CPAC

Lisa De Pasquale, director of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, shares the news on Twitter. It’s another confirmation of Rubio’s prominence as the next, post-Doug Hoffman, conservative cause celebre.

From Peter Wallston’s piece on the conservative fringe, which contains a lot of stuff that should be familiar to TWI readers, here is the reason Lisa De Pasquale, the director of the Conservative Political Action Conference, declined requests from WorldNetDaily to schedule a panel on President Obama’s birth certificate.
It would fill a room. But so [...]

Dennis Whitfield of the American Conservative Union has sent out a press release on today’s embarrassing Mike Allen story that alleges a pay-for-play proposal between the conservative group and FedEx.

“An article containing a false headline has been published by Capitol Hill newspaper Politico today regarding an issue with expansion of the National Labor Relations Board.

The Accuracy in Media editor, who got in some trouble for comments he made at the Conservative Political Action Conference about President Obama’s citizenship, digs in a little deeper in a fundraising appeal.
As an investigative journalist myself, I cannot say with confidence that I am satisfied that the “evidence” proves that Obama was born in [...]

Conservative Political Action Conference Director Lisa de Pasquale brings the news:
Rush will broadcast his entire CPAC speech on his radio show this Friday!
As stupid as Camille Paglia’s column on Limbaugh is,* she makes one correct point: Limbaugh is a really talented radio performer. His CPAC speech, freed from the constraints of radio, was a [...]

Does anyone really think it’s good for the GOP, a month and a half into the Obama presidency, to spend so much time scrapping with and about Rush Limbaugh? Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appeared on D.L. Hughley’s CNN show Saturday and agreed with the Democratic-voting host that Limbaugh’s tone was sometimes bad for [...]

The headline was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 20 percent plurality in the presidential preference question, but I think the rest of the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll was rather more interesting. Here were CPAC attendees choices for “favorite conservative media personality.”
Rush Limbaugh – 26 percent
Glenn Beck – 17 percent
Sean Hannity – 11 percent
Bill [...]

If anyone doubted that “socialism” was the hot new term in the halls of CPAC, making a big comeback from the late 1970s, here was Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) just now:
Earlier this week, we heard the world’s best salesman of socialism address the nation.
DeMint assured the audience that “free markets and deregulation did not wreck [...]

Sadly, I missed this moment from the CPAC main stage, from Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media:
At least in the 1980s, we knew that our president was born in the United States.
Ironically, I missed this because I had run into Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation and a proponent of alternative (i.e. wrong) theories [...]

CPAC attendees are filling out ballots that ask their takes on the issues (such as “establishing direct U.S. dialogue with countries like Iran and groups like Hamas”) and their choices for the 2012 presidential race.
The options: