You Can't Play in Our Pillow-Fortress... of Freedom!

There is no room in the Big Circus Tent of CPAC for Chris Christie, not even, apparently, in the Great Big Shouty Far-Right Clown Car.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not invited to speak at the annual CPAC conference this year because he broke with conservatives on key issues over the past year, according to American Conservative Union Chairman Al Cardenas.

Cardenas, whose group organizes the conference, wrote in an e-mail to National Journal that while CPAC was “proud” to invite Christie last year based on his record of balancing the budget and taking on teachers unions, Christie’s record over the past year is far less conservative.

“CPAC is like the all-star game for professional athletes; you get invited when you have had an outstanding year,” Cardenas said. “Hopefully he will have another all-star year in the future, at which time we will be happy to extend an invitation. This is a conservative conference, not a Republican Party event.”

Cardenas cited Christie’s decision to expand Medicaid under President Obama’s health care law and his support of a $60 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims, which he argued was filled with wasteful spending.

This is extraordinary for several reasons, the idea that Christie is anathema for accepting federal finds after a massive natural disaster because it also included money to help other places facing serious problems not least among them.

But the punchline is the idea that you need to "have an all-star conservative year" in order to be graced with an invitation to hobnob with the crazies at the premier national event for America's most distinguished and glamorous far-right shitterati.

Because who did the Conservative Union consider honor-worthy based upon having an astonishingly successful 2012 "all-star year"?

Mitt Romney.

And Sarah Palin. And Newt Gingrich. And a whole lot of the other usual goobers.

You know, people who could never, never, ever win an election, unlike, say... Chris Christie.

The "Conservative Movement" is composed of a mass of lunatic idiots led by con artists. Excuse me -- by "all stars."

This is very wonderful.