Conservative Bush-Bashing Convention

[NYCGirl]

Yet it still sounds like a frightening tour back into the 19th Century!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-henneberger/conservative-bushbashing_b_42385.html

Except for the low-heeled pumps, this could almost be a Netroots convention. Well, that and guys handing out Brownback bumper stickers.

Still, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that began this morning is a three-day extravaganza of activism in which purists, not pragmatists, are on parade -- and they are busy bashing the president.

"We cannot afford to be 'Bush Republicans,'" Phyllis Schlafly said, to great applause, in the vast Omni Hotel's largest ballroom. "This has got to be a grassroots party," and works best as such, as when "the whole conservative movement rose up to tell George Bush that we could not have Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court."

Not unlike opponents of, say, the war in Iraq, the crowd here is fed up with non-binding blah-blah on their core issues: "We don't just want words" of support on abortion and gay marriage, said Schlafly -- who, as Helen Mirren recently said of the queen, has been carrying on with the same devotion and hairstyle for the last half-century. Today, again, she was dressed in red and wearing her trademark eagle pin.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. LOL--I read that earlier! Is that for real?

Man, is that woman serious about ending the teaching of any language but English? That is one crazy dumbass! This can't be a serious article.

[NYCGirl]

2. Yes, it is real. Thom Hartmann broadcast from there today and will be also

tomorrow.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Man, if there's audio of Phyllis S. saying that only English should be

taught, that right there could kill the conservative movement forever. What idiocy.

[NYCGirl]

10. The GOP has owned that silly woman for decades — and they're still here.

[iconoclastic cat]

12. Really? I need to read up on her. This is the first time I've heard of her. nt

[NYCGirl]

13. I remember her from her "Stop the ERA" work at least 30 years ago.

She's a real piece of work, as they say.

[iconoclastic cat]

14. It just struck me: The true difference b/w the Left and the Right:

When our public figures do something silly, we attack them, each other, ourselves, and generally freak out. When their public figures do something absolutely horrible or idiotic, they shrug and continue clapping.

[NYCGirl]

15. You're correct. I have no idea what it takes to embarrass a right winger.

:shrug:

[Aristus]

3. Open DU invitation to Travis Moore: Come here and see what we're all about.

You might surprise yourself and embrace your nascent liberalism. And if you really are a conservative at heart, nascent means: just beginning to develop: in the process of emerging, being born, or starting to develop.

:P B-)

[ComerPerro]

6. no way, he can piss off. They still hate liberals, and in fact

blame the conservatives in power for being "too liberal"

[ComerPerro]

4. Memo to Conservatives: YOU ARE ALL "BUSH REPUBLICANS"

You voted for him. Twice. And you believed his bullshit.

[LSK]

5. Thom Hartmann is broadcasting from there this week

He said Cheney will be there tomorrow.

[AlCzervik]

7. Phyllis the terrible can take her Eagle forum and go F*ck herself.

[AX10]

8. "Pure" Conservatives are just as bad as Bush.

People on the left love to praise Barry Goldwater for his "principle", but he would have had us back into the 19th Century with his economic policies. He would have had a nuclear war in Vietnam. These traditional conservatives also opposed fighting the Nazis.

Conservativism is a horrible idealogy.

[Ian David]

11. Mitt Romney was there, too. See: Romney and The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

Romney and The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3139976&mesg_id=3139976