...the annual Conservative Political Action Conference that began this morning is a three-day extravaganza of activism in which purists, not pragmatists, are on parade -- and they are busy bashing the president.
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We've got to stop this nonsense of teaching our schoolchildren in foreign languages," she told the crowd. "We cannot afford to let Mexico turn us into a two-language nation."
She was incensed, she said, that that George Bush had made such a big deal of signing the bill into law that would provide for a fence along part of the border between the countries: "Was that dishonest? I've been looking at TV every night and haven't seen that fence being built yet. We want that fence!"
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Nor was everyone in the crowd on the same page, as it turns out. "They ripped into the Republicans more than I thought they would," said Travis Moore, a 20-year-old College Republican from Wayne State College in Nebraska. "I came in thinking I was a conservative, but I guess I'm not. I think it's important for our kids to learn other languages and work with people from other countries -- and I've always been against that stupid wall."
on note: Let me be the first to encourage Mr. Travis Moore to consider voting for a Democrat or Libertarian in the next election. Because what he's going to get in 2008 is what he saw at that convention.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melinda-henneberger/conservative-bushbashing_b_42385.html
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