I've been wandering around CPAC today, and I have to say I find a
lot of it rather depressing. There's a whole lot of talk about
strategy and getting the message out (especially through Twitter
and Facebook), but surprisingly little about what the message
ought to be. It hasn't always been like this; in past years there
have been heated policy debates at CPAC over issues that divide
the right, like drugs and immigration. There's a foreign policy
panel later today that promises some friction, but that's about
it. The right needs to be hashing out its policy ideas if its
going to be politically relevant again in the post-Bush era. I
would have thought this would be obvious, but apparently it
isn't.
