The Other McCain

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CPAC 2014 Idea

by Smitty This year’s CPAC is a done deal, with the usual kerfuffles about groups that are too sexuality-centric (GOProud) and too controversial (Pamela Geller). I’d favor an improvement in the Rules of Engagement that supports bringing in more people with whom I don’t necessarily agree, as long as there are ground rules about how [...]

Sending Bloggers to CPAC

The National Bloggers Club is raising money to send bloggers to CPAC. From the press release: With the largest annual gathering, the Conservative Political Action Conference, less than three weeks away, the National Bloggers Club launched a new scholarship fund to send at least four citizen-journalists to the annual conference at the Gaylord National Resort [...]

Connecting the Dots, Telling the Story

“[Neal] Rauhauser consistently promoted the hoax-hack theory of the WeinerGate scandal, continuing to argue that [Rep. Anthony] Weiner had been the victim of some devious hacker, even after Weiner admitted his guilt and resigned from office. Rauhauser also repeatedly linked [Brett] Kimberlin’s ‘Indict Breitbart’ site and, along the way, made several interesting statements.” – Robert [...]

Gov. Sarah Palin To Address CPAC; Doug Mataconis’s Nose Wrinkles In Disdain

by Smitty CPAC 2013 remains a crucial huddle for the battered troops. The American Conservative Union (ACU) today announced former Vice Presidential Candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will address CPAC 2013 – the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. America’s largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists will be held Thursday, March 14 – [...]

Another Controversial CPAC Scandal!™

How long have I been covering the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)? Forever, it seems, and every year the liberal media find some reason to denounce CPAC as extreme, fringe, controversial. From my perspective, the biggest CPAC controversy this year is that they moved it from the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest D.C. — near [...]

Will Jeb Bush Connect With Tea Partiers At CPAC?

by Smitty Via email from the ACU: ACU ANNOUNCES GOVERNOR JEB BUSH TO ADDRESS CPAC 2013 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Conservative Union (ACU) today announced former Florida Governor Jeb Bush will address CPAC 2013 – the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference. America’s largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists will be held Thursday, [...]

Breitbart in February: ‘You Want a Unity Speech? I’ll Give You a Unity Speech.’

FLORENCE, South Carolina Back in February at CPAC, Andrew Breitbart gave a speech in which he called for unifying conservatives to defeat the Left: Anyone that’s willing to stand next to me to fight the progressive left, I will be in that bunker, and if you’re not in that bunker ’cause you’re not satisfied with [...]

Defending The American Dream Summit 2-4 Aug 2012

by Smitty I just signed up for DTADS next month. Gov. Scott Walker, Michelle Malkin, Paul Ryan, Mark Levin. The list goes on. Hopefully I’ll catch up with Stacy McCain’s chum Tabitha Hale. She’s actually pretty cool, despite the chip collection on Stacy’s shoulder. The Axis of Fedora, of course, will be on the prowl [...]

Andrew Breitbart in CPAC Video:
‘This Is the Charles Johnson Special’

Thanks to I Own the World for this memorable video moment in which Andrew Breitbart poses for a photo with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, featuring a surprise cameo appearance: People who get the joke are laughing their asses off. Everybody else is wondering, “Who is Charles Johnson?” UPDATE: Professor Reynolds gets the joke. And [...]

Our Tolerant Liberal Overlords (Unexpectedly!) Mock Dancing Lesbian

She insists on being known as “A Conservative Lesbian, Cynthia Yockey,” because that gets her to the top of any alphabetically ordered blogroll, at least until I change the name of this blog to “AAA Homophobic Sexist Patriarchal Theocratic Right-Wing Swine.” But I digress . . . A video of Cynthia dancing to a rap [...]

Who Wants to See Tina Korbe’s Thighs?

The title of this post is not a hypothetical question, because last week the aforesaid Miss Korbe joined her Hot Air colleague Ed Morrissey for a video interview with Rick Santorum, which I didn’t see until somebody brought it to my attention yesterday: Our keen-eyed readers will note that at the 0:28 mark of the [...]

Cody’s Totally Excellent CPAC

Cody with Daniel and John Santorum at CPAC, Feb. 10, 2012 His blog is called “Modicum of Insanity” (formerly “Letters From a Young American”) and he’s a student at Patrick Henry College. Two weeks ago, he sent me an e-mail to explain that he just got credentialed for CPAC — his first time at the [...]

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