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3 things liberals should learn from CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Conference can be pretty easy pickings for liberal-leaning writers, from checking out who’s on the gay hook-up app Grindr to hitting up the panel discussions that sound most likely to go off the rails to chronicling the latest in Sarah Palin’s world. But amid the carnival…
CPAC 2013: Angry and beaten right wingers offer wacky ideas in search for electoral victory
Delegates at fringe Republican convention seek a way back into America’s heart at a key annual meeting of conservatives Gene Wisdom, a 55-year-old conservative from Nashville, Tennessee, was no fan of Barack Obama. Clutching a book called The Communist, he was waiting eagerly to meet the book’s author, Paul Kengor,…
Defeated Romney: I’m not pessimistic about America
In his first major speech since his US presidential defeat, Mitt Romney urged fellow Republicans Friday to buck up and set course for the White House, as he sought to uplift conservatives. Despite sharing a bill with a parade of charismatic potential 2016 Republican candidates, the man who lost last…
CPAC chairman: We don’t exclude LGBT people ‘based on sexual preference’
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference is denying that certain groups were not invited to this year’s event because they support LGBT rights. When CPAC announced its schedule earlier this year, pro-LGBT groups like the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud were conspicuously not on the list, even though…
Conservative conference exposes Republican divisions
Still nursing election wounds, soul-searching Republicans gathered Thursday at the first conservative casting call for the US presidential election in 2016, with the party divided over how to broaden its appeal. Several prospective White House candidates including Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Paul Ryan lined up for a chance to…
Watch live: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
Conservative and GOP leaders gather at the annual event. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on March 14. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
GOProud leader: Hayes’ appeal to include them in CPAC ‘the right thing’
The executive director of conservative LGBT group GOProud told The Raw Story on Saturday that MSNBC host Chris Hayes had contacted the group before calling for their inclusion in a leading conservative conference, but that the situation had not changed. “We don’t have a lot in common with him politically,…
Chris Hayes: I’ll only appear at CPAC if you include GOProud
Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes addressed an invitation he received to speak at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Hayes said that he would be happy to appear at the conference if the Republican LGBT group GOProud would be included among the co-sponsors…
Union employees showed CPAC a good time — and their union pride
This weekend, as tuxedoed waitstaff quietly served drinks and dinner to paying CPAC attendees interested in the bon mots of union-busting Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (R), few of the guests likely took the time to peer at their servers’ chests. If they had, the CPACers might have noticed something ironic:…
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According to CPAC, Democrats reduce women to their vaginas, but the GOP hasn’t gotten much beyond the uterus I feel bad pointing this out, but the reason the (apparently sincere) “What Not to Wear at CPAC” Pintrest post got a lot of attention is because some attendees do need instruction…
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