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Oliver North: Conservatives should fight against marriage equality like they fought slavery

To be honest, it’s hard to understand what Oliver North is really saying.

As one in a long grey line of conservatives throwing red meat to their base at CPAC, Ollie spoke today saying that the GOP must remain firm in working to ban marriage equality and abortion rights just as abolitionists in the 1800s fought to end slavery, warning that “if we as conservatives cease to be a place where people of faith and those who believe in strong moral values can come, we will cease to be a political force in America.”

So fighting against equal rights for the gays is like fighting for freedom for slaves…?  SRSLY.

You do remember this is the man who diverted proceeds from the sales of US weapons to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua. You’ll also remember that was illegal.

(via RightWingWatch)

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CPAC attendees react to GOP Sen. Rob Portman’s support of marriage equality

Yesterday, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman announced his support of marriage equality due, in part, to his own son coming out as gay.

Today, ThinkProgress asked attendees at CPAC what their thoughts were on the topic.

I think my favorite response comes at 2:11 when the woman says she’s “a product of the 1950s, when homosexuals stayed in the closet, and I really preferred it that way, if you want to know the truth.”

Just another day at CPAC kids…

Question for any Republicans who might be reading this: are THESE your people? Your opinions?

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Today at CPAC: African-Americans should be “allowed to vote in Africa”

At a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) panel today on minority outreach, there was a heated moment when one participant suggested that slavery had been good for African-Americans.

Scott Terry, from North Carolina, asked whether it would be possible for the GOP to endorse blacks and whites living “separate but equal.”  The moderator of the panel, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass in which Douglass forgave his former master, to which Terry said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?”

ThinkProgress spoke with Terry, who sported a Rick Santorum sticker and attended CPAC with a friend who wore a Confederate Flag-emblazoned t-shirt, about his views after the panel. Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.

When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.

At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”

Just another day at CPAC folks…

(via ThinkProgress)

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Anti-gay speakers gather tens of listeners at CPAC

Via Chris Geidner’s Instagram comes this photo of the CPAC panel featuring National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown,  anti-gay activist Cleta Mitchell, and Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro. 

I know, I know. It’s hard to see them over all the EMPTY chairs….

Sad, isn’t it?

(Actually – it’s not.  It’s quite rapturous that no one is interested in their hate-mongering).

(via JMG)

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Palin Imposter at CPAC

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From MSNBC: A woman, who looked and dressed like the famous Republican, started walking around and doing interviews. In fact, she began drawing a crowd. People requested pictures, asked questions, and expressed their support for her.

The crowds were tipped off to the charade when it was noticed that she was walking and chewing gum at the same time.