I saw this on two different sites and needless to say I was kind of surprised.
Writing over at the New York Times, Mona Charen tells the story:
I’ve been a conservative my entire life. I fell hard for William F. Buckley as a
teenager and my first job was as editorial assistant at Buckley’ s National
Review, followed by stints writing speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and
then working for the Gipper himself. Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice
President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for me . I went to
work as a speechwriter for Representative Jack Kemp in 1986.So you’d think that the Conservative Political A ction Conference , or
CPAC, would be a natur al fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to
this year ’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several
guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety .What happened to me at CP AC is the perfect illustration of the collective
experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became
the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — b ut now we’re
made to feel like interlopers.I was surprised that I was even ask ed to speak at CPAC. My views on
Trump, Roy Moore and Steve Bannon are no secret. I knew the crowd would
be hostile, and so I was tempted to pass.But too many of us have given up the fight. W e’ve let disgust and dismay
lead us to withdraw while bad actors tak e control of the direction of our
movement. I know how encouraged I feel whenever someone simply states
the truth, and so I decided to accept CPAC’s invitation.
Politico tells the rest:
Mona Charen, a well-known conservative author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was among four women discussing issues of feminism and sexual abuse on the final day of the annual right-wing gathering. Asked by the moderator to name something that gets their “blood boiling” as it relates to those subjects, Charen replied, “I am disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women, who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women—and because he happens to have an ‘R’ next to his name we look the other way.”
And she didn’t stop there. With the audience silent and seemingly paralyzed by her assault on Trump—whose Friday-morning speech highlighted three days of uninterrupted adulation—Charen added: “This is a party that endorsed Roy Moore for the Senate in the state of Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester. You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that.” Her final line was interrupted with jeers and boos from the audience, mixed with scattered applause, with one woman near the front repeatedly yelling: “Not true! Not true!”The moderator scrambled to move the panel forward, mentioning the “explosion” of incidents in which “accusation has been equal to conviction.” Many in the crowd continued shouting, several of them about the need to defend men from baseless allegations and separate good guys from bad guys.“Speaking of bad guys,” Charen interjected, her tone louder and more aggressive than before, “there was quite an interesting person who was on this stage the other day. Her name is Marion Le Pen. Now, why was she here? Why was she here? She’s a young, no-longer-in-office politician from France. I think the only reason she was here is because she’s named Le Pen.” A man screamed from the audience: “Why are you here?” Charen continued: “And the Le Pen name is a disgrace. Her grandfather is a racist and a Nazi. She claims that she stands for him. And the fact that CPAC invited her is a disgrace.”By the time Charen had finished, boos and taunts drowned out the applause. “You’re a disgrace!” another man shouted.
Waiting for Charen afterward in a hallway inside the Gaylord National Resort, I was surprised to see her surrounded by three security officers. She was surprised, too. Charen told me the detail had suddenly appeared backstage, “seemingly nervous,” having been assigned to protect her on the way out. As we talked, and the detail marched Charen briskly toward the front doors, a few people tried to approach her but nobody got close. “They were acting as if I were in real danger,” she texted me afterward, “which I didn’t feel at all.”
This incident right here is kind of what troubles me about the Republican Party nowadays. Although I will tell you this the only sign that this is, is that the Republican party, at least the Grassroots is not buying the BS of the neoconservative right anymore. You have to understand something the Republican Grassroots we’re the ones who were subjected to the lies of the George W Bush Administration; when they told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and true Mona Charen was one of the ones who preached that Doctrine. Well, nowadays, the Republican Grassroots simply is not open to neoconservative or any sort of progressive thought because the last time they were open to that sort of thought, this nation got dragged into the Iraq War which almost destroyed the Republican Party standing in National politics and put a humongous stain on this country. This lady ought not to be surprised, she ought to be a little more cautious where she appears; because quite frankly her Jewish-first conservatism is simply not wanted anymore in the Republican party or any political party for that matter anymore.