Many conservatives are looking for the next Breitbart. What they don’t realize is that we used to have two Breitbarts: Andrew and a man named Horowitz. David Horowitz is a tireless conservative activist who knows the left better than most, because he came from the left and was born into a leftist family. His excellent work in the cause of conservatism is featured weekly at the website FrontPage.com, Discover the Networks and in the many pamphlets that David Horowitz Freedom Center produces. Oh yeah and he’s a prolific book writer as well. I highly recommend his memoir “Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.”
Look to CPAC/ACU no more. This new conservative movement has found the way forward at events like Restoration Weekend and the West Coast Retreat. In both events you will find an eclectic group of conservatives led by an agnostic (David) which features folk like Andy McCarthy, and Robert Spencer discussing the stealth jihad – who the smart a$$es like to call “Martians and extraterrestrials” – and many other conservatives like Michelle Bachmann, Victor Davis Hanson, Tammy Bruce, Glenn Beck, Frank Gaffney, Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, Allen West and more. This is the big tent that the Establishment rejects. This group of conservative activists embraces the Tea Party and has the keys to victory in the next election. Here is the new “CPAC”. Here is the future of conservatism.
The first video is a summary of what the “West Coast Weekend” is all about. You can see from the video, a wide group of conservatives who make up the big tent. Each brings something to the table. You may not agree with all of them in one fashion or another – I sure don’t – but David has a way of presenting everyone in a different light.
The second video is a discussion of the past election and what conservatives must do to win in the next election cycle. This discussion is from David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2013 West Coast Retreat. The event was held February 22nd-24th at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California. David Horowitz’s first comments are instructive. Skip to the 16:57 mark if you don’t want to hear the whole video.
A transcript is here.