Classic Thom Hartmann (2/9/11): Thom's mock CPAC (conservative conference) keynote speech

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As you might have heard today, Mike Papantonio of the Levin Papantonio law firm and co-host of the weekend talk show Ring of Fire filled in for Thom today as Thom is still recovering from a surgical complication. I suppose that Thom will return either next week or at the latest, Labor Day, as the Democratic convention kicks off that day (9/3). In the meantime, I will post the best of his TV and radio shows at V&M.

The first four minutes or so, Thom provides the context for this performance segment of the Feb. 9, 2011 edition of his RT program The Big Picture, starting with clips from Glenn Beck dissing Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol as an old-fashioned Goldwater conservative. Thom then explains why CPAC attendees wouldn't listen to presidents like George H.W. Bush or Richard Nixon (especially since NixonCare was the ObamaCare of the '70s), then going back in time finds Eisenhower. Thom then gives a mock CPAC keynote speech deriving from the 1956 GOP platform that won Eisenhower re-election. Could you imagine any modern conservatives endorsing anything the GOP endorsed during the "good old days" of America?

I bring this up as a reminder of the days when the Republican Party, while not exactly progressive like us, at least made a tad bit of sense, compared to the modern age with Michele Bachmann plumbing depths even worse than where Joe McCarthy would've dug with those groundless claims about a State Dept employee being with the Muslim Brotherhood or with Todd Akin talking about "legitimate rape". In the meantime, a new Washington Post/Kaiser foundation study shows that independent voters see too much partisanship between the two parties.

[Live and Learn]

1. Get well soon Thom.

We need and miss you.

[Overseas]

2. K&R. Well said.