The John Birch Society was one of the nastier right-wing groups of the 1950s and 1960s. It was famous for parading around with signs reading “Impeach Earl Warren” and seeing Communists under every bush. After it accused President Eisenhower of deliberately aiding a worldwide Communist conspiracy even William F. Buckley got fed up with them and disavowed them as members of his conservative movement. They were a pretty unsavory bunch.
Why do I bring them up? They’re back. Yep, ladies and gentlemen, they are cosponsoring the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in February.
Not that CPAC members listen to me, but I’d remind them “if you lie down with dogs you’ll wake up with fleas.”