ABC's Jonathan Karl reports that this year's CPAC event was co-sponsored, unbelievably to me, by the John Birch Society. Karl quotes some of Buckley's characteristically vibrant denunciations of the JBS. "Two years after Buckley's death," Karl observes, "the John Birch Society is no longer banished; it is listed as one of about 100 co-sponsors of the 2010 CPAC."
Karl reasonably asks: "Why is the Birch Society a co-sponsor?"
"They're a conservative organization," according to Lisa Depasquale, the CPAC Director for the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. "Beyond that," she told Karl, "I have no comment."
Additional comment is required, and if Depasquale will not provide it, I will. This is a disgrace.
It's no coincidence the CPACkers overwhelmingly picked Congressman Ron Paul as their poster boy for president. Paul addressed the Birchers' dinner party in August 2009.
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