Posted on 02/24/2015 6:13:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s an industry trade show like Comic-Con, but also a feel-good festival à la Burning Man. It’s got Super Bowlesque hoopla, and for activists on the right, the annual meeting is the get-together in Washington. Thousands of conservatives will gather Wednesday for the weeklong Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where presidential hopefuls Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and others will try to woo their base in the lead-up to 2016.
The event, long held at Washington’s Omni Shoreham Hotel, was moved by organizers to the recently built Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland—a Democratic stronghold, but who’s counting? Located near the capital, the hotel boasts a London-style Ferris wheel overlooking the Potomac River.
From the get-go, registrants will hone their organizing skills with panels about “The Power of Properly Applied Opposition Research” and forums with such titles as “How to Bring Conservative Speakers to Campus” and “So You’re a Libertarian. Who Cares?” The first day of the conference will be all about activism training. Later, there will be more traditional sessions, such as “Common Core, Rotten to the Core?” and “There’s No ‘I’ in Teamsters: Obama’s Bow to Big Labor Bosses.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I hope and pray Jebbie gets the message, but knowing how the McCainiac and the Romnelun did it, Jeb will flood the hall with supporters and signs
Lousy article. Not a single mention of Scott Walker. Bias??
Every Conservative get's a chance to be on stage, deliver a boffo speech in every major city in the country
Name recognjition ?
feh ..
We'll be wakin' 'em up from off our couches to pump 'em full o'coffee and send them out th' do' !
anyone know if it will be available via the ‘net?
I will look around and see if I can find out, but if you happen to know, would appreciate the info.
It’s usually on CSPAN.
Looked at the c-span schedule, and do not see it listed for tomorrow.
Maybe someone else will come along and have a link to a live feed.
Burning Man and Super Bowl comparisons??? Really???
Does this snark really pass for intelligent journalism nowadays??? As if liberals don’t have their confabs too, with plenary sessions about how to win elections and gain support and persuade people????
What do dims have....P(rogressive)PAC? CommiePac? L(ib)PAC? L(ie)PAC?
Haters gonna hate.
Does anyone know if this is still being run by Al Cardenas and Grover Norquist?
I attended the event in 2008. In those days, Ann Coulter was the superstar who packed ‘em in.
Newsweak is still around?
I guess they are going to hang in there through the 2016 ‘lection cycle. Beats having to identify who is paying for political campaign ads.
It’s that time of year when we see signs that some sections of our population remain passionate about defending out constitution, so it is more than the Super Bowl for us, for some of us, it’s the time of year we can lift our spirits completely for at least a little while. For some of us it may even have become another Christmas of sorts.
Who will be burned? A statue of Obama maybe?
Here’s the CPAC Schedule. It’s usually on CSPAN. Hope they replay it at night. They may replay on Sunday (was thinking they did in the past, but could be wrong).
http://cpac.conservative.org/agenda/
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