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#CPAC2016 Trump Pulls Out

Posted on | March 4, 2016 | 63 Comments

Unexpectedly:

Donald Trump has pulled out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, opting to campaign in Kansas and Florida instead.
The Trump campaign released a statement to reporters announcing that it would be in “Witchita, Kanasas [sic] for a major rally on Saturday prior to Caucus.”
“He will also be speaking at the Kansas Caucus and then departing for Orlando, Florida and a crowd of approximately 20,000 people or more,” the campaign said. “Because of this, he will not be able to speak at CPAC as he has done for many consecutive years.”
“Mr. Trump would like to thank [American Conservative Union Chairman] Matt Schlapp and all of the executives at CPAC and looks forward to returning to next year, hopefully as President of the United States,” the statement continued.

Last night, I tried to watch the Republican debate, which looked like a badly written “Saturday Night Live” sketch. It was horrible, undignified, and I really don’t care how big Donald Trump’s hands are, OK? We are living in Idiocracy, and political discourse is turning into a clown show.

 

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63 Responses to “#CPAC2016 Trump Pulls Out”

  1. NeoWayland
    March 4th, 2016 @ 3:42 pm

    Which demonstrates EXACTLY what Trump thinks of conservatives.

  2. kilo6
    March 4th, 2016 @ 3:44 pm

    Last night, I tried to watch the Republican debate, which looked like a badly written “Saturday Night Live” sketch…
    Yes, it was a train wreck of a “debate”. A wreck of a freight train carrying a bunch of burning dumpsters.

  3. Patrick Carroll
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:01 pm

    My God! He really is a short-fingered vulgarian.

  4. charles w
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:14 pm

    He “pulled out” because Rubio said he had a small unit.

  5. Finrod Felagund
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:30 pm

    Brave, brave Sir Donald, he bravely ran away.

  6. Finrod Felagund
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:32 pm

    The only good GOP debate so far has been the one that Trump skipped.

    This is not a coincidence.

  7. Finrod Felagund
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:34 pm

    Though, I must amend that. Any debate that makes Trump look like the ass that he is, like last night’s, is a good one.

  8. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:54 pm

    Consider this scenario: you’re an alpha male. You’re not accustomed to enduring abuse, because you don’t have to; if someone swings at you, then you hit back twice as hard. And that goes for insults too.

    But our society has a weird double standard where it simultaneously pretends that women are the same as men, while being absolutely horrified if a man insults a woman back half as hard. Let alone twice.

    And then a speech gets leaked in advance. You find out that at a conference where you were scheduled to speak, a woman was going to spend her time attacking you. You know that the (sick and twisted) feminism/chivalry alliance enables her to get away with not being a lady, while punishing you for not being a gentleman. And you have a lifelong habit of using tit-for-tat to train people to not attack you. What do you do?

    In my opinion, Trump made the most graceful decision possible, under the circumstances.

  9. NeoWayland
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:58 pm

    I disagree, but you make a good argument.

  10. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 4:59 pm

    Fair enough. I often think the same of you. 🙂

  11. Scoob
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:04 pm

    “We are living in Idiocracy, and political discourse is turning into a clown show.” No, actually politics has always been a clown show. Read Aristotle’s “Art of Rhetoric” and he points out that folks that yell with passion can spout nonsense and be persuasive. Look at the election of 1800 between Adams and Jefferson. Not to mention the “perv” Bill Clinton. And Reagan won the New Hampshire primary in 1980 not by arguing for smaller government, but the “Waukesha moment”, i.e., “I paid for this microphone, Mr. Green”.

    Humans have always loved a good clown show.

  12. Grandson Of TheGrumpus
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:11 pm

    If y’all aren’t careful, you’ll wind-up with a ¿Jeb?/Rubio ticket, and you’d deserve it, too.

    Rubio just seems much too fixated on the size of men’s… hands. It makes me uncomfortable, to say the least.

    You really should read the article here, disregard what you might think of the author— he makes some very valid points, especially about the staging of the moderators’ questions!

  13. DrGreatCham
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:40 pm

    All that the “conservatives” in Congress have “conserved” is Obama’s agenda in return for occasional bones thrown to the RNC donor class, like oil sales. They, and their chattering class lapdog apologists, have made the term a justified swear word of no consequential meaning.

  14. DrGreatCham
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:43 pm

    Exactly, Trump isn’t the one being the clown in these circumstances, especially after Romney’s foul and disingenuous cowardice and the deliberately unprofessional stupidity of the Fox debate(s).

    It’s like these morons don’t realize that the Internet and YouTube exists. For them, it’s eternally 1968 and (the morally corrupt leftist) Altered Walter is still the God-Emperor of Gatekeepers.

  15. DrGreatCham
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:51 pm

    So, you approve of CPAC openly announcing a lack of good faith in inviting Donald Trump to speak while deliberately enabling SJW cry-bully tactics to be used against him.

    Good to know.

  16. Mm
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:52 pm

    Actually, you’re right. Rubio was making veiled comments about how Trump’s allegedly small hand size corresponds to … you know. Trump responded. Rubio also said that Trump wet himself. Where are the calls that Rubio is the vulgarian? As for CPAC, it has become a big nothingburger.

  17. DrGreatCham
    March 4th, 2016 @ 5:53 pm

    If Romney’s actions are the gold standard of “conservatism,” Trump’s thoughts would be echoed by anyone with a sliver of human decency and integrity. The Republican Harry Reid deserves no consideration.

  18. Mm
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:00 pm

    Yup.

  19. NeoWayland
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:02 pm

    I didn’t say anything about Romney.

  20. NeoWayland
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:07 pm

    I didn’t say anything about CPAC.

    For the record, I’m the guy who thinks the national parties and affiliated organizations should be prosecuted under the RICO Act. That may be the only possible pure use of that law.

    I also think there should be a None of the Above on every ballot.

    And no, I don’t like or trust Trump. But I’ve not said why on this thread.

    Either/or can limit your thinking. You might want to try something else.

  21. trangbang68
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:09 pm

    “You’re not accustomed to enduring abuse”is one way of looking at it. Another is you’re a rich person who has had everything handed to you and thus you have a deep sense of entitlement, coupled with a tendency to want to silence your critics. I say Trump does not have the temperament for the Oval Office.

  22. Adobe_Walls
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:31 pm

    If that guy really believes ”the RNC is directly responsible for every scintilla of what takes place at a debate, down to the placement of the light bulbs,” he’s an idiot.

  23. DrGreatCham
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:36 pm

    Yep, RICO is purely unconstitutional.

    I’m angry because I resent having to defend Orange Comb-Over.

  24. NeoWayland
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:44 pm

    Oh my!

    I like that name for him.

  25. Quartermaster
    March 4th, 2016 @ 6:49 pm

    Given who puts it on and that Grover Norquist is influential in keeping Pamela Geller out, and frauds like Morrissey attend, yeah, CPAC is pretty much nothing.

  26. physicsnut
    March 4th, 2016 @ 7:04 pm

    what would Ermey say ?

  27. Daniel O'Brien
    March 4th, 2016 @ 8:21 pm

    I hate clowns.

  28. Daniel O'Brien
    March 4th, 2016 @ 8:23 pm

    Recent blog posts and pictures suggest Rubio had a Gay Old Time in his college days.

  29. OrangeEnt
    March 4th, 2016 @ 8:37 pm

    Come on! Soap just foams, ok? He’s very clean and articulate. Nothing to read into it……..

  30. Fail Burton
    March 4th, 2016 @ 9:49 pm

    We should anoint a king for 4 years by Powerball. I would trust that more.

  31. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 10:13 pm

    Well I, for one, would never vote for your ideal meek bendover artist, who would probably also instigate an Islamist revolution in some random country that would result in a brutal peacekeeping strongman leader getting literally raped to death. And you know how much Islamists respect the religious freedom of Christians.

    I want America to keep ourselves to ourselves as long as people leave us alone, and otherwise use overwhelming force in response — make Dresden look like Disneyland — the opposite of now.

  32. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 10:25 pm

    Speaking of disregarding what you might think of the author, I recently stumbled across this druid who made a good point.

  33. Finrod Felagund
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:04 pm

    Personally I think of Donald Trump as The Joker.

  34. Finrod Felagund
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:07 pm

    Heh. They used to have foam dancing at a club here in Atlanta. I miss it, it was a lot of fun. Couldn’t really go unless it was going to be warmer than about 70 degrees at night, though, otherwise the cold water hose rinseoff outside was just a bit too much.

  35. Daniel Freeman
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:09 pm

    They don’t choose the drapes. But they decide who does.

  36. DeadMessenger
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:15 pm

    BWAHAHAHA!

  37. DeadMessenger
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:17 pm

    Stilton Jarlsberg had some funny stuff to say about last night’s “247th GOP debate”.

    http://hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-mitts-are-off.html

  38. DeadMessenger
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:28 pm

    “… I’m the guy who thinks the national parties and affiliated organizations should be prosecuted under the RICO Act.”

    Just thinking about that happening takes me to my happy place, a place where a majority of the citizens think rationally instead of a small minority. Although, since it’s me and all, I’d also be down with prosecution under the We Have Torches, Pitchforks, and Lengths of Rope And You’re Coming With Us (WHTPALRAYCWU) Act.

  39. DeadMessenger
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:32 pm

    YES!! Agree 100%. Retaliatory force should be swift and deadly, and I’d go so far as to say that depending upon the situation and the parties involved, come without warning.

  40. DeadMessenger
    March 4th, 2016 @ 11:42 pm

    Well, I’ll see your druid, and raise you this:

    http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/27/40-reasons-not-to-vote-for-donald-trump-n2125585/page/full

  41. Daniel Freeman
    March 5th, 2016 @ 12:01 am

    The author appears to have been in an echo chamber.

  42. SouthOhioGipper
    March 5th, 2016 @ 12:17 am

    .. and just throw away 3 generations of hard, long and expensive international negotiations building a global economic empire that allows 4% of the global population (that you me and every other American) to outright control 25% of the global means of production.

    We get enormous benefits from our empire, like the ability to borrow against not just the labor of the US workforce alone, but the entire global marketplace. Which allows us to keep taxes low domestically and still provide a social safety net and social security. None of which would be possible without massive tax increases.

    American Empire is the only thing standing ding between a 21st century global enlightenment and a global dark age.

  43. guinspen
    March 5th, 2016 @ 12:42 am

    “Pussy.”

  44. Finrod Felagund
    March 5th, 2016 @ 2:48 am

    Oh my. I just read the Debate Scorecard over at Ace of Spades. I nearly busted a gut laughing.

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/361934.php

    WARNING: NSFW humor hereafter.

    His answers to questions about Trump University and the budget were somewhat uncomfortable to watch, in much the same way that it is uncomfortable to watch a bus full of circus clowns crash into a school for blind children and even worse the clowns were doing their “Gasoline Comedy” act that day and now all the blind children are on fire and the clowns are trying to squirt water on them with their stupid lapel-flowers but the flowers are just squirting out more gas and the children are crying tears of fire out of their Unseeing Dead Eyes and holy shit a couple of the clowns look like they have boners and they’re chasing around the fiery blind children trying to rub up on them with these bobbling clown-boners with big red bulbs on their tips.

  45. trangbang68
    March 5th, 2016 @ 7:08 am

    I support Ted Cruz. I hope he is not who you mean by a “meek bendover artist” because he’s the only one with the proven record of opposing the left and the weak GOP. Trump’s record is of throwing money at the odious left.

  46. NeoWayland
    March 5th, 2016 @ 7:38 am

    Perhaps the biggest difference between libertarians and conservatives/progressives is that conservatives and progressives view government as a Way To Get Things Done.

    Libertarians see government as an extremely dangerous beast that if kept at all, must be severely hobbled and and three-quarters starved.

    For the safety of the community.

  47. Adobe_Walls
    March 5th, 2016 @ 8:00 am

    Not really, if the RNC has any where near the control that implies why do the communists host most of the debates?

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  49. marcus tullius cicero
    March 5th, 2016 @ 9:49 am

    …your headline “Trump pulls out”, after all the penis talk is a little unnerving…

  50. Quartermaster
    March 5th, 2016 @ 10:51 am

    Because they don’t exercise the control they have.