Originally Posted By skinnerbox Yet another reason to ditch the GOP: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/10/423026/mitt-romney-legitimizing-white-nationalists-by-speaking-at-cpac-today/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/polit...c-today/</a> <> Mitt Romney Legitimizing White Nationalists By Speaking At CPAC Today Today, GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich will kiss the ring of CPAC, the annual gathering of hundreds of conservative activists in Washington, DC. This is a must-do pilgrimage for anyone running for president on the GOP ticket; in fact this is where Romney ended his 2008 campaign. There are usually a host of controversial panelists and topics, but this year they’ve outdone themselves. As noted by PFAW, this year, among the participants in the conference is Peter Brimelow and Robert Vandervoort. Brimelow is the founder and head of the White Nationalist hate website VDARE, a site known for publishing the works of racist and anti-Semitic authors. Robert Vandervoort is the director of ProEnglish, an English-only group, and is a former leader of the White Nationalist group Chicagoland Friends of the American Renaissance. These aren’t just your average conservative activists. They have actively pushed the idea that our diversity is killing us, that Jews are destroying the American white majority, and that non-white immigrants are the cause for our economic problems. We’ve already seen a GOP more than willing to use racially-coded language throughout the primary season. But is presumed front runner Romney really going to appear at the same conference as people who spew such hatred towards people of color and ethnic minorities? If he wants to be the president of ALL Americans and not just white Americans, Mitt Romney should refuse to speak today. And if he feels he must go on stage, then he needs to denounce Brimelow and Vanervoort’s odious beliefs from the stage. Anything less is tantamount to agreeing with what they say. <> This is why today's GOP is so dangerous. All of the candidates are pandering to this racist bunch of d-bags, instead of speaking out against their warped xenophobic views. This article called it correctly. Any candidate who doesn't public denounce these jerks are quietly condoning them with their silence. And they need to be called on it, in a very public manner. The sooner our nation is rid of conservatives who even tolerate this garbage, the better.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Anything less is tantamount to agreeing with what they say.<< Horse hockey. Total absolute histrionic horse hockey.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Setting that aside for the moment... what the hell is CPAC doing inviting people like that?
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones As long as an organization is non-violent, I see nothing wrong with a white pride group. We have La Raza, MECHA, Black Panthers and other groups that are as brazen as white nationalists are. While they are all extreme, let's not forget that there are racial issues in this country and it's not just, "White people = bad, diversity = good."
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^Pandering to their base, perhaps? Yet another reason why I decided to be reregistered as an unaffiliated voter. The GOP has turned into a looney bin.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Obama has spoken at the National Council of La Raza which is just as bad as speaking at an American Renaissance conference. You can actually read about the American Renaissance conference here: <a href="http://www.fredoneverything.net/AmRen.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.fredoneverything.ne...en.shtml</a> "The audience was anything but homogeneous. Someone who had been to various such conventions said the crowd consisted of twenty percent Neo-Nazis and twenty percent Jews. Jews, yes; Neo-Nazis, perhaps. If the latter means people who want to exterminate this or that group, I encountered none. The closest anyone came was an overwrought dingaling who, in question and answer, denounced me as a race traitor for having married Violeta, my Mexican wife. I considered an appropriate but anatomically unorthodox repositioning of my microphone. However, the audience told him to sit down and shut up. Later a dozen people apologized for his behavior, and I met a fair number of men who had Chinese, Mexican, and Colombian wives. Race traitors all, I suppose." Extreme and controversial, yes. Nazis? No.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I'm less familiar with Vandervoort, but Brimelow I know and he's bad news. UmNot only racist, but virulently anti-Semitic, of the "The Jews are destroying our country" variety.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder White supremacists aren't the only ones at CPAC. <a href="http://hypervocal.com/news/2012/10-conservatives-cruising-for-gay-sex-at-cpac/" target="_blank">http://hypervocal.com/news/201...at-cpac/</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck Does this mean he's legitimizing horny gay Republican guys who use Craigslist too? ;-)
