{"id":426,"date":"2009-12-24T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2009-12-24T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T11:04:00","slug":"cpac-%e2%80%93-ins-and-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/cpac-%e2%80%93-ins-and-outs\/","title":{"rendered":"CPAC \u2013 Ins and Outs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In February it will be time once again for \u2018moderate\u2019 (only slightly to the right of Torquemada) Repuglicans to pay homage to the extremist fringe that has become the GOP mainstream in recent years.  I ran across a coupe items on who\u2019s in and who\u2019s out that I found most interesting.<\/p>\n

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\"CPAC\"<\/a> Earlier this month, conservative gay rights group GOProud announced that<\/font> it would be a co-sponsor<\/a> of this year\u2019s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). But the group\u2019s inclusion as a co-sponsor has led to a backlash from the anti-gay right, some of whom are<\/font> threatening to boycott CPAC<\/a> if GOProud\u2019s sponsorship isn\u2019t removed. CPAC director Lisa De Pasquale told Hot Air last week that she was \u201csatisfied\u201d that GOProud \u201cdo not represent a \u2018radical leftist agenda\u2019 and thus \u201cshould not be rejected as a CPAC cosponsor.\u201d But David Keene, the head of CPAC\u2019s main organizing group, tried to calm the potential boycott by using a different tactic. In an e-mail to a right-wing radio host, Keene promised that GOProud would not have a speaking spot and that gay rights issues would not be \u201copen to debate\u201d:<\/font><\/p>\n

In his e-mail response, Keene admitted GOProud \u201chas signed on as a CPAC co-sponsor, but will have no speakers and we told them that, in fact, since opposition to gay marriage, etc are consensus positions (if not unanimous) among conservatives, these topics are not open to debate.\u201d<\/span> […] [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Now, for the life of me, I cannot comprehend why anyone who is gay would want to sponsor CPAC.  Isn\u2019t that like the NAACP sponsoring the KKK?  I don\u2019t know whether Keene\u2019s promise to muzzle the gay attendees will quell the potential boycott, so conservatives who are \u2018out\u2019 may or may not be in, but if they are, the may be required to wear a dental dam, lest they might actually say something.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, another group, which I had all but forgotten about, has been welcomed by CPAC with open arms and all the love Supply-side Jesus has for haters: the John Birch Society.<\/p>\n

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I remember them from the 1960s.  With all their ridiculous conspiracy theories, they were a joke.  Nobody I knew took them seriously.  It shows the depths to which the GOP has plummeted that they are now part of the GOP mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In February it will be time once again for \u2018moderate\u2019 (only slightly to the right of Torquemada) Repuglicans to pay homage to the extremist fringe that has become the GOP mainstream in recent years.  I ran across a coupe items on who\u2019s in and who\u2019s out that I found most interesting. Earlier this month, conservative […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}