Sarah Posner

In a post at HuffPo, Tony Campolo, the minister and “Red Letter Christian” who served on the platform committee for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, claims that on the eve of the election, to quell evangelical anxiety, Obama promised that he would not reverse the Bush-era rule permitting recipients of federal faith-based funds to discriminate […]

I just escaped from a CPAC panel featuring activists who have achieved “conservative victories” at the grassroots. Most of them were college students who beat back all those terrible autocratic liberal policies at their universities that “silence” conservatives. “Liberals are successful at making people who are marginalized hurt,” sniffed one presenter, referring to conservatives as […]

In his CPAC speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that conservatives are more “interesting” and “fun” than liberals. Here’s his proof: “who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?” –Sarah Posner

Mike Huckabee stole the show today, as thousands of CPAC attendees, many of them college students, crammed the big ballroom to hear him talk about why John McCain lost the election the future of the conservative movement. Huckabee spared no criticism of the candidate he stumped for — even lamenting, at one point, that he […]

The recurring theme here at CPAC is that President Obama is the scariest thing to ever to happen to America. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are terrible in their own way, but Obama has exotic magical powers to pass legislation that hasn’t been introduced, use the government to steal our money, ban Rush Limbaugh from […]

Paul Ryan, the Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, was introduced this morning by the Heritage Foundation’s Ed Feulner as the “future of the conservative movement,” and Ryan rose to the occasion, I suppose, startling me back to the Reagan era, when communism was presented as the greatest threat to America’s promise. Now, it’s “European-style socialism,” a […]

I’m here at the Conservative Political Action Conference today, hoping to bring you some live-blogging from the year’s most important gathering for charting the future of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. But, like last year, the wi-fi is spotty to nonexistent, but I’ll my best try to bring you as much of the […]

At his U.S. News and World Report blog, Dan Gilgoff breaks a story about how President Obama’s public rallies, like the ones he held recently in Elkhart, Indiana, and Fort Myers, Florida, to sell his stimulus plan, have opened with a prayer vetted by the White House. Gilgoff writes that the administration “may have skirted […]