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Dammit, instead of going to the animal shelter to see the dogs, Kate and I should have taken the opportunity to rub shoulders with the queen of Opposite Marriage in the wingnut movement, disgraced Miss California Carrie Prejean, who was in the Triangle to stimulate intellectual discussion during her lunch keynote at the 4th Annual NC Conservative Leadership Conference, sponsored by the John William Pope Civitas Institute.
This is a gathering of the good-old-boy set and economic/fiscal conservative crowd.
The vision of the Civitas Institute is of a North Carolina whose citizens enjoy liberty and prosperity derived from limited government, personal responsibility and civic engagement. The mission of the Civitas Institute is to facilitate the implementation of conservative policy solutions to improve the lives of all North Carolinians
Trust me, the bible-beating wingnuts still have a stranglehold on the NC GOP. “Limited government” for Republicans here doesn’t include staying out of people’s bedrooms.
Life/Family Issues
* Judicial Misconduct and Gay Adoption
* Defending Marriage in N.C.
* 2009 Session Legislative Recap Series: Life and Family
* Why “Sexual Orientation” is Not a Protected Nondiscrimination Class
* Government-Run Health Care And Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
* Deception: The Story of North Carolina’s Bullying Bill and How It Was Passed
* The Damage of HB 88/ S221-An Unhealthy Youth
* Get The Facts… On Abstinence Education
* Life & Family Legislation: A Coming Storm?
* Legislative Recap Series
* Let’s Not Forget Life
* North Carolina Needs Fetal Homicide Law
* Life and Family Issues Recap
* Stem Cell Research in North Carolina … What’s Really Going On?
* Marriage Amendment Blocked
* A Decade of Parental Consent…And 750 Shining Faces!
According to the N&O, Prejean gave the usual stump speech about being persecuted for her beliefs about marriage by the Miss USA Pageant. I doubt her Piousness brought up her topless modeling photos or the contract terms she broke that caused pageant officials to yank her crown. Also, a group of progressives from Durham attended as the eyes and ears of the reality-based residents in the state.
“It has illuminated why the extreme right-wing grass-roots are so cynical and hateful,” said Lanya Shapiro, executive director of Traction Action Fund, a social network of activists. here’s Traction on FB
“Their leaders call the left evil and power-grabbing,” Shapiro said. “We want to know what we’re up against.”
Friday featured Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform along with the author of “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam,” Robert Spencer. How could I have missed the “Ongoing Terror Symposium“?
And look at what I missed on Saturday…plus: if you want to see how the wingnuts put on a real slamming fest, check out some video from last year’s conference below the fold, complete with move-to-the-beat elevator music…
Morning Breakout Sessions
* Career Opportunity: The Koch Associate Program Information Session with the Koch Foundation
* How To Be Heard on the Radio & Write an Op-Ed
* How To Take On City Hall
* Decline of the Newspaper
* Transparency in Local Governement
* Talk Radio Panel
* Marriage EducationLUNCH: Carrie Prejean, Former Miss California
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
* Healthcare Forum
* Blogger & New Media Training with Sam Adams Alliance
* How to Write an Op-ed
* Investigating Public Corruption
* Film ScreeningDINNER: John Fund of Wall Street Journal
The 2008 con featured failed gubernatorial candidate and Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory, failed SCOTUS nom Robert Bork and rejected former Senator Liddy Dole (whose latest cosmetic enhancement results look quite painful). Apologies in advance — trust me, a good deal of the Carrie Prejean crowd is dying out in North Carolina. If anyone can bear watching the whole 21 minute video, let me know if you see any people of color. Hotel employees don’t count, lol.
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I just want to knowwhen someone will throw a pie in this woman’s face
If they want to “defend marriage”They can start by not being on their third wife and their seventh mistress.
A single gal talking about marriage!ROTFLMAO…
Like a virgin discussing sex. Oh wait; that’s been done…
She’s just another cardboard cutoutlike my imaginary friend Joe (“He’s sitting right here…”)
Why do Repubs need cartoon characters to illustrate their points anyway?
Considering the fact that he knocked-up his girlfriend’s daughterJohn Fund’s a fine one to talk about “morality.”
And Grover’s a well-known closet queen.
Has Maggie gone dowen on Carrie yet?
Carrie Prejean AND Pedophile John Fund on the Same Ticket???Now that’s more conservative family values than I can take at a single event!
Liddy Dole in NC???Liddy Dole actually found her way to NC? Now that’s a breaking news story.
This Is What It’s Come Down ToSexual deviants calling other people “sexual deviants”.
Plus it’s pretty hilarious that the deadly sin of Vanity (Prejean) is running her mouth about gay people.
And who wants to bet this John Fund guy would take off running if he saw Chris Hansen.
More paint than cardboardSo much of what they are is window dressing and costumed pageantry.
A politician in a $1,500 Brooks Brothers suit sits next to a peer and starts talking about his affair with a young female lobbiest.
A young woman with breast implants, dental veneers, bleached blond hair, layers of makeup, a spray-on tan and colored contact lens tells America that others are living an unnatural lifestyle.
They are cartoons because there is no substance under the facade. Underneath they are like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit. It is time that they get dipped!
North Carolina Beauty Contestants must feel neglectedBeing outsourced by Carrie (t*ts to the wind) the “model.”
North Carolina Leadership Conference could just as well have hired a nice HOME GROWN implant-added North Carolina girl, who knows her Southern manners, and is smart enough to keep her naughty negatives in her modeling HEAD SHOTS, (that nearly always drift south to another triangle, coincidently), discretely hidden, until her year long reign is finished.
Granted the model’s only function is to keep the eye distracted from Grover-make you spit up your rubber chicken lunch-Norquist, and the equally spew-worthy John Fund.
How to write an Op/Ed got listed twice after someone stumbled into FreeRepublicand saw the necessity of offering a remedial course
they should also offer:
How to spell correctly when your protest sign is visible on any station besides FAUX news
How to look properly shamed and pious when giving press conference confessing mistress or drug addiction. There will be separate breakout sessions for the wives and anyone caught with a member of the same sex.
15 things You never admit to while being paid to pretend you’re a grass roots member
Avoiding taxes on your undocumented house & yard workers
Carrie lost to Kristen Dalton of North CarolinaI don’t think they feel neglected, I hope they feel open minded enough to be glad they aren’t called on for this kind of “work.” It was a bit odd to think about that at the same time all this controversy arose with prop 8 & marriage equality in the news, CA has a constitutional amendment banning marriage equality along with a beauty queen to champion that bigotry, and NC has no constitutional amendment banning marriage equality and had the more open minded person crowned.
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A single topless model with breast augmentationtalking about any kind of family values is really laughable.
Especially her claim that failure to perform her job and the topless photos had nothing to do with being fired, it was the fault of: the gays/ the jews / ObamaCare / Radical Islam / (choose one based upon audience)
Lol Fritz!You made my day
Be nice, DavidMaggie Gallagher is most certainly NOT a Lesbian
We wouldn’t have her
Edwin Edwards warningAs Gubernatorial candidate Edwin Edwards warned in his Louisiana race against Paul Duke, “Don’t get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”
I wonder which current Republican will make this mistake.
Fembot ATTACKS North Carolina…film at 11