Oh, CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) — You never fail to disappoint with the amount of crazy you hold.
From Santorum to Rand Paul to Bachmann to Palin to Trump to Coulter to Gingrich to Scott Walker to Mitt Romney to Marco Rubio to Paul Ryan to Wayne LaPierre to Allen West etc., every year you remind all of America of why President Obama won in 2008 and again in 2012.
The obliviousness too their woes as a party is almost comical. No wait… it is comical.
From Rubio selling his water bottles playing off his horrendous flub of a State of the Union reply to Sarah Palin joking about her “rack” drinking a big gulp and saying Washington is like reality TV… well she would know.
The whole thing is like a winner takes all in a game show titled “how outrageous can we sound?” and then the winner gets to take home an AR-15 and a Gadsden Flag.
If they’re not slamming one another, they’re ignoring other members of their party exist or the fact that they ever even tried to run for the highest office in the land, and then they don’t even invite members of the GOP which would actually bring in independent and minority votes.
It’s almost as if they want to have their only little “members only” club, have their requirements for entry, and then disavow all others.
They push lies about liberals because they know they’ll get applause. They throw out words like communist and socialist and leftist like stinky fish to a crowd of hungry seals.. and they’ll keep barking for more.
The GOP is becoming more and more of an utterly conformist “conservative” niche group like a tree with no branches that will never bloom because they can’t see that they are their own problem. They bad mouth minorities wanting “special rights” or call them out for needing welfare (even though GOP policy places and keeps most people on the welfare programs they are on by feeding the rich and crushing the poor, and heaven forbid Democrats don’t just want to sweep people under the rug).
I mean the man who won the CPAC straw poll (Rand Paul) is the same man who opposes gay marriage, voted against the Violence Against Women Act, and said of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, “It’s not all about race relations, it’s about controlling property, ultimately.”
If the GOP doesn’t start realizing they are becoming the shrinking minority of thought in this nation they will bury themselves in their own absurdity and absolute bigotry.
… and you know what?! Let them.
The GOP Philosophy: Back Gay Marriage For Cash
After GOP Sen. Rob Portman publicly backed gay marriage, many Republican leaders softened their tune, straying from their party’s traditional platform. One may ask why the switch? According to a recent post on Politico—money. I couldn’t agree more. The GOP has been scrambling to redefine their party and reach out to voters whom they’ve alienated since their failed attempt to take back the White House in 2012. As public polls on gay marriage overwhelmingly tip the ball to the Democrat’s court, it becomes glaringly obvious that the Republican anti-gay marriage stance is a losing issue with voters. Losing issues don’t win elections and they don’t raise money. No one knows this better than GOP money man Karl Rove, who recently took the airwaves on “This Week” and backed up the notion that a Republican presidential candidate could publicly admit support for gay marriage.
The GOP’s obsession with culture wars has often rattled the nerves of donors. As a top GOP fundraising operative stated:
Will we see the GOP support gay marriage? No. What we will see is a more “neutral stance.” Even Tea Party unicorn rider, Rand Paul, has encouraged a “neutral stance” on gay marriage. Why? Money. Sit back and watch potential 2016 GOP candidates dance around gay rights and soften their tune. Will it work? Maybe in the short-term, but voters don’t forget—especially gay voters. You can’t punch someone in the face for decades and then tell them you’re “neutral” on punching.