Posted: March 17, 2013 at 8:27 pm
Guide to Conservative Dressing
by Cowgirl
Unless you’ve been under a rock, you know that the national Conservative conference CPAC was held this week. Palin, Rubio, Paul, Bachmann and all those exciting performers were on hand.
An item of interest, beyond the talent, is a PDF that has been circulating on the web. It is a suggested dress code for CPAC attendees, put together by a conservative “image designer” who has worked for Rick Santorum.
Attendees are told not to wear halter tops, leggings, rompers, or “dressy” shorts. Certain brands of clothing are discouraged, like the shoe brands Toms and Ugg boots. Toms donates a pair of shoes to someone in the developing world for every pair they sell, so maybe that’s in conflict with conservative beliefs. Also, attendees are discouraged from “wearing anything that you would wear to Walmart or a nightclub.” Presumably dressing for these two occasions were thought to be key points of reference most conservatives could relate to.
Also, conservatives who are “struggling with the question” of whether an item of clothing is leggings or pants, are advised just to give up trying to figure it out and not bring the confusing item at all.
As Jezebel points out, there are some examples provided of what you should wear, “’90s conservative casual, essentially.”
The reason for all this sartorial anxiety is that conservatives are hoping to avoid the scandal which tainted last year’s CPAC. Apparently, there were some women who appeared dressed “like two-bit hookers” and also some young men who went out and purchased condoms, not even bothering to remove their CPAC conference credentials.
You can view a full size version of the “what to wear” guide here.
h/t Salon.
I didn’t see any ‘brownshirts’ on the suggest CPAC attire list, too bad, huh? As far as the ‘do not wear’ list for footwear, does that include ‘jack boots’ often referred to by ‘baggers’ in reference to ‘jack-booted thugs’ from the feds coming to
get our symbols of manhood?
OH shoot!
CPAC wouldn’t like me at all… Verbam shoes, Jeans and Mountain tees are my casual attire, I have also been known to wear a Shemagh on blustery days to keep my face warm.
Kinda interesting that white sheets and Flag pins weren’t on the dress list as well. Especially for while you’re taking in panels like “Are You Sick and Tired of Being Called a Racist and You Know You’re Not One?”
That must of been a doozie! Frankly, I think the best part of the CPAC event on TV is when half Gov, Failed candidate Sarah Palin said ““Now step away from the teleprompter and do your job!”…. as she read from a teleprompter? What a horrible woman role model for America she has finally become.
……..and she didn’t even follow the dress code either
Just a note on word choices: These folks are no more “conservative” than you are “progressive.” Anyone who is not bought into one or the other side of our microscopic spectrum of opinion can easily see that no matter the clothing you wear you are all the same party – austerity and war.
it runs deeper then Austerity and war…. just saying.
Objectively viewing reality without regard to parties, not so.
Mark, simply put, one cannot ‘objectively view reality’ without any regard to parties. If one tries as you desperately do, then one is not being objective and/or actually studying reality. That one is launching from a platform of unreal assumptions, kinda like you.
One can, easily. Sequestration was the goal all along, bipartisan, with a Kabuki dance in between. Only Polish Wolf has the red phone to the administration, knowing its wars and secret interventions and terror campaigns differ from its predecessor. El’inatn of posturing, rhetoric, acting, yields a set of results that have not changed from 2001 forward.
~sigh~
Tokarski, that is *precisely* an assumption of goal. Outside of soccer or hockey, one cannot observe “goals”. Goals, by necessity, imply desire. Please tell us all the last time you observed a ‘desire’.
Objectively speaking, the most you can write is that sequester happened. You lose objectivity when you assume the cause.
Your last sentence makes no sense. Was that Klingon? Vulcan? Gibberish?
Mark -
Austerity is a world-wide goal. Interesting that our privately financed Democrats in our ‘one party’ system have done a better job resisting it than nearly any party in Europe. Interesting the Paul Ryan and Ollie Rehn have largely the same view towards austerity, though one is funded by evil American campaign finance and the other is not. Following the money is not the only trick, Mark – you also have to follow the ideology, and it is clear that anti-austerity forces in the US, whatever their funding, have been far more effective than their counterparts in Europe, regardless of where their money comes from.
Also, I like to ask myself, when determining if there’s a difference between one action and another, ‘was the country being intervened in at peace before our actions?’ ‘did thousands of our soldiers die?’ ‘did a hundred thousand civilians die as a direct result of our actions?’. No red phone required.
You’re an expert at ferreting out minuscule items from a mass of data and asserting that it is both significant and a result of electoral politics. It’s nonsense, and tooly.
Austerity is going on here right now, and is brought to us by Democrats, who refused to put up a good fight, participated in “fiscal cliff” charade leading to the Kabuki Dance sequestration result. Obama has also put Social Security n the table even though it is not in trouble nor causing problems. No Republican can get away with that, but you’ll give him a pass.
Fer chrissakes, the Democratic Party is the only choice given progressives, other than not voting, my choice, but being marginalized in the other right wing party, being subjected to triangulation and manipulation and Kabuki Dances is not something smart people willingly do.
Europe is under rule of a Central Bank, like us, and the only thing I wonder is if they are deliberately, rather than stupidly, plunging us into chaos,
Let’s settle this: Show me something you wrote prior to January of 2009 that indicates that you had any idea as to the policies Obama would bring to bear. You’ve got plenty of wisdom after-the-fact, and use a fine-crafted razor blade to carve out these perceived differences. Show me that same wisdom in force around 1/2009, and the debate is settled.
I have nothing to prove to you Mark! I not applying any more of my precious time… Other then my short quips here at Cowgirl to shame you. I like being a troll, to your trollness!
I expect no change in the result of your insanity, Paranoia, or Ego by going along along with you…Ever.
Think of me as your Karma here you get what you dish out!
And…. “The Polish Wolf” has more character in his little finger, then you have in your whole body… I am sure he will not entertain you either!!
My comment was directed at PW, not you.
how close are the fires to you, toke? expect many more.
“Oooaughoaua” …. um Mark — what does “Objective” mean to you?
I kinda base my results on observable phenomena; presented factually, which sorta means you can’t paint partisan, or preference away…. In a haphazard or imperfect way, it is part of the whole picture.
So what your saying is …..When you take a picture of a city center, your camera automatically erases all the people wearing jeans? Is that close to your example of objectivity? Is that what you think? Really? No wonder you keep getting things wrong, you never have the full equation of life.
Nothing haphazard about it. Iraq settled as predetermined, but Obama’s attempt to keep troops there hampered by 500,000 marchers saying no. He had no choice to massacre or to backtrack to Kuwait. Afghanistan, fought for unstated reasons, carried on as intended. Five other countries In the original post 9/11 list attacked or subverted, Libya brought down. Egypt, Mali, Algeria now wild cards, Syria subject to western-funded terrorist insurgency. Redeployment of military to threaten N Korea and China, protect new oil in Arctic, attack Northern Africa. At home, austerity, sequestration as planned, attacks on Social Security and Medicare and every other social program, with legal authority to exempt military from cuts.
Bush could not have wet-dreamed this. i’m no fool, and am paying attention. On your end, oblivion.
Here we go, the guy who says he can think Objectively starts to speak in partisan…. Figured that would happen sooner or later.
This is where he says all are evil all of the time Forgetting his kind, manifest misery daily…. it is the only way to collect the attention they so violently need
Lets start with Tricky Dick Nixon,of the GOP. A candidate who muddled in the peace process of Vietnam, and President Johnson just so he could win a Presedental election and send thousands more of Americans to die in jungles for the next 5 years.
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon’s ‘treason’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668#.UUY6vVjPx3c.email
Your kind of people Mark. Nixon and Bush. Nothing like treason to kill Americans for Votes. Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq before he was even president, and he used the war to get elected a second term also. A war that was predicated on a lie….. Iraq would sell weapons of mass destruction to Bin Laden.
But it doesn’t stop there….Your kind of politics, believe in Water Boarding, 2nd class citizenry for brown folk, and making sure 50 million folk go to bed hungry in America every night. Yep thats awful christian and non partison of you!
You can muddy the waters on your way to hell, and along the path you can soak it with paranoia and Bullshit all you want.
Just dont expect intelligent people on the other partisan side of the divide to follow you and the conspiracies you wish to manifest.
Your trail blazing of misery, is not the only way forward, nor does America have to dip into the bowels of terror…. like you want it to to move forward.
Yeah your Objective thinking is the worse kind of Human response in the world Mark. Thats why no one but idiots and simpletons listen to your kind!
If what the BBC uncovered about Nixon prove anything, they have proved that the republicans will go out of their way to kill and maim people to win elections. that it is now commonplace to misconstrue the truth, to fit there ends, and it is bound to get a lot worse if we as a people, keep electing them to office.
I have to post this again because it is just that important:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668#.UUY6vVjPx3c.email
Actually, this is old news, Norma. I have been saying this for a long time now. And lest we forget, tricky dick was HAND PICKED by Prescott Bush, Nazi lover extraordinaire, to run things for him!
The Bush Crime family has STOLEN our future from us long ago, beginning with our first coup, the JFK assassination. But Nazi Prescott wanted to overthrow FDR in the Business Coup, but was thwarted by Gen. Smedly Butler who blew the whistle on the traitors.
Tricky dick immediately brought the REAL criminal element into the government, and they’ve been there ever since. Erhlichman, Halderman, Coulson, Hunt, etc. THESE guys were the real deal, CIA thugs and criminals! If you can murder a sitting president, you think you can get away with anything! And they did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZCfbrXKs4
As I mentioned, I will willingly support gun control right AFTER all the Bushes and the Kockh brother take a lie detector test saying that they knew nothing about the JFK coup.
This crap about conservative Compassion, is getting to be more like, “Let us screw you in peace, and live with the consequences” Daily.
Can’t wait for this party to go the way of the Whigs!
Actually Reagan has Tricky beat… For the most corrupt officials kicked out of government in a presidency. somewhere in the range of 200 + ….But Hey, they kept it in the GOP party anyway.
“Saint Reagan the favored of the simple minded.”
True if you’re speaking simply about numbers. But the tricky dick crowd began it! With the murder of JFK. Reagan was simply a continuation. And the beat goes on. And the beat goes on.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/19/texas-tea-party-leader-promotes-fascist-party-as-pro-constitution-pro-america/
Keep your powder dry, lefties.
Fortunately, Norma, I know there is a hell. And if I know that Bush and his dick, Cheney, will have a nice eternity.
And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on. DAMN Americans for being so stupid to allow this to happen AGAIN!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/tomas-young-letter-iraq_n_2908335.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSb5FARMULo
Norma, and to just you, enormous lies are being told to you and the ease with which you swallow them is distressing. You seem to want to be lied to, and are like fish swallowing bait. I am not a right winger or Republican, but in your mindset, if I am not with you, I am therefore against you, and you have to find some slot to place me in. That’s why I umust, in your mind, be a Republican, right winger, all of that. otherwise I make no sense. you are missing the point. Big time.
So think, if I am not with you and not against you, what are you missing?
Mark Lie number 1: Your not in my mindset! No where close.
Mark Lie Number 2: Reality is not as simple as you let on in news Mark, Nice try but the Nuances alone would bury you!
Mark Lie number 3: if you walk like a GOP duck, write like a GOP duck, and believe in following ducks of GOP kind… stands to reason your a GOP Duck… Just saying Mark in the last year, I have yet to see you say 1 thing positive about Democrats!
Your what spies call a MOLE, what Vampires have as a familar, what Jedi would fight call Sith!
How taxes were figured in the ole days of Ireland:
When Irish holidays rolled in, and before the potato famine it was custom for Tax Collectors of the rich to drive their carriages along the dirt roads of the glen…. through the poor sharecropper areas, whiffing for the smell of meat cooking… seems if you could put meat on your table on a holiday you should be able to pay more Taxes to the rich.
Thats why the Irish went to cooking all their stews, and meats with Cabbage. the smell of cabbage cooking is so strong it would cover the smell of meat.
Think of the Taxman in this story as the GOP of today, and the smell of trying to succeed in the poorer neighborhoods,or making yourself more equal to the Rich, through education, or preventive Medicine… as a sign of doing better than the GOP can stand without some kind of compensation to the rich?
Did anyone else notice that the “No Wear” list had only ONE mens’ item? What a hazard it is to try and dress for success as a woman – particularly for a group like the CPAC crowd. Doubt it, guys? Ask yourself if you’d like to be a woman for a week. You’ d smile wryly at those cracks about women and their 37 pairs of shoes. It’s HARD! If I dressed like the males in my office, I’d first be marginalized, then constructively discharged.
Like to see the Cons all wear Toms at least once. pretty amazing that it is not on the “Don’t dress list.”
A pair of shoes for every child who is shoe-less, an eye exam and glasses for every pair of sunglasses you buy to the child that needs….. whats not to like about that…. how did giving become so evil to certain Americans?
Why is it so patriot about becoming a douche?
While I agree that CPAC was pretty much a joke, the Autopsy report released late last week was not. The report details many of the issues that have been discussed on this blog and also suggests quite a few ways in which the Republican party can address those issues. If the Republicans pull a “Clinton” and are able to actual rebrand their party, they are far from dead or becoming the new “Whip” party. The report also details a growing split in the party between the “old angry white guys” and the new, more socially progressive “younger generation Republicans”. I realise this is not news to anyone that has actually been following the Republican party, but it should be interesting to see where this goes.