Being Conservative: When Everyone Hates You, It’s Liberating — UPDATED

UPDATED AGAIN: Check out the pictures!

Flying back from CPAC (conservative political action conference) in D.C. today, I tried to sum up the general feeling of the gathering. The word that came to mind was exuberance.

Everyone was exuberant.

Are conservatives waaaay out of power? Yes. Is the Democratically controlled everything capable of doing horrendous damage even still? Yes. Is the media still a commie-loving propagandist machine? Yes.

Even still, attendees were exuberant. Why?

For one, even out of power, the legislation that would destroy the country got blunted or stopped. This is heartening. For all the talk to the contrary, it seems America is far more conservative, fiscal and otherwise, than people thought.

For another, being out of power is fun. Chucking lobs from the cheap seats, while watching perpetual children try to govern is emotionally satisfying. For years, a decade even, the Left has had opinions about the complicated issues of our time. Most of them have been idealistic, naive, stupid and juvenile. Guess what? Leading is hard. So, Gitmo is open. Why? Because it MAKES SENSE. Americans are rebelling against civilian trials. Why? Because they are STUPID and resource hogging. The war on terror continues. Why? Because it’s the RIGHT THING TO DO. All the issues the left opined about changing have turned out to be very difficult to change because (shhhhhh) George Bush was right. And not only that, the things that he was wrong about–big spending and expanded government still pisses people off. Ooopsie. That’s just what Democrats had hoped to change. No dice.

Mostly though, it is absolutely liberating to be hated no matter what you do.

Liberals hate conservatives. And because they control the networks, the newspapers, the House, Senate, and White House, Americans are inundated with just how much they’re hated. I say Americans and substitute conservative for Americans because the vast majority of Americans self-identify as conservatives.

We’re hated. We get it.

You think we’re racist, stupid, Bible-thumping, NASCAR-watching, gun-clinging, homophobic, did I mention stupid?, morons.

Guess what? You suck.

And at CPAC, people just didn’t care. They cheered for Cheney. They cheered for The Moustache. They booed the gay-hating kid. They exuberantly expressed themselves because they have nothing whatsoever to lose. What more can be said? Every cliché is hackneyed and wrong and superficial and lame. The sting is lost.

So, CPAC attendees just enjoyed themselves. It’s been a long time I’ve seen conservatives so happy. With sell-out Republicans on the run and leftist libs getting hit with a clue-bat, it’s a great time to be conservative.

There’s nothing more that can be said that hasn’t already been said. The conservative movement is free to be themselves. It was a great weekend to be in the company of like-minded folks.

The narrative may not change, but it will die along with the purveyors of the mean message. Meanwhile, conservatives have embraced the hostility and transformed the energy into something positive and happy.

CPAC was exuberant. A liberated conservative is a happy conservative.

UPDATED:

Jimmie Bise of the Sundries Shack says this:

Here is a case in point. Max Blumenthal wrote a nasty article for the Washington Post-owned Salon.com about James O’Keefe in which almost every important detail, including the accusation that O’Keefe is a racist, was simply wrong. The article was so riddled with dishonesty that Salon retracted it, even though Blumenthal, in his whiny omega-male way, stood behind his charges. You can get a good rundown on the story from Larry O’Connor here. This came to a head at CPAC on Saturday. Sid Blumenthal, son of Max, showed up with a camera crew to do God-alone-knows-what, and Breitbart pounced.

After making Blumenthal shrink off with his tail between his legs, Breitbart fended off yet another serial liar, Daryl Jenkins of the One People’s Project and another Salon “reporter” Mike Madden.

Go read the whole thing and watch Andrew’s video, too.

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