It’s a shame that conservatives need a national meeting. All this business should be a state issue where locals can police the enforcement of government activities without destroying our entire culture.
With due respect, I find this a very odd sentiment on several levels. First, who said anything about "need" - Thank God as a liberty loving conservative, I can do a lot of things I don't "need" to do. I don't go to CPAC because I "need" to go, I go because I want to go - and it's a phenomenal networking opportunity among other things. Moreover, there are a lot of conservative meetings on local government issues. The two notions are not mutually exclusive. And third, we are where we are now - which is that the Federal Government in Washington is a bigger threat to us than any lower level of government. I'm sensing a bad day here....