Fighting off a boycott and scrambling for a headliner, the biggest annual conservative gathering takes place this week. Eight things to watch at Cpac.
The right descends on Washington this week, as thousands of activists pour into the nation's capital to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. It's a heady time-with Republicans having seized control of the House, closed the gap with Democrats in the Senate, and now gearing up for a chance to reclaim the White House in 2012. But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.
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The organization is embroiled in an embezzlement scandal. Fellow travelers are boycotting the whole affair because Cpac's big tent allowed a gay Republican group inside. With one day left before kickoff, no headliner had been chosen. And longtime leader David Keene is said to...
The right descends on Washington this week, as thousands of activists pour into the nation's capital to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. It's a heady time-with Republicans having seized control of the House, closed the gap with Democrats in the Senate, and now gearing up for a chance to reclaim the White House in 2012. But all is not well at the old-line American Conservative Union, which throws the annual party.
Related story on The Daily Beast: America's Proud Egypt Moment
The organization is embroiled in an embezzlement scandal. Fellow travelers are boycotting the whole affair because Cpac's big tent allowed a gay Republican group inside. With one day left before kickoff, no headliner had been chosen. And longtime leader David Keene is said to...
- 2/9/2011
- by Samuel P. Jacobs & Shushannah Walshe
- The Daily Beast
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