Interesting take. As a contributor to Breitbart, American Thinker, Newsmax TV and Talk Radio Network - I was able to again secure media credentials. But it was slow in coming. I filed 6 or 7 reports from CPAC - so it was legit.
Another cost factor is just Washington itself. The rooms are God awful expensive, even with CPAC rate - there are like 7 taxes on top of that - and of course food and beverage everywhere inside the guilded area are sky high.
And yes, the straw poll is totally irrelevant for first place, because the Paul Bots will bomb it. But second and third - among real CPAC type attendees - is somewhat significant.
Hold on a minute... how does that render anything irrelevant?
Where are everybody else's bots? How on earth can you complain that a poll is "unfair" because one guy gets more votes than anybody else?
Maybe the fact that a guy can routinely win the CPAC straw poll is significant.
I don’t understand the point. Were media credentials slow in coming so the media wasn’t sure if they should spend the money to show up to CPAC?
As a hated-too-conservative out here in flyover country, CPAC seems to me as elite and insider as the regular Republican Party. I mean, the “grass roots” are Christians with traditional values so any event that wants to exclude them is more like the elites than the America that was once great.
This year, CPAC didn’t even seem interesting because . . . well, they hate everything I love.