re: #27 Bubblehead II

“As far as the politicians go isn’t it sort of incumbent upon them to show up at conferences and events even if they don’t endorse all of their views?”

Nope. They should do as Charles did with the anti-terror meeting. Refuse to attend due to the nature of some of those also attending, while at the same time shining the large bright spot light of truth upon them.

In fact, a public statement of non-attendance, with a clear and coherent reason explaining why he/she is not attending, would be certain to garner media attention and may even be more beneficial from a public-exposure standpoint than attending the convention and pandering to the base.