What’s awesome about the crop of yahoos who have taken over the Republican Party is that as we get further into the 2012 campaign, the infighting is going to be absolutely hilarious.
The other day, Rick Santorum suggested that Sarah Palin couldn’t go to CPAC because she’s too busy being a mommy, and also because she’d rather be doing things that involve her making money [rawr!], and now Sarah Palin has replied, and for once, she used words in the correct order!
Because I certainly am not. Head thee over to his place for some good stuff.
But here’s his summary of one “Carrie Lukacs” character, a wingnut anti-feminist author:
She’s in favor of people getting married, staying married, and having children.
And she’s gathered a panel of other scolds, one of whom — an excitable Harlem conservative, bless him (Update: He’s Michel Faulkner, author of Restoring the American Dream) –hollers THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT MARRIAGE! His great line (really, how can you top it?) is “Our liberties, which have made us great, are now destroying us.” See, “we are beginning to destroy ourselves” with non-traditional marriage. “We must stand for traditional marriage on the grounds that it is good for our society… one man and one woman… if we do not, we will indeed destroy ourselves.”
I wonder how the GOProud guys are liking this.
They’re fine, Roy. They don’t like being gay very much.
Also:
New black preacher up now, saying the GOP shouldn’t give up on black people because a lot of them hate gay people and abortion too, and thus can be tempted — don’t “try to sell the whole farm” of horrific Republican ideas to them, just dangle a fetus. Stands strongly against Heather Has Two Mommies and has said “Don’t throw us under the bus” five times, which helps get the crowd on his side.
Oh, Edroso, you won my heart months ago, but this just solidifies it.
The three-legged stool of conservatism is strong and united at CPAC! Yes, as intelligent and alive as a small piece of furniture. However, the stool may not last long, as the hotel they chose, the Marriott Wardham Park, seems to currently be infested with bedbugs. Yes, we knew that, but are there blood-sucking insects there too? Har har har. “I woke up seeing the bed bugs on the bed, on my shirt and even on the bed that I am not using. Unbelievable!!! The hotel staff wasn’t surprised with what happened at all. I will never stay here again,” one visitor wrote recently. Hey, don’t worry about that. That sounds more like Teabaggers than bedbugs.
I hope that doesn’t make things awkward at “the hottest party at CPAC,” being thrown by known liar Andrew Breitbart and the wild and crazy guys of GOProud, featuring Sophie B. Hawkins of A Long Time Ago Semi-Fame, which Gawker described like this:
Ohhh yeah! A nine-to-midnight orgy of fiscal responsibility, fueled by the dulcet tones of an ominsexual Alanis Morissette knockoff. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Communist: Gays know how to party!
AND BEDBUGS!
Things are about to get sooooooo awkward, at the CPAC.
It’s Chris Barron of GOProud arguing with Tony Perkins, leader of the hate group with the cute name “Family Research Council,” talking to Andrea Mitchell.
What’s funny is that Tony has his 2Xists all in a bundle over GOProud wanting to “redefine marriage,” when the truth of the matter is that GOProud doesn’t even really support marriage equality, preferring to leave it up to the useless dinosaur known as Federalism. Barron admits as much in the interview, saying that marriage should be defined by the states and left up to the people, a position that does not respect the inherent dignity or Constitutional rights of gay people.
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is the latest Republican who has chosen to skip this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over its inclusion of a pro-gay group.
“With leading conservatives organizations not participating this year, Senator DeMint will not be attending,” Wesley Denton, a spokesman for the senator, told CNN. “He hopes to attend a unified CPAC next year.”
Yes, unified against gays, because he’s an unreconstructed bigot…
Leading conservative organizations? Well, Heritage isn’t participating. That’s about the only leading conservative organization I can think of that’s passing on the event. Seems some of those supposedly leading groups are up in arms that GOProud is participating organization.
Heh. I agree that groups like CWA and FRC need to, you know, get a hold on their delusions of grandeur and realize that they represent a demographic that’s rapidly, um, dying off. In fifteen or twenty years, the FRC will be lucky to get a kiosk in the lobby.
Of course. Tom Minnery says they won’t pull out this year because somebody has to be around to counteract the gayness, but just you wait, maybe they will come back next year, maybe they won’t, stomp stomp stomp:
Colorado-based Focus on the Family is considering ending its sponsorship of a national conservative political action rally because of the involvement of a gay conservative group.
The lobbying arm of Focus on Family, CitizenLink, is a co-sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., next month.
CitizenLink senior vice president Tom Minnery told The Gazette that the group is participating partly to help offset the influence of the gay group, GOProud. But he says this may be the last year it’s a sponsor.
These social conservative groups are acting like jilted lovers, don’t you think?
I knew this was going to be fun, after the Fox News “comedy” show Red Eye made fun of Peter LaBarbera and all the other wingnuts crying about CPAC letting the gay conservatives at GOProud have a prominent role at the conference.
In the YouTube below, FOX Red Eye’s Greg Gutfeld tees off on Americans For Truth (and FRC + CWA) as “gay haters” using all the liberal, elitist talking points on homosexuality. Note how FOX analyst-babe Kimberly Guilfoyle — ex-wife of SF mayor Gavin Newsom — joins the fray, laughing at and agreeing with the putdowns, and arrogantly dismissing pro-family complaints about CPAC. I would have hoped that Guilfoyle, with all her legal training and Catholic schooling, would have at least challenged Gutfeld’s sophomoric thesis of Moral-Opposition-to-Homosexuality = “Hate” — even if only as a sop to FOX’s millions of faith-based viewers — but apparently that’s too much to ask.
It’s cute, because they think they’re going to be missed. Hi, Religious Right, what have we been telling you? That you are, and always have been, useful idiots for the Republican Party? Yeah, you still are:
Two of the nation’s premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited.
“We’ve been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and have managed a couple of popular sessions. However, we will no longer be involved with CPAC because of the organization’s financial mismanagement and movement away from conservative principles,” said Tom McClusky, senior vice president for FRC Action.
“CWA has decided not to participate in part because of GOProud,” CWA President Penny Nance told WND.
FRC and CWA join the American Principles Project, American Values, Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage in withdrawing from CPAC. In November, APP organized a boycott of CPAC over the participation of GOProud.
Wait, it gets funnier:
“Excellent. It is gratifying to see FRC and CWA respond appropriately to CPAC’s moral sellout of allowing GOProud as a sponsor,” said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, the nation’s best-known organization dedicated exclusively to opposing the homosexual political agenda.
“By bringing in GOProud, CPAC was effectively saying moral opposition to homosexuality is no longer welcome in the conservative movement,” said LaBarbera. “Would CPAC bring in an organization specifically devoted to promoting abortion and pretend it’s conservative?” LaBarbera has formerly participated in CPAC, but said he may protest the conference this year.
I’m sure they’ll notice Peter’s absence in the CPAC leather dungeon, but otherwise, they’ll plod on through.
The rest of the article features Mat Staver of Liberty, whining, so be sure to miss that.
Haha, but not for the usual reasons!
