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CPAC 2023 Was Not Well Attended - Here's Why Conservatives Are Leaving This Conference in the Dust
Red State ^ | 03/05/2023 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Posted on 03/05/2023 8:23:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I’d put money next year has lights out attendance. It will be a major spot for the primary field right before the big primaries. Cpac does have its challenges right now. They have fully embraced Trump (no issues with that. He’s the party standard bearer). With that, it hurt this years event because no one else running wanted to go in and play second fiddle. No political benefit.


21 posted on 03/05/2023 9:24:21 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The CPAC speech given by Donald Trump was the best one yet. It was just refreshing to hear him express how many of us feel about the sell out of America by unelected traitorous forces behind the scenes. He also looked great physically, trimmed down some, and energy to spare.Among other things, Trump is able to campaign at full speed and has not lost his quick wit or sense of humor. God bless and protect Donald Trump as he works to restore our Republic.


22 posted on 03/05/2023 9:27:14 PM PST by mountainfolk
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To: vivenne

In your dreams....


23 posted on 03/05/2023 9:33:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Paladin2

The attempt to neutralize/demonize Schlapp will fail!


24 posted on 03/05/2023 9:41:05 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: mountainfolk

Well said!


25 posted on 03/05/2023 9:43:55 PM PST by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was at CPAC Texas in August 2022. It was well attended and this conference in DC came too close for me to be interested. I feel they may have one this summer so why travel to the swamp?


26 posted on 03/05/2023 11:22:55 PM PST by lone star annie ( )
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To: lone star annie

Don’t know what she’s talking about. The event was sold out!


27 posted on 03/05/2023 11:51:05 PM PST by lone star annie ( )
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To: Paladin2
"I find Matt Schlapp to be a snake oil salesman." I frequently see Matt doing interviews on Newsmax and Fox News. He is really a down to earth fellow. Being the leader of the American Conservative Union, he sometimes has to put on his showman hat. For him, that is something he is not used to. It does not look authentic. He would rather be in his office talking to people on the phone. When he is talking to people that way, I'm sure he is authentic.
28 posted on 03/06/2023 12:14:13 AM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind
After decades of watching and participating in conservative and libertarian events, I've come to realize there are many grifters and hucksters in these movements.

Too many leaders and guests are more interested in profiting off the movement, hawking their books, TV and radio shows, websites and podcasts.

I read that Dennis Prager's son heads up Prager U, and earns $150,000 a year doing it. Fighting the left has been very lucrative for the Pragers.

29 posted on 03/06/2023 12:26:10 AM PST by Angelino97
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After decades of watching and participating in conservative and libertarian events, I've come to realize there are many grifters and hucksters in these movements.

This has always been true.....which is why I laugh at the stupidity and childishness of those who wish to start their own political party and think it will remain "pure". <

The Tea Party movement, the Gingrich Revolution, the Reagan Revolution and MAGA have taught us that when something is popular, it attracts non-believers who see it as a vessel to carry them to power and wealth.

30 posted on 03/06/2023 2:57:46 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Make America Florida)
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To: vivenne

CPAC had Trump who is not conservative.
Club for Growth had DeSantis, who is conservative.


31 posted on 03/06/2023 2:58:38 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Make America Florida)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought Flynn is a LTG, not a LTC.


32 posted on 03/06/2023 3:34:46 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

More splintering of the Republican Party?
Or more splintering of the conservative movement inside the Republican Party?
I think it is both.


33 posted on 03/06/2023 3:35:02 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: SeekAndFind

As long as Trump uses it to announce the fresh hell of building nearly a million acres of new “freedom” (read: globalist) cities on open federal land and funding the reconstruction of major swaths of our existing cities, CPAC itself will be a dystopia.

So much for deporting illegals, we’re clearly all in on bringing in the UN’s projected hundreds of millions of “climate displaced” new immigrants!


34 posted on 03/06/2023 3:46:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Just shows who’s a conservative and who’s not.


35 posted on 03/06/2023 3:58:02 AM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: SeekAndFind

CPAC, in the winter, in the butt crack of USA isn’t my thing. It was a smart move to hold it in a warmer place.


36 posted on 03/06/2023 4:18:16 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m waiting for the “Effective Ways Republicans Can Cheat To Victory” conference. That’s the only way we will win.


37 posted on 03/06/2023 4:23:33 AM PST by Baldwin77 (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus)
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To: SeekAndFind

It looked like a packed house to me...


38 posted on 03/06/2023 4:26:54 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.q at)
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To: SeekAndFind

The reality is that the GOP died by firing squad. A circular firing squad. Not a one of the people running can save the disaster that is America at this point.


39 posted on 03/06/2023 4:28:03 AM PST by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

There were lots of open seats throughout the conference.


40 posted on 03/06/2023 4:29:09 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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