Here's more on C-Pac, quoted from Ryan Sager's The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle for Control of the Conservative Party:
"In February of 2005, less than a month after George W. Bush was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States, more than four thousand conservative activists from all over the country gathered in Washington, D.C., for the thirty-
second annual Conservative Political Action Conference -- or CPAC, for short. While most Americans have never heard of CPAC...,it's organizers have called it "the conservative movement's yearly family reunion." That's a pretty accurate description. And with the Republican Party having just held on to the presidency by a convincing margin and increased its majorities in the House and the Senate, this was one big, influential, happy family.
In fact, maybe it was a little too happy.
As the devotees of the party of small government and anti-Washington fervor pitched their tent for three days inside the palatial Ronald Reagan building and the International Trade Center -- a billion-dollar federal boondoggle in downtown D.C. that the Republican Congress named after the Gipper in 1995, in an act of unintentional irony -- a question hung in the air: what on earth are we doing here? "
Friday, March 2, 2007
C-PAC, Beyond D'Souza
