Nashville Adult Entertainment: At Conservative Political Action Conference: Torture In, Palin Out
18 02 2010Republican politicians attempted to appease these activists. House Republican Leader John Boehner said the Republican party should not “co-opt” the Tea Party movement, and the party will continue to “listen.”
One conservative leader noticeably absent is Sarah Palin. That’s not because she supports closing Guantanamo or ending torture. Palin is absent because she requests around $100,000 per speaking engagement. Speakers at CPAC speak for free.
Jameson Campaigne, board member of the American Conservative Union, the group that puts on the CPAC conference, says Palin needs to “give back.” Because of her refusal to attend a CPAC conference, he said, “She hasn’t really proved to the conservative movement yet that she’s one of us.”
But plenty of conservatives jumped at the opportunity. The closing speaker will be right-wing commentator Glenn Beck. Media mogul Andrew Breitbart and his young protege Hannah Giles who dressed up as a prostitute during a sting operation against ACORN.