Sunday, February 25, 2018

What Happened When a Conservative Republican Spoke Out at CPAC

Mona Charen is a lifelong Republican and has been well before she worked for Ronald Reagan. After the Gipper, she declined to work for George H.W. Bush finding him not conservative enough for her liking.

Charen writes in The New York Times that it was with a bit of dread that she accepted an invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, with its new, Trumpian bent. She went, anyway, determined to speak truth to the radical rightwing horde and she got exactly what she had expected.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a surprise - Jewish woman gets booed for criticizing Nazis at Nazi convention. People like Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, Charles Krauthammer, Max Boot, etc. had the good sense to stay away.

Cap

The Mound of Sound said...


Well, Cap, when you put it that way... I don't have a lot of good things to say about Kinsella but, on this stuff, I think he redeems many of his shortcomings. I'm not religious - a lapsed Protestant, United Church at that - but my family, two uncles and my Dad, paid a fulsome price fighting these fucking swine to submission.

One uncle died. Another was shot down - three times - eventually walking out of central Germany to the allied lines in late 44, his mind never right again. My dad was blown all to hell, well not entirely I suppose. He did beget three sons. My father struggled to find meaning, purpose in it all. He eventually had to settle for stopping these fascist bastards. Now we've tolerated their return which is a pretty deep insult to those who were called upon to give so much. In the States they've managed to seize all three branches of government. Appalling.

Anonymous said...

Using the slogan America First was a yuuge hint as to where things were headed, Mound.

Cap

Owen Gray said...

I suspect those who booed Charen for her remarks have no idea who Marine Lepen is. She's French, after all. Remember when American politicains renamed Frech fries "Freedom fries?"

Anonymous said...

Anyong.....The same "United Church" which has gone down the tubes. Both my parents served WWII. Two Uncles killed, and another one taken early who spent the war in a German camp and was not the same. My mother's father served during the Boer war, gassed in the first war and shot during the second My question is....why do we keep doing this? When is the world going to rise up and say enough?

The Mound of Sound said...


I don't know if we ever will "rise up and say enough" Anyong.