Who’s MIA at the Conservative Political Action Convention?

We (the left blogosphere, that is — my official membership card is around here somewhere) have got a mole inside CPAC reporting the news that the so-called liberal media won’t: A very important figure in neocon America and in conservative hearts everywhere just cannot be found there.

Everyone is here… Michelle Malkin. Ann Coulter. Newt Gingrich. Duncan Hunter. Mitt Romney. Jeff Gannon. Sam Brownback. Melanie Morgan. John O’Neill… Oh so many heroes of the right…

And me.

And let me tell you – they’ve really turned out impressive support. At a time when the conservative agenda polls in the thirties, one gets the impression that they are all here.
I’m surrounded!

Something else these folks have done well is turn out the new generation of wingnuts. The average age of the attendee here has got to be below 30 – there are literally thousands of College Republicans moving about in Brownian style from exhibit to exhibit, conference to conference, speaker to speaker, ballroom to ballroom.

But amidst all this young, vibrant life, so eager to promote their patriotism, what is missing? What shadow looms by its very absence?

Surely you can guess, because it is the same figure missing from all the College Republican meetings, and Ann Coulter speeches bigoted ramblings, and Bush family bar-hoppings.

We have a winner!

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Bye buy, Allstate

I switched my auto insurance yesterday from Allstate to Oklahoma Farm Bureau. It’s a lot cheaper there, but that’s not why I switched.

Allstate is apparently the worst offender in the insurance industry’s mass exodus from the regions decimated by hurricane Katrina in 2005. A court case is beginning today in which homeowners are challenging Allstate’s claims of property abandonment — thus greasing the path of their own abandonment of responsibility to their policy holders, who paid the company for their services in good faith.

My policy for a 12 year old car isn’t much in the big picture for Allstate, but I feel better about the card in my wallet now. And it’s the least I could do for the victims of Katrina that need every little ounce of support they can get.

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