Posted on 01/19/2011 11:18:51 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON -- Allegations of a pro-gay takeover, boycotts, embezzlement and terrorist-loving board members. Sounds like a Hollywood version of a conspiracy thriller, but it's not.
It's the buzz around this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation's single largest annual congregation of conservative leaders.
Conservatives riding a new wave of momentum thanks to the strength of the Tea Party movement and big wins in the November midterm election should be riding high ahead of this year's CPAC,scheduled to take place in Washington on Feb. 10-13. But the conference, which has met for 38 years, has found itself beset by conflict that even its founder seemed to acknowledge in a recent e-mail with FoxNews.com.
"This year, some have been critical of CPAC because of who will be attending and others because they want others rather than those likely to be featured to speak," said David Keene, the embattled president of the American Conservative Union, which has hosted CPAC every year since 1973
But Keene said the grumbling and positioning is nothing new for a conference whose attendance last year topped a record 10,000.
"The conservative movement is a coalition of men and women who share important core values, but hold widely differing positions on issues they believe to be very important. The bottom line … is that more organizations are participating this year than ever before and if current projections hold, attendance will exceed last year," Keene said.
Still, several high-profile groups, including the Media Research Center, the Family Research Council, Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and the Heritage Foundation -- giants in the galaxy of conservative activism -- have pulled out this year, following boycott calls by the American Principles Project.
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I have enough respect for these organizations to realize that CPAC is dead to me. Economics and socially moral ethics in conservatism are inseparable.
Big Government liberalism is rampant in our culture.
Conservatives are the defenders of the Constitution and were our Founders intended us to go.
All conservative politicians, groups, entities, including eventually the TeaParty, are open to the corrupting influences of Big Govt, power, and corruption. This leads conservatives and Republicans down the road of RINOism and eventually to Leftism.
Freedom and liberty our not easy...we will have to prune the tree...CPAC is now infected.
Complete political expediency.
Gays will show support for non-social conservative causes in hopes of “expanding our tent.”
The muslim faither permits its followerst deceive the infidel at will. When they “stand up” for Christians it is 100% political expendiency.
“My brother may have just killed everyone in the church, but look, we’re standing out here to “protect” the Christians. See? Not all Muslims are bad.”
No thanks. I’ll take a small, principle-based tent over a giant morally-relative tent any day.
I don’t care how gays or muslims vote on cap and trade.
ditto
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