God Forbid The Conservative Movement & GOP Gets Co-Opted By Ron Paul

Unlike the last two years I've lived here in the DC area, I didn't attend CPAC this year.

Though I like a lot of his work, especially in exposing Van Jones, I'm just not a big of a Glenn Beck fan as I am of Rush Limbaugh (who spoke last year), Sean Hannity or Mark Levin. Don't get me wrong, Glenn does some great work, but sometimes, he has those WTF moments that make me wonder if a 12 step call might be necessary.

Of course, I'd love to hear Ann Coulter speak in person again, tweaking liberals as only she does. And it would have been worth the price of admission to have seen the great Andrew Breitbart make mincemeat out of that glue-sniffer named Max Blumenthal.

If I would have had yesterday off from my day job, I'd have made it a point to go and attend Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's presentation: Jiahd, The Political Third Rail, a subject hardly broached by CPAC.

What made me leery of CPAC this year was the inclusion of the John Birch Society as one of their many co-sponsors. While much was made of the homosexual group GOProud's status as a co-sponsor (and I don't agree with all their positions, especially the pro-same sex marriage), that seemed to take up all the heat which should have been directed towards the Birchers, a bunch of kooks with a lot of rhetoric that sounds similar to the moonbat far-Left (anti-war, isolationism).

Then, there was the disturbing news that the equally kooky Ron Paul won the straw poll for 2012 nominees, an honor usually reserved for Mitt Romney. Granted, I think while Ron Paul is right when it comes to economic issues, he is off the wall and kooky when it comes to foreign policy. He's implied that our Middle East policies led to 9/11, that Israel created Hamas and the US created bin Laden. No wonder I saw so many Ron Paul for President paraphernalia around Marin County, CA in 2007.

The group of Paulestianians known as the Campaign for Liberty even had this discussion at CPAC today.

The speakers noted above are a couple of anti-war, Lew Rockwell (another kook) zombies. Great! Why don't we have International ANSWER types make presentations at CPAC 2011? Both Kwiatkowski and Hornblower, along with Paul and Rockwell, are more of the Libertarian fringe, something that is hardly resembling conservatism.

Conservatism is on an ascendancy and we don't need extremists like Ron Paul and the Birchers defining us, thus tarnishing the work we are doing in bringing America back to its founding principles.