His own people didn't show up to listen to the braying jackass.
And remember: This clown was invited to CPAC, and Chris Christie, a very popular conservative governor of a very liberal state, wasn't.
Can the GOP be any more self-destructive than that?
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Is he a Democratic secret agent?
The Christian Science Monitor gets snarky about The Donald.
Stick a fork in the Republicans.
Trump generates about as much interest among the CPAC attendees as the Republican Party does among the American people.
Did the committee that was tasked with making up the list of invited guests sit around one night drinking Southern Comfort and ask each other "Who are the lamest and most embarrassing GOPers we can get to speak at our cool CPAC convention?"
Must be progressives are in fear of the Donald. Progressives go after everyone they fear, even when they are as inconsequential as Trump.
This dude ain't even worth the time it takes to flip a switch. Yet progressives are so worried they waste time on him.
The empty chairs remind me of Clint Eastwood's hilarious FAIL at the GOP convention last summer, only in Trump's case, he's talking to a roomful of them. LOL!
My my, not posting my comments I see. That is fine. That way I know my point hit home because it it true.
"Must be progressives are in fear of the Donald. Progressives go after everyone they fear, even when they are as inconsequential as Trump.
This dude ain't even worth the time it takes to flip a switch. Yet progressives are so worried they waste time on him."
Explain what the worry is, please.
The only thing I can think of is that we progressives are worried one of us will hurt ourselves from falling over and laughing at him. Steve Schmidt, who was John McCain's campaign manager, calls him a clown. And that's the kindest thing he's said about him.
It's really strange how conservatives kept saying how we progressives "feared" Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign.
Tell us again how much we "feared" the quitter, the loser, and the commentator that FAUX NOOZ fired?
What's she doing now? Watching Russia from her front porch?
We fear Donald Trump like we feared Sarah Palin.
I need not explain, I'm not the one who is worried or fearful
Ah come on, give it up, Frank.
Next you'll say we fear L'il Ricky Santorum. Face it, when Rand finishes his palace coup you won't be a threat for decades.
Push further right if you like but the vast majority of the country is on the dock watching you sail.
When I heard about the empty chairs I thought about Clint Eastwood also.
Questions:
Is that a room showing only the video feed and not the CPAC room in which Trump actually spoke? I'm asking because CPAC typically has overflow rooms.
Did Trump appear only via video feed, and, if so, how many rooms were watching the feed?
Hmmmmm.... Honest reporters stated that the Prayer Breakfast was going on during my CPAC speach and security was very slow to let people in-long lines!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2013
Why CPAC booked Trump into such a huge room is beyond me.
Today, Dr. Ben Carson speaks at CPAC. It will be interesting to see if he fills a room.
Shaw,
I doubt that very many of them drink Southern Comfort.
BTW, CPAC isn't supposed to be identified with the GOP.
Several of my students have gone to CPAC in the past. Regardless of political leanings, both the students and the parents found the experience of value -- even if attending CPAC is much akin to going to a national coin convention.
The male equivalent of a frump
Surely must be Donald Trump.
His hairdo always makes me frown.
He's just a self-promoting clown.
And when he tells us something true
It's only with himself in view
I don't think we should move with haste
To back this icon of bad taste.
~ FreeThinke
FT,
Very clever. Thanks.
AOW, as I wrote in my post, I, too, wondered why Trump was invited. There are so many more up and coming GOP pols to invite. Trump made himself look ridiculous with his "birther" campaign.
He never DID reveal what his people, whom he sent to Hawaii to investigate Obama's birth certificate, found. He announced to the nation that they were finding all sorts of incredible things about the birth certificate.
I don't know who took the photo of the almost empty room. I found it on the 'net in an article reporting Trump's talk. But I've seen it in several places, so I have to assume it's not photoshopped.
"The CPAC conservatives were isolated — literally: Instead of the usual in-town location at the Marriott in Woodley Park, CPAC assembled at the Gaylord, at out-of-the-way National Harbor in Maryland. Omitted from the invite list were some of the more popular national Republicans, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, for being insufficiently doctrinaire.
The result was a conservative caricature, to judge from the CPAC exhibit hall: an NRA laser-shooting tent, two life-size Transformer action figures marching about, the Right to Life’s larger-than-life fetus photos and a profusion of stickers and posters (”I’m a bitter gun owner and I vote”).
On the ballroom stage, the soul-searching continued.
“Maybe conservatives could get a sense of humor,” proposed publisher Tucker Carlson. “You’d be amazed at what just knowing 50 words of Spanish will do,” suggested journalist John Fund.
Yep, that should do it."
The GOP's CPAC also excluded GOProud gays and lesbians. I guess CPAC and its people believe that shunning gays and lesbians is good policy, and ignoring them means they are not part of America?
Again, this is another indication of how the GOP is self-destructive and bone-headed.
“I’m embarrassed to call myself a Republican right now,” Jimmy LaSaliva, co-founder and president of the gay conservative group GOProud, said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Thursday. The gay Republican was referring to GOProud’s exclusion from participation at CPAC for a second year in a row, banned as an official sponsor. LaSalvia attended CPAC as a guest of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a sponsor of CPAC which hosted a panel Thursday on which LaSaliva appeared, “A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet.”
We should remember that speaking passionately -- or tediously -- or stupidly -- to a virtually empty chamber is standard operating procedure in both houses of congress.
C-Span covers every blinking, nodding, snoring minute of the Congressional Follies, but rarely-if-ever takes their cameras away from the podium. If they did, we would see scenes very similar to the featured photo of Trump's absent audience.
Just a thought ...
Shaw was Rob Portman excluded?
He's already being called out for sacrificing his principles simply to satisfy his son.
The country has changed in regards to social issues and people like Mr. Trump.
When will the GOP and the staunch conservatives realize this and adjust?
90% of the American people favor gun registration. Your graph shows another similarly held view towards income equality.
We need a strong opposition party, that speaks for a large plurality of the American people so that we have balance in our system.
As long as the GOP insists on preserving the past, they will continue to be irrelevant to a majority of the American people.
CPAC wants to send a message to conservatives. They did. Include Trump, exclude Christie. Include the NRA, exclude the gays.
It's not Liberals making a big deal out of Trump, it's the Republican party and its agreement with Trumps bigoted views. If Republicans stop putting Trump out front as one of their leaders, I'm sure liberals will stop talking about him.
"Must be progressives are in fear of the Donald."
Spoken like a true Republican.
Dave,
Portman was not on the list of speaker for this year's CPAC convention, but I don't know if he was invited and declined or if he was invited at all.
Did you read about the man from North Carolina who spoke at CPAC and said slavery wasn't all that bad because, after all, they were fed, clothed, and housed.
Yes, the GOP really does attract that kind of idiot. And even if a GOPer says he was one bad apple, I would ask that conservative what it is about the Republican Party that makes racists feel so comfortable within it.
"Scott Terry of North Carolina, accompanied by a Confederate-flag-clad attendee, Matthew Heimbach, rose to say he took offense to the event’s take on slavery. (Heimbach founded the White Students Union at Towson University and is described as a “white nationalist” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.)
“It seems to be that you’re reaching out to voters at the expense of young white Southern males,” Terry said, adding he “came to love my people and culture” who were “being systematically disenfranchised.”
Smith responded that Douglass forgave his slavemaster.
“For giving him shelter? And food?” Terry said."
Apparently a heated discussion broke out where the CPACers said the modern Democratic Party's political ancestors are the KKK, and that the modern GOP should call themselves Frederick Douglass Republicans.
This is pure bunkum, since the original Republican Party of Lincoln was made up of radical, progressive abolitionists, and the Democratic Party of the 19th and 20th century--until President Johnson passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts--was made up of radical conservatives.
I know the GOPers love to trot out that a Republican signed the Emancipation Proclamation and the KKK was popular in the Democratic south, but those who do so only show how ignorant they in not understanding how the parties were fundamentally different then compared with now.
Duckman you haven't a clue do you? I am a fiscal conservative libertarian and socially liberal. Because I'm sure I need to spell it out I'm okay with gay mariage, a women's right to a safe legal abortion within limits, Santorum I have a lengthy trail of posts on as well as other rEpublicans, none positive, I am not opossed to safety nets and actually like the Swiss model, I just don't want the nation to become insolvent in the process of becoming Santa Claus, I find the rEpublican party to have become amusing aa well as disingenuous, I could go on but I think you get the point.
I am now a third and.even fourth party advocate. Neither major party has the interests of the middle class front and center. They are both controlled by the Oligarchs. The power behind the curtain.
Cheerio old chap...
Republicans are Santa Claus. They are the party that cuts taxes but not spending, and have held that ideology since 1980. Which just happens to be the same time our deficits climbed into the multi-trillions. The only time in the last 33 years a budget came close to balanced was when Clinton raised taxes. Simple Math.
Ah yes, this is true. With a republican house influencing his decisions. That's why Bill was effective. Working across the aisle effectively. So, perhaps Obama can learn from Bubba? Just saying...
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