A Moment When I Have To Say "No, Your Other Right"

I Had No Idea (CPAC Spells "Orgy" To Conservatives)

It sounds like conservatives are NOT making web videos of what's really happening at CPAC:

 The day's speeches have ended and conference-going night revelers are about,...My balcony door is open wide, and the bustling din from several parties across the cavernous vestibule soaks the room.

...I'm certain that the vast majority of CPAC attendees, both young and old, are as appalled and embarrassed by these drunken yuck monkeys as am I.


But I think the very fact that these blazer-clad, Cro-Magnon morons could even imagine, for a moment, that it's somehow cool to publicly chant "F**k Obama!" – or "F**k" anything for that matter – speaks to a much larger problem, not just within the conservative movement, but, more importantly, within our entire culture.

…Hitherto it has been "progressives" alone dumping buckets of moral relativist poison into the Potomac. But, in the last decade or so, self-styled "conservatives" have likewise begun drinking the subjectivist Kool-Aid,...

I really like the term "yuck monkeys" for whites:

Look forward to it,...

Dog Whistle Politics Brings Out The Zombie's Rhetoric

Introducing the opening act at CPAC 2014, Marji Ross, the publisher of Regnery Books, inadvertently revealed where the emphasis in conservative oratory lies these days when she announced: “The speakers you will hear from will shock, delight, amaze, inform, incense and inspire you.” Only one of her six verbs, “inform,” evokes substance,…

Respectable Negroes Don't Like The Right's Ben Carson

Give me strength.

I watched Ben Carson's CPAC speech last night and wasn't impressed - the man's hardly electrifying. But I noticed Chauncey DeVega (of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes) watched it, too, and he really ain't havin' it. 

This is how the drafting of Ben Carson looks to blacks.

He ain't havin' it, he ain't havin' it, and, as far as he's concerned, this-will-not-stand:

 "Carson's role,...a black human mascot and cheerleader for the White Right,...

...Ben Carson’s fulfilling of the Republican Party’s fantasy that African-Americans are somehow hoodwinked and bamboozled in their decades of support for the Democratic Party is the first lie.

Here, Republicans, movement conservatives, and the White Right have reframed centuries of black citizenship and struggles for freedom into a narrative wherein African-Americans are dumb, stupid, and childlike.

Apparently, African-Americans are not reasoning and sophisticated citizens capable of making their own decisions in the service of collective self-interest. No. They are stuck on a “plantation” and need black conservatives such as Ben Carson and Herman Cain to rescue them.

...Carson is a placebo, a fake drug and a high, a salve for Republicans. His purpose, like that of other black conservatives, is to be human chaff, an ointment, which relieves them from the mountain of evidence and charges that the Republican Party is a racist organization.

This is NOT the version of "Good Times" I'm used to watching.

A placebo? Wow - a homeopathy metaphor! I like this guy. It IS funny how the very people who claim not to see race, all of a sudden, have found a black man to run with their philosophy - and they know it's an obviously hypocritical race play (and an attempt at racial manipulation) but, desperate, they're plowing ahead anyway, no matter how it looks.

"The case for Carson is all about math and race. Carson is African-American and his supporters think that will be his path to victory."

This black? Good luck with that.

Whites (and Ben Carson himself) seem confused. Sure, blacks notice when a new player is on the field, but it's not like we see another face like ours and lose our minds. It's insulting. Any black person will see through it. And - especially because of that - Ben Carson will appeal to very few.

All aboard the night train!

Hell, considering the readership of We Are Respectable Negroes - and TMR - it appears he's lost more than few already,…

 

Rand Paul & Mitch McConnell Abandon The Tea Party

"Sen. Paul says he’s focused on making GOP bigger, not taking Cruz’s approach"

“I think we are going to crush them everywhere,” Mr. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, said in an interview, referring to the network of activist organizations working against him,...“I don’t think they are going to have a single nominee anywhere in the country.”

I Am Convinced "Color Blind" Means You Ignore Racism

In a country this diverse, it couldn't be helped:

"On the second day of CPAC, all of the main speakers are white men."

Of course, white men don't ask for help - here's Paul Ryan:

"The left is making a big mistake here. What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul." 

No, Pauly - you're the one making the "mistake" here":

As a poor atheist, "a full stomach and an empty soul" sounds like a damned good deal,…

 

There's Stuff Whites Don't Mention In CPAC Brochures

Conservatives - wondering why others say they're racists - it's the company you keep:

"White nationalists attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) are planning to gather discreetly this evening at a steak house,…"

You can keep 'em:

And that goes double for Condi and Clarence, who're probably having dinner with them, too,...

What's The Diff Between Dems And Rs? Dems Show Up

Note to CPAC - never invite A Real Black Man™, on a panel at CPAC, or the discriminatory stereotypes just won't work:

“It bothers me when people assume that lower-income people respond to gifts. Food stamps, or things that are given to them. Nobody wants to be dependent. So let’s assume that people want a hand up, and not a handout.”

Woodson, the founder of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, then cited the example of Republican former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. “He built a community center that taught kids English …” said Woodson. “He committed resources and help to us, so we supported him.” He added, “What liberals do is at least they express their concern. Whether what they do is helpful or harmful, at least they show up.”

CPAC will claim he's giving the ol' "race hustle" another go, I guess,...

Sorry About The Shake-Down (I Meant To Shake You Up)

So, it's March 1st, and I'm still black - but racism's been over! 

So say my fellow Republicans. 

Yes, my political party admitted to "some problems with race" (which was very big of them) but - by Black History Month - they've also determined their problems weren't nearly as large as blacks'.

Because black's problems are, entirely, of black's own making.

So - out of concern - Republicans have decided to address those first. 

For instance, I've been told to accept that I was a pretty happy-go-lucky anti-cult activist when Republicans first met me online (!) but then I just (sensitivity euphemism) "fell on hard times" and started whining about race, because that's what they saw.

Trayvon had nothing to do with it, since - through their lie-detecting computer screens - Republicans could determine my story so much better than I could tell it, I shouldn't even have bothered to do so. 

They weren't having it, and Republicans say who the haves and have nots are, so I fell out of favor again - literally going "black". 

Of course now, as a "good Republican," I've accepted their reading of history without question (and with good cheer) but, as someone who loves history - and seeing how I apparently missed something as extraordinary as racism's end - I've still been compelled to know when, exactly, that occurred and why.

And I've found a few answers - want to see what I got, Truth Seekers?

"Racism ended when white people said it did obviously."

"Racism ended when Eminem won the rap battle in 8 Mile."

"Racism ended when white people started twerking."

"Racism ended when white folks acknowledged racism existed but felt victimized by the accusation."

"Racism ended when the iPhone came in both black and white."

"Racism ended when Mitt Romney got a black grandchild."

"Racism ended when white co-workers decided the best way to know me was to tell me about their favorite Hip-Hop albums."

"Racism ended when Justin Timberlake got cornrows."

Well alright then - Thank you, Everyone - and now, with that, we should all feel totally prepared to unite as one at CPAC,...

 

CPAC: The Conservative Political ATHEIST Conference

"Continuing to conflate religion and conservatism is not a viable strategy; this was apparently too scary for CPAC attendees to hear. America’s religious conservatives can deny it all they want, but soon they’re going to realize that ignoring the growing number of atheist constituents is a losing proposition.

This isn’t over. We’re still going to CPAC, even if they don’t want us there. We’ll be there to represent the interests of the 20% of conservatives who are non-religious and to advocate for our position that religious dogma has no place in government."

They'll Be Important Whenever They Start Acting Like It

I had a funny moment with a friend a few days ago, when he was trying to describe CPAC and I pretended not to know what he was mentally grasping for. I kind of feel like doing it again, now, after reading Allahpundit's musings on CPAC and the last election:

Obama won in 2008 because the public was exhausted with Bush and he represented something wholly fresh and new. He synthesized a particular political and cultural moment uniquely in my memory of presidential campaigns. (I don’t remember Reagan ’80.) A more conservative, or merely more capable, candidate than McCain might have won a few more electoral votes but there’s no reason realistically to think he would have been granted a four-year extension of Republican rule given Dubya’s rock-bottom approval ratings.  

...The better question here is why Republican primary voters keep nominating candidates like McCain and Romney who are so disdained by the base. Forget whether general election voters would vote for a conservative Republican over Obama if they had the chance. GOP primary voters do have a chance every four years to vote for a conservative. They haven’t done it for two election cycles now. Why not? I’m asking earnestly. I have no answer.

 I'm not going to go into a long thing here, except to say: 

1) As much as I admire anyone willing to admit their ignorance, if Allahpundit doesn't understand the last election - by now - why does he have a job as an analyst? With his fellow editor at Hot Air, Mary Katharine Ham, being a prime example, I see a big part of the Right's problem as having waaay too many people, who know too little, in too many positions of conservative influence. Do they ever look in the mirror (the accurately-named "Ham" comes to mind again) for anything other than to admire themselves? (My one visit to a popular conservative Twitter feed says "no" emphatically,...) 

The truth is, they're self-selected conservative gatekeepers when America needs new blood - and from people who don't look or act like they aspire the country to, or just stepped off the set of, Leave It To Beaver.

 

 2) The reluctance to admit stupidity - to being foolishly "out of touch" - on the part of, both, GOP primary voters and those who feed them (people like Allahpundit and, of course, Instapundit and PJMedia contributor Glenn Reynolds) is especially galling. As I remind Ann Althouse about her political coverage, they've all become experts at following nonsensical minutiae - participating in a media circus as contrived as Ringling Bros. - thinking a person like me will A) either be amused by how clever they imagine themselves to be, munching on red meat, or B) simply can't recognize them as bullshit artists when it comes to any desire to discuss what's important. And they not only destroy their own credibility but that of the entire process by doing so. (I'll remind you, during the last election, I stopped participating on Ann's blog AND was forced to back away from voting for the first time in my life.) It's not supposed to happen that way.

We should never be led politically astray, or support anyone who will do that to us, merely because we're supposedly on the same side and/or it amuses them (or you) to have someone do so.
Fuck that:

They know nothing and they've shown it.

   

I know why we lost - and they deserve no reward for it.