Posted on 03/16/2013 10:33:55 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
American Conservative Union Conservative Political Action Conference
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She was good..............I have always admired her
Here are some of her comments.
BTW...looks like no one but GRover Norquist likes Karl Rove any more! lol
Phyllis Schlafly CPAC: Mitt Romney, John McCain A ‘Bunch Of Losers’
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly bashed on Saturday former — and failed — Republican presidential nominees Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney, calling them establishment candidates who moved to the center based on advice from consultants rather than embracing conservative values.
“We’ve had the establishment pick another loser for us,” she said of Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, at CPAC. “The fight we have, and the fight I want you to engage in, is the establishment against the grassroots. The establishment has given us a whole series of losers. Bob Dole and John McCain. Mitt Romney.”
“Why is it that the establishment has given us this bunch of losers?” she added later.
Schlafly, like some other speakers at CPAC, insisted that Washington, D.C., consultants were in part to blame for Republican losses in 2012. Karl Rove, who founded the super PAC American Crossroads, drew her particular ire for backing so many candidates who lost.
“If you had a football coach with that kind of score, I don’t think you’d see him the next year,” she said of Rove.....
One of the bad ideas of the establishment, Schlafly said, is that supporting immigration reform would help the GOP. Instead, it would just give the Democrats more voters, she said.
“The establishment is giving us a lot of bad advice, like we should go for comprehensive immigration reform,” she said, adding “comprehensive” and “reform” are just other ways to say “amnesty.”
Former President George W. Bush, although he won reelection, was another establishment pick who was damaging to the party, in part because of his push for immigration reform, she said.
“Even when they pick the winners, George W. Bush, they pick somebody who spent more than the Democrats, he added new programs that ... cost the taxpayers money, and he tried to give us open borders,” she said. [snip]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/16/phyllis-schlafly-cpac_n_2891493.html
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