It has only just begun, but CPAC 2013 already has endured some harsh criticism.
These guys should have been invited. Those guys should not have. This panel is outside the scope. That panel should be more prominently featured. So let me rise in defense of the Conservative Political Action Conference — because, goodness knows, not many others will.
Certainly, it has become a big, unwieldy juggernaut. Indeed, the biggest complaint so far among those of us in Washington who have to “work” the event is the move to Gaylord National. It’s not near our offices, or Metro stations or what we think of as “the city.”
The move was necessitated not by the American Conservative Union’s mismanagement of the event, but by its overwhelming success. Even the biggest of convention hotels in Washington no longer have the room to house the event.
As for the speakers, think of these relationships as marriages. The wife puts up with a lot. She tolerates oversights and misspeaks and lates and earlies and no-shows of all kinds. Occasionally, though, she makes the husband sleep on the couch.
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