CPAC

CPAC Summed Up In A Paragraph

by Lonely Conservative • March 18, 2013 • 1 Comment

If you’ve never been to CPAC this sums it up. The event also has a blistering, hectic pace to it that can catch you by surprise if you’re not used to it. You miss meetings, lose track of people and…

by Lonely Conservative • March 18, 2013 • 12 Comments

And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Okay, maybe just my dad. Thanks to my dear friend Pete Da TechGuy there is a short video of the moments just after I received the “Best Kept Secret” blogger award…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 20 Comments

On Saturday night my little posse of friends and I went to some of the after hours parties at CPAC. We were the oldest people there. It was so great to see so many young conservatives having a good time…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 7 Comments

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is the GOP’s newest rock star. Boy, can he deliver a speech, all without a teleprompter, unless he has eyes on the back of his head. Not only is he witty, but he delivers a compelling…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 10 Comments

The results are in and the winner of the 2013 CPAC straw poll is none other than Senator Rand Paul, with Senator Marco Rubio coming in a close second place. Also, half of the respondents said they want to see…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 20 Comments

Dr. Benjamin Carson, whose National Prayer Breakfast speech the liberals detested, spoke at CPAC Saturday morning. Carson suggested that President Obama is trying to destroy the country. “Let’s say somebody were [in the White House] and they wanted to destroy…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 3 Comments

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker addressed CPAC attendees on Saturday morning. He emphasized how the successes that are happening today are going on at the state level, and said “In the states in order to be successful we have to be…

by Lonely Conservative • March 16, 2013 • 16 Comments

Senator Ted Cruz introduced former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at CPAC this afternoon. During her enthusiastic speech Palin pulled out a Big Gulp to make a point about big government. (That was somewhere around the 17 minute mark.) Here’s the…

by Lonely Conservative • March 15, 2013 • 8 Comments

Early this morning Politico predicted that Mitt Romney was going to be given the cold shoulder by the CPAC crowd. Oops! They couldn’t have gotten it more wrong. Not only did he receive a warm welcome by the huge crowd,…

by Lonely Conservative • March 15, 2013 • 32 Comments

Today at CPAC I received the “Best Kept Secret” blogger award sponsored by Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net. It was funny. Michelle Bachmann kicked off the awards ceremony with a speech before presenting the “Blogger of the Year” award to…

by Lonely Conservative • March 15, 2013 • 5 Comments

Former Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle was part of the round table at CPAC – “CSI Washington D.C.: November 2012 Autopsy” – with John Fund, Michael Barone, Chris Hayes and Ralph Reed on what went wrong in the 2012 election. Buerkle…

by Lonely Conservative • March 15, 2013 • 2 Comments

Rep. Paul Ryan filled the Potomac Ballroom for his address to conservatives at CPAC. My favorite line from his speech came at the end: They are the party of shared hardship, we are the party of shared opportunity. Isn’t that the truth.…

by Lonely Conservative • March 14, 2013 • 5 Comments

Here’s the full video of Senator Rand Paul’s speech at CPAC. I missed it in person because my flight was delayed by over an hour. When we finally boarded it had started to snow really hard, and it took another…

by Lonely Conservative • March 14, 2013 • 5 Comments

Former Congressman Lt. Colonel Allen West addressed CPAC this morning. “We are defined by how quickly we pull ourselves off the mat. … We understand that the Constitution was written to control the government, not the people. … Now is…