The right-wingers over at the American Conservative Union conference in DC today must really be frothing after a full day of fiery political speechifying. We wish we could give you better color commentary, but ACU has banned the media (unless we’re willing to fork over $400.) But fortunately, ACU is Twittering, so we do know that the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund just warned the crowd that if Democrats lose health care, they will “ram universal voter registration through Congress.” The horror! God forbid everyone in this country actually registered to vote. Other choice quotes from Fund:
On health care: “I think we have a chance of taking it down from an 800 pound gorilla to a 99 pound weakling.”
On the ACORN scandal: “ACORN is the soft under belly of the Liberal Left Machine.”
And this doozy: Fund estimates that more than 400,000 people attended Saturday’s 9/12 anti-government march in DC. (Most reliable estimates put the number at more like 75,000.)
Fund was preceded by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who said sagely: “The constant in climate change is that it is changing.” He apparently called for more science, less hype on global warming.
And it wouldn’t be a conservative conference without South Carolina Rep. Jim DeMint (R), who told attendees: “Our goal is to save freedom in America.” Thanks, Jim.
You can follow the bromides here.
