18 Outrageous Things CPAC's Right-Wingers Have Said in Public
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Starting this week, conservative activists converge in Maryland along with a healthy complement of journalists (this one included) to hear from top Republicans and leading voices of the modern right. Controversy is basically inevitable.
But CPACs top stars will have a high bar to clear if they want to outdo themselves in the provocation department. Here are some head-turning past comments from headliners highlighted on CPACs site on black people, gay people, takers and much more:
Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender. Rick Perry, 2008
After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Wayne LaPierre, 2013
One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country
Its a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. Rick Santorum, 2011