Liberal Stupidity In 140 Characters or Less

The folks from the American Conservative Union are live streaming some of the speakers and panels forums from their CPAC event in Washington, DC. The event, set to run over the next few days, will feature any number of the possible 2012 Republican Presidential hopefuls mixed with some of the usual supects on the conservative end of the political spectrum.

I took the opportunity to dial in a few of the first day, featured speakers and tune out some of the more mudane panels, like the traditional marriage forum, that featured no female speakers! Why do conservatives choose to go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot?

One of the more annoying features of the CPAC stream, aside from the constant buffering breaks, is a continuous Twitter tweet feed. As the speeches and discussions go there is a non-stop rolling run down of micro-bloggers who are both at the CPAC evebt and watching the stream. This wide open approach allows nitwits of every stripe to spew forth in 140 characters or less on the proceedings from their often twisted persepctives.

One of the most ridiculous comments I saw roll by came during the speech by former Pennsylvania Senator, and possible Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. During his speech on American exceptionalism, Santorum spoke about his (legal) imigrant grandfather coming to the United States. Santorum opined, "My grandfather didn't come to the United States because we had 99 weeks of unemployment."

This was clearly a reference to the hard work that his grandfather and many of his generation did to make this country great, yet some twisted tweeter decided to parade their stupidity with the comment, "Rick Santorum bashes unemployed people." REALLY? What was unclear about this speech being about American exceptionalism? While I don't think this was a great turning point speech, it was clearly a positive commentary that American can still be great.

Twitter and tweeting is sold by marketing gurus as the thing to do and if you're not you and your business will lag behind the rest. Shakespeare said, "brevity is the soul of wit" the problem is most of the tweeters are twits! Most have nothing to say even in the minimalistic 140 characters and more often then not they end up displaying nothing but their own stupidity.