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Saturday, February 11. 2012
CONSERVACON
Thank God it’s Friday.What does that even mean anymore? Most Americans work a six-day workweek, seven if they have two or three jobs. And then you have people like me who don’t go to a job and one day feels like any other day. Oh yeah, Friday, big deal.
Don’t even know what to write about. Just watched Mit Romney’s speech to CPAC in Washington, D.C. CPAC, the convention called, “CONSERVACON” by Martin Bashir of MSNBC (I thought it was clever), is always an entertaining event. Historically it’s been put together and sponsored by the American Conservative Union and just in the past few years, co-sponsored by the TheTeaparty.net.
What happens at CONSERVACON is Republicans and other conservatives get up on a stage and publicly spout the most insane nonsense, all in an effort to woo the base of the base of the Republican Party, the people who believe the president is a secret Muslim Manchurian Candidate, a Palestinian Candidate if you will, who was born in Kenya, installed in the United States by secret Muslim operatives to turn the U.S. into a Socialist-Fascist Muslim nation that follows Sharia Law, while remaining a Socialist-Fascist nation. How all of that is logically possible eludes me, but who am I to question.
To be honest, I’m still trying to figure out how President Obama can be a Socialist and a Fascist at the same time.For the most part, the speakers follow that lead and the basic message is, “OBAMA IS DESTROYING AMERICA!” End quote. The challenge for them is to come up with the most unique, creative way to say that and therefore get the biggest, loudest applause.
Romney threw out some red meat, as pundits like to call it, but he is by no means the most conservative — and outlandish — of the lot, he just wanted to play one on TV. He didn’t get the biggest, loudest applause. He got some decent attaboys, but others got more.
Like Herman Cain. He got a huge ovation when he said, “… we have to outsmart the stupid people!”
Okay, let’s go with that for a moment. If stupid people are … err … stupid, how hard is it to outsmart them? And if the stupid people are currently winning this fight, what does that say about you, the one being outsmarted by stupid people? Just asking.
The real treat for the comically minded are the workshops. They even have one for dating, including how to infiltrate Socialist-type gatherings for picking up and then taking advantage of, socialist-minded girls. Seriously.The featured speaker is the so-called “pick-up artist,” Wayne Elise. In his defense, Elise says he’s in a very monogamous marriage and only trains people to communicate with each other, but what made him famous was teaching men how to approach and talk to women in order to get laid. Some would probably question that philosophy …
Also in his defense, he’s also been a juggler, escape artist magician and stand-up comic.
Other workshops include The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American Identity. Well, what’s that all about? Judging from the speakers, it’s about making the United States an English-only nation. But the title of the workshop attacks diversity, as if recognizing the many cultures that are now active in the United States is a bad thing.
“Most especially this Mexican thing. They speak a foreign language and everyone knows they got here illegally. And then they have the temerity to speak that language around me. Don’t you just hate it when you’re on the bus and a couple of Mexicans in the seat behind you are speaking Mexican?”Part of the English-only agenda is to make government forms available in English only, that phone message trees be available in English only. This would somehow save money and maybe it would in the short term, but what of the consequences? There’s a reason governments — and businesses — started providing their services and products in more than one language: it made good sense.
For government purposes, being multi-lingual helped immigrants get out of poverty faster and for businesses, it opened their U.S. markets to millions more customers who might otherwise avoid their products or services because they can’t understand English.
But this isn’t about racism, I mean, the Right’s attack on “diversity.” But it begs the question: what do African-Americans, Hispanics and other non-Caucasian ethnicities, not to mention women, see in the Republican Party? They’ve been against equal rights for women and African-Americans and now they are passing laws that will allow law enforcement to stop Hispanics just for being Hispanic, so the police can check their papers. Sort of like Nazi Germany did as it began its genocide of European Jews.
Anyway, back to CPAC. Anne Coulter — The Harpy — had a panel on Friday titled, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America. The “liberal mob!” That’s just a wonderfully funny visual! Does take much imagination to figure out what she had to say; it’s the same crap she’s been spewing for the past 15 years.Chris Christie spoke on the main stage, as did the forgotten Sarah Palin. Apparently she is still relevant to someone. The usual nutcrackers were featured: Brent Bozell, Al Cardenas and Senator Jim DeMint. He’s a real legislator. His idea on governance: don’t compromise with the other side. DeMint used the Super Bowl for an analogy: “I can guarantee you that coach Tom Coughlin did not tell his Giants to go out on the field and work with those other guys …”
No, but he did tell them to play ball with the Patriots.
Other speakers included a host of Teabagger favorites: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, fresh from her failed campaign for president, Andrew Breitbart, the man behind the goofy kid and his sidekick acting like a pimp and ho to bust ACORN, big mouth radio host Laura Ingraham, former presidential aspirant and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Governor Bobby Jindal — wait, wasn’t he all smiles when he accepted the stimulus money in 2009? I guess President Obama’s ideas aren’t all bad for the man who gave the goofiest response to a State of the Union Address.
Even Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who will probably get kicked out of office when Wisconsin holds its recall election later this year. He’s been getting a lot of money from the Koch Brothers to fight the recall, but that may not be enough.Another Wisconsinite, Representative Paul Ryan who put together a budget plan the did away with Medicare and laid the groundwork for eliminating Social Security.
So many other speakers worth mentioning, like Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, but so little time or space. Hell, I didn’t even get this finished for Friday. It’s Saturday already, but like I said, nothing much to note of note. CONSERVACON 2012 was really no different than it has been since its inception. If CPAC is the most entertaining part of my week, then thank God for the weekend.
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