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Donald Trump Thinks Jimmy Carter Is Dead
3/6/14 @ 3:35pm
Donald Trump joined many other conservative activists at CPAC today in comparing President Obama to Jimmy Carter, although Trump seems to think that the former president is deceased, as he likened Obama to “the late, great Jimmy Carter.” MORE
Ben Carson 2016 Backers: He Will Destroy Democratic Coalition
3/7/14 @ 9:54am
National Journal’s Alex Seitz-Wald reported yesterday on the high visibility at CPAC of those who want Ben Carson to run for president. The Draft Ben Carson for President Committee has a booth in the exhibit area and the shuttle bus I rode between the suburban Maryland conference center and do... MORE
Right Wing Round-Up - 3/6/14
3/6/14 @ 5:33pm
David Edwards @ Raw Story: Paul Ryan at CPAC: Free school lunches mean poor parents don’t care about kids. Warren Throckmorton: The Signed Contract That Helped Get Mark Driscoll’s Real Marriage on the New York Times Best Seller List. Andy Kroll @ Mother Jones: CPAC: How the IR... MORE
Right Wing Leftovers - 3/6/14
3/6/14 @ 5:30pm
Matt Barber says that polls showing increasing support for marriage equality are due to "leftists' propaganda." Harry Jackson warns that Christians are "signing away our religious freedom." ACT For America is urging a boycott of the film "Non-Stop" and sp... MORE
GOProud The CPAC Beaver
3/6/14 @ 5:08pm
GOProud, a group for gay conservatives, was bounced from the American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012 when a coalition of social conservatives pulled out in protest of the group’s participation. This year the group has been “welcomed... MORE
Fischer: The Fight Against Homosexuality Is The Defining Battle Of Our Time
3/6/14 @ 4:37pm
Bryan Fischer threw down the gauntlet on his radio program today, declaring the fight against homosexuality to be the defining battle of our time. Asserting that America's future will be determined by "whether the forces of light or darkness will prevail in the battle over special rights ba... MORE
Trump: Immigrants A Threat To America, 'They're Taking Your Jobs'
3/6/14 @ 4:15pm
In his speech to CPAC today, Donald Trump attacked advocates of immigration reform, including on-and-off supporter Marco Rubio, arguing that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be given a pathway to citizenship because he thinks they won’t vote Republican. The faux-presidential candidate... MORE
Behold Wayne LaPierre's Nightmarishly Paranoid Vision Of America
3/6/14 @ 3:40pm
There are few regular CPAC speakers who can match the NRA's Wayne LaPierre when it comes to peddling wholesale paranoia and nightmarish visions of the future as he did while speaking today when he warned that neighborhood streets that were once filled with laughter and freedom now sit ominously... MORE
CPAC Once Again Shuts Out Gay & Atheist Groups, Welcomes White Nationalists
3/6/14 @ 3:04pm
The Institute For Research & Education on Human Rights points out today that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is once again welcoming a white nationalist group, even while shunning organizations that represent LGBT and atheist conservatives. IREHR reports that the white nation... MORE
Scalise: Reagan Reagan Reagan Reagan Reagan
3/6/14 @ 2:15pm
CPAC wouldn’t be complete without unceasing, perpetual praise of Ronald Reagan, and a great example of that today was how Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) managed to fit in as many mentions of Ronald Reagan as he possibly could during his closing remarks in a panel on conservative approaches to incom... MORE
Jindal: It May Be Time To Revisit The Assumption That Obama Is A Smart Man
3/6/14 @ 1:31pm
It is always entertaining when milquetoast Republican governors who harbor dreams of running for president decide to try to toughen up their image by throwing red meat to the crowd at CPAC. We saw Tim Pawlenty do it several years back and Bobby Jindal do it again today when he kicked off his remarks... MORE
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