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VACUUM ON THE RIGHT

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The justcompleted CPAC annual meeting has again shown us that we on the Right do strongnotstrong have a frontrunner or even a emplausible candidateem to unite us as we head into the crucial 2012 presidential and congressional elections.In fact, CPAC demonstrated that the organized Right, which sold its soul to a faux conservative in 2000, G.W. Bush, and then supported him and an irresponsible GOPrun Congress as they partnered to bankrupt our public fisc and squander our moral and military advantage for six years, is now devoid of a true conservative who understands and believes in the principles that separate us from the squishy middle and the outoftouch Left.First, this CPAC event shamed itself by inviting Donald Trump to speak. Who can take him seriously in a political context He is strongnotstrong, nor has he strongeverstrong been a conservative. How quickly CPAC organizers apparently forget Trumps support of and praise for both Bill and Hillary Clinton in all their campaigns as well as the scores of other liberal Democrats he has financed in states where he buys their influence for his business interests. How quickly they also forget Trumps sordid marital and sexual history.emThisem is someone to be listened to Especially as he trashes the emoneem candidate, Ron Paul, who has maintained steady and consistent principles for over thirty yearsLast Sunday we celebrated the 100th birthday of Americas greatest conservative leader, Ronald Reagan. But by Thursday we were listening to emDonald Trumpem comment on public issuesDo we need any emmoreem proof how emfarem off the rails the Right has goneAs for the other possible GOP 2012 presidential candidates, it is clear emnoneem of them connected in any emotional way with the majority of conservative activists sitting in that hotel ball room over the weekend and who came to DC emdesperateem to find a new leader.Instead, the candidates demonstrated their ability to pander and their scripted antiObama rhetoric but emnoneemof them other than Ron Paul touched the souls of the thousands of activists who are the Army of the Right.A note about Ron Paul he is indeed a libertarian more than a traditional conservative. But the key to Ron is his emconstant adherence to his principlesem no matter how many times he has been defeated or his ideas rejected. Ron is the Energizer Bunny of the libertarian right and we on the Right all respect that perseverance, as we have all been rejected, humiliated and treated with contempt over time by the smug leftists who think they are smarter than everyone else.It was poor form of Trump to come to CPAC and dump on Ron Paul. And it shows that Trump did not know his audience or did not care about their respect for Congressman Paul.What is clear is that we do strongnotstrong have a candidate yet who can unite the Right emandem win a majority of the crucial independent voters. Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee and Barbour It doesnt look like any of them can do it. Nor can the others we have seen. They are lackluster and boring and without that special spark that could ignite a prairie fire that sweeps all across this land and then arrives in Washington determined to change the role of the federal government in our lives.It may be that the GOP will again nominate a dud, ala McCain and Dole and, frankly, both Bushes, who were uninspiring candidates who won because of other factors Bush I won because Reagan was President and was handing the Oval Office off to Bush and Bush II might not really have won at all!.If we do pick another uninspiring, inarticulate, unprincipled bore, Obama will win a second term.But maybe somewhere, somehow in the next year a new candidate will emerge who can bring the passion of the Tea Party and the legacy of the Republican Party together and then give us a chance to save this country from the leftward lurch that threatens to bankrupt us all.