CPAC: Milo disinvited, quits Breitbart

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This dude is like Liberace with the politics of Joseph Goebbels.  His fifteen minutes of fame are up.

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From the principled conservatism of Barry Goldwater to the moral bankruptcy of Milo. Truly the right has given up.

And they said Barry was bad in 1964.  It's truly unbelievable how the party of Abraham Lincoln went from the Western principled libertarian-conservatism of Barry Goldwater to the nutty, kooky, loony reality show of Trump and Milo.

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CPAC, and conservatives as a whole, has always been guilty of elevating loudmouthed hucksters especially those whose race or sexual orientation or age suggest that they would usually be a Democrat. Rather than addressing they have a homophobia problem, they'll put a gay guy on stage to tell them that the LEFT are the real bigots. Rather than address why minorities don't vote Republican, they'll put David Clarke on stage to talk about how brown people are all criminals.

Notice that quieter, non-bomb throwing minority conservatives (Tim Scott, Ken Mehlman, ect.) get nowhere near the conservative attention and enthusiasm as say Allen West or Milo.

So true.

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It is identity politics plain and simple and the right does it too just the same. 

The whole Marco Rubio thing was totally because he was Latino and the Jeb Bush/Wall Street wing of the party thought that with him and a more moderate immigration stance, they could get the Latino vote.  It didn't work.

Clarence Thomas was very likely appointed because he was black.  There must be have been dozens of white conservatives that could have been appointed to fill Thurgood Marshall's seat, but they found a black conservative and that was that.

Sarah Palin was chosen because she was a woman who would offset all of the history that Obama was making.

Obama was plucked out of obscurity - literally, eight years before he became President he lost a Democratic primary for a U.S. House race - and part of all that was that he was viewed as a transformational figure.  Back in 2004, he had this "purple" bipartisan aura about him and that, combined with his biracial roots, made him a star.

Let's just come out and say what it is.  Diversity for the sake of diversity is "in".  It's very trendy.

Even Donald Trump of all people played identity politics in the election by waving a rainbow flag and using the words "LGBTQ community" at his acceptance speech.  Ironically, adding the "Q" stuck and it's being used everywhere now instead of the LGBT.

This Milo guy is big now because he's gay.  There's also a few gay porn stars that support Trump.  Caitlyn Jenner is a conservative Republican (probably because Bruce was, the politics didn't change when she transitioned).

I think what we're going to start to see a lot of now is that the diversity championed so much by the left is going to be embraced by the right, but only when that diversity adheres to a conservative message.

It wouldn't surprise me if the first openly queer, biracial, Buddhist Republican is elected to Congress soon.