Today in CPAC - UPDATED

The crazy was on at CPAC today.  Some of the more bizarre doings for your reading, ah, pleasure, I guess:

Because the Tea Party is so totally not racist, the Tea Party Patriots group put on a session called “Trump The Race Card: Are You Sick And Tired Of Being Called A Racist When You Know You’re Not One?”  Well, after all, who wouldn’t be?  The session was led by a black conservative named Carl Smith who urged attendees accused of racism to refer to themselves as “Frederick Douglass Republicans”.  Unfortunately things went downhill when the audience started shouting back with accusations of “white disenfranchisement” (because nobody is discriminalized against as much as white males!) and support for slavery because, hey, free food & shelter and stuff.  So we know for sure now that Tea Partiers are totally NOT racist.

Even a little crazier was a speech given by none other than The Donald.  Apparently the crazed ramblings were so epic even his audience left scratching their heads.  I, for one, am certainly looking forward to seeing that great ballroom addition to the White House that Trump’s completely gonna build!

Last, but not least, Rick Santorum (and to paraphrase Charlie Pierce, have we mentioned recently what a colossal dick the guy is?) chose to politicize the tragic death of his nephew the day before from an unnamed disease.

“Yesterday he was not the one in pain,” Santorum said, describing the “surreal” scene at the hospital. “Medicines were effectively blocking all his physical pain — we were the ones in pain.”

And he considers this an effective segue into a condemnation of gummint for wanting to block the pain of ordinary citizens who are just trying to get by in this world.  In fact big gummint has robbed us of so much suffering and pain that we are in greater suffering and pain because of it!  Because we have been robbed of the “why” of America.  And so in conclusion government must . . . give us more pain?

I sympathize fully with his family.  I too lost a family member to a disease that caused him a lot of pain and I was also grateful that, thanks to Medicare, he had the pain medications that kept him from suffering.  I simply can’t conceive of using this as a platform to say other people should suffer pain.  And that Medicare and Medicaid should not be there for them, that they should not have the safety net that keeps people from sleeping in the gutters and begging for a living.  But I guess that’s why Santorum is a colossal dick and I am not.

Stay tooned folks.  The crazy can only accelerate from here.  Klondike Barbie is coming up!

UPDATE:  Jim Newell chronicles the crazy today.  Highlights include Sarah Palin’s boobs joke and Breitbart’s panel of the uninvited - those so far out there that even CPAC doesn’t want to be associated with them, famously including Pammy Shrugs.

Posted by marindenver on 03/15/13 at 06:45 PM • Permalink

So much to say about all the bad people and things in this convention. But “bad” is such an apt word all by itself.

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