The Hill News

The New York Times reports this morning that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) contest starting tomorrow will begin the season of politics and bring forth those conservatives who desire to run for president in 2012. Undoubtedly it will be a watershed event; possibly a conservative love-fest like Woodstock. Let’s hope it doesn’t rain.

I say that in a disparaging way, as Woodstock sucked. The music was terrible and it was largely a shadow event for those who missed the Summer of Love in San Francisco the year before. It was the definitive moment in which art turned to ideology and the generational culture turned from pensive consideration of Aldous Huxley, Buckminster Fuller, Ina May Gaskin, Tolstoi (“The Gospel in Brief”) and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to MBA school. Virtually every individual at Woodstock then is either a journalist or a lawyer today. The greats recalled today did not attend. They had moved on. And what might be significant in the CPAC event are those who are not there this week.

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