Posted on 12/15/2009 2:15:47 PM PST by Rodebrecht
The John Birch Society Announces CPAC 2010 Cosponsorship JBS to provide leadership, educational presence at nation's top conservative gathering
APPLETON, WIS.—December 15, 2009—The John Birch Society announces it is cosponsoring the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, to be held in Washington DC, Feb. 18-20.
JBS will have a double booth with half dedicated to offering educational and promotional materials and the other half housing a TV studio that will stream live video from the booth and broadcast onto JBS LibertyNewsNetwork.tv, a website that will feature archived JBS video and live video streams.
Last year, more than 8,000 attendees were drawn to CPAC. Posted on CPAC's website, The Washington Post called it, “… the preeminent yearly gathering of conservative activists.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jbs.org ...
Sonny, you don’t have a clue about the real world.
You are in your hole in Arkansas playing keyboard commando.
You are typical of the Neo Left who are destroying America
Yes, dragnet2! We must be “extremely sensitive.” LOL.
Over the years, the JBS has taken some raqther curious views for an organization that styles itself conservative. In the mid-1970’s, they opposed Ronald Reagan’s bid for the presidency—seems he wasn’t conservative enough, and even had some liberal views in the 1940’s. In 1978, R. D. Patrick Mahoney, one of their spokesmen, was denouncing Proposition 13, the California ballot initiative that sought to limit property taxes, which all other conservatives enthusiastically supported. In 1992, when George Bush was running for re-election against Bill Clinton, the Birchers poured a tremendous amount of money and effort into distributing a book denouncing Bush. The Birchers have also denounced the Nicaraguan Contras, William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich.
In the 1980’s, a friend of mine started a JBS chapter, but was purged because he was having the members read literature from the Defense Department, think tanks, and conservative journals analyzing security issues, and in particular the military threat posed by the Soviet Union. The Bircher who fired him insisted that he should have had them read Birch pamphlets that describe how some “Master Conspiracy” runs the world. Since there was no one to replace my friend, the chapter dissolved.
Keep in mind that the Lefties look upon the Tea Party organizations and Freepers with just as much disdain as the Birchers. I've lost interest in letting the Left define who is fit to associate with.
Candidates and office holders are falling over one another to speak to Tea Parties.
It won’t be the Left that defines the John Birch Society. This thread should tell you that.
We're there.
The Texas Fort Hood massacre proved we've achieved a level of cultural sensitivity and political correctness never before reached in the history of man.
I don’t think Bill Buckley would be happy about this.
Indeed and that’s not funny at all, unlike the humor in Houston.
“Jewish conservative republicans?
What all 18 of them! WOW.”
Wow is right. Who are the other 17? Its lonely out here. ;-)
Thanks hp.
What is the John Birch Society?
http://www.jbs.org/about
CORE PRINCIPLES
MISSION
To bring about less government, more responsibility,
and — with God’s help — a better world by providing
leadership, education, and organized volunteer action
in accordance with moral and Constitutional principles.
Preserving Individual Rights & National Independence
“These United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be
Free and Independent States … We hold these Truths to
be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit
of Happiness.” — Declaration of Independence, 1776
The Declaration of Independence established the independence
of both the original 13 American colonies and the United
States of America that they together formed a decade later.
The Declaration proclaimed that our personal rights come from God, not from government.
The John Birch Society endorses the timeless principles
of the Declaration of Independence. The Society also labors
to warn against and expose the forces that seek to abolish
U.S. independence, build a world government, or otherwise
undermine our personal liberties and national independence.
RESTORING THE CONSTITUTION
“That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of
the Governed.” — Declaration of Independence, 1776
The Constitution of the United States of America instituted
the government that secures our God-given rights.
The John Birch Society endorses the U.S. Constitution as the
foundation of our national government, and works toward
educating and activating Americans to abide by the original
intent of the Founding Fathers. We seek to awaken a sleeping
and apathetic people concerning the designs of those who
are working to destroy our constitutional Republic.
Sounds like those public TV classes Newt used to teach in 1994 that lead to the Republican Revolution and took the House from the Democrats.
The principles of the JBS that you posted here sound quite respectable & patriotic to me...but that’s just me, I guess. Call me strange if you will.
Thanks for posting the info on The John Birch Society. I will gladly wear the label of “right-wing extremist” and supporter of “birchers”!!
Have read their JBS crap since the 1960s
and have talked with dozens and dozens of them.
They are anti war.
They are anti-Semitic
and use the constitution as a fig leaf to cover
their mission which only benefits democrats.
No...and no one suggested it was funny or humorous.
Yes yes, but the middle road groupies and the liberal wing of the Republican party thinks they're too insensitive...ka-ka-po-po
No. That would be too deranged, antisemitic and racist.
And when did Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley become "middle road groupies and the liberal wing of the Republican party"?
The JBS is the MoveOn.org of the right. The biggest comparative advantage conservatives have over the left is that they are increasingly perceived as extremist and disconnected from reality, whereas conservatives are perceived as adult and sober because we conservatives have rejected and marginalized our extremists, while liberals have embraced and subjugated to theirs. Those who wish to readmit the JBS to the conservative movement would have us cast aside this advantage. Nope. Conservatives don't do crazy. Take it elsewhere.
Horrible move on CPAC’s part to associate itself with the nutty birchers.
Their founder, Robert Welch early on became a Unitarian.
They are probably the most far left wing religion if you can call them a religion.
They are more or less agnostic, and active in anti war and social justice causes.
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