Shamefully very little attention to National Security at CPAC

Update February 23rd:  See also Richard Falknor’s (Blue Ridge Forum) take on the conference here.   And, Mark Krikorian (Center for Immigration Studies) addresses the issue here at National Review Online.

Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy has a good column today in which he questions how the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference in Washington last week (the one where Glenn Beck gave the closing speech) could have planned an agenda during a time of war without discussing the threat of Islamic Supremacism more thoroughly. 

Read Gaffney’s provacative piece.  There was however an important session not officially part of CPAC that did address the issue and my blog partner, Judy, at Refugee Resettlement Watch attended and wrote this.

The Tea Party conservatives I know consider national security right up there with fiscal concerns and immigration as core principles driving the movement.    That is why it is so puzzling that Freedom Works and other inside-the-beltway Republicans (CPAC organizers) don’t have either of those two issues in the draft Contract From America which appears to be all about fiscal concerns.   Let’s see could a Contract From America plank called “let us save ” (I am not kidding that is one of 20 you may choose from) be more important than say Jihadists coming across our borders? Just asking!