CPAC 2012 ended this evening following its annual straw poll and this year′s keynote speaker, Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney won the straw poll with 38% to Rick Santorum′s 31%, with Newt Gingrich at 15% and Ron Paul at 12%. The Washington Times also conducted a national phone survey of just Conservatives where Romney also won with 27%, Sanorum at 25%, Gingrich at 20% and Paul at just 8%. Grover Norquist spoke to the audience just before the straw poll results were announced, echoing the feeling by many that while it is vital to elect Conservatives to the House and Senate, any Republican will do in the White House. But Sarah Palin wants it all, with a clean sweep of people with genuine Conservative convictions in their hearts and minds.
Palin′s CPAC speech was awesome! She spoke for 35 minutes, interrupted numerous times by waves of applause and 14 standing ovations! A group of Occupiers also tried to interrupt her, but the crowd shouted them down chanting ″USA!″ while the Occupiers chanted ″UNFAIR!″ as they were escorted out of the ballroom. Palin began her speech going right after Barack Obama and his Socialist agenda. She said of government under Obama, it is ″too big to succeed.″ Sarah got great laughs when she joked about hope and change with ″Ya gotta hope for change.″ Palin also mocked Obama′s recent State of the Union message of ″an America built to last″ with her own ″an economy built to grow!″
She did not limit her ire against Obama alone, but against the whole Washington ″permanent political class″ as well. Palin attacked the government corruption and crony capitalism we have seen flourishing under Obama. Sarah said that many new politicians who win their campaigns railing against the Washington cesspool are corrupted when they find it to be a hot tub. Palin′s answer to them is it is ″time to drain the jacuzzi and throw the bums out!″ She said 2010 was a good start in electing Tea Party candidates, but that we need to elect even more and win the Senate as well. Then Senate may be achieved soon as Norquist pointed out during his speech that during the next two election cycles, 44 Democrat Senate seats will be up for grabs, with 23 vulnerable this year.
All in all, Sarah Palin delivered a great keynote speech at CPAC 2012. The straw poll results, and those of the Washington Times national phone survey, showed Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum as the two main candidates at the moment. The annual Conservative convention for political activists was a good one overall and important during this 2012 election season. We will see how well they, as well as like minded folks in the Conservative and Tea Party movements will impact the campaigns this November.
February 11th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Palin and Bachmann seem to be the only people out there who are ‘On Message’.
The RINOS MUST GO !!!
Everyday, we learn more and more, just how much these Congressional Pigs are slopping at the troth.
February 11th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
They are all Rinos, my friend, since conservatives don’t agree on what it means to be conservative, including Sarah Palin. The label is meaningless now.
February 12th, 2012 at 5:44 am
I read what she says, but I don’t watch her on TV. She is so attractive I just get distracted. Beautiful, smart woman.
February 12th, 2012 at 6:06 am
Maybe conservatives are like pornography? We’ll know one when we see one.
February 12th, 2012 at 7:33 am
Conservative “action” is an oxymoron. Mocking others is pretty much the only action that conservatives want to take.
February 12th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Ghastly Klo
The only action you and your putrid ilk take, is to troll conservative sites and try to stir the pot.
BTW I’ll bet you are trolling far and wide to throw the RACE CARD at anyone who has a critical word for Witbrain Houston.
February 12th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Maybe conservatives are like pornography? We’ll know one when we see one.
Another large-sample study just came out AndyZ that shows you how to find them. Although anyone who reads this web site could have drawn pretty much the same conclusions..
February 12th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Hah-hah, ‘Me’! I’ll let that embedded link slide, I’ve let a few slide of late for you, oh BTW. Just to show what a nice guy I can be when you are not completely foolish.
Naturally I was joking with my comment. Everybody knows that true Conservatives are anointed as such after a secret ceremony where you swear an oath to Grover Norquist while your right hand is placed upon a copy of “Atlas Shrugged.”
February 12th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Oh yeah, then you have to attend a tea party held by the Koch Brothers!
February 12th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
@ Me
Do you EVER have anything to contribute ?
Is Snark & Snide the limit of your repertoire ?
Do you try to bite the bubbles when you fart
in the bathtub ?
February 12th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
U gutta see this
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39912_Fox_News_Commenters_Respond_to_Whitney_Houstons_Death_With_Deluge_of_Hatred_and_Racism
February 12th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Oh Awl, look around for a new book by John Bascomb called “Caine’s Pestilence.” I’ll be writing a review of it next weekend. It’s hysterical!
My favorite joke in it so far is that Joe Biden couldn’t be sworn in as president until Obama’s death certificate could be found.
This is how Nancy Pelosi becomes president, after her Chief of Staff fingers Biden as being behind the conspiracy that causes AF1 to crash in the Atlantic. Which in itself is not funny at all, but the death certificate thing is clever.
February 12th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Can’t find a review for ‘Caine’s Pestilence’.
Got a link ?
February 12th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Klo
You’re a victim of ADD at both ends.
You obviously dont get enough attention which is why you write such stupid sht just to be noticed in addition to your attention span being so short you cant count to three without starting over
February 12th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Oh yeah, then you have to attend a tea party held by the Koch Brothers!
Yeah, just like all liberals have to dig up Saul Alinsky and ask him about his “playbook”, since he’s apparently the puppet master behind all liberal activism, never mind the fact that no liberal I know had ever heard of him before conservatives started talking about him non-stop.
February 12th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
I never knew who the Koch brothers were til liberals started btching about him and this bs that they are the founders of the Tea Party.
I dare say Alinsky left a much bigger legacy.
Where were you in the 60s ?
February 12th, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Me,
Obama quotes Saul Alinsky in his book. He is the neoliberal inspiration behind the militant activism of Obama’s friends like William Ayers.
February 13th, 2012 at 4:56 am
Awl,
I’ll have my review of “Caine’s Pestilence” posted here next weekend.
February 13th, 2012 at 4:59 am
Micky,
In the 60s and 70s the Liberals were all mad at the Hunt Brothers. The Texas dudes who tried to corner the silver market.
They used to fund some small conservative publications as well as a nationwide radio show that was really good. I remember it fondly as it was sponsored by one of their sidelines, HLH Potato Sticks.
February 13th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Palin an awesome speech? Did she recommend shooting anyone else in the head? Put the crosshairs on ‘em?
Saul Alinsky was an anti-communist. His idea of the poor working class bettering their lives via protests and community action has nothing to do with socialism and communism, sharing the wealth, or anything like that at all. William F. Buckley admired Alinsky. Organizers on both sides of the political spectrum routinely refer to and use the principles for political action that Alinsky worked out. Why don’t you go learn the truth about someone rather than just demonizing them, like the pack of Fox News automatons you are?
February 13th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
@ Ghastly Glom
‘Palin . . . . did she recommend shooting anyone else in the head ? Put the crosshairs on ‘em ?‘
My God ! What A Complete Fool.
‘Why don’t you learn the truth about someone rather than just demonizing them,. . . . ‘
My God ! What A Complete Fool.
February 14th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Klo…
Blow it out your ass !
Do you even know what the fck you’re talking about ?
“Rules for Radicals” Read it !
” Alinsky’s tactics were based, not on Stalin’s revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci’s transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.”
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
“Known as the ‘father of modern American radicalism,’ Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics that take the enormous, unfocused emotional energy of grassroots groups and transform it into effective anti-government and anti-corporate activism. … Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work.”
“Alinsky’s second chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral dilemmas, and his ‘tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends’ is: ‘you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.’ He doesn’t ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He is much more devious; he teaches his followers that ‘Moral rationalization is indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.’…
“The qualities Alinsky looked for in a good organizer were:
ego (“reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God”),
curiosity (raising “questions that agitate, that break through the accepted pattern”),
irreverence (“nothing is sacred”; the organizer “detests dogma, defies any finite definition of morality”),
imagination (“the fuel for the force that keeps an organizer organizing”),
a sense of humor (“the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule”), and an
organized personality with confidence in presenting the right reason for his actions only “as a moral rationalization after the right end has been achieved.’…
“‘The organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems,’ and ‘organizations must be based on many issues.’ The organizer ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.’”
February 14th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
I never knew who the Koch brothers were til liberals started btching about him and this bs that they are the founders of the Tea Party.
Except the Koch brothers are alive, they actually DO spend millions of dollars on conservative groups, and are influential widely in right wing culture.
Alinsky is dead for decades, largely unknown to liberals, and from what I understand would have opposed the tactics adopted by the Occupy movement as being pointless and ineffective but would have approved of those used by the Tea Party (the tactics, not the agenda) as being much more organized, disciplined, and intertwined with the established power centers to affect change.
If anyone is using Alinksy tactics, it seems, it’s the tea party.
The fact that Obama cited him is like, yeah- I’m sure he has a lot of quotes from people. And if he’s influenced by this guy’s theories on community organizing, great. But he sure hasn’t left any kind of major imprint on the left overall. However, I’m sure Glenn Beck has focused a lot of attention on bringing his ideas back. Cuz everyone’s like “who? I should check this guy out.” So maybe it will be a self-fulfilling conspiracy theory.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
“Except the Koch brothers are alive, they actually DO spend millions of dollars on conservative groups, and are influential widely in right wing culture.”
So what ?
Money is no comparison to an ideology handed down from generations thats
George Washington is dead too
Koch brothers are not an idealogy
Bottom line is this.
You have to be the worlds dumbest liberal if you never heard of Alinsky until you heard republicans mentioned him.
over the years has raked up more money than the Koch brothers ever .
In the 60s he was practically God to any far left loon and is still one the lefts major forces.
And no, the Koch brothers did not organize/founded The Tea Party and their contributions are nothing compared to Soros
February 14th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Wow, that came out all jumbled up.
Sorry, but I’m sure you get it
February 14th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Andy did it, hes editing my posts.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
No, I’m not, Micky! I’m editing a post by ‘Me’, removing another stupid embed link.