Former CPAC Chair Minces No Words Slamming What The Event, GOP Have Now Become

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A former chair of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday slammed what the event has now become, suggesting former President Ronald Reagan would not get elected by those in attendance at this year’s gathering.

Mickey Edwards — who led the American Conservative Union, which organizes the event, for five years until 1983 — ripped Republicans attending this year’s CPAC in Orlando for their devotion to former President Donald Trump.

In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Edwards likened the GOP to a cult whose members are living in an alternate reality.

Edwards served as a GOP representative for Oklahoma for 16 years until 1993 but quit the GOP in January following the deadly U.S. Capitol riot. The violence was perpetrated by a violent mob of Trump supporters who’d been whipped up by the then-president’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ex-cpac-chair-slams-trump-conference-084450265.html

While I think Reagan would perhaps be too liberal for today's GOP troglodytes I can't help but notice a similarity between the GOP's veneration of Reagan years ago and their current veneration of Trump.

Remember the GOP's nostalgia for Reagan during the Clinton years?

Seems conservatives desire to have a strong alpha figure as their leader. That person may or may not be tough but so long as they put out the illusion of strength they get a following.

Their belief seems more visceral than intellectual.

[LizBeth]

1. All about a power of superiority to women, blacks and everyone else. That is their "alpha".

As long as they are hateful or "better" than certain groups they raise them to heroship.

[Turbineguy]

2. At least Reagan had

some funny Russia jokes.

[Beakybird]

3. The current GOP veneration for Russia shows...

Their past hatred of communism had nothing to do with ideology or lack of freedom. Once communism ceased to be a threat to the American winner-take-all business model, the right embraced or didn't mind dictators like Putin, Kim Jung-un or Xi.

[Oldem]

4. "Seems conservatives desire to have a strong alpha figure as their leader. " I've always

viewed conservatives as the natural successors to Tories: they love monarchical leaders. Now it's gotten worse, perhaps in a natural progression. They want a dictatorial strong man a la Hitler, etc.

[TNNurse]

5. But they worship a man who is not strong.

He is not smart (he may be clever about some things), but he is not smart.

I need to see the video of him cowering in front of that Black woman preacher during the campaign. That is who he really is.

He is a coward, fires people online or has others do it.

I have never seen one moment of strength from him.

[JNelson6563]

6. The same sort of idiots who think

Putin is a "strong" leader.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Their belief is in someone who voices their fear and their anger, not someone who is actually brave.

Bluster and Hype that sound tough and vicious are the hall mark of people who are themselves afraid.

[Disaffected]

8. Cretains Posing As Conservatives

[Cosmocat]

9. For all their big talk

They are relentlessly servile.