OK. So you don’t like the Mount Vernon Statement. Let’s dispense with the reasons you give that are purely, well, irrelevant. You don’t like a press release my organization put out about the Mount Vernon Statement. Bully. The Media Research Center is not related to the Mount Vernon Statement. You don’t like the Conservative Political Action Conference. But CPAC and the Mount Vernon Statement are unrelated as well. Come to think of it, you don’t much like anything about the conservative movement these days. Next you’ll tell me you voted for Obama.
You blast the length of the Mount Vernon Statement. It “bears the same relation to the Sharon Statement as Edward Everett’s two hour long speech at Gettysburg…bore to the two-minute-long speech by…Abraham Lincoln.” Fact check: Mount Vernon Statement: 537 words. Sharon Statement: 368 words.
And Lord, Christo. Of the hundreds of conservative experts with whom you could have consulted, who was it you chose as “authoritative on the subject” of conservatism? Why, Sam Tanenhaus, the man who so completely misunderstands the conservative movement that in 2009—the year of historic conservative landslides in Virginia, the Republican gubernatorial triumph in New Jersey, and the Massachusetts Miracle—he wrote The Death of Conservatism?
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