Former CPAC Chair Minces No Words Slamming What The Event, GOP Have Now Become

[DonViejo]

02/27/2021 03:44 am ET

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference attendees “are living in an alternate reality in which facts don’t matter,” said former GOP Rep. Mickey Edwards.

By Lee Moran

A former chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday slammed what the event has now become, suggesting former President Ronald Reagan would not get elected by those in attendance at this year’s gathering.

Mickey Edwards — who led the American Conservative Union, which organizes the event, for five years until 1983 — ripped Republicans attending this year’s CPAC in Orlando for their devotion to former President Donald Trump.

In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Edwards likened the GOP to a cult whose members are living in an alternate reality.

Edwards served as a GOP representative for Oklahoma for 16 years until 1993 but quit the GOP in January following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot. The violence was perpetrated by a violent mob of Trump supporters who’d been whipped up by the then-president’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“The Republican party really no longer stands for any kind of principles, conservative or otherwise,” Edwards told Burnett on Friday.

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[Iliyah]

1. Duh . . .

and republicans created this toxic environment. republicans allowed shithole to fester in Nazism while they got what they wanted, ie, RW judges across board. republicans tanked the economy, ignored the Pandemic, whereby over 500,000 have died and countless COVID-19 related pre-existing conditions. Mistreatments of immigrants and American citizens, and that only mentions a few of what this past 4 years of horror have done.