“I’m not saying anyone who ever posts an internet comment is nuts….”
The main reason so many left-liberals so loathe and fear the internet is that it is a medium that favours the libertarian right. It completely bypasses all those institutions that Gramscian Marxists fought so hard to capture: broadcasters like the BBC, the liberal-dominated print media, the seats of learning. It allows real people to say what’s really on their mind, unfettered by politically correct pieties. It is part of the same grassroots phenomenon that has seen the Tea Party movement flourish in the US and it expresses a wave of public revulsion at the dishonesty and cant of our political leaders, as well as a yearning cry for liberty in the face of growing dominance by the state.
And it’s not going to go away ...
HOW DARE HE! This was supposed to be the "Republican" Political Action Conference (RPAC), not CPAC!
Ron Paul out-polled Sarah Palin almost five to one, and keynoter Glenn Beck got huge ovations as he disavowed any conservative ascendancy within the Republican Party.
So someone please tell me -- just what the heck happened to a convention that was off to such a wonderful conservative start? Where is the momentum from the Marco Rubio speech and the Dick Cheney "Obama is a one-term president" moment?
Perhaps David Keene of the American Conservative Union will be a bit more careful when picking keynote speakers from now on. What happened was predictable, given that the man he picked uses a daily TV show to make it clear that he blames Republicans, Democrats, the left and the right, and politics in general all equally for America's woes.
While Beck has a huge audience, some of these thoughts are not exactly the consensus among American conservatives. They are not consistent with reality, either. Besides, CPAC stands for Conservative Political Action Committee.
Yet, it is C. Edmund Wright (above), who fails to understand what the term conservative actually means. Because conservative, under any legitimate definition, does not equate to Republican Cheerleading Squad.
If anything, Beck's speech put a lot of enthusiasm behind new-comers like Rubio, who are determined to take the party in a different direction. And Dick Cheney? He has not one single accomplishment, in regards to restoring the constitutional representative republic our founding generations gifted us.
Sorry Mr. Wright, but the Establishment-conservative bubble, has burst!
Mike Huckabee Pouts
Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and potential 2012 candidate who had spoken at the conference for years, said the reason he blew it off this year was that the meeting has become dominated by libertarian activists.
“CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years, one of the reasons I didn’t go this year,” Huckabee said in an interview with Fox News, where he is a paid analyst and has his own show.
Huckabee just let his naivety flag fly! Any conservative who thinks "libertarian" is bad word, has a lot to learn, and the times are too serious for these bumper sticker style politics anymore.
But let's give DaTechGuy the last word:
Thanks to the generosity of the readers I had the privilege to meet hundreds of the finest people I’ve ever met. People who have spent their money and their time to get involved to change their country for the better. Some who have done this for years, many others who have done this for the first time.
I’m a big boy (and those who met me know that is truer than it should be) feel free to call me “outdated, nearly corrupt”, I can forgive that, hell I might even deserve it.
But you are now talking about friends of mine, fine gentlemen and ladies who have treated me much better than I’ll ever deserve. Some of who will be long remembered when you and I are dust.
You sir are a cad! You owe these people an apology!
What more could I add? DaTechGuy just said it all!
