Last week the annual meeting of the best and brightest minds in the conservative movement met in Washington, the Conservative Political Action Conference…it was billed as a meeting of the students, campaigns, activists and us mere mortals…..for the reason to strengthen the conserv movement….if that is truly their aim……then they failed miserably! (I told you I was a political junkie)……..
As usual the participants were a list of the “usual suspects”….we had Rubio, the Pauls, Perry, Newt, Mitt, Cain and the newest darling of the movement, Santorum…..and they all took a shot at being the center of the conservative universe, at least or 10 or 5 minutes…..there was such forums and classes as….conservative dating…..and a class on the failure of multiculturalism given by a racist…..then there is the felon Ralph Reed, a proven fraud with media ties and the most powerful man in Washington that NEVER had to face an election……if the conserv movement wants to be taken more seriously then maybe find some more reputable people to lead the movement…..
I watched, whenever I could, the doings going on and let me say first…..I looked for that outstanding person that would be the savior of the party and all I saw was a “one note charlie”…..if this was a meeting of the best and brightest minds, why then is the one issue that was heard is “Obama sucks”…though thinly veiled all speeches basically said the same thing…..”Obama Sucks”………and the inevitable attacks on liberals as somehow a treasonous movement…..but the most prominent idea coming out of CPAC 2012 was…..OBAMA SUCKS!
There was a wealth of attempted humor….a wealth of criticism…….a bunch of one liners….and a mess of attempts t creating bumper stickers…..but there was NOTHING as far as ideas go….I regret to say to my friends that are conservatives……if this is the best that the conserv movement has then you guys are so screwed!
Without any truly new ideas or policies…the conserv movement will become an even bigger joke than they are today……..