If there's one thing that should be clear...

...from the CPAC conference this past weekend, it's that the Republican Party is still hopelessly lost in the Wilderness. The keynote speaker was Glenn Beck (who may or may not be sane) and the winner of the presidential straw poll was Ron Paul, a 74-year-old Congressman from Texas who was an also-ran in 2008 and may not even be running in 2012.

For the Republican Party to be a credible force in American political life, they need to have ideas and leaders; right now they have neither.