When following CPAC from home I saw a slew of Tweets about some homophobe being booed. I assumed it was a matter of a jackass getting up to the microphone during a Q&A and ranting about CPAC allowing a gay conservative organization.

Alex at TwiceRight summed up this video best:

You won’t see this anywhere on the liberal media outlets. Why? Because this idiot was booed off stage for spewing his hatred of gay marriage, and that would mean Democrats would have to do more than just rely on identity politics since the Republicans are gaining support in the gay community.

Here it is:

Firstly, I’m not a supporter of “civil rights” for anyone. Civil rights were created in the 1960′s because the country wasn’t adhering to constitutional rights as they should have been. They were a necessity then; they aren’t now. The constitution quite clearly gives every one the right to do whatever the heck they want, as long as it doesn’t harm someone else or damage the public interests. Think what you want about homosexuality; but for me, as long as they don’t get married or adopt kids, I don’t care what they do. If there are gay conservatives who will support us on every issue except for one, it makes far more sense to accept that support and move on than to have a bunch of angry gay liberals (there are enough of them on Broadway as it is.)

The idiot from Young Americans for Freedom (not to be confused with Young America’s Foundation) isn’t spouting conservative philosophy, he’s spouting his own convictions, which, based on the 2 people applauding him in the crowd aren’t that common. I don’t condemn CPAC for anything. In fact, I applaud them for not cutting off his microphone. CPAC is a conference that recognizes individual liberties and freedoms in the name of the constitution, and one of those is freedom of speech and expression, even when people may disagree.

As for his rant about civil rights, well it takes a lot of effort to string together that many big words and still not make sense.

Over at Red State Dave Poff makes a great point about the Dems plan to ram Obamacare through using reconciliation (only 51 votes, in order to bypass a filibuster). Here is what the White House is saying about the reconciliation method:

In the course of unveiling Obama’s new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before: If the GOP filibusters health reform, Dems will move forward on their own and pass it via reconciliation.

The assertion, which is likely to spark an angry response from GOP leaders, ups the stakes in advance of the summit by essentially daring Republicans to try to block reform.

“The President expects and believes the American people deserve an up or down vote on health reform,” White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said on the call.

Got it? “The American people DESERVE an up or down vote.” Where have I heard that before? That’s right – when the Democrats were attempting to block all of President Bush’s judicial nominees the GOP brought up the so-called “nuclear option” – which would provide an up or down vote on prospective federal judges. Here is what some notable Democrats had to say about the nuclear option back in 2004: And the nuclear option is no longer an option”
- Chuck Schumer

“This is really a critical issue and we should not rip up the rule book. We should not try to change the rule by breaking the rule and we’re going to count on some moderate Republicans in the Senate who love the Senate, love the traditions in the Senate.”
-Carl Levin

“That’s not how America Works”
-Harry Reid

Funny how things change. Now the people “DESERVE” an up or down vote. The GOP is just an obstructionist party now, not like the faithful opposition offered by the Democrats in 2004. For any Dummycrat stupid enough to go through with passing Obamacare through reconciliation: go ahead, make my day

My new column at the Examiner is up. I couldn’t help but touch on the latest bit of stupidity coming out of Quebec.

What more do they want?

That seems to be the question that Anglo-Canadians are asking whenever the issue of national bilingualism arises. Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games CEO John Furlong and his staff have received criticism from Quebec premier Jean Charest over the perceived lack of English content in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games opening ceremonies.
While many of the primary announced portions of the ceremonies included both English and French translations (often with the French coming before the English) the actual presentations and performances were predominantly… [READ FULL COLUMN HERE]

CPAC is now officially over. Day 3 did not disappoint. Today’s speakers included: Sen. Rick Santorum, Andrew Breitbart, Hon. Bill Bennett, Hon. John Bolton, Ann Coulter, Speaker Gingrich, Col. Allen West and…….. Glenn Beck.

One of the best speeches of the event was delivered by Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart was introduced by Hannah Giles, one of the heroes that exposed ACORN. In his speech, Breitbart put the media on notice that we are on to them and we are taking the fight to the enemy.

Ann Coulter, who will be coming to Canada in a Month, was just hilarious. Her speeches are akin to conservative stand-up comedy – only she also makes great points. Coulter, as per usual, took on every liberal premise imaginable. And when she left, no doubt any liberals that saw her speech on TV were left in a sputtering rage.

The CPAC straw poll, which had been Mitt Romney’s bread and butter, went to Ron Paul. Before you get apoplectic, only 25% of attendees participated in the poll. As well, Romney had won the poll the last 3 years. Erick Erickson of Red State put it best saying “We can thank Ron Paul for showing just how worthless straw polls are.” Click here for complete results.

And then there was Beck. Simply put, his speech was amazing. His chalk board received a standing ovation. Some great lines:

In order to restore America we need less Marx and more Madison!

What is the point of competing if everyone gets a trophy? What is this, a Nobel prize?

Don’ tell me we should be more like Europe. Europe should be looking over here.

Progressives changed their name to liberals. Every time America catches on to liberal policies the liberals change their name. Now they’re back to progressives. What’ll they be next? Royal Order of the Orange?

Here’s the video:

Day 2 here at CPAC featured some great speakers. The two best speeches of the day came from Congressman Mike Pence and Congresswoman Michelle Bauchmann. Michael Willimas, the Texas railroad commissioner and hopefully next senator from the great state of Texas spoke, as well as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.

Pence had some great quips:

According to MSNBC Obama has an approval rating of 120%.

But seriously, after the election Obama had an approval rating of at least 60% in all 57 states.

Outside of that Pence made a very serious speech about the future of the conservative movement.

Michele Bauchmann brought along one of my favorite pictures:

Bauchmann spoke about the importance of moral values in shaping the conservative movement for the future:

Michael Williams had one of the best lines of the day:

I’m for hope and change. I hope Obama changes!

Williams also said:

America faces no threat greater than the hoax of global warming.

Williams is another bright star for the future of the GOP. It will be great once Texas re-elects Governor Perry, sends Michael Williams to the senate and sends Kay Baily Hutchinson into early retirement.

Tim Pawlenty also gave a good speech. his best line was:

We are planting the flag on constitutional ground and if the Democrats come after it we will fight back and not back down.

However, my favorite part of the day was a quick surprise message from the leader of the conservative movement:

Ron Paul also spoke…..

The day began with a brilliant speech from Florida Republican Senate candidate, Marco Rubio. Rubio told a harrowing story of his family’s journey from the communist hell-hole of Cuba to the United States. He put in to perspective what Americans stand to lose by trading their freedom down the river in return for some short-term payoffs from the federal government. Rubio also discussed the Global War on Terror. He said

“We will do whatever it takes for however long it takes to defeat radical Islam.”

Rubio is definitely a rising star for the GOP.

Rubio was followed by the soul of the Senate GOP, Jim DeMint. Simply put, DeMint is the best. He is a down the line conservative, the only Republican to obtain a 100% conservative rating from the ACU in the past year. DeMint hit on all the issues, excoriating Chairman O for his takeover of: banks, car companies, insurance companies, health care…. The theme of CPAC this year is “saving freedom” and there is nor better speaker on that subject than Senator Jim DeMint.

Mitt Romney gave a barn-burner of a speech (for the record, I am no fan of Romney but his speech makes me think I should give him a second look.) Mitt took on Obama head-on on every conceivable issue. His best zinger was

In case you didn’t hear the late-breaking news, the gold medal in the downhill was taken away from American Lindsey Vonn. It was determined that President Obama is going downhill faster than she is.

Romney also made this great point:

When it comes to shifting responsibility for failure, however, no one is a more frequent object of President Obama’s reproach than President Bush. It’s wearing so thin that even the late night shows make fun of it. I am convinced that history will judge President Bush far more kindly—he pulled us from a deepening recession following the attack of 9-11, he overcame teachers unions to test school children and evaluate schools, he took down the Taliban, waged a war against the jihadists and was not afraid to call it what it is—a war, and he kept us safe. I respect his silence even in the face of the assaults on his record that come from this administration. But at the same time, I also respect the loyalty and indefatigable defense of truth that comes from our “I don’t give a damn” Vice President Dick Cheney!

His speech was fantastic and absolutely a campaign speech for 2012. Conservatives may want to give Romney a second look.

There were also 2 surprise speakers here today: Dick Cheney and Scott Brown. Cheney received the hero’s welcome he deserved. He made a few quick remarks after his daughter, Liz, both of whom excoriated the Democrats weakness on foreign policy. Scott Brown introduced Romney was also very warmly received.

Get More CPAC videos at: http://www.c-span.org/ and http://townhall.com/blog/
And tune into the latest episode of Strictly Right Radio being recorded tonight for a comprehensive CPAC review.

This article by Thomas Sowell is an absolute must read:

Will we barter away our birthright and not even get the mess of pottage?

If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever-increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and more of our freedom.

Magicians have long known that distracting an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. It is also the key to political magic.

Alarms ranging from “overpopulation” to “global warming” and crusades ranging from “affordable housing” to “universal health care” have been among the distractions of political magicians. But few distractions have had such a long and impressive political track record as getting people to resent and, if necessary, hate other people.

The most politically effective totalitarian systems have gotten people to give up their own freedom in order to vent their resentment or hatred at other people — under Communism, the capitalists; under Nazis, the Jews…

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Apparently the pure amateur competition, played simply for the love of the game known as the Olympics has a rule against “Political Propaganda.” An interesting rule, seeing as the last Olympics were held in Red China, where the totalitarian regime made the event a two-weak whitewashing of their abhorrent human rights/genocide record. And who could forget the 1936 Berlin Olympics? But the IOC (International Olympic Committee) has finally put their foot down. United States ice hockey goalie Jonathan Quick has a ‘support our troops’ decal on the back of his helmet and the IOC is forcing him to remove it. At least this story makes the most over-hyped and truly boring sporting events interesting. Does it surprise anyone that the IOC finally decided to clampdown on ‘political propaganda’ when at issue was support for the brave men and women of America’s armed forces? Didn’t think so.