Posted on 02/26/2015 1:19:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Author and conservative firebrand Ann Coulter was not invited to speak at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, marking the first time in several years that she was not scheduled to attend in an official capacity.
Coulter is usually a popular speaker at the annual conference -- it's the largest gathering of conservatives in the U.S. held this weekend just outside of Washington, D.C. -- where she has delivered well-received speeches and signed her books for fans.
"I wasn't invited," Coulter confirmed in an email Thursday to the Washington Examiner media desk. "I might just show up anyway just to piss them off. I could be the Bibi Netanyahu of CPAC." (The Netanyahu mention is a reference to a controversial invite from congressional Republicans to the Israeli prime minister to address Congress.)
Coulter, apparently confused by the snub from conference organizers, said she has been voted "best speaker" by attendees in previous years.
Lisa De Pasquale, who served as the conference director from 2006 to 2011, confirmed that attendees surveyed after the conference ended consistently chose Coulter as the most popular speaker. "You can definitely quote me on that," said Pasquale.
Dave Hemsath sets up a booth selling books by conservative authors each year at the conference. He told the Examiner that her books tend to sell particularly well among attendees. "She's my best seller," he said. He also said he didn't want to "speak out of turn" but that he's "sorry" he won't be able to sell as many of her books this year, as he didn't bring as many as usual due to her absence from the speaker schedule.
Coulter's strained relationship with conference organizers was also evident at last year's event. She said at the time that she was not invited to speak until two weeks before the conference and that it was sprung on her that instead of a solo speaking slot, she was only offered time used to "debate" a liberal speaker.
The conference is a big draw for Republican voters and conservatives. Several potential GOP presidential candidates are at this year's event to deliver speeches and answer questions, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Two separate spokesmen for the conference did not return requests for comment.
This is the reward for donut boy. Loving RINOS have consequences.
This former girl friend of that moron on HBO, and former campaigner for the un-Christian former Republican candidate Mittens Romney as far as I’m concerned has totally lost me as any kind of conservative standard bearer. And I’m sure she’ll a Bush-tard.
This year Jeb Bush is one of the speakers, so of course they're not having her back. It certainly doesn't have anything to do with her not being conservative enough for CPAC.
Did she really say "all the right things," though?
She’s got the wrong opinion in amnesty and illegals. Jeb can’t have that at his coming out party.
think they ran out of room-
THE LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS GOT HER SPOT!!!
lol
I agree. The problem isn’t that she backed Romney. The problem is that she is attacking amnesty and amnesty-Republicans and doing it rather loudly.
Jeb Bush probably banned her from CPAC. Which would itself be funny. If anyone is dis-invited it should be him.
Purely speculation on my part based on ties of CPAC to Al Cardenas and Grover Norquist.
They are both on the payroll of The Cheap Labor Express.
Ann has been quite vocal lately about stopping the invasion.
They don’t want that talked about.
YMMV IMHO
Besides being gaga for Mitt, Crispy and gay Republicans?
You nailed it.
Dey didn envite me ether.
Pragmatists are compromisers. The true conservatives are idealists, they don't compromise
Why should I care about a RINO-loving, establishment-supporting scarecrow?
Yes, she backed the wrong horse. Hey Ann! Hows it working out for you cozying up with the GOPE? And no, we aren’t taking you back.
She would have exposed them all on Amnesty.
She would have literally slammed them so hard on Amnesty that they would have had to answer questions without weasel words like “pathway to citizenship”. They can’t afford to let the cat out of the bag in such an obvious way.
“CPAC is not about Conservatism.”
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OK. I’ll bite. Whate is CPAC about?
Ingraham and Donald Trump are invited. Trump usually speaks the longest on the issue.
Coulter bashed Rubio, Rand, Cruz and the Bush family. That’s why they don’t want her there.
She also went to another event and bashed Ted Cruz with anti-amnesty Democrat Mickey Kaus.
Ingraham still defends Rand on foreign policy, Christie on being electable and a few other issues.
Coulter called Bush a dumbass, Ingraham just said he was wrong.
There is a God!
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