Posted on 03/04/2014 7:56:52 AM PST by cotton1706
House Speaker John A. Boehner, who has tangled repeatedly with the right wing of the Republican Party, has not been invited to this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a major snub at the annual gathering and a sign of the top Republican officeholder’s struggle to find common ground with grass-roots activists.
People familiar with CPAC’s planning, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said the American Conservative Union, which hosts the event, never sent an invitation to Mr. Boehner, in part because it wanted the focus this year to be on leading conservative thinkers at the grass-roots level and not at the congressional or party leadership level.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who addressed the conference last year, was not asked to give his own speech, but rather to serve on one of the conference’s panels.
“We wanted this to be about conservatives, not party leaders in Washington,” one source said.
Despite that, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who has fallen out of favor with some grass-roots conservatives and faces a tea party-backed challenger in the party primary this year, will address the conference, his office said.
Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, used to be a regular at CPAC, but the three-day gathering that begins Thursday will mark the second in a row that he has missed after passing up an invitation last year. The speaker has grown increasingly vocal in recent months about his frustration with tea party members of the House Republican caucus who have broken with leadership on key votes.
The antipathy is mutual.
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Yes. I’ve been here since Mayday 1998. Thanks for noticing
I don’t buy the premise here. Boehner & Pribus are unpopular with the base and this is an election year. The decision to put them in the background must have been done in agreement with the establishment friendly ACU. McConnell’s speech pretty much proves that. He’s just as hated Boehner but in a tight race. He wants to troll for base votes at CPAC and the ACU is happy to accommodate him.
I definitely believe the Mayday part.
But Crispy Kreme gets to come and bloviate. He’s as bad as Tammy Faye.
“We wanted this to be about conservatives, not party leaders in Washington,”
HA!!! as Boehner is not a conservatives but a politician.
Boehner would rather spend the three days pissing on copies of the constitution.
” They are not limited government Christian conservatives ... and neither is Santorum. *sigh*”
Well said. We lost the limited G’ment group early in the Republican primaries. Too bad so Sad.
Waiting to see how Texas’ primaries go today
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