The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

CPAC Day 3: ‘Flu-Like Symptoms’

Skye at Midnight Blue describes herself as experiencing “flu-like symptoms” which can only mean she’s contracted the dreaded CPAC Fever. This disease is caused by a rare virus known as schmooze and is spread through the promiscuous exchange of business cards. Some have blamed CPAC Fever on Dana Loesch’s leather pants — ?!?! –but we […]

CPAC Day 3: Winning the Future

Friday evening, I was a guest at a reception hosted by a group of College Republicans, including Jonathon Snyder of Ohio State University. Jonathon is state chairman of Ohio College Republicans and is now a candidate for the chairmanship of the College Republican National Committee. He was kind enough to consent to an interview: My […]

CPAC Day 2: Into the Scrum

Rep. Michelle Bachmann was surrounded by autograph-seeking admirers Friday afternoon in the lobby of the Wardman Park Marriott in one of those spontaneous scrums that occur when GOP celebrities show up at the Conservative Political Action Conference.  There is an interesting story behind how I ended up in the midst of the Bachmann scrum. About noon, I […]

CPAC Day 2: Hecklers in the Big Tent

Yesterday’s incident in which some Ron Paul supporters shouted “war criminal” at Donald Rumsfeld and his surprise guest Dick Cheney gets explained by Dave Weigel: The ballroom for big events fills up many minutes in advance. In this instance, the people who wanted to hear Rand Paul speak at 3:45 had to arrive around 2:30, […]

CPAC Day 2: About Last Night

Thursday night, commitments brought me to three different events: The “Blogger Bash” at FreedomWorks, Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Party” with Sophie B. Hawkins (above) at Eighteenth Street Lounge, and the “Kruiser Cabana” in Stephen Kruiser‘s hotel suite. Packed into the Eighteen Street Lounge, conservatives listen to a presentation by Andrew Breitbart, who helped sponsor the event […]

CPAC Day 1: Celebrities!

Newt Gingrich and Victoria Jackson:

CPAC Day 1: Birthers and Other Jokes

OK, a Republican congressman from Idaho, a native of Puerto Rico, jokes that he has proof of his American citizenship: That there’s funny, I don’t care who you are. Also funny: Ann Coulter’s latest column about the GOProud controversy. Not funny at all: A GOProud official calling Cleta Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation a “nasty […]

CPAC Day 1: Nap-Time News

Between last night’s late deadline and getting up at 7:30 a.m. today, I’m kinda shagged and will need to rest before this evening, for reasons best explained by this New York Times article: The Conservative Political Action Conference opened Thursday morning with an address by Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who accused President Obama of […]

« go back — keep looking »