New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is a conservative heretic. His sin? Appearing with President Obama in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy as the two inspected the widespread destruction along the Jersey shore.
This is the same Christie who, just a few months earlier, was the toast of the GOP, hailed as one of its leading lights, a man who could help conservatives win back the White House.
"EXCLUSIVE: Chris Christie to Headline CPAC Chicago in June," the conservative Townhall web site breathlessly announced last spring.
But this year, Christie hasn't and probably won't be invited by the American Conservative Union to its national confab in Washington. Optics like those of last fall, a Democratic president and a Republican governor putting aside political differences to confront a huge natural disaster, can mean only excommunication from the conservative movement for Chris Christie.
Compromisers need not apply.
Instead, in the center ring, CPAC will present the very same people who helped Republicans lose the 2012 presidential election, starting with Mitt Romney.
Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Paul Ryan, and the man who put the clown show together, GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, will all be speaking.
The CPAC sideshow will include failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, unhinged Obama conspiracy theorist Wayne LaPierre, and one-term Florida representative Allen West.
“As we extend our second round of invitations to these conservative leaders, it is easy to see why CPAC 2013 is shaping up to be one the best conferences yet,” said ACU Chairman Al Cardenas.
If you say so, Al.
Meantime, Christie's snub by the ACU is the perfect prism through which to view today's American conservative movement. When you lose an election, you should become introspective and examine and question what it was the voters rejected. You should look in the mirror and see what the voters saw: anger, intolerance and intransigence. You should consider modifying or moderating past positions.
Not this crowd. They believe you do the same thing over again and, this time, expect a different result. So Christie is out. Romney is in.
Good luck with that.
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Verbal, written - good call. You got me.
Back to you, why the snide comments about Carson?
Anyway, your CPAC clown show is now complete. Donald Trump will be speaking. Congratulations!
What in Carson's background provides the basis for your comments that he only cares about remaining in the "13-14% tax bracket" and the "crumbs falling from his table"?
You're snide remarks confirm what we all know. Carson represents the thing that frightens liberals the most - an accomplished black conservative.
Before he was "...a member of the 1%..." he was in the 99% and all the cards were stacked against him (he and his brother were raised by a single mom). Yet, he earned his "membership" in the 1% through hard work (graduated from Yale and U of MI Med School, then became Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33).
And therein lies an explanation for what makes the U.S. the greatest of nations.
Get it? Probably not.
@ Cobb County Guy - After the first 90%, who's counting anymore? And no, I don't begrudge Carson his success. He's just another member of the 1% worried about crumbs falling from his table. He'll be right at home with Mitt Romney when he's at CPAC.
Any attempt to ex[plain it would be labeled as "racist" and "low information", and other insults, so why bother?
And may I suggest that he does care. Google "Carson Scholars Fund." There is a chapter here in Atlanta.
See, the Carson Scholars Fund is a perfect example of conservative caring - caring to TEACH a man to fish, so he can feed himself (or herself) for a lifetime.
What is more interesting is the remainder of that sentence: "...compared with 95 percent last time around."
So, to answer your question, I have no idea why 93 percent voted for Obama; but, it appears that about 2 percent of them came to their senses.
Back to you; why did Obama lose support among blacks?
Is Carson there because he's black? Of course he is. That said, I'm sure his conservative views are genuine, probably because he's socked millions away as a successful doctor and wants to stay in that 13-14% tax bracket. That's all these guys care about, regardless of color.
After you're done feigning outrage, please explain to me why it was 93% of America's blacks voted for Obama.
Just sayin'...
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Are you saying that Carson was invited to CPAC simply because he is a black conservative?
If that is true, then, Houston, we have a problem. The Left has had a lot of fun since the election criticizing the Right about how we've become the party of old white men and we need to broaden our tent. Fair enough.
So, we open up the tent, invite a black conservative to come in, and you call it "window dressing." The idea that Carson may have an important message never enters your mind.
I'm being nice now. I could go on about the venom thrown by the Left toward other conservative blacks like Herman Caine, Mia Love, Condi Rice and Allen West. I could go on about how the Left eviscerates any black who dares to demonstrate any independent thought. But I won't.
So, please explain your term "window dressing" and tell me that I'm misreading your comment.
Rick Perry, right wing governor of TX, sought help from the federal government and did not get it. Why? Because he attempted to further his career by slamming President Obama. The White House has a very long memory.
The best shot that the GOP has in 2016 is Chris Christie. Let's watch and see how the GOP will change their minds about Governor Christie.
Nobody pays much attention to the "sour grapes" on the table.
Go back and try again.
Don't know Ben Carson? Google is your friend.
Search "ben carson speech national prayer breakfast." The 27 min. video is out there and well worth your time.
As Bobby Jindal said: "We have to stop being the party of stupid."