Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Aah, Thursday, the week’s most forgotten day. It’s not Monday, it’s not hump day. It’s just the day before Friday. Friday eve?
Michele Bachmann, yes, Michele Bachmann is considering a presidential run, according to several of her aides who suddenly started talking about this with Minnesota reporters.
In fact, the Iowa native (Waterloo) will travel to her home state later this month to talk against the massive spending of you-know-who at a fundraiser for the Iowans for Tax Relief PAC in Des Moines.
Oh, how crazy is the GOP clown car? Some Republicans (besides Bachmann) who are running for the crazy vote: Rick Santorum, John Bolton and Sarah Palin.
I think the battle for the wingularity (the one true, pure wingnut) has begun. The wingularity gets to ride the tax-cutting unicorn to sit on Reagan’s right hand. The fight over CPAC has gone to crazytown.
But some prominent conservatives have decided to skip the party. About a week ago, several prominent religious right organizations, including the Family Research Council, announced they would not participate because organizers agreed to allow a gay Republican group to be part of the event.
This week, far-right critics of CPAC have decided to move in a more creative direction.
Incensed over the participation of the conservative gay-rights group GOProud in the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, far-right activists are now trying to connect the major conservative event to the Muslim Brotherhood. The American Conservative Union (ACU), which hosts CPAC, has been the target of Religious Right groups and leaders over their handling of GOProud’s involvement, with Joseph Farah even calling for conservatives to “purge” the ACU from the movement. […]
Now, the conservative news site WorldNetDaily, a major cheerleader for the groups boycotting CPAC, is giving right wing activist Frank
Gaffney a platform to charge the ACU with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist group. […]Gaffney outlines a theory that since the ACU is allowing the leader of an organization known as Muslims for America, a conservative
group with ties to the GOP, to participate in CPAC, the ACU is
supporting a “stealthy effort to bring Shariah” to
America.
That’s some insane stuff. Is it the beginning of a new GOP civil war?