Strib nicely carried an editorial board post from Orlando Sentinel. The Crabgrass headline is fourth-from-last paragraph of the Sentinel thought-piece, which closes out:
As much as we would like to welcome to Orlando a thorough and thoughtful examination of today's issues based on conservative principles, that's not what we're getting.
Instead, a political clown car is arriving on I-Drive, driven by Sunday's keynote speaker and today's undisputed leader of conservatism — Donald J. Trump.
William F. Buckley would weep at the thought.
If "conservatism" is so elastic that Buckley petulent nagging and Trump soulless debasement of everything decent are put under the same rubric, the term "conservatism" now has degenerated into an excuse for an extravagant bitch-in by losers. (Unlike Buckley's "conservatism?")
Of course, opinions can vary. Pence, etc. not taking part. Something too egregions for Mike Pence is severe, given how loyally he endured Trump's shit without a peep of protest until the Trump Jan 6 speech hanging Pence out to dry for refusing to dishonor himself by clownish skullduggery against the rule of law.
Biden won. Trump came in second. Bitch, bitch, bitch at CPAC will not alter that.
Yet, Orlando hosts what it hosts; Florida, land of the Bush election robbery from Al Gore, gets back to what it cares about - voter suppression and theft of elections, which is okay-conservatism, when it was the Bush family doing the stealing.
An image, screen capture of top three speaker image rows, for this coming CPAC.
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Oh my! CPAC in listing speakers appears to put its featured favs first, letting Senators and Reps have bottom billing to the likes of Pompeo, Noem, host state's guv, Scott Walker, and, Christsakes, Pete Hegseth!!!!
The Sentinel editors did not get to specifics, but would Bill Buckley have stooped to share a stage or conference with a third-rate FOX stooge? The guess here, yes he would have if the alternative were keeping Hegseth and dumping Buckley. That view of Buckley conflicts with the Sentinel editors' adoration, but Buckley was who he was, and he'd grudgingly share billing with Hegseth - or Scott Walker - rather than doing what "Hang Mike Pence" did, refusing an invitation.
A sad lot of loud and offensive Trumpists, boxed into what "conservatism" means to today's CPAC mavens. It is their dog and pony show, to do as they choose; just who can take that latest instantiation seriously as anything but Trump's-IT-WhatWEGot opportunists and soreheads.
Sicko to the max.