While I have briefly touched on the CPAC kerfluffle (Liberty University's Matt Barber and the boycott of CPAC over a gay conservative group being a co-sponsor), I really didn't get into the specifics -- especially about the gay conservative group, GOProud.

However, for those who are interested, John Hawkins' interview with GOProud's founder Christopher Barron is well worth reading. I had not known, for example, that GOProud was started as a breakaway group from the Log Cabin Republicans who believed Log Cabin did not represent gay conservatives. But what's particularly worth noting (especially for paranoid types like me who worry about "gay conservative" becoming an oxymoron via collusion) is that contrary to what the left would have people believe, conservatives have been overwhelmingly supportive of GOProud:

HAWKINS: Now from what I've seen in the blogosphere, conservative bloggers have been almost universally supportive of GOProud, not Liberty University. What do you think the general reaction has been to the whole controversy?

BARRON: Well, that's one of the most under reported stories. The liberal media wants you to believe that conservatives hate gay people. So, the only thing you ever hear about this in the mainstream media or on a left wing blog is about the controversy itself and about Liberty University pulling out. What hasn't been covered has been the tremendous outpouring of support that we've gotten from conservative organizations and from conservatives in the blogosphere.

If there's one thing I've learned in nearly seven years of blogging, it's that noting the dishonesty of such tactics has not made them stop. Of course, I guess if William F. Buckley could stand the task of standing athwart history yelling Stop! for so many decades, then I should be able to stand athwart activists yelling Stop!

Their dishonest tactics might not stop, but because collusion involves stealth, the more people know about it, the harder the game becomes.