CPAC 2013: Who’s in, who’s out, and what it all means
The conference website tells you who’s officially in.
On it you will see who has been invited to speak; which organizations have been accepted as sponsors, partners, or co-sponsors; who has been allowed to rent an exhibit booth; and so on and so forth.
Would I consider attending CPAC? No, neither under my blog nom de guerre nor under my real name. Budgetary and security concerns, as well as other responsibilities, make it unwise and impractical to attend events such as this. Moreover, as long as Muslim Brotherhood über-mole Grover Norquist is on the board, I expect that I would be turned away at the door.
Ooooh, looky here:
This page lists board of directors of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC. The page isn’t easy to find, most likely because it shows both Grover Norquist and fellow mole Suhail Khan. Grover is keeping a low profile; as of this writing, I don’t see him on the speakers’ roster.
The ACU chairman is Al Cardenas, who has been pushing for another amnesty for illegal aliens. He actually expects us to believe that giving eleven million illegal aliens (including a large number of Muslim infiltrators) access to citizenship will “stimulate the conservative electorate.”
The good…
Expect some great speeches by Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Allen West, Newt Gingrich, Tom Fitton, and others. Pro-lifers will be represented by Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life. Gotta love it!
RINO New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has NOT been invited, which is good.
There’s also Blog Bash – right around the corner from CPAC. More about that below.
The bad…
You can expect that any specifically homosexual political organization, whether purportedly “conservative” or not, has been organized to pursue the agenda of gay identity politics. Groups based on identity politics are inherently not conservative and thus have no place at a conservative forum. Thus, I was pleased that GOProud was not allowed to become an exhibitor or sponsor at CPAC. Unfortunately, a libertarian organization, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has allowed two members of GOProud to participate in a CPAC panel called “Rainbow on the Right.”
This politically-correct posturing irritates me so much that I now find it annoying to see an actual rainbow in the sky. Did these clowns really have to co-opt everything?
Pam Geller no longer at CPAC
Counterjihad blogger and activist Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs has been a popular featured speaker at previous CPAC events. But this time, she wasn’t invited. No surprise there…Grover Norquist is in a snit because Pamela helped expose Muslim infiltration of the CPAC board. That just confirms everything we have been saying about Grover and the ACU.
Robert Spencer wins People’s Choice award; declines it because of speech restrictions
He told me that there was a slight problem: the Tea Party group, which co-sponsored this People’s Choice Blog Award, didn’t want to allow me to receive it at CPAC next week unless I promised not to criticize Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan as I accepted the award.
I told the organizer that I couldn’t agree to that. He asked me if I had planned to talk about Grover and Suhail. I said no, I hadn’t, but I had to now.
So that’s that. The People’s Choice Blog Award is now the Grover’s Choice Blog Award. I will not be going to CPAC and will not be receiving this award…
The ugly…
Convicted perjurer and mass murderer Brett Kimberlin and his pal Neil Rauhauser are threatening the venue that will be hosting the aforementioned Blog Bash.
Robert Stacy McCain has the story: Brett Kimberlin Calls Blog Bash Venue, Vows to ‘Put You Guys Out of Business’.
From putting together the various messages and threats, Kimberlin has been urging Muslim organizations to harass and threaten the venue for hosting “Islamophobes” and other undesirables, and telling his readers to contact Muslim organizations to urge them to put pressure on the Blog Bash venue.
Just as an aside, deranged domestic terrorists prefer unarmed victims.
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Good morning:
Cancelled! CPAC 2013! (http://goo.gl/bMoCM)
Due to decisions beyond my control, CPAC 2013 has been cancelled for The Political Commentator. If things change, TPC will hopefully be in attendance at CPAC 2014!
Read the story at the link above.
Mike
Michael Haltman
The Political Commentator
New York, New York
Twitter: @ThePoliticalCom
All who have ears to hear, come listen:
Something real is happening conservatively speaking in a manner I haven’t witnessed in my lifetime, and I ain’t a girl anymore. I vaguely remember the “free love” movement and how it felt like the whole country would never be the same. Capitalist was rarely said without “pig” preceeding it. The university system in NY (where I lived) was liberal to the core. I benefitted personally from some of Mayor Lindsey’s Open Enrollment programs so that I could attend Bronx Community. I guess you could call me a two party system citizen; I believed in the process, in the people of America, and our ability together to claim our inalienable Constitutional rights. Because I also understood the need for a strong military and how we had suffered some real losses with Nixon’s imperialistic over reaching. But I was heartened by the vigilant press in uncovering Watergate. It seemed to me to be a pendulum swinging back from the right and left continually correcting itself and finding its centric justice. But rush forward to the present day. Something has happened to the right and the left.
The “right” (GOP) isn’t so right anymore. Heck, President Kennedy was more conservative than our so-called GOP of 2013. And the Left….well…she’s simply “left” America. Enough said. And the vigilant press? Democracy can only be served when we have truth seekers to tell the truth, independent of any party affiliation. But right now would anybody really call the mainstream media journalists? But the way life is, there will always be those who will stand up for the truth, and truth tellers RESOUND. If the press won’t tell the truth, then others will. You don’t need a degree to tell the truth; you don’t need a badge that says “press.” And people who know intuitively that something is wrong will also know the truth when they hear it. It’s a God thing.
So here we are in this historical junction of 2013, with this administration which is threatening the very heart of America’s being. We have awakened to find that our education system and constitutional liberties and military defenses and free markets and our independent sense of self reliance has been being sytematically dismantled over many years, enabled by the very honorable self-governing constitution which made a moral people thrive. The goodness of America has been abused as goodness always will be. We were silly to have expected anything less.
But here is the thing my dear American friends, BEWARE the power of the righteous. Once the light of God is thrown on a vile thing, the gig is up. What is happening now is a manifestation of a growing awareness all across this country. We the People are discovering for the first time who we really are and what it means to be Americans. It’s no longer a citizenship we feel is a given guaranteed; but rather a privilege that we are being called to defend.
Just a few short months ago, it might have looked like America was over. Remember feeling that, beloved? When the imperialist powers were boasting, the parrot media painting its picture, and some very intelligent people claiming it was finished.
But as God is my witness, that is NOT who we are. Our DNA goes back to pioneers, courageous spirits who rebelled against the mass mentality of servitude and had the great love of life and God and people to do something really amazing. Americans who love what that means are truly valiant souls. Americans include people from all over the world of all races and cultures and religions who share a similar bond of love of freedom and self reliance and the Lord’s sovriengty and the natural love of life together in the Kindom of God. We just believe that God knows more than any old government, and we have a Constitution and a Bill of Rights to create a space for that to happen…It trumps all government we might choose to allow.
What is happening now is for the first time (for most of us) we are realizing how precious that liberty is. We are in a way, like the founding fathers who could not bear to live their God given lives under the tyranny of someone else’s idea. And it is rising up in us like a natural gurgling spring of LIFE FORCE. What we are seeing now in this conservative movement is real. It’s not “which” candidate so much, though there are some choice truth tellers; Take your pick, they all come from the same well of goodness. Let us rise up together. We are standing on Holy Ground. It is called America. America, God shed His light on thee. I believe it.
Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Reverend Dr. Susan Pillsbury-Taylor
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