Isn’t CPAC the RINO group of republicans?
Isn’t McCain and Mitt-Witt also speaking?
Rush was there 2009. He ain’t a RINO is he?
(okay in a lot of cases the speakers are RINO)
Is this the group that Sarah Palin recently said, “Thanks, but no thanks” to?
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.
CPAC is not RINOs. At least most of them aren’t.