Prepare For A Deluge Of Dishonest CPAC Coverage

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 Prepare For A Deluge Of Dishonest CPAC Coverage

The corporate press will try to cast the annual conference as a gathering of fringe lunatics who are splitting the GOP. Don’t believe them.

By John Daniel Davidson
February 25, 2021

Over the next few days, we’re going to see a slew of essays and think pieces from the corporate press about how the Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins today in Orlando, has become a den of QAnoners and white supremacists, a Donald Trump-obsessed cult of personality, and the latest flashpoint in an ongoing GOP civil war.

You can already see the headlines: “The Ten Craziest Things Said At CPAC,” which will consist of three things that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe to be true (like, there was fraud in the 2020 election) and seven things that almost no one thinks no one at CPAC actually said. The Atlantic will almost certainly run a ponderous dispatch from the conference about how Trump is splitting the Republican Party, even as polls show that most GOP voters still support Trump, with nearly 60 percent saying he should play a “major role” in the party moving forward.

But it doesn’t matter. The point of these CPAC pieces, besides giving pundits a chance to sneer at conservatives, will be to reinforce the narrative that the Republican Party is in crisis, lost in the wilderness, imploding.

The GOP, they will tell us, is torn between Trump and his acolytes on one side and moderates like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Liz Cheney on the other. What CPAC shows, according to this narrative, is not just how much of a “stranglehold” Trump has over the party, but also how insane and radical the party has become under Trump’s malign influence.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/02/25/prepare-for-a-deluge-of-dishonest-cpac-coverage/

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Here Are Some of the Top Republicans Not Attending CPAC This Year

Emma Kinery  1 hr ago

(Bloomberg) -- When the annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off Thursday night, a highlight of the Republican Party’s calendar, some regular faces won’t be in attendance as former President Donald Trump cements his grip on the party.

Mike Pence wearing a suit and tie: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop with Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue at the Cherokee Conference Center in Canton, Georgia, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. GOP incumbent Senators Loeffler and Perdue are in January runoff elections that will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.© Bloomberg U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop with Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue at the Cherokee Conference Center in Canton, Georgia, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. GOP incumbent Senators Loeffler and Perdue are in January runoff elections that will decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Instead, the conference will welcome Trump for a keynote speech and the lineup is packed with loyalists and former administration officials. Dissent is not allowed this year.

Here’s a look at some who are not attending, either by CPAC’s choice or their own:

Not Invited

Mitch McConnell, Senate minority leader -- The highest-ranking Republican in Washington was not invited to the conference this year. While McConnell voted to acquit Trump at his recent impeachment trial, he gave a scathing rebuke of the former president in a speech after the trial.

Mitt Romney, U.S. senator -- The 2012 Republican presidential nominee has become an outspoken critic of Trump, making him a pariah among Trump’s supporters. He voted to impeach the president -- twice. Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, last year tweeted Romney was disinvited, and he is not invited this year after voting to convict Trump of incitement of insurrection at his second impeachment trial. The Utah senator previously won the conference’s presidential straw poll in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2012.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-are-some-of-the-top-republicans-not-attending-cpac-this-year/ar-BB1e1oIB?ocid=msedgntp

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I'm looking forward to the stories that will be written about how the GOP has rejected its proven leaders in the primaries next year.

I'm also looking forward to those RINOs dumped in the primaries campaigning for the Rodents and telling more lies about the people who replaced them as the nominee.

Cheney won't be the biggest whiner out there.