WASHINGTON — It didn't take long for the first
ideological fight to break out over this year's Conservative Political
Action Conference, an eclectic annual gathering of activists, officials
and luminaries on the political right.
In fact, it happened Monday night — three days before Thursday's opening gavel.
Jonah Goldberg, a National Review senior
editor and leading light of the conservative intelligentsia, took issue
with Matt Schlapp, chairman of the CPAC-hosting American Conservative
Union, over a lineup of speakers — including Marion Le Pen, the niece of
French National Front Party chief Marine Le Pen — who figure to lavish
adoring praise and little criticism on President Donald Trump.
Schlapp fired back on Twitter in personal terms: "Hey Jonah our
biggest coup was getting your wife to join mine on the trump train. Choo
choo."
In theory, the two should be on the same side:
A pair of telegenic, thoughtful, successful-in-Washington conservatives
whose wives, Deputy White House Communications Director Mercedes
Schlapp, and Jessica Gavora, a speechwriter for U.N. Ambassador Nikki
Haley, work for the same president.
But not in the Trump era — and especially not when CPAC comes to town.
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Source: NBC News
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