Posted on 02/10/2011 6:25:57 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Wednesday evening she has no objection to the participation of gay Republicans at this weekend's gathering of conservatives in Washington.
Palin said she didn't see anything wrong with the participation of GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which runs Thursday through Saturday.
"I don't have a problem with different, diverse groups that are involved in political discourse, and having a convention to talk about what the answers are to their problems that face America," Palin said Wednesday on Fox News when asked about GOProud.
Palin isn't participating in the conference, and she's declined previous invitations, despite CPAC's role as a cattle call for possible Republican presidential candidates.
But other prominent conservatives have said they're skipping the conference. The conservative Heritage Foundation and other socially conservative groups withdrew due to the inclusion of GOProud. And with those groups out, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed suit. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also declined participation, though it's unclear if that decision is linked to GOProud.
Aside from DeMint, though, the other Republicans mulling a run for president are slated to speak or participate at the conference, hoping in part to boost their standing in the closely watched straw poll of attendees.
Palin suggested that conservatives had more important issues to worry about than which groups were attending the conference.
"People are losing their jobs; they're losing homes. We're still engaged in a war," she said. "There are so many life-changing, life-and-death issues out there in front of us. You know, we'd better be concentrating on what is really important here and not going kind of tit-for-tat as people are positioning themselves for 2012."
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Sounds like something Mitch Daniels would say, eh what??
If she keeps talking like this, she’ll get banned from FR.
I am SO waiting for Palin to come out with a public statement that sounds like it is clearly pandering to gay conservatives. The skull shrapnel on FR should be a sight to behold.
Gee, Sarah Palin believes in freedom of speech? Who would have thunk it?
Actually that is quite close to what Daniels said on the Laura Ingraham Show about 10 days ago.
Speaking of which, the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of CPAC via David Keene and Grover Norquist is the *real* reason to stay away, in my view.
Isn’t it nice to have a leader that is not a hypocrite and sticks with her principles. Palin is a constitutional conservative that agrees ALL citizens have the rights of that document not just the ones we find socially acceptable. This is the only way to get the government out of the 50/50 rut it is in. Federalism, local control, freedom of association. This is what is needed to win massive mandates to move your aganda through.
“Roh, roh!”
I’d like to know what the ‘gay’ republicans stance on conservative issues are, especially:
1) Taxes
2) Government Spending
3) Abortion
4) War on Terror
5) Marriage
If they want to attend, big deal. They are a small group anyway.
I’d just like to see Palin treated like any other potential candidate. Pluses, and minuses.
She doesn’t need to come out with that kind of statement.
All she has to do is mildly indicate that gays are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
"I don't have a problem with different, diverse groups that are involved in political discourse, and having a convention to talk about what the answers are to their problems that face America," Palin said Wednesday on Fox News when asked about GOProud.
But Palin is not any other candidate.
She’s The One.
(not being sarcastic, really think so)
The division was created by the GOP (Grand Old Poofters).
The real story here is that the party has been taken over by the homo agenda.
Social conservatives get the shaft once again.
So you’re saying that you do have a problem with diverse groups within the Republican party being able to speak and address issues?
That’s moving left?
I can’t imagine where on the left/right spectrum you must be... hanging off the edge at the right, I guess.
You’re going to be waiting a long time then because she is not going to pander to them, she has not pandered to the GOP Establishment or the Media like the rest of the potentials. She just said she has no problem for them participating and let people decide for themselves. We dint need to act like liberals
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