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What? There’s a big meeting and they didn’t invite us?

Apparently the high council of the conservative establishment is set to meet at some member’s Virginia home soon after election to discuss the state of the “movement.”  I didn’t get an invitation and don’t know anyone else who did so unless I’m wrong no one from the alternative right is invited to this not-so-secret meeting. […]

Apparently the high council of the conservative establishment is set to meet at some member’s Virginia home soon after election to discuss the state of the “movement.” 

I didn’t get an invitation and don’t know anyone else who did so unless I’m wrong no one from the alternative right is invited to this not-so-secret meeting. Here’s who IS attending:

“the meeting will include a “who’s who of conservative leaders — economic, national security and social,” said one attendee, who shared initial word of the secret session only on the basis of anonymity and with some details about the host and location redacted. […]

It feels like being a member of the Orphans, the New York street gang that wasn’t invited to big gang pow-wow in the 1979 move The Warriors (directed by Walter Hill, a Chronicles reader by the way).

But then again, judging from the agenda, it doesn’t look like we’ll be missing much:

“There’s a sense that the Republican Party is broken, but the conservative movement is not,” said this source, suggesting that it was the betrayal of some conservative principles by Bush and congressional leaders that led to the party’s decline.”

Basically the meeting will be a half-day gripe session against the Bush II Administration and Republican leaders in Congress. Oh, and the McCain campaign I suppose.  And I figure they’ll be some Palin mashing in there as well

I’m not sure why they needed to meet to do that (or act in secret for that matter). Suffice to say they’re not going accomplish much other than agreeing that they need better PR and fewer incompetents.

Which is too bad. Had they invited us, they might have stimulated some conversation and ideas on where conservatism has gone wrong and what it needs to do fix itself or if can fix itself or whether we should stop thinking like ideologues with a cause and present ourselves as ordinary, decent citizens which would stand in marked contrast to any extremities coming out of an Obama Administration.

But the high order doesn’t think anything’s wrong, so I guess there’s no need for us tell them otherwise. Perhaps this meeting will eventually become the steering committee for the Palin 2012 campaign. That’s seems its likely course.

Serious reflection and discussion is being left to us I guess.

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