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Bizarre Sight Of The Day
A Sam Brownback supporter with a lip ring. The evil grasp Britney Spears has on our youth has even infiltrated CPAC. The terrorists have won. You may go home now. For more, check out our Conservative Failure page
Blogger Ethics Panel Time
Rudy Giuliani was glowingly introduced today by a member of the so-called liberal media, Washington Post columnist George Will. Will assured the audience that Giuliani's conservatism is "the flavor of Margaret Thatcher's" and "produced the 8 consectutive years of the...
More Old Ideas Please
I've yet to hear any conservatives recognize that they are suffering from a "secular problem". But the closest anyone has come is US News' Michael Barone. In a morning panel on the '08 landscape, he cautioned conservatives not to look in the past for another Reagan,...
"The Rich Are Getting Screwed"
So that's what's wrong with our economy. At an afternoon panel on taxes, Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation, lamented that despite six years of tax cuts mainly for the wealthiest, we haven't completely destroyed our progressive tax system. After a slide presentation...
Osama, Zawahiri, Britney
On a panel about social issues, panelists were asked if, when choosing a presidential candidate, protecting America from terrorism is more important than banning abortion and denying equal marriage rights -- the argument for Rudy Giuliani. Robert Wright of the Media...
Quote of the Day (So Far)
When society tolerates deviance ... it normalizes deviance ... lesbianism among young women has risen dramatically in the last 10 years alone. And that is certainly due to media and advertising, and certainly also because of the fact that we decide to tolerate it. --...
Bring The Hate
As I alluded to in that last post, conservatives appear to believe hating on immigrants is the ticket back to power. As Schlafly urged her brethren to reach out to the "Reagan Democrats" whose "jobs have been taken away," she ramped up the demagougery, hysterically...
Conservatives Are Cranky In the Morning
The blame game is in full effect. Conservatives are not blaming themselves and their failed ideology, but President Bush and the Republican leadership for not being conservative enough. The conservative movement pioneer Richard Viguerie railed against "Big Government...
The Conservatives' "Secular Problem"
Today through Saturday, when Republicans and conservatives gather in Washington for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, will they face up to the biggest obstacle preventing them from connecting with voters? Their "secular problem." Lots of ink has...
Welcome to the CPAC LiveBlog!
How will conservatives handle their colossal failure to govern? Will they blame Dubya? Will they claim they weren't conservative enough? Unlike their president, will they actually admit mistakes? To find out, we're in the belly of the beast, blogging live from the...
