Frank Gaffney, a controversial Washington figure who as president of the Center for Security Policy helped organise the conference, pulled fewer punches.
“[Muslim] doctors, civil engineers, and scientists have a capacity to prove very problematic if they embrace this jihadist doctrine of Sharia,” he warned, in a lengthy speech on how the US was being infiltrated by “civilisational jihad”.
Above all, it was Clinton and President Barack Obama who posed the biggest threat, the speakers agreed.
“[Obama] appeases our enemies and uses funny language to describe them,” said Santorum. Repeating a line from an appearance at a similar “summit” in South Carolina last weekend, he added: “We have a president that has abandoned ship on realism. Let me give him a little primer. Iran: enemy. Israel: friend.”
“It is not optional for us to win this next election,” concluded Jindal. “We must beat Hillary Clinton, not for the sake of the Republican party, not even for the sake of the conservative movement, but for the sake of the greatest country in the history of the world: the United States of America.”
