Donald Trump was invited to speak because the Republicans have not noticed how utterly insane the man is. In his speech, he slammed immigration from Latin American countries and asked why we can't have more immigrants from Europe. He said undocumented workers should not be given any path to citizenship because if they get to vote they will vote Democratic.
Sarah Palin sipped a Big Gulp during her speech to thumb her nose at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The fact that increased serving sizes, especially for soft drinks, has increased the rate of obesity is not an issue for Palin and folks like her.
There was so much crazy in such a small compact place. One could go insane going through all of it.
I do want to narrow in on one nugget of crap out of CPAC. The following video is of a panel with the Frederick Douglass Republicans where one participant, Scott Terry, demonstrated his ignorance of history.
When the speaker talks about a letter that Frederick Douglass wrote to his slave master thanking him, Terry interrupts.
Terry: “For what? For feeding him and housing him?”
After the outburst, he was overheard saying, “why can’t we just have segregation?”
Via ThinkProgress:
Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.
When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”
So he decided to touch on sexism as well. Well it is nice to spread the hate around, I guess.
Sadly, people like this still exist.
