Every year the American Conservative Union and its subsidiary CPAC put on CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. The organization and the event are sort of the organizational core of what people used to call Movement Conservatism. But this year there’s been a mini-rebellion over CPAC’s invitation to GOProud, a gay conservative group. And they’re real players — like the Family Research Council. Now a bunch of the same groups are threatening a boycott for inviting Mitch Daniels.
Now, I know that beyond each of these developments there’s a lot of internal politics. Daniels made a splash last year saying there should basically be a ‘truce’ on social issues until critical economic and national security issues are resolved. And Dave Weigel notes that beyond the dispute over GOProud are some financial disputes among CPAC’s organizers.
But still, Mitch Daniels?
