There’s nothing liberals love more than stalking conservatives with video cameras in hopes of catching them saying something offensive. There are hundreds of YouTube videos dedicated to exposing the “teabigots” and uneducated voters of the Republican Party. That’s why it’s surprising that virtually no liberal blog posted video of the Conservative Political Action Conference this past weekend.
In the video, panelist Ryan Sorba takes the stage and attacks the American Conservative Union for inviting the gay conservative group to co-sponsor CPAC.
“I want to condemn CPAC for bringing GOProud to this event,” he says. “Civil rights are based on natural rights. Natural rights are rooted in human nature…The understandable purpose of the reproductive act is reproduction.”
This video should be blog gold for liberals who regularly inform us that the Republican Party is full of gay attacking rednecks. But as of this writing, it couldn’t be found on mainstream liberal blogs.
Perhaps it was because the audience reacted to Sorba by booing him off the stage.
“Yes, sit down,” Sorba says to a group of adolescent boys who are shouting at him. “Lesbians at Smith College protest better than you.” The much hated “angry white men” are indeed evil. They are furious over Sorba’s nasty and unprovoked attack on a group of fellow conservatives.
If Sorba’s views are so welcome among conservatives – especially adolescent ones, who seemed to make up the majority of the crowd – why was he greeted with furious shouts instead of cheers?
The lack of bigotry must be painfully puzzling to liberals. My fellow Ohio College Republican Jesse Hathaway, a white, Christian heterosexual “anti-choice” guy, sat on the panel with Sorba.
“Every person on stage with him was fighting the urge to facepalm,” he told me. (Urban Dictionary definition of “facepalm”: a impromptu reaction to an astonishingly stupid statement in which the listener’s face comes into contact with his hand in a slapping gesture.)
This opinion is not only shared by college-age conservatives. On HotAir, a website founded by Michelle Malkin, the blogger wrote:
“We are all stronger together, and gay conservatives are just as much allies of the conservative movement as heterosexual conservatives. We are stronger by emphasizing our significant similarities, not our less significant differences. Fortunately, it looks like CPAC ’10 attendees agree.”
Another video you won’t see on any liberal blog features Alexander McCobin, founder of Students for Liberty and one of Sorba’s co-panelists.
“In the name of freedom, I would like to thank the American Conservative Union for hosting GOProud as a sponsor of this event,” McCobin said. “If you truly care about freedom, limited government and prosperity, then this symbol is a step in the right direction.” His remarks are met with applause. In fact, one of the few people booing is Ryan Sorba.
It seems that CPAC, and the conservative movement in general, is not a haven for haters.
