The Other McCain

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CPAC12: We’re So There

by Smitty For bloggers like us, CPAC is the thing that even CINCHOUSE knows we cannot miss. (Sorry about the Herman Cain event tomorrow in Arlington, VA, Stacy). This event could also be called #OccupyMarriottWardmanPark, except that, to paraphrase Ann Coulter, conservatives tend to have jobs, showers, and a point. This trailer makes CPAC look […]

Everybody at CPAC Likes to Have Their Photos Taken With Celebrities …

. . . which is why some obscure dudes from a cable-TV show insisted on having their photos taken with Susannah Fleetwood and Sarah Rumpf: Video of the obscure cable-TV dudes at CPAC: Remember that most people tuned into cable TV at 3 a.m. are watching ads for the George Foreman grill or “natural male […]

The Epidemiology of CPAC Plague

Moe Lane has been laid low by the mysterious post-CPAC illness that’s been going around among attendees of last week’s conference, but in fact there’s nothing mysterious at all about this malady. If you gather 11,000 people from around the country for a conference, how many of the attendees are traveling by commercial aircraft? Suppose […]

Breathtaking: Liberal Calls Herman Cain ‘Minstrel,’ ‘Coon,’ ‘Sambo,’ ‘Monkey’

Just when you think you’ve seen the worst of insulting liberal condescension, they surprise you: Black History Month is Herman Cain Playing the Race Minstrel for CPAC In the Alternet article beneath that headline, pseudonymous writer Chauncey De Vega employs a lot of academic “race theory” talk to justify insulting Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. […]

‘We’ll Always Have CPAC’

Ginny at Obi’s Sister paid tribute to my schmoozing abilities by dubbing me the “cruise director” of CPAC, but I had just been watching Casablanca on TCM, so I told Ginny: “Cruise director”? I’d rather you thought of me as Rick Blaine in Casablanca: “We’ll always have CPAC.” Yeah, that’s me. Bogie, hardened and cynical: “I […]

CPAC Ends, Media Lies Continue

WASHINGTON, D.C. This morning, I had breakfast with Ladd Ehlinger here at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel and stopped by a computer terminal in the lobby to check in on Twitter. Matthew Newman sent me a message with a link to a Politico article by Alexander Burns listing “winners and losers” for CPAC. My first […]

CPAC Day 3: Everybody Write-In Your Straw-Poll Favorite: Ann Coulter; UPDATE: Rejecting My Advice, CPAC Attendees Vote for Ron Paul, Mitt Romney

They saved the best for the final day of CPAC: Ann Coulter followed by Allen West. UPDATE: Awesome! Security at CPAC recognized me when I rolled down to the front row to get a picture. Pretty freaking cool. Ann ended her speech with what every Southern Baptist would recognize as her testimony, and it was […]

CPAC Day 3: Fear and Loathing and
Tri-Corner Hats in the Kruiser Cabana

Every year, there are two CPACs: The one I attend, where conservatives get together and have a wonderful time — as at the scene (above) inside the late-night “Kruiser Cabana” party hosted by Stephen Kruiser of PJTV — and the (allegedly) divisive and controversial hatefest reported by the liberal media. How more transparently biased could the media possibly […]

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