Nigel Farage warned Thursday night in America that the U.S. Republican party will become a dinosaur – not an elephant – if it continues to embrace the political center. 'I suspect that if the Republican Party sticks with the establishment it will lose,' he told Daily Mail Online after a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. The GOP 'has got to reach the Hispanic community, but it's also got to reach that blue-collar community that Reagan got to vote for him in huge numbers. I'm not sure at the moment that they're positioning themselves to do that.' CPAC is an annual three-day mecca for constitutional evangelists, anti-Obamacare shock troops, full-throated abortion opponents and gun rights activists. Many of them think the Republican Party is only slightly less liberal and nanny-statist than the president.
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Farage spoke with Daily Mail Online after a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference
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The UK Independence Party leader tried to buck up American right-wingers who see their tea party goals dissolving in a sea of centrist Republicanism
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He insisted that UKIP is 'not just retired half-colonels who've always voted Conservative ... We're dragging them from across the spectrum'
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Bashed David Cameron for refusing to publicly identify ISIS executioner 'Jihadi John,' saying 'we should have heard it weeks ago'
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Complained about 'politically correct' groups like CAGE 'saying and shouting things that if you and I did them, we'd find ourselves behind bars'
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Farage addressed controversies involving Richard Crouch and Rozanne Duncan, admitting: 'Yes, we get people who say stupid things in UKIP'
The @placeholder political contrarian, long at the helm of the UK Independence Party, plied the conservative audience with a dry-witted vision of how his political travails could show disaffected American right-wingers the way forward.
An ocean away, UKIP councillor @placeholder was kicked out this month after she was filmed saying she has 'a problem with people with negroid features.'