While CPAC was going popping off over the weekend, another event, a sad rhinoceros exhibit, was happening simultaneously, just a dozen miles away. It was called the "Principles First Summit" (lol) and featured a group of has-been globalist neocons trying to plot their way back to their previous grifty relevance.
The list of speakers was basically the staff of The Bulwark and The Dispatch, a couple WaPo writers, a couple Atlantic writers, John Bolton, and John Kasich.
Bill Kristol of The Bulwark, who formerly ran The Weekly Standard and now makes his living courting rich neocon donors by rage-baiting actual conservatives while pretending to be some sort of aristocratic Republican sage, had a very revealing and very stupid thing to say during his turn at the podium:
"It turns out that once you let the toothpaste out of the tube, so to speak, demagoguery and bigotry and all that, some people like it. It's hard to get it back." Kristol said. "You can't just give them a lecture."
"We need to defeat the Trump Republicans. And if that means being with the Democrats for a while, that's fine," he added, suggesting a presidential ticket of Democrats Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia. "That's fine with me."
THE NEVER-TRUMP NEOCONS HAVE GOTTEN SO DERANGED THAT THEY'RE CALLING FOR A GRETCHEN WHITMER PRESIDENCY.
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor, Empress, and Supreme Ruler of the Land of Michigan, is a flaming tyrant. She rules with an iron fist. She loves abortion, taxes, trans-madness, lockdowns, and government mandates — any government mandate, just as long as it's a mandate and she gets to implement it. She's the epitome of the woke, strong-arm neo-Marxism that is trying to destroy the country from within.
Hey Republicans — let's make her president!
What an absolute joke and disgrace.
Instead of making Queen Gretch president, why don't we use some donor dollars to lure all these RINO grifters up north onto one of the icebergs they think are melting and float them out into the Arctic Ocean where they can rub each other's bellies in obscurity forevermore.
