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Lee Moran
Lee Moran·Reporter, HuffPost
Sat, February 27, 2021, 1:44 AM

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 r**t. 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 e******n was s****n from him.

“The Republican party really no longer stands for any kind of principles, conservative or otherwise,” Edwards told Burnett on Friday.

“The party seems now to be completely following the lead of one man wherever he goes, which is the definition of a cult,” he continued. “Now all that matters is, ‘Trump is for this, we’re for this.’ And that includes denying t***h, denying fact, denying reality. It’s such a disconnect from what’s really happened in the world.”

Edwards said Republicans speaking at this year’s CPAC “are living in an alternate reality in which facts don’t matter, the Constitution doesn’t matter.”

He also minced no words when commenting on current ACU chair Matt Schlapp, who has bought into Trump’s mass v***r f***d lie.

“He doesn’t have the job that I used to have because when I was head of CPAC, it was a group that was based on conservative principles,” said Edwards. “We were strong supporters of the Constitution. We believed in free e******ns. We believed in democracy. These people don’t believe in any of those things.”

“You know, they’re no different than the people who flock to other totalitarian leaders in other countries,” he added. “They’re no different than they are in Hungary, they’re no different than they used to be Germany. Wh**ever their great leader says, they do, and there’s no underpinning of fact, there’s no underpinning or concern about the norms of free democracy.”

Edwards concluded that the CPAC of the Trump era is “not at all the same organization I led.”

“Ronald Reagan could not get elected to anything by the people who were at that CPAC conference this year.”
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ex-cpac-chair-slams-trump-conference-084450265.html

ChJoe

I h**e to dismiss your opinion as worthless but that s what I am going to do, as usual.

Larry Joe

I wouldn’t dismiss Rumitold out right, because the article does reflect the old Guard of the Republican Party which was basically Democrat Lite. Trump did move the party to a more Populist brand of politics based on smaller government, emphasis on individual liberty and responsibility, putting America first as well as belief in the Constitution. Could Reagan get the nomination of this group? In a heart beat! Could JFK get the nomination of the Democrat/Socialist Party? No way. Just my thoughts.
Your Friend,
Larry Joe

son of witless

I found this article from a decade ago. It seems this guy was not happy with CPAC long before Donald J. Trump came along. Which kind of makes your article irrelevant.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/02/why-im-not-at-cpac/36207/

Gatsby

The rants of a very frustrated, impotent, de-horned RINO.

Wonttakeitanymore

Agreed! He’s disturbed!

microphor Loc: Home is TN

The only people CNN will have on their show are people will agree with them. Why want they debate Shapiro, D'Souza, Owen's? I can tell you why, these people can back up their words with evidence!

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

In todays world JFK would be a moderate republican.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

** Republicans speaking at this year’s CPAC “are living in an alternate reality in which facts don’t matter, the Constitution doesn’t matter.”**

That just about sums it up, to a tee.

Everything is wrong with everything and everyone else except Us.
That is an alternate reality.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Please tell me how smaller government benefits you personally. I hear this all the time but can’t figure out why anyone would be defending the talking points of rich and powerful people and corporations.
They want smaller government with kess regulations to increase their profit instead of wasting it on you and your safety issues, Health Issues, wage issues, overall less oversight of protection for you.
You gain nothing but Lose constantly.
What do you get for v****g against having your meat and cheese inspected ?
OSHA programs?
Trump reduced regulations on the pork industry. Causing unsafe work conditions and possibly unhealthy pork.
Where does the money go they save by not having these inspectors ?
Do you get it in your check ?
Where does the money go ?
We have been cutting government for a while now, what in your opinion has gotten better ?
We have acquired more billionaires, heading toward Trillionaires.
Has your life taken any major upswings?

PeterS

Based on the constitution? Minus one i**********n is what you mean...

EmilyD

I have not paid more taxes for i*****l a***ns to come here and demand their freebies by the hundreds of millions. There are caravans of millions of them headed for our newly open borders as we speak.

I have not paid more taxes for paying for people on Welfare, Food Stamps, Medicaid and free housing for those i*****l a***ns. Now I will be...when they get here.

I have not paid more taxes for large amounts of people who don't want to work (NOT cannot work) for a living - Most of those people found jobs under Trump but are now being forced back into welfare/food stamp/medicaid lines and therefore more dependent on the government...

I have not paid higher taxes for bonuses and pay increases for our do-nothing congressmen and women who go to work for only half the year (174 days/yr. in the House, 191 days/yr. in the Senate). They just v**ed an increase in both for themselves....which I will be paying for.

I have not paid higher taxes for gas, food, clothing, property or entertainment. Gas has already increased from $2.29 to $2.89 in the 60 days since Biden's inauguration. A dozen eggs went from $1.20 to $2.00....

In case you "forget" it is the government that raises taxes on things....the larger the government, the more taxes they can think of.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

JUST IN: Kristi Noem rips Joe Biden in CPAC 2021 speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lep70dcxrYA
Kevin McCarthy TORCHES Speaker Pelosi at CPAC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXPfRUFWb4
JUST IN: Pompeo slams Biden Administration in CPAC 2021 speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtwF_L3SZ4

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

good morning to you Emily...

While you may or may not be right is the things you listed.. to say Millions are going to flood the country is total ill wishing on your part..

And while none of us, or at least myself , like taxes, your increase has already been put in place for2021.. the tax law of 2017 made the increase starting is 2021 and concluding is 2025 a law so that you and others who work and sweat for a living can pay for the gift to the paper minders of the very rich and orange.. oh wait, you are orange but you got nothing good from the tax law.. bad for you, good for the rich..

It is the long held goal of conservatives , to serve the rich..

America 1 Loc: South Miami

50% over $25,000.00
The tax would be on $12,500.00 of 25K
$25K is $65,658.13 in today's money.
$32,000.00 is $84,042.41 in today's money.
Seems like anyone receiving $65K to $84K, in 1983 would not be hurting paying tax on 1/2 that amount.