"Mount Vernon To Right Wingers: You're Not Welcome Here"

[Clio the Leo]

Here was the plan....

Activtsts To Sign Mt. Vernon Statement: Conservative Manifesto

Conservative leaders gathering in Virginia Wednesday will sign on to a broad statement of principle aimed at giving a coherent framework to the grass-roots energy roiling the right.

"The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant," reads a portion of the statement provided to POLITICO by its organizers. "Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the new. But where would this lead — forward or backward, up or down? Isn't this idea of change an empty promise or even a dangerous deception?

"The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles," says the statement, which seeks to define those principles as "constitutional conservatism."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33009.html

Mount Vernon To Right Wingers: You're Not Welcome Here
Ben Frumin | February 17, 2010, 12:35PM

A lot's been made of the conservative signing later today of "The Mount Vernon Statement" -- the right's "restatement of Constitutional conservatism."

But it turns out that not only is today's signing taking place several miles away from the actual Mount Vernon -- 4.4 miles by car, by our count -- but conservatives asked to sign their declaration at the real Mount Vernon, and were denied.

Melissa Wood, media relations manager for Mount Vernon, tells us that the conservative group "did make a formal request to use Mount Vernon for this announcement. The request by the Mount Vernon Statement group was denied due to Mount Vernon's events policy."

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An exception, Wood noted, has been made in the past for presidents. Former President George W. Bush, for instance, was welcomed at Mount Vernon.

"For the president, we feel that George Washington would have hosted them here," Wood said.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/mount-vernon-to-right-wingers-youre-not-welcome-here.php?ref=fpblg

(for the record "capped" is not a call to violence ... it's a metaphor. Capped as in "wouldn't let you perform your triflin' racist BS at his house.")

[Ganja Ninja]

1. I guess they didn't want old George to spin in his grave. n/t

[Jennicut]

2. Wasn't George Washington a Freemason? Don't these conservatives types hate

FreeMasons? I doubt GW would have anything in common with these tools of modern conservatism.

[Clio the Leo]

3. ah, good point, hadn't though to that. NT

[Jennicut]

4. Freemasons use the signs of the devil! They allow more then one religion to be worshipped!

Ahhhh!!!! I bet they would piss off old George.

[Ter]

7. Washington would be a Ron Paul type if he we alive

Certainly not a conservative or a Democrat.

[Cha]

5. The gopers always have their little tricks..all lies and no action.

But, it always seems to backfire..why is that?

Answer: Arrogant pricks are their own worst enemy.

[loudsue]

6. This country was founded on absolute rebellion...NOT "constitutional conservatism".

Conservative means to conserve....to keep...the status quo. This country was founded on absolute REBELLION from the tried & true, the "conservatism" of the day. It was the CONSERVATIVES that wanted to stay with England, and in fact, fought against those who wanted to form our own government.


They are absolutely full of shit. This country was NOT founded on conservatism.

[roguevalley]

8. the word for conservatives in those days was TORIE. But then, they

claim Tom Paine speaks for them so they are full of it. as usual.

[lynne]

9. Looks like Mt. Vernon doesn't welcome anyone with regard to politics -

- based on their events rules as they don't host any political or personal events.