11 Feb 2012 12:51 am
White Nationalist Speaks At CPAC - The Annual Conservative HatefestToday, GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich will kiss the ring of CPAC, the annual gathering of hundreds of conservative activists in Washington, DC. This is a must-do pilgrimage for anyone running for president on the GOP ticket; in fact this is where Romney ended his 2008 campaign. There are usually a host of controversial panelists and topics, but this year theyve outdone themselves. As noted by PFAW, this year, among the participants in the conference is Peter Brimelow and Robert Vandervoort. Brimelow is the founder and head of the White Nationalist hate website VDARE, a site known for publishing the works of racist and anti-Semitic authors. Robert Vandervoort is the director of ProEnglish, an English-only group, and is a former leader of the White Nationalist group Chicagoland Friends of the American Renaissance. These arent just your average conservative activists. They have actively pushed the idea that our diversity is killing us, that Jews are destroying the American white majority, and that non-white immigrants are the cause for our economic problems. Weve already seen a GOP more than willing to use racially-coded language throughout the primary season. But is presumed front runner Romney really going to appear at the same conference as people who spew such hatred towards people of color and ethnic minorities? If he wants to be the president of ALL Americans and not just white Americans, Mitt Romney should refuse to speak today. And if he feels he must go on stage, then he needs to denounce Brimelow and Vanervoorts odious beliefs from the stage. Anything less is tantamount to agreeing with what they say.LinkAs we now know, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich did speak at CPAC today, thereby legitimizing White Nationalists.White Nationalists like Peter Brimelow were invited to participate in a CPAC conference, but the Republican gay group GOProud was not invited to the convention.BTW the panel that Peter Brimelow and Robert Vandervoort took part in was called, "The Failure of Multiculturalism: How the pursuit of diversity is weakening the American identity."The Republican Party has now managed to alienate, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews and Gays, not to mention women, with the war they are waging on women's reproductive rights.I guess they think they can win an election with only racist, anti-semitic, women hating white males.