Let’s Go to CPAC and Have A Good Time!

I went to a CPAC meeting at some hotel in D.C. back in the mid-1980’s when the word ‘conservative’ was still just getting into the mainstream political lexicon. Actually, I didn’t listen to any of the speakers because I was too busy wandering around all the booths in the lobby selling t-shirts, books, pictures, coffee mugs and whatever other crap was being peddled to the crowd.

I think the headline speaker that day was Reagan, who was introduced to the audience as the ‘founder’ of modern conservatism, and he gave the same speech that he would give a month later at the annual meeting of the NRA.

This weekend CPAC is meeting again in D.C., and if I hadn’t seen a story about the appearance by Ted Cruz on my morning news aggregator website, I would have missed the whole shebang.

Talk about how an event has become a non-event.

I remember when the CPAC Presidential straw poll was considered a ‘must do’ activity for anyone who was hoping to run at the top of the ticket for the GOP. This year, even Karl Rove is saying the straw poll is ‘meaningless’ but that same terminology can probably be applied to Karl Rove as well.

The best story so far out of this year’s CPAC is the speech given by Ted Cruz who basically used his appearance to promote his podcast and was so blatant in his appeal…