CPAC (and ACU) have largely gravitated into RINOism as of the last coulpe years (when I attended the had both the ACLU and “Log Cabin GOP” in attendance with a booth..) YOu would call them conservative??
I'm so pissed-off by the Rino'ism of the last seven years, that I really would rather have Hillary Clinton in the White House than another pretender to the mantle of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. Better to have the enemy out front and in the open than beside us or behind us, (yet again), selling us out at every turn.
I kind of agree with you, afterall I am so sick of (corporatism)-globalism masquerading as “conservatism” and then selling us out when it is convenient and fits their agenda rather than following the true “conservative” ideals/principles..