Pawlenty, Bachmann confirmed to speak at CPAC
Friday, January 07, 2011 at 12:47 pm
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Two potential GOP presidential contenders from Minnesota have signed on to speak at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, both a staple of past CPAC events, will again speak at a conference that’s never without controversy. Last year, Sarah Palin dropped out, in part, because the John Birch Society was a sponsor. This year, religious right groups are boycotting the event because the gay conservative group GOProud is a sponsor.
Bachmann told Facebook fans on Friday morning that she will be attending:
“I am excited to tell you that I have received and accepted an invitation to speak at CPAC this year. I hope I will have the chance to meet you while I am there. Please let me know if you be attending.”
Bachmann attended the event in 2009 where she said to the new RNC chair, “Michael Steele, you be da man!” and railed against taxation with representation. “I just wondered that if our founders thought taxation without representation was bad, what would they think of representation WITH taxation?”
In 2010, she spoke about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
“These are rights that government can never take away from us,” she said. “What does that say about Obama’s thought police and Obama’s speech police. That is not what the founders meant.”
Here’s her 2010 speech:
Pawlenty is also confirmed as a speaker, according to the CPAC website. When he attended in 2009 he praised wife Mary: “I want to acknowledge and thank my beautiful wife, Mary. She’s amazing, she’s fantastic and … she’s hot, absolutely.”
In 2010, he said, “God’s in charge. There are some people who say ‘Pawlenty, don’t bring that up. Its politically incorrect.’ Hogwash! …I say to those naysayers that try to crowd out God from the discussion, if it’s good enough for the founding fathers it’s good enough for us.”
Here’s his 2010 remarks:
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Comment posted January 7, 2011 @ 3:51 pm
I can’t even imagine what this event would be like! Both Tim and Michele in attendance. Both speaking to the same folks. Both trying to outdo the other. What do they do? Try to “out-conservative” each other? Try to “out-homophobic” each other? Is there actually free speech or is it more like a Nazi Party Rally where everyone knows what to say, how to say it, who’s ass to kiss? I think a brain tumor removal might be a whole lot more enjoyable.
Comment posted January 7, 2011 @ 9:03 pm
I’m trying to figure out what Sarah Palin not attending “in part because of the John Birch Society” really means. I had no idea that people as stupid as Palin or Bachmann could have any coherent basis for discriminating between one brand of conservatism or another. On the other hand, maybe this is how “liberals” are created. If two sets of morons calls the others “liberals”, the group with the fewer morons become the “liberals”. Or “libertards”, as they would have it. Wait a minute!
Comment posted January 7, 2011 @ 9:17 pm
Liberals have a similar annual conference of political thought.
Comment posted January 8, 2011 @ 9:18 am
Thank you for linking to an awesome event Dennis! You have finally done something worthwhile.
Comment posted January 8, 2011 @ 1:30 pm
Too bad that Leni Reifenstahl, has passed on, She would have been perfect to organize, design, and, direct these events. I can just see it now, the CPAC venue ringed by searchlights, fthe band playing some stirring martial music, and, the conservative zealots invoking god and mindless nationalism against the intellectuals and degenerates who dare to disagree with them. A friends mother used to say “the communists may be coming, but, the fascists are already here”, how true she was.
Comment posted January 8, 2011 @ 3:05 pm
Fascists? It’s not the republicans who are forcing you to buy expensive health insurance or go to jail.
Comment posted January 9, 2011 @ 3:51 am
Neither are the Democrats, Dennis. Nor are Democrats the ones so determined to deny people their religious freedom and unalienable Rights. The liberals and progressives are the ones defending the rights of others.
The conservatives are the ones trying to force the restrictions of their ideology onto others.
Maybe not fascists, but certainly tyrants. Religion and democracy just do not mix.
Comment posted January 9, 2011 @ 3:19 pm
Hey Dennis, why don’t you read some history? Hitler and his National Socialists were bankrolled by the biggest German businesses. They wanted him, because he promised to curb the unions and the real social democrats. The conservatives in the Catholic church also made a deal with the Nazis, the papal nuncio, future pope Pius, cut a deal with Hitler that made his power complete, with the provisio that he would leave the Catholic church alone. Kirche, Kinder, Kaiser, is the familiar refrain of Wihelimine Germany, and, Germany under the Nazis. And what does the modren day Republican party stress, “family values, religion, and, nationalism’ not a whole lot different in my view. What we are seeing from the Republican right wing, is nothing new, the “big lie” still works, and, the workers stil fall for the simplistic solutions of the demagogues who play on the fears of the masses.
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