A collective of right-wing mea culpas
CPAC: Conservatives’ group-therapy session
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Friday, March 15, 3:41 PM
If this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference were a papal conclave, black smoke would be billowing from the chimney at the Gaylord Convention Center.
The cardinals of the conservative movement, assembling for their annual confab, skipped the usual recitations of their common creed in favor of an emotional and inconclusive argument over what had gone wrong with their movement, how it could be fixed, and who, in a puff of white smoke, could lead them to spiritual renewal.
Was the problem technological inferiority? Greedy consultants? Lackluster candidates? Failure to reach women, Latinos or Asians? Were the media to blame? A muddled message? Or were they just not conservative enough?
“The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” diagnosed Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian ophthalmologist from Kentucky. Young voters “want leaders that won’t feed them a line of crap,” he said.
(More here.)
If this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference were a papal conclave, black smoke would be billowing from the chimney at the Gaylord Convention Center.
The cardinals of the conservative movement, assembling for their annual confab, skipped the usual recitations of their common creed in favor of an emotional and inconclusive argument over what had gone wrong with their movement, how it could be fixed, and who, in a puff of white smoke, could lead them to spiritual renewal.
Was the problem technological inferiority? Greedy consultants? Lackluster candidates? Failure to reach women, Latinos or Asians? Were the media to blame? A muddled message? Or were they just not conservative enough?
“The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” diagnosed Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian ophthalmologist from Kentucky. Young voters “want leaders that won’t feed them a line of crap,” he said.
(More here.)
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A few years ago conservatives were criticized for walking in lock-step. Now they are being criticized for having diversity of those. Will those on the left side of the aisle ever be happy?
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