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SE Cupp Pulls Out of CPAC Until They Allow Gay GOP Groups

'We should be lucky to be having these guys,' she says of GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans

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by Mary Noble

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Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp has announced that she's withdrawing from CPAC, unless the conference embraces Republican groups that back gay marriage. Both GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans are reportedly not attending because they aren't permitted to sponsor the event.

"We should be lucky to be having these guys do any work instead of turning them away. I don't think we can afford that right now," said Cupp on MSNBC's "The Cycle."

"I've been scheduled to speak at CPAC this year, and I don't think I can until this issue is reconciled and figured out," she said, adding that she "loves" attending the conference.

Cupp's withdrawal follows that of fellow-MSNBC host Chris Hayes. But Cupp's defection is more significant because she's a high-profile conservative who has also appeared regularly on Fox and Blaze TV.

Via The Blaze and Mediaite.

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  • martydotcom
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    Guess the only other women silly enough to endorse CPAC is Ann Coulter and she'll fit right in with the women hating crazies.
    "Deny women the vote and we'll never elect another Democrat President" - quote Ann Coulter
  • Real4WheelDrv
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    Meh, if CPAC wants to keep shooting themselves in the foot, let em. The LCR's have been around since '77, GOProud since '09 it's not like this is some dirty little secret.
  • Republican5150
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    Courtesy of Wikipedia

    "Cupp grew up in Carlsbad, California, a suburb of San Diego, later relocating to Andover, Massachusetts.

    In 2000, Cupp graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History. While attending Cornell, she worked for The Cornell Daily Sun. In 2010, she earned a Master of Arts from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University with a concentration in Religious Studies."

    I think the CPAC can go without her.
  • drpeeper
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    @Zazziness Actually it's the old white establishment GOPers. They want Tea Party folks out as much groups like this. They need to retire. The left, I give them credit, outside of some old blowhard morons like Boxer,Pelosi,Reid,Waxman,Durbi n,Waters,Jackson Lee.... they get younger folks in. They may be wrong, ill informed and unfit for office (Like Jackson Jr and Ellison) But they get em elected.
  • cpeter133
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    @drpeeper The nation wants to get rid of the teabaggers. They are know-nothing fascists who want to take the country back to the 1950's--their vision of which never existed. Teabaggers are the LAST people to call anyone " wrong, ill informed and unfit for office".
  • drpeeper
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    @cpeter133 Never knew a balanced budget- adherence to the Constitution, less taxes & less debt was 'fascist'. Least you don't mind showing your ignorace for all the world to see. Congrats.
    By the way, Barney Frank retired- since you wanted to get rid of 'teabaggers'.

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  • Libertyiskey
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    @Bobolinsky I've been thinking about what he said and I've come up with this, if we can't depend on government to get out of something so simple and harmless as our personal lives, what makes us think we can get them to give up complete control of us by getting them to stop interfering with the economy?
  • Bobolinsky
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    @Libertyiskey-- I agree.

    From the Reason.com article I cited above...

    "If Republicans were smart, they’d listen to that rising generation of young people who want government to stay not just out of the economy, but out of our personal lives, too."

    "Fortunately, some Republicans are onboard with that. Another of my guests was Justin Amash, congressman from Michigan."

    "The young libertarians admire him, in much the same way they admire Republicans like Sens. Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT), and Jeff Flake (AZ); Gov. Gary Johnson (NM); and new Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie."

    Should I mention that Amash, Paul, Lee, Flake and Massie are all Tea Partiers?
  • Libertyiskey
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    @Bobolinsky I like Amash so far, Rands been ok so far as well don't know much about the others. Voted Gary Johnson. I have no problem with Tea Partiers when they actually practice what they preach (small government for all even if they don't like people smoking weed or being gay).

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  • akjep6
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    Well I guess you can say it great that she is standing up for them. I just don't know if they will benefit a whole lot having the gay community on their side but it possible could help them. Be really hard for any republican to jump on the boat in support for gay marriage and such. Guess can give them a "A" for effort to reaching out the community more and being more "in touch" with citizens. Overall mixed feelings if this will make any difference at all.
  • MattiMuck
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    It's a conservative committee not republican. Why should liberal republicans be invited? That doesn't meake any sense. If you're socially liberal, then you are not a conservative. You are either liberal or a libertarian, which to me, in most cases, is synonymous.
  • Zazziness
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    Liberal and libertarian are actually very different in their political viewpoints. Libertarians are conservative in the true sense of the word: they believe in small government and that includes keeping government from meddling with your love life.
    "Conservatives" who want big government to play nanny to grown adults are usually theocrats who want us to live in a "Christian" nation instead of the free nation our founders established.
  • Libertyiskey
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    @Zazziness Don't you go making sense now, it confuses people. I have an idea to get people (republo-servatives) to start understanding that libertarians are small government and in the true sense of the words republican or conservative. At the end of all of our sentences we say FREE MARKETS RULE SMALL GOVERNMENT WOO!!! Maybe after a while we can throw in legalize drugs end prohibition it isn't the 20s anymore and add small government after so it gradually starts making sense to them.
  • cpeter133
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    If the teabaggers look down on, and want to completely change the established GOP, why don't they just become a third party ltogether?

    They know why--withhout the GOP brand, they haven't got a chance in hell of surviving. They are parasites, eating their host from within until it dies.
  • Knightkore
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    Excellent point....and please don't give them ideas....progressive liberals are fond of paradoxical stupid silly ideas being implemented by an executive order by President Hussein Obama or some RINO supported law....
  • DerivePI
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    @AceLuby - Depends on the conservative you talk too. From my conservative perspective, it's not that guys who have sex with guys can't be conservative, it's that they, as conservatives, wouldn't find the need to rewrite the definition of marriage to suit their abnormal lifestyle. I'm sure there are conservatives that wouldn't even accept this allowance, but they run the risk of excluding themselves because of their own abnormalities.
  • AceLuby
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    @DerivePI Why wouldn't they want the same rights as everyone else? Are conservatives anti-liberty, or are they anti-constitution?
  • DerivePI
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    @AceLuby - Perhaps this supreme court will dismay me again, but I think it appropriate to uphold California's right to define marriage as there is nothing in the constitution that gives the right to define marriage to the Federal Government (DOMA should be repealed in so far at it infringes on state's rights). As for anti-liberty, yes, you can make that case just as denying cigarettes and alcohol to children is anti-liberty.

    As for having the same rights, yes, everyone has the same right to marry. What no one has the right to do is redefine reality. If you want 2+2 to equal 5 that's your problem. Requiring me, through the force of government, to pretend that, is wrong.

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  • Knightkore
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    @AceLuby Actually, the KKK, Westboro Baptist....Black Panthers, Reverend Wright, President Hussein Obama....as long as they don't take those beliefs too far....

    Freedom of conscience....but you imply that their beliefs are wrong? Isn't that judging?

    And what is your standard or who is your standard?
  • AceLuby
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    @Knightmare I didn't imply anything, I asked you a question that you danced around. Should the KKK, blank panthers, Al Qaida, etc... be respected because they stay true to their beliefs? Should groups based on hate, superiority, and violence be respected?
  • Knightkore
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    @AceLuby And you sidestepped the issue completely....they would deserve respect for excercising their freedoms....I didn't say their actions or what they said should be respected....there is a difference....oh wait....it's okay when progressive liberals defend the Iranian president to speak at an American college but not okay to defend anyone else's speech and freedoms that YOU deem wrong by implication....
  • AceLuby
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    @Knightmare I'm not sidestepping anything, I'm asking you a straightforward question that you still haven't answered. Do you respect the KKK because they stick to their beliefs?

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  • DARSB
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    I like Ms Cupp. Rarely agree with her, of course, but she expresses her points of view without the customary malice of radio talkers. I think it's significant that CPAC has now carried on with its single-minded devotion to the politics-as-usual that is killing the Republican party.
  • Cheenoguy
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    @Knightmare
    You are right except for having the wrong idea of what is immoral.
    Protecting the wealth of billionaires while trying to take away money from programs that act as a safety net for the poor is immoral.
    Spending as much as the next 6 countries on our military industrial complex while 1 in 6 Americans deals with food insecurity is immoral.
    Drone attacks are immoral.
    People dying in this country because they can't afford the available health care is immoral.
    Trying to prevent people from voting simply because they disagree with you is immoral.
    90+% of wealth going to >5% of the population is immoral.
    Imprisoning people for marijuana is immoral.

    Two people falling in love is not immoral. If you can accept any of the above 7 but not gay people being married then your priorities as a human being suck.
  • Cheenoguy
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    @Knightmare
    Funny. Your posts here give no indication that you support shrinking the size of our military, not cutting funding for safety net programs like food stamps, socialized medicine, or any policy that will decrease income inequality in this country. In fact, you seem to be big on big "defense", anti-safety net programs, and anti-anything that Glenn Beck might call socialist. Maybe you've just had a change of heart.
    Maybe one day you will evolve enough to understand that who someone else loves is none of your damn business if they aren't in love with your mate or underage child.
  • Knightkore
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    @Cheenoguy First, I'd just like much of our government streamlined. Take the military.....get out of Afghanistan.....protect our borders.....stop cutting our Navy.....this is the only part of our military that should NOT be cut.....{history lessons on naval power}.....

    Programs like that are helpful but can always be.....more efficient.....

    Socialized medicine.....will never work.....not to the extent that you might think.....

    And as an American I don't see why they couldn't get married.....as a christian.....that is not love.....and there is forgiveness for that lifestyle.....

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  • MarkJM
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    Very much like the Conservatives who were stupid to not invite Chris Christie. Here they go again with another stupid move. And they wonder why the last election was lost. The GOP needs, NEEDS to drop the whole social issue BS and focus on the economy and reckless government spending. They could beat the drum louder in those arenas and do just fine but the problem is they keep worrying about little things like excluding GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans. Again, stupid move on CPAC's part. I absolutely agree with S.E. Cupp on this one.
  • formerrepub
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    Conservatives should be talking about liberty, period! When you talk about liberty, everyone is included. If you want to pound one of your buddies in the rectum, that is your business, but don't expect that activity to be forced on those of us who don't agree. Does that mean I don't respect you as a person? Absolutley not! Remember, it's us against them, the goverment with all their regulations and rules, conservatives need to be preaching the message of retaking our liberties from the tyrants on the Potomac.
  • formerrepub
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    @AceLuby I see you're up to speed on the definition of rape, however, I was talking about accepting that type of lifestyle and calling it "normal". By all means if that's your thing, have at it, but don't expect the goverment to force your ways on those who don't agree. That's infringing on my liberties.
  • AceLuby
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    @formerrepub Nobody is forcing you to do anything, you don't have to accept the lifestyle, so nobody is infringing on any of your liberties. You do not have the right to deny other people their liberties, and that includes the ability to sign a legal contract to bind two people not already bound by blood.
  • formerrepub
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    @AceLuby Agree, not trying to do that however, when you go to the goverment, that I'm forced to support with my tax dollars and lobby them to give you some kind of benefit, then who's liberties are getting infringed upon? Let me give you a lesson in republicanism, if you and other like minded people agree with that type of lifestyle then why don't you do it at a local level and leave the rest of the country out of it? You would have more control and individuals who like that lifestyle would more than likely flock to your location. When you lobby for "one size fits all" in a land of 315 million people, it's not going to turn out good for anyone. Smaller is better.

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  • BossTweed
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    Hey Repubs..........Take a leap of faith and join the 21st Century. Only a fraction of Americans are anti gay. Refusing to face today's realities paints you into a corner and costs you WAY MORE than just the Gay Vote. Stop shooting yourselves in the foot.
  • ErnestPayne
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    Never thought I would type this about a Conservative "pundit" but I am proud of her action. Only 238 years since the declaration of independence but people still have to fight for their rights. America still making the oaf of allegiance a lie.
  • dances-weebles
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    on the lighter side of things, (and not to cast aspersions) i like her name when written the way that they have it... if you pronounce it the way that it's written you have 'c cup' which makes her sound like a bra size.
  • jessejaymes
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    I understand Politix's agenda. I do believe the site is run by gays with a primary agenda of gays. Even if not, they understand this subject draws more hits than any other. I personally am sick of it, and this sort of thing over 3.5% of the public What I do find myself wondering is what gay agenda Politix will ram down our throats daily once gays can marry and have all federal rights?(which I support). This is a never ending shameless promotion of 3.5% of the people over the needs of a nation for jobs, opportunity, education and the pursuit of happiness. I, for one, am sick of it and choose to support equal rights for all.
  • AceLuby
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    Denial of rights, no matter how small the population, is a big deal. The only way we stop talking about this issue is to fix it.
  • jessejaymes
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    @AceLuby The issue is equal rights. Not every damn time a gay in America is upset. We all have out rights violated every single day. I don't see anyone writing articles about some jackass in the 10 or less line with 86 items.
  • jessejaymes
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    @AceLuby Look Ace. I have had a black barber refuse to cut my hair because "We don't cut white hair". The gay on Broadway in Long Beach Ca refuse to allow a non gay into their business association. I was refused admittance into the "Black recording artists association". I thought it was about black recording artsts. Turned out it was about Blacks who record artists and I was denied. SO WHAT? Nobody wrote every day about that. It's not a frigging perfect world. I didn't sue anyone.
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    BUT YET we have to hear everyday about some Baker in some podunk town who doesn't want to make a wedding cake for two Lesbians. SO WHAT? I support gay rights to marry and have equal benefits under the law. I am not interested in some idiot barber or baker who refuses to serves someone because they don't want to. I am not interested in trying legislate people's minds.
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