GoProud and CPAC getting a divorce?

It appears so...

I read this last night at American Power:

CPAC Boots GOProud

Specifically, new ACU President Al Cardenas has announced that CPAC will screen sponsoring groups for next year's event.

And now Hot Air is reporting on this development:

GOProud out of CPAC 2012?

After two years of participation and controversy, new management at the American Conservative Union have decided to start “vetting” organizations for participation at CPAC — and that means that GOProud, in all likelihood, won’t be admitted as a participating organization in 2012. 

After vowing to myself I would not post on the CPAC/GoProud kerfuffle back before the conference was held, when Chris Barron - head of GoProud, made some very nasty comments directed toward "social" conservatives, I broke my vow.

Many conservatives were supporting the idea of parking "social" issues at the doors of CPAC, as though fiscal issues and social issues were entirely separate entities.  I wrote an article that I worried would garner heaps of abuse.  Instead it was crickets chirping.  Conservatives need to understand that the schizophrenic concept of "social" conservative vs "fiscal" conservative will sink the entire movement. 

My original article:

CPAC and GoProud...

or don't be surprised if you invite a snake into your tent and it bites you.  read the rest

And allow me to repeat:


From Mark of Ordered Liberty

"Conservatives need to stand for conservative principles, not for political victories that result in the destruction of those principles."