2.45pm: Rick Perry surfaced at CPAC, looking cheerful and jaunty a few weeks after dropping out of the presidential race before the South Carolina primary. He told the audience, in an apparent dig at Mitt Romney: "We do the American people no great Photos From Thursday CPAC 2012. Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February […]
By Jennifer Rubin In a CPAC conference that virtually ignored national security, an afternoon panel on the Arab Spring vividly laid out differences of opinion within conservative ranks about events in the Middle East. Moderator Cliff May, president of Washington, DC police are preparing for the possibility that Occupy protesters will attack people attending the […]
By David Weigel MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. The Conservative Political Action Conference will tractor-beam all movement John McCain of Arizona, went on to win CPAC's much-watched presidential straw poll, the second of this […]
Some libertarians boycott CPAC because it's “too conservative,” others embrace it to try to steer the conservative movement in a more liberty-minded direction (on which, see Reason.tv's excellent interview of Sen. Jim DeMint). Santorum's wins this week is well timed because it may help him to convince the folks at CPAC that he is a […]