Posted on 02/10/2011 6:25:57 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Wednesday evening she has no objection to the participation of gay Republicans at this weekend's gathering of conservatives in Washington.
Palin said she didn't see anything wrong with the participation of GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which runs Thursday through Saturday.
"I don't have a problem with different, diverse groups that are involved in political discourse, and having a convention to talk about what the answers are to their problems that face America," Palin said Wednesday on Fox News when asked about GOProud.
Palin isn't participating in the conference, and she's declined previous invitations, despite CPAC's role as a cattle call for possible Republican presidential candidates.
But other prominent conservatives have said they're skipping the conference. The conservative Heritage Foundation and other socially conservative groups withdrew due to the inclusion of GOProud. And with those groups out, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed suit. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also declined participation, though it's unclear if that decision is linked to GOProud.
Aside from DeMint, though, the other Republicans mulling a run for president are slated to speak or participate at the conference, hoping in part to boost their standing in the closely watched straw poll of attendees.
Palin suggested that conservatives had more important issues to worry about than which groups were attending the conference.
"People are losing their jobs; they're losing homes. We're still engaged in a war," she said. "There are so many life-changing, life-and-death issues out there in front of us. You know, we'd better be concentrating on what is really important here and not going kind of tit-for-tat as people are positioning themselves for 2012."
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Uh-oh, you are sounding like a "liberaltarian". You need a couple of days in the stocks to help purge your mind of impure thoughts.
The obsession with gays on this forum is scary.
If only the mentally healthy were allowed to unite against the Democrats, they would still control the legislature.
Sarah will never be so careless as to call for a “truce” on social issues. She is wise enough to prioritize our Nation’s problems and gay marriage isn’t at the top.
She has made it VERY, VERY clear that she will not and does not support marriage defined as anything other than between a man and a woman.
The rest is chatter in a nation that is on the verge bankruptcy. She is right to focus on jobs, debt, government expansion and terrorism.
Difference between Daniels and Palin, no ONE questions Palin’s social conservatism. She lives her Christian values.
What response would have satisfied?
That neither they nor CPAC have freedom of association? That CPAC shouldn’t host them? That they shouldn't exist? That they are not or cannot be conservative, and cannot vote Republican? That they are an existential threat to our Republic?
What?
I think the sodomists are trying to take over the conservative agenda. Dog wagging tail. Good for Sarah for not speaking at CPAC. The sodomists can be part and parcel of politics, but when their agenda runs the show, I am bowing out too.
You're right.
>> Palin: No ‘problem’ with gay group at CPAC ,
Which is not to say she endorses the use of CPAC as a platform to promote the homosexual agenda.
Yet, if a candidate, even Palin, panders to the homo’s, then they’re through.
Palin is treading on thin ice here with this vague reply about the queers at CPAC. She must be more direct on this key issue. Otherwise....
Obama skates in with a re-election.
If that's enough for you, fine. It does not seem to be enough for a large segment of Freepers. They are the ones who are going to produce the skull shrapnel.
Who is obsessed with gays? Are conservatives supposed to get all fuzzy over the gay agenda? You aren’t bothered about a group that wishes to force mainstreaming of perversion on the kids and the military? It doesn’t bother you that the idea of the family is being ripped apart?
I thought this forum was not supportive of gay activism.
There are some very real obsessions obvious on this forum, but that would not be about gays.
ROFLOL, I see specks on my screen now.
I would be happy to see her treated with the same respect as Rino Romney, yet Her “minuses” both real, imagined, and invented, are everywhere constantly. Rarely has there ever been another potential candiate as savaged and maligned as Palin. Is it that you want her treated worse or better?
“The obsession with gays on this forum is scary.”
The gay’s obsession with reshaping our culture is scary.
I think Palin's actually got this one right.... finally. She tried to bafflegab it the other day, and all it did was make her look bad.
I think NS was more poking fun at her FR amen chorus... many of whom made Large Statements the other day.
So you’re saying that you do have a problem with diverse groups within the Republican party being able to speak and address issues?
Ha! Or alternately:
All she has to do is mildly indicate that Mormons are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
All she has to do is mildly indicate that libertarians are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
All she has to do is mildly indicate that (plug in your choice) are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
Precisely!
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