Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush joined forces with the coal industry and climate deniers in a gathering conservative backlash against the pope, lashing out against a leaked draft of the spiritual leader's letter on climate change.
But the film's release in 1977 meant it got caught up in the all-consuming slipstream of the previous year's bicentennial celebrations (that great post-Vietnam/Watergate national-recovery rite), and then borne forward on a gathering conservative backlash.
In his remarks to the annual gathering of conservatives in Washington, Mr. Rubio hit many of the themes energizing conservative Republicans these days and he invoked his own Cuban-American heritage as he extolled the promise of America and how it is threatened by President Obama.
"I love the gathering of conservatives and tea parties from all across the nation and the world".
His most serious effort yet at campaigning was done mainly at a distance from crowds — a speech in February at CPAC, a gathering of conservatives in Washington.
The conference, which is sponsored by the American Conservative Union, is the largest annual gathering of conservatives, a political festival intended to lay out battle themes.
WASHINGTON, May 7 — Rudolph W. Giuliani told a gathering of conservatives Monday that his campaign could be boiled down to two major themes: national security and economic security.
The resulting uproar led Trump to be banned from a major gathering of conservatives and sparked the biggest crisis of his campaign up to that point.
"The guys who've been up here the last year, we can go home and say, 'Listen, we voted 36 different times to repeal or replace Obamacare,' " said Representative Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina at a gathering of conservatives recently.
At a gathering of conservatives in Washington, he received thunderous applause for his forceful stump speech while his chief of staff declared on television that the campaign would no longer answer questions about the matter.
