If CPAC was intended to be an intervention where the GOP looked at it's various electoral problems going forward and dedicated itself to a new path that would have a snowball's chance in a volcano of changing their fate from falling into eventual demographic irrelevance.... it was a total failure.
It's clear they know they have a problem, and they have absolutely no practical idea of what they should do about it, or even any real desire to do anything about it.
But alas, CPAC was not an intervention - where your friend pull you aside and with caring but stern words let you know that the desperate self-destructive path you've been rocketing down is now a closed road - it was a PEP Rally, where the GOP tried to buoy it's spirits that the problem isn't them or their policies - it's everyone else who just don't understand their policies well enough.
Yeah, ... right.. that's it.
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We learned that rather than invite Chris Christie who has shown that he can be a blustering belligerent anti-infrastructure, union basher who can none-the-less win, and possibly hold, the Governorship in a deep blue state - they invite a half-term half-wit grifter who apparently thinks Michael Bloomberg isn't a totalitarian for his Big Gulp ban - but not for the complete failure of his deeply bigoted "Stop and Frisk" policy.
We learned that fresh shiny new under-hydrated Latino-Token Marko Rubio feels he has to prove he's not a bigot, while exposing a policy of Special Rights For Some which bigotedly excludes others from those same rights including now Republican persona-non-grata Senator Rob Portman's son -and that he didn't have the juevos to even mention his own plan to offer undocumented immigrants a path out of the shadow of illegality.
We learned that really really big important not electable guy Donald Trump doesn't think Latino's and other minorities are going to vote for the GOP, even if they do implement some form of the immigration reform plan that Marco Rubio couldn't even bring himself to talk about. And for once, he's probably right about something - because after literally decades of immigrant bashing and policy ranging for profiling and harassment "those people" are probably not going to be impressed if the GOP finally, half-heartedly, almost, kinda, does the sorta right thing. Also - we need more White Immigrants from Europe, cuz y'know - they're better - in a totally non-racist way.
We learned that Silly Simple Sarah still thinks that we just don't know enough about the background of a man that wrote two - not one TWO - best selling books about his life, dreams and hopes for the country. Neither of which I suspect she's read, which is fair I guess - since she probably hasn't read her own books either.
We learned that besides being a general ass-hat, Louie Gohmert seriously thinks we lost Vietnam not because we didn't have a clear mission or workable plan but because we just didn't try hard enough, even though both Johnson and Nixon massively escalated our involvement leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of additional Americans.
We learned that since Wayne LaPierre figures the way to deter rapes is for more women to be armed, so I guess that the teen girl who was Roofied in Steubenville should have gone to the Volleyball Team party with a loaded Gun stuff in her hooch, so that if she lost consciousness - at least she'd be safe from being repeatedly finger fucked against her will.
We learned that Mitt Romney is not pessimistic on America, simply because America totally dumped him like the pimply chic with the dirty polka-dot quincenera dress and fresh new corrective braces at the post-Barmitvah Rave. All Dress Up for the wrong Party. Yes, American can quit you Mitt. You don't complete us.
We learned that while a couple years ago when a clear out-an-out White Nationalist was openly spouting openly racist rhetoric at a Tea Party event and was then presumed to be a Democrat Plant, now when a confirmed White Nationalist stands up in the middle of a Tea Party Seminar - supposedly on minority outreach - and spouts that Slavery wasn't so bad because at least they got "Food and Shelter" (yeah, and chains and bars and beatings and guards and no individual rights, and no marriage rights, and no family rights, and no right to be compensated for your labor - y'know - JUST LIKE PRISON), so of course all the slaves should have been grateful to their "owners" - the people at CPAC don't think he's a planted racist they claim that "he had a point", because I guess White People are just so oppressed not to be able to own other people and make them work for nothing in exchange for rotted left-over food a long with the "gift" of some well barred, locked and chained "shelter".
Boo-F-ING-Hoo... for the poor set upon white man.
And that all the ruckus was all the fault of the Black Lady who thought it was wrong to blame Democrats for the Klan. Yeah, well - the Klan used to be Democratic in response to Lincoln, but then in response to Johnson's Civil Rights Act, nearly all of those Democrats became Republicans. Republicans like Strom Thurmond.
If this display is how the GOP plans to go forward from here, shunning those Republicans who have even the potential for mainstream appeal (Portman, Christie, etc) driving them either to pander to greater forms of hysterical lunacy (McCain/Graham/Ayotte) or else completely out of the party (Charlie Crist, Arlen Spector, Chuck Hagel, Jim Jeffords, Lincoln Chaffee).
And in order to combat the growing sense that the modern GOP is nothing more than a pack of corporate shills pandering to the paranoid aging WASP's from that elusive land of "Conserva-Merica", RNC head Reince Preibus says that rather than fix the message they'll be hiring more messages to take it to the streets.
That's not really much of a a plan, or a future, more of a dead end.
Total Electoral Irrelevance can't happen to this cult of paranoid whining bullies fast enough.
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Vyan