Isn’t McCain and Mitt-Witt also speaking?
You're joking, right? My husband and I have attended CPAC for the past 7 years. Despite the misinformation garbage about CPAC you've seen here on FR (mostly from FReepers who have never attended CPAC), CPAC is overwhelmingly a gathering of CONSERVATIVES.
Back during Campaign 2008, CPAC invited - and all showed up - ALL of the GOP candidates including Romney, Rudy, and McCain, all of whom got polite applause from the thousands in the conservative CPAC crowd.
Ron Paul was also there... most in the crowd snickered at his remarks, although there were a handful of supporters (mostly college-aged guys).
The rousing applause was for Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Sam Brownback, and - yes - Mike Huckabee, who happens to give terrific speeches.
And don't bother citing the "important" CPAC straw poll results. That straw poll is a joke... They ask you to fill it out BEFORE you even hear any of the speakers! LOL. Most of the attendees are waaaay too busy enjoying the numerous speakers, panels, exhibitors, conservative talk radio hosts on Radio Row and educational side sessions to take time to fill out the lengthy straw poll forms.
I've attended CPAC since 2003, and every year I witness the same thing: The straw poll reflects the views of a handful of passionate college kids who waste most of their time at the conference "FReeping" those paper ballots for their favorite candidate and issue, and stuffing the cardboard ballot boxes. It is in NO WAY an accurate nor "scientific" straw poll and shouldn't be taken seriously.
FR is boycotting. See link in post 9. Maybe you should check their sponsor list.
I think the John Birch Society is a sponsor of this meeting and they have been overrun by Mormans. So, it isn’t a surprise to me that Glenn, (a Mormon) and Mitt-Witt will be there.
Besides, until Glenn speaks the truth to power about “Light-Skinned Dark Lord Sauron H. Obama with No Negro Dialect except if he needs it” and his BC issue with some truth behind what he says I do not trust him that much.
Here nutmeg this was just posted:
“Liberty University Law School has withdrawn as a co-sponsor of next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington because a Republican homosexual activist group is being allowed to co-sponsor the event. -—snip—— Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently rejected an invitation from David Keene to speak at CPAC. According to a source close to Palin, the event is a forum that will put “special interests over core beliefs” and “pocketbook over policy.”
You missed the memo. Sarah Palin isn’t going, so CPAC is now evil.
It will be interesting to see how they handle Rubio showing up. Or not, I’m sure they’ll be hypocritically selective in who they attack for speaking at CPAC.
"FReeping" is a term limited to conservative votes or feedback - not RINO.
David Keene... hmmmm...