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Another Reason Why I’m Not Going to CPAC

Last year, there was a strong ripple in conservative ranks, moving toward no longer donating to the Republican party. Instead, people started donating directly to candidates it supported. Why? Frustration with the Republican National Committee’s ineptitude and unwillingness to fully support tea party candidates.

This comes to mind when returning to the subject mentioned yesterday, namely why I’m not going to CPAC.

Quoting anything from the New York Times is painful, but in this instance is necessary. A few days ago, it ran a story on the boycott being staged against CPAC by groups opposed to the presence of GOProud as one of the conference sponsors. In the story comes this from David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and its conference a/k/a CPAC:

Mr. Keene, in remarks that could further inflame his opponents, said that he would not oppose participation by a group that shared conservative views on free enterprise and defense but favored abortion rights.

Um… say wha?

When the first CPAC meetings were held in the 1970s, he said, many conservatives supported abortion rights, in the tradition of Barry Goldwater.

Oh, well, that makes it all better then…

… actually, no it does not.

It is incomprehensible that an organization can simultaneously claim to be the standard bearer for conservative values and state that groups who favor the murder of unborn children is welcome in the ranks.

No, they are not.

Neither is an organization who would include them.

The American Conservative Union will never get a dime of my money.

And that’s another reason why I’m not going to CPAC.

ADDENDUM: Thanks to Lisa Graas for the hat tip. Make sure you read her post on the above (link here). Also thanks to Ben Howe for the link.

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  • koolau

    Do you think that Conservative values at a minimum require anti-abortion views? If so, then you will find that abortion will be a dividing and ultimately fatal factor in saving our nation’s fiscal and economic status.

    Abortion has never brought down a nation. Before the ability to abort, women and children routinely died at such high rates during birth or soon after, that we still celebrate a child’s 1st birthday as a sign of survival. I would claim that more women and children died before modern medicine was invented than babies aborted.

    Thus, we see that the death of babies or mothers do not inflict catastrophic injury upon a society or civilization. Enough babies and mother survive or don’t abort to maintain our society. However, weakness in economic or military realms are the most common avenue of a nation’s destruction.

    Inca empire was killed not from their barbaric and murderous human sacrifices or atrocious beliefs, but from more powerful enemies with stronger military and economic growth. This is just one of many examples throughout our world history.

    The USA is in a crisis not because of abortion, but of outrageous spending and ridiculous laws. Your failure to support people who are willing to solve the most important problems of our country will only allow the problems to grow.

    Abortion is bad, it is also irrelevant. The nation will not fall from abortion, it will fall from debt and military weakness. I am willing to ignore abortion until our nation is secure and then have the luxury of solving our abortion problem.

    I feel all abortions should be accompanied with a sterilization procedure for the mother and father.

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