Senator McLame still shows his true liberal Republican side whenever he can. He now wants the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate dietary supplements.
Remember the “noose” incident at the University of California San Diego campus? It was a hot topic for about a week, then as often happens in these cases, it did not have the desired result and was discovered to be a hoax.
A minority student at UC San Diego has issued an anonymous apology, admitting she did it, but said it was without any racial motivation.
All is well and the media can move on to the next victim. You can bet this story will be buried just like the Knoxville, Tennessee torture murders of the two college students.
Oddly enough the San Diego student has been suspended and is under investigation for a possible hate crime. Usually nothing is done to the hoaxer in these cases, which usually turn out to be bogus after the heavy publicity initially. Normally the only action taken is to quickly drop the subject.
David Frum used to write for National Review magazine. David Brooks is the token “conservative” columnist at the New York Times. Neither is conservative, though they are so designated by the media left. Do not buy the media’s version of “acceptable conservatism.”
Both Frum and Brooks were claiming a year ago that conservatives needed to reconsider their beliefs that the world was changing and the right side must adapt. Never is the left expected to adapt.
Both were wrong, of course, with CPAC, the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington showing a 28 percent attendance increase over last year.
“With more than 10,000 conservative activists attending this year, CPAC has moved to Washington’s Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, where the ballroom holds 2 1/2 times more people than at the previous location.”
Ronald Kessler on Newsmax.com
David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union (acu.org) says the first CPAC was held in 1973, with about 125 people attending. The speaker was California Governor Ronald Reagan. He went on to speak at 17 CPACs.
One secret to the continued growth of CPAC was that they followed Ronald Reagan’s advice to keep it as an outreach to middle America, to the middle class conservatives.
“Keep the price low, make sure that you’re bringing in new people, and keep CPAC what it’s become and what it ought to always be,” said Governor Reagan.
“Given that half the attendees this year will be college students, CPAC has remained true to that request,” writes Ronald Kessler.
“Tip O’Neill said that all politics is local. Not anymore. In 2010, all politics is national. The merits or demerits of each individual candidate count for little. Party counts for all.”
Dick Morris on dickmorris.com 3-3-10
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour says 2010 seems better than 1994 for the Republicans and he was national party chairman back then.
“What’s happened this year is consistent with my experience. What has happened is, the more the public has learned about the Democrat proposals, the more they are opposed to them. This is very similar to President Clinton’s first ‘economic plan.’ Sometime late in February of 1993, he announced his economic plan. The overnight poll said it was 78 percent approval. His economic plan, which later became known as the largest tax increase in American history, passed the House and the Senate without a single vote to spare.”
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour 3-24-10
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