At CPAC Thursday, left-wing CNN analyst Van Jones reluctantly offered praise to conservatives for leading the way on criminal justice reform.
According to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/van-jones-conservatives-are-leaders-on-criminal-justice-reform/">National Review</a>, the CNN analyst appeared alongside CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp and touted the bi-partisan criminal justice reform package that President Trump signed into law this past December. The bill, which essentially loosened some of the criteria for inmates to participate in early release programs, has been generally backed by libertarians and many on the right. Here&#8217;s what Michelle Malkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38663/malkin-first-step-pro-cop-pro-borders-pro-criminal-michelle-malkin">said of the bill</a> at the time of its passage:
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The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not &#8220;soft&#8221; on crime. It&#8217;s tough on injustice. And it&#8217;s about time.
Known as the &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; the legislation confronts the Titanic failure of the federal government&#8217;s trillion-dollar war on drugs by reforming mandatory minimum sentences, rectifying unscientifically grounded disparities in criminal penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine users, and tackling recidivism among federal inmates through risk assessment, earned-time credit incentive structures, re-entry programs and transitional housing.
There&#8217;s nothing radical about giving law-breakers who served their time an opportunity to turn their lives around and avoid ending up back behind bars. More than 30 red and blue states have enacted measures to reduce incarceration, control costs and improve public safety. Texas &#8212; no bleeding-heart liberal mecca &#8212; spearheaded alternatives to the endless prison-building boom a decade ago by redirecting tax dollars to rehab, treatment and mental health services. The Lone Star state saved an estimated $3 billion in new public construction costs while stemming the prison population tide.
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Jones not only praised conservatives for passing the bill but actually pointed out that conservatives in deep red states have enacted impactful criminal justice reform.
&#8220;The conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of reform,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;You look at Mississippi, a rock-ribbed, total conservative former jailer is now the governor. Governor Bryan cut the prison population and crime at the same time. [Governor Nathan] Deal in Georgia cut the prison population and crime at the same time. &#8230; What you&#8217;re seeing now is Republican governors being tough on the dollars. Tough on crime and shrinking the prison population.&#8221;
&#8220;You are stealing my issue,&#8221; he begrudgingly admitted. &#8220;Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.&#8221;
Van Jones also called for some bi-partisanship, saying the country needs its right-wing as well as its left-wing in order to function.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a bird fly with only one wing,&#8221; Jones said, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/">Mediaite</a>. &#8220;We need each other.&#8221;
Not everything Jones said went over well with the conservative audience, however. He even drew some boos when he said, &#8220;undocumented immigrants right now have a lower crime rate than the rest of us.&#8221;
Jones worked closely with White House aide Jared Kushner and the Trump administration to get the First Step Act passed through Congress.
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Left-wing CNN analyst Van Jones: &#8220;Here&#8217;s the deal: the conservative movement in this country&#8230;is now the leader on this issue of [criminal justice] reform&#8221;
&#8220;Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bOCQbfRt25">pic.twitter.com/bOCQbfRt25</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1101221662777700352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Van Jones: Conservatives Are Leaders On Criminal Justice Reform

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Crime

Van Jones

On Saturday, during a panel discussion on the right to life and human dignity at CPAC, Allie Beth Stuckey, known to many as &#8220;the Conservative Millennial,&#8221; spoke about the way in which abortion advocates arbitrarily define the moment at which a human being is worthy of &#8220;life.&#8221;
First, Stuckey talked about how much society&#8217;s attitude has changed regarding abortion:
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Let me just kind of give some perspective of where I think we are, and why it&#8217;s so important &#8212; not just for millennials like myself, but for everyone to care about this subject.
So, first track with me for a second because it&#8217;s going to seem like I&#8217;m not talking about abortion, but I am. I just saw the second &#8220;Godfather&#8221; for the first time this past week, and there&#8217;s this conversation that two main characters are having &#8212; Kay and Michael &#8212; and Kay compares her marriage to an abortion; she calls it &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;unholy.&#8221; And that just struck me because how far have we come in 45 years, not just since the movie was made, but since Roe vs. Wade, from calling an abortion &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;unholy&#8221; to calling it &#8220;reproductive freedom&#8221;? To calling it &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221;? To calling it &#8220;privacy&#8221;?
But what you and I know is that no amount of political correctness, no amount of manipulation can hide the fact that just one abortion provider is murdering over 1,000 children every single day in this country.
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She then compared the abortion lobby&#8217;s arbitrary definition of when &#8220;life&#8221; begins to genocides throughout history:
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The principle of abortion is literally why we look in disgust at Hitler&#8217;s Germany, for example. It&#8217;s the same exact principle of having a subjective standard of human worthiness, and exterminating anyone who doesn&#8217;t meet that standard. That has literally been the mark of every dictatorial and depraved regime and nation since the beginning of time. We look back at history in shame on those crimes against humanity, but why, today, do we not look in shame at where we are right now in 2018 in the United States of America &#8212; not just allowing it, but normalizing it, glorifying it, and calling it &#8220;choice&#8221;? And if you think that our absolute apathy and disregard for human dignity stops with life inside the womb, unfortunately you are wrong.
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Stuckey spoke about Peter Singer, a bioethicist and philosopher who teaches at Princeton, whose definition of &#8220;life&#8221; allows for the termination of those both inside and outside the womb:
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His argument for the moral acceptance of abortion is that the baby inside the womb &#8212; he acknowledges that it is scientifically a human being &#8212; but it does not meet the standard of personhood, and that is: rationality, autonomy, and the ability to be self-conscious. So, he says because of that, because they don&#8217;t meet the standard of that personhood, then life inside the womb doesn&#8217;t really have any rights. But, and here&#8217;s where the honesty comes in &#8212; because most pro-choicers would probably agree with that &#8212; but here&#8217;s his honesty: He says if that is our standard of human worthiness to live, then logically, we have to apply that to everyone &#8212; to life inside the womb and outside the womb.
So he is an open advocate for infanticide; he is an open advocate for terminating people with severe special needs and severe mental illness because they don&#8217;t meet that subjective standard of personhood.
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Stuckey also mentioned how far our lawmakers have fallen:
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&#8230; in January, the House passed the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, which says a doctor who is performing an abortion has to save the life of the child who survived that abortion &#8212; so, outside the womb. All but six Democrats in the House voted &#8220;No&#8221; to saving the infant. To show you where we&#8217;ve come, back in 2002, a very similar if not stricter bill passed &#8230; in both chambers by just a voice vote.
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She added that just as the termination of infants prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome is currently accepted in many countries, including the United States, it will eventually move to other disabilities:
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Most pro-choicers prefer that life is terminated inside the womb because the PR strategy for Planned Parenthood &#8212; to be openly pro-infanticide is little bit tricky &#8212; so they prefer that life be terminated inside the womb, which is why they are completely fine with places like Iceland having a 99.9% rate of terminating babies inside the womb with Down syndrome. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re okay with it happening here at a 60% rate. And if you don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s going to eventually extend to people with autism or different kinds of special needs, then you&#8217;re absolutely blind.
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Stuckey concluded by noting that &#8220;life&#8221; is the most important part of our constitutionally guaranteed rights, because without it, the others are irrelevant:
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Here&#8217;s why this matters; here&#8217;s why human dignity matters; here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important that we don&#8217;t set some subjective, arbitrary standard of human worthiness that people don&#8217;t meet. One, because we&#8217;ve already joined the ranks of North Korea and China in being one of only seven countries to allow abortion after 20 weeks, when a baby is known to flinch from the abortion needle, but also because without life, not a single one of our rights granted to us by God and guaranteed to us in the Constitution is secure. Every single one of them is at stake &#8212; and the founders knew this. That is exactly why, in the Declaration, &#8220;life&#8221; is listed before &#8220;liberty&#8221; or the &#8220;pursuit of happiness&#8221; because without life, without the protection of life, the understanding and agreement that human dignity starts in the womb, neither liberty nor the pursuit of happiness exists.
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Abortion advocates are quickly moving us toward a Nazi-style society where we eliminate people who don&#8217;t meet a subjective standard of worthiness.
Watch as <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConservMillen</a> discusses America&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CultureofDeath?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CultureofDeath</a>
More Allie at CRTV:<a href="https://t.co/WGCUpCORk8">https://t.co/WGCUpCORk8</a> <a href="https://t.co/NhLMRxSrHP">pic.twitter.com/NhLMRxSrHP</a>
&#8212; CRTV (@CRTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/CRTV/status/967869290618675200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: &#8216;The Conservative Millennial&#8217; Talks Abortion And Eugenics At CPAC

Abortion

President Trump delivered a stemwinder of a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, renewing his call for trained teachers to be armed with weapons and vowing to do more to protect America&#8217;s students.
&#8220;When we declare our schools to be gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Well-trained gun-adept teachers and coaches and people that work in those buildings who were in the Marines for 20 years &#8230; should be able to carry concealed firearms. It&#8217;s time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers.&#8221;
In a 75-minute speech that drew cheers and a standing ovation at the end, Trump said &#8220;Why do we protect our airports and banks, but not our schools? When we make schools gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger.&#8221;
On the school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead, Trump said, &#8220;There are not enough tears in the world to express our sorrow. They have suffered beyond anything I have ever witnessed.&#8221;
As he has said since the shooting, Trump called the gunman &#8220;a sick person. We had a lot of warning about him being sick. This wasn&#8217;t a surprise. So what are we doing? We want to ensure when there are warning signs, we can act, and act quickly.&#8221;
And he noted that the armed security guard at the school failed to do his job. &#8220;A teacher would have shot the hell out of him,&#8221; Trump said to cheers from the crowd.
Trump has been vocal in his desire to see changes made to protect students, offering up several proposals. But in the conservative crowd, he made sure to back the constitutional right to bear arms. &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody that loves the Second Amendment more than I do. But we really do have to strengthen up background checks. And we don&#8217;t want the mentally ill to have any form of weaponry. I really believe Congress is going to get it through this time.&#8221;
Trump also sought to reassure the conservative gathering that he still intends to push for a wall at America&#8217;s southern border. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re getting the wall.&#8221;
In a ballroom at a hotel outside Washington, D.C., Trump joked about his &#8220;bald spot,&#8221; read a poem titled &#8220;The Snake,&#8221; and even called his own prepared speech &#8220;boring.&#8221;
At one point, Trump suddenly caught his own image on a Jumbotron screen. &#8220;What a nice picture that is, look at that, I&#8217;d love to watch that guy speak, oh God,&#8221; he said as the audience began cheering. He then turned his back to the crowd &#8212; watching himself on the big screen &#8212; and pantomimed fixing his hair, primping and pressing the tops and sides.
&#8220;Ohhhhh, I try like hell to hide that bald spot, folks, I work hard at it,&#8221; he said after turning back to face the crowd. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t look bad,&#8221; he said, looking back at himself. &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re hanging in, we&#8217;re hanging in, we&#8217;re hanging in there, right? Together we are hanging in!&#8221;
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TRUMP: &#8220;I try like Hell to hide my bald spot.&#8221;
This is performance art. <a href="https://t.co/HtFQ11eRMc">pic.twitter.com/HtFQ11eRMc</a>
&#8212; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/967060054053617664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump also took aim at the media.
At one point early on, a protester rose up and shouted something. Security removed the man as the crowd shouted him down. Trump broke off in mid-sentence and waited for the disturbance to end &#8212; joking with event organizers about how the protester got in.
He then mocked the &#8220;fake news&#8221; about how they&#8217;ll cover the minor interruption.
&#8220;For the media, the fake news back there, they took very good care of them, they were very gentle, he was very obnoxious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But tomorrow the headline will be: &#8216;Protesters Disturb.&#8217; One person &#8212; doesn&#8217;t deserve a mention, doesn&#8217;t deserve a headline.&#8221;

Trump Backs 2nd Amendment In Speech To Conservatives, Vows To Build Wall

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WATCH: Shapiro&#8217;s Electrifying Speech At CPAC

Ben Shapiro

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee stepped in it big-time. A voiceover for a video on her show referred to attendees at CPAC as having &#8220;Nazi hair&#8221; while gleefully ignorant of the fact that one of the young men who was targeted was undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 brain cancer.
As the video showed various young men at CPAC, the voice-over stated, &#8220;This year, the bow ties were gone, replaced by Nazi hair, Nazi hair, Nazi hair.&#8221;
But then . . .
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When <a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> makes fun of your brother for having &#8220;Nazi hair.&#8221; He actually has stage 4 brain cancer, but whatever floats your boat. <a href="https://t.co/ULJC8nA3IX">pic.twitter.com/ULJC8nA3IX</a>
&#8212; Megan Coddington (@meg_kelly16) <a href="https://twitter.com/meg_kelly16/status/839822891961237505">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a>. Guy w/&#8221;Nazi hair&#8221; has cancer and is going through chemo, that&#8217;s why his hair looks like that. You need to apologize for this. <a href="https://t.co/mqbgNYHyaN">pic.twitter.com/mqbgNYHyaN</a>
&#8212; Kyle Foley (@KFoleyFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFoleyFL/status/839857624799674368">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Twitter account for Full Frontal later <a href="https://twitter.com/fullfrontalsamb/status/839868388704862208">deleted a tweet</a> with the clip of Bee&#8217;s gigantic faux pas, but here&#8217;s the video:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB">@FullFrontalSamB</a> deleted their video. So here it is again: <a href="https://t.co/pH4G2wbv9J">pic.twitter.com/pH4G2wbv9J</a>
&#8212; Stephen N. Perkins (@Stephen_Perkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stephen_Perkins/status/839885670403428357">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Bee later offered a quasi-apology:
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We deeply apologize for offending <a href="https://twitter.com/_that_kyle">@_that_kyle</a> in our CPAC segment. We only learned of his condition today &amp; have removed him from the piece.
&#8212; Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/839894761708404741">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Which was not universally accepted:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> apologizing for offending him is shit, however. Way to still be an assclown.
&#8212; Kyle Foley (@KFoleyFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFoleyFL/status/839895558391222274">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Bee once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfpGdk3HgQ">stated</a>, &#8220;You know how people are always like, &#8216;I wonder why there aren&#8217;t more female comedians?&#8217; Maybe it&#8217;s because every time a woman opens her mouth to tell a joke, someone tries to put their d*** in it.&#8221;
This time it was her own foot.

Samantha Bee Deletes Video Saying Stage 4 Brain Cancer Patient Has &#8216;Nazi Hair&#8217;

Samantha Bee

President Donald Trump spoke at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to an enthused crowd, his speech featured a lot of the usual Trumpian themes that people have come to expect from him. Here are the five biggest moments from his CPAC speech.
1. Trump doubled down on his tweet calling the media &#8220;the enemy of the people&#8221; while calling for an end to anonymous sources. &#8220;A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And they are. They are the enemy of the people.&#8221;
Trump justified his statement by smacking the media for not having reliable &#8220;sources, they just make &#8217;em up when there are none.&#8221;
&#8220;I saw one story recently where they said, &#8216;Nine people have confirmed,'&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There&#8217;re no nine people. I don&#8217;t believe there was one or two people. Nine people. And I said, &#8216;Give me a break.&#8217; Because I know the people, I know who they talk to. There were no nine people.&#8221;
Trump was referring to the Washington Post&#8216;s report that stirred controversy about former national security advisor Mike Flynn&#8217;s exchanges with the Russian ambassador. The Washington Post <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321009-washington-post-editor-stands-by-flynn-story-amid-trumps-fake-news">stood by their report</a> after Trump&#8217;s speech.
Later on, Trump declared, &#8220;Let there be no more sources,&#8221; a statement that at face value seems crazy because each article needs sources, but Trump eventually said, &#8220;And they shouldn&#8217;t use sources. They should put the name of the person. You will see stories dry up like you&#8217;ve never seen before.&#8221; Trump was conflating &#8220;sources&#8221; with anonymous sources.
He also called CNN the &#8220;Clinton News Network,&#8221; which naturally drew applause.
2. Trump praised Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on trade&#8211;and the crowd applauded. &#8220;A lot of Bernie people voted for Trump, you know why?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Because he&#8217;s right on one issue; trade. He was right about trade. Our country is being absolutely devastated with bad trade deals. So he was right about that, but we got a lot of Bernie support. So actually, I like Bernie. OK? I like Bernie.&#8221;
The crowd applauded for this position that is blatantly out of line with conservative values.
3. Trump signaled that he intends to bring people &#8220;off of welfare.&#8221; Trump stated his intentions for &#8220;tax reform&#8221; and that while some regulation was necessary, &#8220;we don&#8217;t need 75 percent of the repetitive, horrible regulations that hurt companies, hurt jobs, make us non-competitive overseas with other companies from other countries.&#8221;
After saying that there were already examples of major companies expanding in the country, Trump declared, &#8220;It&#8217;s time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work.&#8221;
He didn&#8217;t expand on this, so it&#8217;s unclear if he was signaling support for welfare reform or if he simply thought that tax cuts and repealing regulations would be enough to bring people off welfare. Regardless, his line received applause.
4. Trump said that he has proposed a large military build-up. Trump stated that his administration has sent in &#8220;a massive budget request for our beloved military&#8221; that will result in &#8220;substantially upgrading all of our military.&#8221;
&#8220;It will be one of the greatest military build-ups in American history,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;No one will dare question as they have been because we&#8217;re very depleted, very, very depleted. Sequester. Sequester. Nobody will dare question our military might again. We believe in peace through strength and that&#8217;s what we will have.&#8221;
5. Towards the end of his speech, Trump made clear that &#8220;allegiance to America&#8221; is what &#8220;unites us all.&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;America, it&#8217;s the allegiance to America.&#8221;
Trump continued:
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No matter our background or income, or geography, we&#8217;re all citizens of this blessed land. And no matter our color or the blood &#8212; the color of the blood we bleed, it&#8217;s the same red blood of great, great patriots. Remember, great patriots.
(APPLAUSE)
We all salute with pride, the same American flag, and we all are equal &#8212; totally equal in the eyes of almighty God, we&#8217;re equal.
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<a href="http://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/">Quotes from the speech were provided by a transcript from Time.</a>
(<a href="http://therightscoop.com/watch-heres-trumps-full-speech-from-cpac-2017/">H/T</a>: The Right Scoop)
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5 Biggest Moments From Trump&#8217;s CPAC Speech

&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion&#8230; and I&#8217;m neither anti-male nor pro-abortion,&#8221; said White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway during a CPAC interview on Thursday with Mercedes Schlapp.

Conway described her upbringing as being somewhat apolitical, in which the term &#8220;feminism&#8221; never arose despite her being raised by what she said were strong and independent women:

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&#8220;I was raised in a house, I call it South Jersey&#8217;s version of the Golden Girls, with the housecoats and everything &#8211; nobody ever had a single political conversation, by my mom, her mom, two of my mother&#8217;s unmarried sisters&#8230; but I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word &#8216;feminist&#8217; or having a political conversation. We were just, we taught to be free-thinking [and] independent.&#8221;
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Conway described what she said was a &#8220;natural affinity&#8221; of President Donald Trump to work with and promote women to senior positions in the Trump Organization.

On the Democrats&#8217; and broader left&#8217;s attempt to frame women as a monolithic political constituency, Conway spoke of the failures of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s deployment of feminism as a political narrative: &#8220;I thought it was very telling this year&#8230; that many women looked past he commonality of gender and were looking for what they shared in terms of issues, ideology, vision, and just what they want out of their futures for themselves.&#8221;

Feminism is a neo-Marxist sociological paradigm predicated on the false premise that women have been oppressed by and relative to men across human history. It frames men and women as separate political constituencies (ignoring the ubiquitous institution of family) competing against one another in a zero-sum struggle for political power. It further frames women as a generalized cohort of victims oppressed by men.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD &#8211; FEBRUARY 23: White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (L) is interviewed by Mercedes Schlapp during the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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YUP: Conway Says Feminism &#8216;Seems&#8230; Anti-Male&#8217; And &#8216;Very Pro-Abortion&#8217;

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Kellyanne Conway

&#8203;Now before you say anything, I know this is a little out of character for me. But I plead the Fifth! Steve Green, the Vodkapundit, put a fifth of scotch into me and there is a deadline to fill so here we are, my friends.
Hanging around with Steve Green is an amazing experience. He has the constitution of a yak. Steve Green cannot die until the EPA can find a safe place to bury his liver. They dip surgical instruments in his blood to sterilize them.
I met Steve and Scott Ott back in CPAC 2009. This would have been a month after that communist swine Obama was elected. Yeah, you heard me. CPAC in 2009 was like a funeral viewing, only not so cheerful or peppy.
Today was very different. People are smiling. It rained in California again. The drought is over. Hooray!
That said, while the mood is better, it seems to me that there is nothing like the crackle and energy of that first CPAC of mine. I&#8217;d been an admirer of Steve&#8217;s work at Vodkapundit, as well as Scott Ott&#8217;s satire at Scrappleface. They were fans of my essays at Eject! Eject! Eject! Of course, we were not the glamorous, magnificently paid internationally known celebrities we are today. Just simple bloggers pounding away on the internet because we felt, in those post 9/11 years when we all started, that we had to do something for America&#8230; even if it was only blogging, for God&#8217;s sake. 
Steve, Scott and I met for the first time in the lobby of the hotel. We went across the street to a very cold booth, had breakfast, and a half-hour later we had the idea for Trifecta, which became Right Angle. We have done something like five thousand episodes since then.
One evening in CPAC 2009, I got a call from a loose acquaintance of mine named Andrew Breitbart. He asked me if I wanted to go to dinner with Ann Coulter. I said &#8220;boy howdy!&#8221;
We went to an expensive restaurant in DC. The night was historic, really: it was the last time in recorded history when Your&#8217;s Truly shut up for a while and listened to these two people; titans, really, which was remarkable since all of us, Steve and Scott and I especially, seemed to be just regular shmoes called to try to do something about the fate of the country we all loved, and continue to love.
Even then, going to a restaurant with Ann Coulter was a unique experience. I have been around a few famous people before, and I know what it looks like when someone is staring at a person, trying to be sure if they were famous or not. I saw that with Ann, but I also saw real anger at her and after hearing some of her personal stories I simply marveled at her physical and moral courage.
Back then, politics on the internet was new and we all felt a sense of electrical excitement in the air: we regular guys &#8211; sad, isn&#8217;t it? &#8211; were going to have to stand up and do what the immortals had done before us: get out there and defend the country in this new war of images and ideas.
It&#8217;s been almost five years since Andrew died of a heart attack. Steve and Scott and I still have the passion to do four or five shows a week for eight years without missing a single week. CPAC 2017 is filled with bright-eyed young people who are now, suddenly, not just the campus weirdos but the ones speaking for a party that has won the Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and at least one &#8211; if not two or three &#8211; Supreme Court picks. So things are better but not as exciting. Maybe we too felt the romance of being in opposition to the most powerful forces on the earth. And what was a passion remains a passion, but now it is a business as well, and we owe our livelihoods to our ability to convince people like you that while TV is free, and the internet is free, we need to get you to pay for TV on the internet. We all know that this is the future of news, but it takes a while for the dust to settle from the asteroid impact that wiped out the Mainstream Media dinosaurs.
What has not changed, however, is the most important thing of all. To actually meet our audience; to hear people tell you that you have helped to change their lives&#8230; that has the same, undiluted effect today as it did when we started the game in earnest in 2009. You people are so kind, so sensible and so fundamentally honorable that it has forced all three of us to become better people in order to rise to your standards. You have, through the rigors of a fire assay, forced us as individuals and as a movement to find the gold within ourselves and to present that gleam in the service of the idea of what America is, and for that we are genuinely and eternally grateful.

Drunkblogging CPAC – Day One

Conservatism

Republican Party

On Friday, Mark Levin spoke at CPAC, eloquently defending conservatism and fiercely denouncing the threat of Donald Trump. Although he did not mention Trump by name, Levin left little doubt as to whom he referred.
After recounting the history of Ronald Reagan, citing his determination in confronting the establishment and resulting in two massive electoral victories in 1980 and 1984, Levin stated, &#8220;Reagan was a full-throated conservative. He was a full-throated, anti-establishment conservative.&#8221;
Levin explained:
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Reagan was not a cult-like figure, to which anyone could project their beliefs upon him; he was a man of strong ideas. He was agenda-driven. There was no confusion about where he stood on matters of faith, national security, domestic affairs, and other areas of life. There was no confusion about whom he blamed for most of the problems in society: big centralized government. He used to refer to it as &#8220;The Iron Triangle.&#8221; The Iron Triangle of Congress, the media, special interests. And it was Reagan who first coined the phrase: &#8220;We will make America great again.&#8221;
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Levin then referenced Trump, saying of Reagan: &#8220;Reagan was not a recent convert to conservatism; he was a long-time advocate for it,&#8221; a line which elicited huge applause.
Levin continued:
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Reagan was not elected because he was a great dealmaker; he was elected because he had solid principles.
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&#8230; After Reagan left the presidency, having laid the foundation upon which future Republican presidents could build and expand on his success, the Republican establishment resorted to its old ways. They called the return to big centralized government, &#8220;kinder and gentler.&#8221; Later, they called it compassionate conservatism. Today they call it &#8220;common sense conservatism.&#8221; Well, conservatism is already kinder and gentler, it&#8217;s already compassionate, and it&#8217;s already common sense all wrapped in one. There is nothing to apologize for.
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&#8230; Nor is conservatism about nationalism or populism, phrases that have no concrete meaning or constitutional basis &#8230;
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Levin continued by noting the enormous success of the Tea Party, from winning massive numbers of seats in the House to taking control of the Senate, to winning governorships and state legislatures. He exhorted, &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me the conservative movement can&#8217;t win elections and doesn&#8217;t have power!&#8221;
He ripped the GOP establishment, stating, &#8220;But at the federal level, the Republican Party, now in complete control of both houses of Congress, refused to truly engage Barack Obama, the most reckless, lawless, imperial president in modern if not all American history.&#8221;
After listing the incredible number of ways Barack Obama has perverted the presidency, Levin asserted, &#8220;We conservatives are in the best position in three decades to win back the presidency in a landslide. That is, only if we do something we have not done since 1984, thirty-two long years ago: nominate a true, known, solid unapologetic conservative for the presidency of the United States.
Levin returned to Trump:
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&#8230; Let me be clear: it is not enough to win the nomination by personally beating down your opponents, with such vulgar ruthlessness, espousing conflicting or ever-changing beliefs, trashing the establishment one day yet bragging about working with them the next. That is playing both insider and outsider; and then expect these disparate parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, having been exploited and turned against each other, to suddenly rally to your cause.
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As he closed, Levin warned, &#8220;If we want to make America great again, as Reagan first said, you, must get behind the most conservative candidate in this race.&#8221;
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&#8220;It is not enough to win the nomination by personally beating down your opponents, with such vulgar ruthlessness, espousing conflicting or ever-changing beliefs, trashing the establishment one day yet bragging about working with them the next.&#8221;
Mark Levin
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Levin began his conclusion with the famous Reagan quote: &#8220;You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We&#8217;ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children&#8217;s children say of us, we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.&#8221;
Levin concluded: &#8220;Fellow conservatives, let us justify our brief moment here, and do all that can be done. God bless you all and God bless America.&#8221;

Mark Levin&#8217;s Eloquent CPAC Speech

Mark Levin

Ronald Reagan

Donald Trump, whose efforts at painting himself as a strong conservative were seriously damaged last night in the GOP debate, has shown his contempt for conservatives, canceling his appearance at one of the most important conservative events in the nation.
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Very disappointed <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> has decided at the last minute to drop out of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC?src=hash">#CPAC</a> &#8212; his choice sends a clear message to conservatives.
&#8212; CPAC (@CPAC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CPAC/status/705801139388817408">March 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Trump was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/politics/donald-trump-skipping-cpac/index.html">scheduled to appear</a> on Saturday, but instead, his campaign released a statement asserting Trump would attend rallies in Kansas and Florida. The statement added, &#8220;Because of this, he will not be able to speak at CPAC as he has done for many consecutive years. Mr. Trump would like to thank Matt Schlapp and all of the executives at CPAC and looks forward to returning to next year, hopefully as president of the United States.&#8221;
The American Conservative Union, the conference&#8217;s organizers, stated, &#8220;We are very disappointed Donald Trump has decided at the last minute to drop out of CPAC. This comes at a critical time in our movement&#8217;s history. His decision sends a clear message to grassroots conservatives &#8230; CPAC is the heart and soul of the conservative movement and will be, with or without Mr. Trump. Since we invited him several months ago&#8212;and Mr. Trump accepted our invitation and terms &#8212;we made it clear all candidates would follow the same format. And now he is backing out.&#8221;
Trump is likely worried about his candidacy for the first time, after he was eviscerated in Thursday&#8217;s debate by his nearest rival, Ted Cruz. Cruz won virtually unanimous rave reviews for his performance while Trump waffled on numerous issues, backtracked on his hard-line immigration stance, bragged about his penis, and insisted that as president, he would order American soldiers to break the law by murdering families of terrorists.
For all of Trump&#8217;s braggadocio and self-declared toughness, he has a hard time when he is in a hostile environment; the likely possibility is that after Thursday&#8217;s debate, conservatives would have some tough questions for him, and would not be satisfied by the usual platitudes and inaccuracies Trump offers with abandon.
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The likely possibility is that after Thursday&#8217;s debate, conservatives would have some tough questions for him, and would not be satisfied by the usual platitudes and inaccuracies Trump offers with abandon.

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The most <a href="http://therightscoop.com/breathe-donald-breathe-ted-cruz-shuts-up-trump-marco-makes-yoga-jokes-gopdebate/">hilarious moment</a> of Thursday&#8217;s debate came when Cruz told Trump to &#8220;breathe, breathe, breathe.&#8221; 
Apparently Trump&#8217;s idea of taking a breath includes ducking hard questions until he can catch his breath again.

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