After hearing what happened at CPAC yesterday, we cats think maybe the Party of Lincoln cannot stand. (Or is it that we cannot stand the Party of Lincoln? We digress.)
Seems that a good chunk of the CPAC crowd — mainly Ron Paul followers, but others as well — booed Donald Rumsfeld and the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived (If Indeed He Were a Person), who were there peddling books.
The pundit world has reacted in shock. But actually, we cats think that in today's split-personality GOP, it makes a fair amount of sense.
True libertarians — which the establishment Republicans, who want to dictate the contents of Americans' wombs, are not — dislike the Worst Person If Indeed He Were, etc. In their view, Dick Cheney has been a part of "big government" since the days of Richard Nixon. He was de facto President for eight years — and as such presided over an unnecessary and costly war. Not to mention that the Bushies blew a budget surplus for tax cuts that, libertarians believe, should have been paid for (but weren't) with massive federal spending reductions.
As for Rumsfeld, well — nobody likes him. Who could? Ugh.
Yesterday's boos, however, are just the latest demonstration of the ugly divide between the GOP establishment and the flaky, teabaggy base that they keep trying to ride like a bucking bull. Clearly — just like last year's unpredictable primary-election results and this week's failed floor votes in the House — inside-the-Beltway Republicans think they still run things. Otherwise, why else would it have been deemed safe to pull Cheney out of his bunker and put him in a public venue with C-SPAN's cameras rolling? Surprise!
This should make for a very interesting 2012. Just ask Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar. And the 12-plus dwarfs who will run for the worthless GOP Presidential nomination.
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