Has anyone on TV bothered to note what's wrong with the Southern Republican Leadership Conference?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference is not some ancient thing. For purposes of this observation, the question is does the Southern Republican Leadership Conference post-date 1957? I am guessing yes. (I think their first straw poll winner was Reagan. And 'southern republican' was an oxymoron until well after 1957.)

On February 14, 1957 Dr. Martin Luther King and other pro civil rights clergy joined to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the stated mission "to redeem the soul of America."

It was a storied organization throughout the history of the Civil Rights movement.

And this RW con-fab that the news breathlessly covers ever four years is, near as I can tell, named as some sort of intentional parody of/play on/disrespect of the SCLC.

It is as if the Republicans started a political action committee called the National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People.

But few would even note such a thing because a certain level of low imitation and recreational racial insult is simply expected of Republicans. Expected and accepted.

(Unlike the SRLC, I doubt Doctor King's SCLC was sponsored by Chevron: http://www.srlc2010.com/sponsor/ )

http://www.sclcnational.org/

http://www.srlc2010.com/

[Ozymanithrax]

1. In February 1986, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, New Orleans

was selected as the site of the 1988 Southern Republican Leadership Conference. I can't find an earlier mention of it.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. They say Reagan won a straw poll there which would push it back some, but not a lot... or...

Or perhaps they are so stupid that they didn't realize in 1986 that Reagan couldn't run again.

I put nothing past them!

[xxqqqzme]

4. it is a distinct possibility. Was looking at

the '06 straw poll and W placed 4th w/ 10% of the vote - frist was the winner w/ 36.9%.

[xxqqqzme]

3. I certain someone here will know.

I find it curious that even their website makes no mention of it. No numbered SRLC (3rd/5th) anywhere.