Right-Wing Stunts and Tea Party Froth on the Eve of Conservatives' Big Yearly Conference

[Joanne98]

Right-wing leaders gather at a Masonic "museum on Americanism" to sign a statement aimed at giving the Tea Party movement a set of principles.


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference approaches, Washington is abuzz about the new kid in town -- the Tea Party movement.

Like any conference, this one, which kicks off tomorrow, will have its yearly star, likely to be drawn from the ranks of that rancorous mob of discontents. The whole shebang will conclude with a closing address by Fox News personality Glenn Beck, Rupert Murdoch's community organizer and online convener of the 9/12 March on Washington. (You may recall the 2007 queen of CPAC, Ann Coulter, made big news for calling John Edwards, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, "a faggot" -- an accusation he has since disproved in a rather spectacular fashion.)

In a bid, perhaps, not to be shunted to the wings of conservatism's center stage, a group of old-school conservative leaders will gather today to put their signatures on something they're calling the Mount Vernon Statement, named for the tangential location of its ceremonial signing, which will take place at a venue that sits on land once part of George Washington's original estate. The Collingwood Library and Museum on Americanism, where the signing will take place, is run by the National Sojourners, an Masonic organization of past and present military officers.

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[mrcheerful]

1. This is going to be fun, the crazy people are going to try to control the

crazy people with a piece of paper that means nothing, purity oaths anyone?

Damn typos

[Frustratedlady]

2. It recognizes man's self-interest but also his capacity for virtue.

Repugs are going to sign a paper with the above sentence?

If truth be known, there wouldn't be many sigs.