I knew CPAC had gone around the bend.
Just when I was feeling optimistic about 2010.
“When the straw poll supported ru paul, I knew CPAC had gone around the bend.
Just when I was feeling optimistic about 2010.”
Well, Mitt Romney won it three times, and how did that turn out?
Your thoughts?
I would not take what happened at C-pac to be a bad omen. Based on the fact that better than 50% of the participants were 25 years of age or under is what made the straw poll what it was. It is a good thing, not a bad thing.
The road from having a skull full of mush and liberal brain wash usually finds it's way to Libertarian views as the first stop to Conservatism. The fact that so many young were interested enough to go to CPAC is a great sign.
I find myself in utter shock from some of the commets here that I have read regarding CPAC. It seems to me that there were some elements like the Birchers that were indeed worrisome to me but the straw poll was not a indicator and Romney's second place only rewards him for his hard work and for the help of his PAC in recent elections. Palin's third only shows what is the current reality. The move is to new and exciting people who have never run before by the younger players and it says nothing, nada, zip, about the 2012 elections. It just shows us that there will be a very interesting primary.
My only concern about CPAC was the Bircher presence, and I suppose it is my age that makes me leary of them as we ran them off many years ago because they are crackpots. The gay thing I could care less about as it is social crap and the Ron Paul vote was more of a equal and opposite reaction to the political move to the left by our current leadership. The left has caused more than a ripple in the political pond and it's natural to respond with equal force to the libertine, no government or minimalist views as a response.
As to immigration, I don't think it will be a issue that is very high on the mountain in 2010, so it is not a issue yet. Maybe in 2012.
CPAC is representation of the current activist temperature and not a representation of the public voting intentions. I would simply take it as that and nothing more.
From here to 2012, we do need to look at our associations, because movements are often judged by the people in them. Immigration was a self destructive exercise largely because of associations with the wrong people. Unless something has radically changed in the Bircher camps, we don't want them speaking for us. or at least I damn sure don't. As I said, that is my only concern with what I saw at CPAC. It is not a big thing now, but we should not let it become one.
The Straw Poll at CPAC was a prefect example of what happens when a bunch of youngin’s decide to stack the poll for their favorite.
They rate politicians on politics and economics not on whether they are Pro life or pro traditional marriage etc.
In other words they have sold their souls to Mammon.
Don't move to Costa Rica just yet. There's plenty of conservatism out there. It'll find its home soon enough.