The revolution was televised

By Creature

CNN:

Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president’s spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.

Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama "the world’s best salesman of socialism" on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.

DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to "take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism."

"Take to the streets." Really?

You gotta love this conservative populist movement. Not only is it tone deaf, but they don't seem to realize America already had its populist revolution. Yes, we did. I seem to remember a record shattering 2008 election campaign dominated by a politician who was able to mobilized millions of people. They gave him lots of money and came out in droves to support him at his rallies and at the polls. Conservatives may not like the results of the 2008 populist revolution--they weren't dressed in Brooks Brothers, after all--but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The people have spoken, Senator DeMint, "socialism" is in. Why don't you suck on that for awhile.