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The Best CPAC Ever
Presidential candidates and protesters will enliven conference.
If you’ve ever wanted to hang out with the next President of the United States, you’ll have your chance this weekend at D.C.’s Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The three top candidates for the Republican nomination — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — will speak Friday at the 39th Conservative Political Action Conference. Sarah Palin will give the final keynote speech on Saturday and, if that’s not enough to excite your interest, the protesters from “Occupy DC” have promised to show up and keep things lively.
On their website, Occupy DC vows “non-violent resistance” at this year’s CPAC, aiming to “make this a conference the attendees will never forget.” And Occupy DC calls CPAC “a who’s who of dastardly politicians… another gathering of bigots, media mouthpieces, corrupt politicians, and their 1 percent elite puppet masters,” who will “attempt to perpetuate the radical right wing’s imperialist ideologies… pursuing its racist, sexist, patriarchal and exploitative agenda.”
Indeed, this is exactly what my friends and I have in mind when CPAC convenes Thursday. In between attending speeches, seminar panels and cocktail parties — where our “elite puppet masters” will exhort us to perpetuate their “imperialist ideologies” — we’ll make occasional visits to the Marriott lobby, hoping to catch an entertaining glimpse of the clashes between police and smelly hippies from the Occupy DC encampments. What could be more fun than watching left-wing scum getting tased, pepper-sprayed and hauled away in handcuffs by the Metropolitan Police?
CPAC is, as I have called it, “Mardi Gras for the Right,” a three-day annual festival celebrating everything conservatives hold dear, including free-market capitalism. And it is entirely fitting that this year’s CPAC should be held at the posh Marriott Wardman Park, considering that two heirs to the Marriott fortune are among the billionaires who have donated money to Republican “super PACs.” Alas, the Marriott brothers are supporting Romney, but we won’t begrudge them that while we party with our friends in the VIP suites, gazing down from the balconies — champagne glasses in hand — at the Occupy DC protesters waving signs, chanting slogans and shivering in the cold on the sidewalks behind the police barricades.
The conference annually attracts thousands of conservative activists from all over the country. Officials are hesitant to predict this year’s total attendance. CPAC spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said Tuesday that advance registrations are on track for a 20 percent increase over last year’s conference, which was the biggest ever. The first-ever CPAC appearance by Palin is certain to be a favorite event for many attendees. “We’re thrilled to host the governor,” said Campbell, noting that “logistical issues” had prevented Palin’s attendance in previous years. And the ongoing presidential campaign also adds a special element of excitement to this year’s conference.
“I think, if you just look at where we are with the primary season… if you look at Friday, that’s really going to be a day to highlight the conservative alternatives to Barack Obama,” Campbell said of the three Republican candidates who will address CPAC. Campbell added that while a fourth candidate, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, was unable to attend because of a scheduling conflict, he will be represented by his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The CPAC stage will also feature former presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, and Atlanta businessman Herman Cain.
In addition to the presidential candidates, conference attendees will also hear from a long list of Republican congressional luminaries, including South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, as well as the Republican governors of Virginia, Florida, Louisiana, and Wisconsin. There will also be speeches and seminar presentations by many leading conservative columnists, authors, talk-radio hosts and TV personalities including Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Craig Shirley, Oliver North, Jonah Goldberg, S.E. Cupp, Cal Thomas, Dana Loesch, Rich Lowry, Ed Morrissey, Matt Lewis, Roger Hedgecock, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson and Dinesh D’Souza.
The American Spectator’s own Jeffrey Lord will appear on a Thursday morning panel discussion of “The Future of the Conservative Movement,” and indeed, the future of the movement will be in heavy attendance at CPAC. “Every year we hold a job fair for young conservatives… a lot of people come here hoping to break into politics,” Campbell said, noting that student passes for the conference are only $35. “More than half of the attendees who come to CPAC every year are students. This is a great opportunity for students to come out and get involved.”
Consider this ironic contrast: While conservative students who aspire to careers in politics will be inside CPAC attending job fairs and hearing paeans to the glories of free-market capitalism, outside the conference the left-wing protesters from “Occupy DC” will be complaining about economic woes they blame on what they call “another gathering of bigots.” But what really annoys the Occupiers, I suspect, is their envious belief that the right-wingers at CPAC are having lots of fun. And in that belief, at least, they are absolutely correct.
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Kitty | 2.8.12 @ 6:37AM
Just an aside... Governor Palin is the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s 2012 Woman Of The Year and will receive the award at a luncheon on the day of her keynote address.
YR| 2.9.12 @ 2:09AM
Ma'am, you probably know.
But, truth be told, isn't Mrs. Palin the only personage in America today who could, with the usual advance notice and some publicity, fill to capacity nearly every indoor facility in the country?
I am asking.
How and why is this lost on the punditry of the nation? (to include American Spectator writers)
Dave | 2.10.12 @ 9:37AM
As a card carrying adult of many years, my hope, especially for this CPAC convention, is that the focus of why they're gathering at the Marriott will be directed at their fall target, Barack Obama, and not on each of the candidates in what, lately, has developed the appearance of a circular firing squad. Or maybe the back seat of an SUV. The only real question I'd really like answered from each of the candidate's supporters is - "What exactly does your guy bring to the table that can put a flat tire in Barack Obama's re-election bus?" Or more to the point: "Why's YOUR guy deserve my vote? Over the last several weeks, the individual campaigns have taken on the sound and image of back seat full of five year olds, all whining the same excuses five year olds ALL tend to shout:
- MITT DID IT!
- I did NOT. It was NEWT!
- Nuh, uhh! It was RICK!
- MOM, Pauly's LOOKIN' at me ... MAKE 'EM STOP IT!
To be honest, there're times along the highway when I'm tempted to slam the car to a halt, and dump 'em all out on the side of the road. Of course I wouldn't actually do that. More likely I'd end up whirling around with a pointed finger and yell - "DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE! Unfortunately, Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ronnie aren't actually in my back seat. But I hope they get the message.
This isn't rocket science, kids. And it certainly shouldn't be the ongoing sniveling match its developed into. So to the Romney's, Santorum's, Newt's and Paul's: Start directing your aim at Barack Obama. As it is now, you're standing on your last unwounded foot.
Emily Larson| 2.8.12 @ 6:43AM
Oh Robbie, don't be silly!
Ron Paul is the next president of the US, and he won't even be there!
Mike Hawk| 2.8.12 @ 8:20AM
Ron who??
Mike Hawk| 2.8.12 @ 8:21AM
Ron who??
Teaghan| 2.8.12 @ 7:15AM
Good article Robert! I look forward to the Occupoopers and their antics.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 9:50PM
As we like to say to ze Leftist scummmmmm...."Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssss tooooooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, greasebaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllls...."
ModerateConservative| 2.9.12 @ 6:49PM
Wow. That is quite the perceptive and helpful contribution to the public discussion.
Thanks for enlightening a most difficult and challenging point.
benny havens| 2.8.12 @ 7:17AM
I assume George Soros and Van Jones will be watching it on CSPAN.
martin j smith| 2.8.12 @ 7:30AM
Have your cellphone and digital cameras ready but also please have security so that if things get close to being out of hand they do not get there. ,
POST American| 2.8.12 @ 7:45AM
----CPAC runs the gamut from fatuous
dupes ---to full-blown CFR cardboard.
Three days after our ad nauseum
rectum worship Stupor Bowl
---WHERE ARE THE MEN?---
VonMisesJr| 2.8.12 @ 7:52AM
At the AFP Convention last November, OWS pushed a 78 year old lady down the stairs: http://www.americanthinker.com.....tairs.html
The only thing better than seeing these scum bags being hauled away in handcuffs, will be seeing Obama ride off next January and the next Republican POTUS appoint a conservative Judge to replace Ruth "Buzzie" Ginsberg.
Indy| 2.8.12 @ 8:38AM
Be safe everyone, including the police...this could be very ugly.
“Speakers will be physically assaulted, not just verbally confronted,” the source told Scribe in an email. Two Occupiers, who the source also identified as members of the New Black Panther Party, “said they would be disappointed if they didn’t get arrested and planned to ‘make it count.’”
The source quoted another protester as saying, “Mitt [Romney] has Secret Service now, but [Newt] Gingrich and [Andrew] Breitbart don’t,” seemingly suggesting that the latter two would not be as heavily guarded."
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=37757
The Left does not fool around with their threats. My prayers are will all of those attending and with the police who will have an extremely difficult job. I hope there will be many video cameras because we know the media will not report violence from the Left unless they have no choice.
JimH| 2.8.12 @ 8:47AM
Be nice to have a sizable former military color guard and drill team on hand.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 2.8.12 @ 2:40PM
Why? So that the so-called "Committee for the Republic" can slander it?
Seek| 2.8.12 @ 3:49PM
I'm bringing my steel-plated briefcase to the occasion. It's got some sharp edges. If a Black Panther or some other OWS-style clown wants to assault me, he might find out what "Real Steel" self-defense is all about.
shannity=stallsucker| 2.9.12 @ 10:08AM
ohhhh,tough republitard!!!!
Lancelot Lamar| 2.8.12 @ 8:48AM
With the elevation of PoopProud last year, CPAC has shown itself a cancer within the Conservative Movement, such as it is.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 2.8.12 @ 9:26AM
"CPAC is, as I have called it, "Mardi Gras for the Right," a three-day annual festival celebrating everything conservatives hold dear, including free-market capitalism."
What utter garbage! CPAC is not anything of the kind. It is not a festival celebrating anything conservative, let alone a "Mardi Gras for the Right". It is no longer the conservative festival it used to be. It has been hijacked by loony libertarians such as Ron Paul and his loathsome son. It is nowadays a leftist, un-conservative, anti-defense hatefest. It is an event whereby the military, defense spending, America's foreign policy, and the very notion of a strong defense are bashed ceaselessly and denounced as un-conservative even though they are integral parts of conservative philosophy. This year, CPAC will feature not one, not two, not three, but FOUR anti-defense, anti-military, anti-American hatefests, all four of which will be sponsored by the conspiracy-theory-peddling, anti-military "Committee for the Republic", which supports deep defense cuts and a foreign policy of isolationism. CPAC will start with a 45-minute distortion of President Eisenhower's Farewell Address by the C4TR, after which retired Col. Douglas MacGregor, working on behalf of the C4TR, will be calling for further defense cuts (on top of those already implemented and scheduled) and claiming that the US can have a stronger military while drastically cutting its defense budget. Then, C4TR will sponsor two events at which its members, including Bruce Fein and John Henry, will be impersonating the Founding Fathers and Presidents JQ Adams and James Polk and claiming that the Founding Fathers opposed a standing military and a strong defense and supported a foreign policy of isolationism when nothing could be further from the truth.
In short, the annual CPAC is nowadays nothing more than an anti-defense hatefest. It is not worth anyone's time. And it is NOT conservative.
Vern Crisler| 2.8.12 @ 2:22PM
Perhaps true conservatives who attend the gabfest can stage their own Occupy Main Street tent-ins. They can take Sarah's advice and rage against the Republican machine, as well as poop on the anti-American anarchists who inevitably attend such gatherings.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 9:56PM
Polk was the ultimate "Manifest Destiny guy," wasn't he? I mean, this guy was criticized for being too aggressive by Abe Lincoln.... (Polk is also my FAVORITE President. Not necessarily the greatest, but the most efficient and precise, President of all time, who fulfilled 100% of all his campaign promises in one term and died months after leaving office. His museum is in Tennessee, and well worth the visit.)
But, I hesitate to point out, non-interventionalism (bullshit, Monroe Doctrine---sorry for the Tourette's) makes much more sense when the Royal Navy rules the Seas. There is no one to replace us that we would like to have replace us. Quite frankly, if the Brits had balls I'd love to resume the 1800s situation and let them have the headaches. But there is no decent country left to do this. None---except us.
Dan Phillips| 2.9.12 @ 8:44PM
Zbig, you are so blinded by your interventionist ideology that you can't think straight. I just got done writing a post about how "C"PAC, absent the Ron Paul supporters who flooded it the last two years to vote in the straw poll, seems to be reverting to interventionist movement "conservative" form. Look at the list of invited speakers if you can stop frothing at the mouth long enough. There isn't a single easily identifiable non-interventionist in the whole bunch. Grover Norquist and Phyllis Schlafly have made nods towards non-interventionism in the past, but aren't generally known for that.
Re. Committee for the Republic, many groups rent space at "C"PAC and hold sessions, but that doesn't mean they are endorsed by "C"PAC. C4TR will be one group competing against a chorus of cookie cutter interventionists.
If you think "C"PAC is an "anti-defense hatefest" then you are truly delusional. It is cookie cutter interventionist, which is why the Conservative part of it's name belongs in quotes.
Matty C| 2.8.12 @ 9:39AM
CPAC is a joke and is in no way representative of anything conservative (if Palin and the three joker Republican candidates scheduled to appear didn't make that clear...)
Vern Crisler| 2.8.12 @ 2:24PM
Seeing Newt, Sarah, and Jeffrey Lord would be the only thing interesting about it. How can any true conservative trash Sarah, or at least two of the candidates? It would be nice if you anarcho-Paulistas would just leave the Republican party, and stop claiming to be conservatives.
Seek| 2.8.12 @ 2:22PM
Test.
Bob Grant| 2.8.12 @ 2:33PM
I like Citizen Sarah the conservative more so than Potential Candidate Sarah but does she really deserve to be the keynote speaker?
What exactly has she accomplished to deserve this?
She's only managed to achieve the American Dream which is get as much (monetarily speaking) as your skills will allow. She's turned her semi-odd political career into a cash cow via her quirky personality and good looks.
Good on her for being part of the team but is this what we want as THE face of modern-day conservatism?
Give her a speaking spot but keynote speaker? I think not!!
jim olson| 2.8.12 @ 3:34PM
Some of the nicest smelling people I know are my friends in the occupy movement. We all bathe every day, including the daughter of one of your biggest money men, who has totally rejected her fathers desire to screw the poor for the benefit of the 1%, and several long time police officers, postal workers, teachers, lawyers, construction workers. In short the majority of Americans, Nice try though.
Deb| 2.8.12 @ 5:17PM
YEAH, RIGHT - you sad, brainwashed fool. Get a job and quit blaming others who are earning a living for your own failures!
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 12:33PM
I believe the part about bathing and smelling nice. I can say the same about what cultural conservatives call "dirty hippies". I was once a hippie, and we all bathed daily, but I later rejected the class warfare rhetoric.
Deb| 2.8.12 @ 5:13PM
What could be more fun than watching left-wing scum getting tased, pepper-sprayed and hauled away in handcuffs by the Metropolitan Police?
LOL!!!
ModerateConservative| 2.9.12 @ 6:55PM
"More fun"?
What in God's name is the matter with you? Is this type of sentiment really reflective of how you were raised? Do you actually think that GOP leaders - those who you would ostensibly follow - think of their political opponents as "left-wing scum" (notwithstanding their efforts to whip up their supporters)?
I can assure you that they do not. Where does that leave you with your comments, then? All whipped up with nowhere to go.
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 12:47PM
Only a Sadist would find tasing and pepper-spraying "fun". I may disagree with occupiers if I knew what their message was, but finding joy in misery is not a persuasive message.
Nite| 2.8.12 @ 7:50PM
Governor Rick Perry from TX is also a speaker. You left him out. On purpose?
Voting Present| 2.9.12 @ 2:29AM
Really? Governor Rick Perry will be there?
Um, what is Gov. Perry going to say?
"Hey, you young people out there who need a role model, look at me!" Is that what he is going to say?
The quitter who is yellow.
If Rick Perry had not run for the US Presidency AND quit before the voting even started, I would see him as a welcome participant in CPAC 2012.
What can he say?
He needs to get his ass back to Texas and shame Washington, D.C. by further making Texas the (the only?) economic juggernaut of the nation WHILE securing the border, kicking illegals back home, and ending the narcoterrorism that plagues Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso.
There's a whole lot of crime that needs fixin' in Texas.
Rick Perry has nothing to say to anyone.
He doesn't just flub his lines and have brain cramps (so frequently?), he's a COWARD. What, Mitt Romney made him run off?
I am surprised Texans still let him reside in the state.
PCP Smoker| 2.8.12 @ 8:53PM
How much does one get paid for writing crap like this? Go back to your obscure website. We don't need you, and we don't want you. And brush your teeth too. They have a maize yellow tint to them.
Adjoran| 2.9.12 @ 1:25AM
This confuses me:
"What could be more fun than watching left-wing scum getting tased, pepper-sprayed and hauled away in handcuffs by the Metropolitan Police?"
Love the sentiment, but I thought it was being held in DC. Isn't that the same department which allowed the unwashed OWS/DC cretins to harass an elderly woman, knocking her down, with no action, much less taser or arrest? The same which has allowed the illegal occupation to persist for months?
If you are counting on THAT Metropolitan Police for protection, I fear for your safety. Be careful!
YR| 2.9.12 @ 2:21AM
The time I got to experience the true spirit of CPAC was in 2009.
This was signal moment for the nation. The energy emanating from that place could have powered the nation for the next 50 years.
Anti-Obama sentiment was not just palpable, you could wade chest deep into it.
I think that this shook the old guard Republicans and Establishment crowd to the core. They got worried real fast. They got worried that this would mean both US House of Representatives AND the US Senate flipping to the GOP in November 2010.
So they put the kabosh on it all.
Yep. Folks, that is the truth.
The Radiation of the 2009 CPAC was so intense, this got the McConnells, McCains, and Boehners to scheming how to just limit gains to the one legislative body.
Watch again this year as so many things are ..... manipulated. CPAC is interesting on a whole host of levels.
ModerateConservative| 2.9.12 @ 6:59PM
You know what I find funny about this article from a professional blowhard? This:
- the unintended irony of talking about "paeans to the glories of free-market capitalism" while discussing "students who aspire to careers in politics".
AS IF a career in politics had even the slightest thing to do with pursuing free market capitalism.
These guys really need to go get a real job.
What a disgrace to conservatism.
Simon Templar| 2.9.12 @ 7:58PM
Why was that peice of shit Joe Scarborough invited to introduce anyone? I thought that this was the conservative political action conference.
Rich Birkett | 2.9.12 @ 8:05PM
In a change of their vetting process, libertarians, and non-cultural and non-interventionist conservatives have been excluded from this year's CPAC. Ron Paul was not invited initially, and only after CPAC sold out and the vetting change was made public and circulated among pro-liberty activists, that Ron Paul was invited. No wonder he chose not to attend.
Dan Phillips| 2.9.12 @ 8:51PM
Rich, do you have a link to this information?
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 6:35PM
My conclusions are based on comparing the 2012 speaker list and speakers from previous years:
www.freedomactivist.net/events.html#CPAC
(See my following comments, AS does not allow more than 2 links per comment)
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 6:39PM
July 29 2012
"ACU’s decision to revisit past decisions regarding CPAC has been expected. After the departure of longtime ACU Chairman David Keene last year, it was predictable that ACU’s board of directors would address lingering questions surrounding past co-sponsors and speakers.
As Chairman [Al] Cardenas said following his election [as chairman of the ACU], given controversies surrounding a few CPAC 2011 co-sponsors, we would take a look at what would be the most appropriate path going forward,” explained ACU communications director Kristy Campbell."
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07.....ives-vote/
Oct 6 2011
"CPAC just posted a video promoting the 2012 conference. It shows Republican primary candidates Perry, Cain, Bachman, Gingrich, Romney and Pawlenty, but leaves out the man who won their straw poll 2 years in a row.
There were a lot of comments asking where Ron Paul was and they kept being 'flagged as spam' but after a while they just decided to delete them and disable comments. If you choose to view this video, vote it down."
Comments: "I just called CPAC, they said that Ron Paul was unintentionally left out, and that it would be fixed in about a week or two."
"This is the blatant sort of stuff that makes you wonder what tricks will be played at the ballot box."
"They aren't allowing comments on this video. What a surprise."
http://www.dailypaul.com/18174.....s-ron-paul
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 6:41PM
Jan 22 2012
"Yet the last year has had me often fighting our own. In the heat of the great battle over ideas, I argued with CPAC and the American Conservative Union on behalf of GOProud, and I argued against GOProud on behalf of privacy and civility."
http://biggovernment.com/abrei.....mon-ground
Feb 2 2012
"ACU also today announced invited speaker Congressman Ron Paul (TX – 14) will be unable to attend CPAC 2012 due to the travel constraints of his Presidential campaign. ...
While we will miss Congressman Ron Paul, a perennial favorite among our attendees, we are honored to host Sen. Rand Paul, a leader of the next generation of committed constitutional conservatives, at CPAC 2012."
http://cpac2012.conservative.o.....-2012/835/
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 6:42PM
Feb 7 2012
"While he was asked to speak, he turned down the invitation due to 'the travel constraints of his presidential campaign,' according to a press release from the American Conservative Union.
Congressman Paul’s press secretary, Gary Howard, confirmed that they won’t be attending, stating, “We have too much campaigning to do across the country."
http://blog.chron.com/txpotoma.....2011-2010/
Feb 9 2012
"Since then, Paul’s schedule has been clear. Like former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) and former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), he has no public events scheduled for Thursday."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/....._blog.html
Rich Birkett | 2.10.12 @ 10:26PM
Feb 9 2012
"The organizers of a major conservative conference here over the next three days are trying to widen participation in a straw poll, a not-too-subtle attempt to give a Republican presidential candidate other than Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) a chance to win. ACU Chair Al Cardenas said, 'In the past, to his credit, about 80, 90, 100 percent of people who were there and liked Ron Paul voted, and probably a very small percentage of those who liked others bothered to vote'."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....64500.html
Simon Templar| 2.10.12 @ 3:24PM
You are not alone. This years conference should be renamed The GOP Progressive Republican Political Action Conference for the election of Mitt Romney featuring such great conservatives as Joe MSNBC Scarborough, Romney supporter Ann Coulter, Laura "shut up Tea party" Inghram, John "DC cry baby insider" Boehner, Squish McConnell, and a host of egghead talking heads.
About as exciting as a room full of retirees in a rest home watching Jeopardy.
To be appear like they did not take over this years conference they threw in Palin at the end, and an appearance of West.
Trustee| 2.11.12 @ 4:54PM
Simon, I am with you -- Well said! It is about as exciting as watching the seniors as they fall asleep one by one with Jeopardy on. Or Wheel of Fortune.
This was one more orchestrated cog to 1) kill off the Tea Party momentum, 2) elect Mitt Romney.
Nothing more.
This does not even begin to resemble the CPAC of just three years ago.