CPAC
There are three stories that caught me leading up to CPAC. 1) The blind worship of keynote speaker and Fla Sen primary candidate Marco Rubio.
2) The hysterical efforts to make CPAC "fun" for 20 somethings. An XBox room with hip hop so the $20 "kids" "a place to hang while the older crowd attends the high-priced nightly dinners." Supposedly, "somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature (will come) in three times a day to come in and rally the kids."
Not a surprise that FoxNews is live hosting one of its shows from the room.
3) The multiple efforts by multiple individuals and groups to claim authorship for a new conservative manifesto. You've got Gingrich pushing his "New contract with America," Dick Army and Viguerre pushing their "Mount Vernon statement,"and the Tea Partiers with their "Contract from America."
(Just as an aside, who was the last Democrat to write a manifesto and try to claim a direction for the party?)
2) The hysterical efforts to make CPAC "fun" for 20 somethings. An XBox room with hip hop so the $20 "kids" "a place to hang while the older crowd attends the high-priced nightly dinners." Supposedly, "somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature (will come) in three times a day to come in and rally the kids."
Not a surprise that FoxNews is live hosting one of its shows from the room.
3) The multiple efforts by multiple individuals and groups to claim authorship for a new conservative manifesto. You've got Gingrich pushing his "New contract with America," Dick Army and Viguerre pushing their "Mount Vernon statement,"and the Tea Partiers with their "Contract from America."
(Just as an aside, who was the last Democrat to write a manifesto and try to claim a direction for the party?)
posted by mikevotes at
7:38 AM
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My question is, is this just a fringe group whose getting disproportionate media attention, or is this really the beginnings of a mass hysteria? I'm getting increasingly nervous with the rising demonization of Obama and the Dems as "The Other." They speak of liberals, dems, Obama in almost the same de-humanizing language they use for "Islamo-fascists".
Seriously. This is getting big-time crazy.
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-epm, at 10:49 AM
Yes. Right wing crazy pays, so we can expect to see lots more of it.
As to whether it's fringe, it is, sort of. Figure 10-25% of the country depending on which level of crazy you're talking about.
The real problem is, that they are dominating the rump Republican party right now, so in our two party system, it will be the Dem or the crazy, and depending upon the external landscape, the crazy may win by near default.
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mikevotes, at 10:55 AM
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