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What CPAC teaches us about the Republican worldview

GlobalPost

Analysis: The conservative gathering projects a strictly America-centric view of the world. Jean MacKenzie BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. Sen. Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida. €œThe idea is called America, and it still works.€

CPAC unleashed: Orange rifles, ‘abortion hurts’ stickers
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/FileA visitor holds a size-and weight-accurate rubber model of a 12-week-old fetus as Gans Turner, director of American Victims of Abortion, a program of the National Right to Life Committee, looks on at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Romney, Others Speak to CPAC Crowd About the GOP

CPAC 2013 – Big Brains Focus on the Heart

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CPAC 2013, the smartest men in the room were on a panel consisting of leaders from four prominent conservative and libertarian think tanks. The theme of the day was focusing on winning hearts, like minded ideas, and adapting to the age of instantaneous access to information.

‘Marxist’ Obama crushes freedom, conservatives say

Pete Marovich/Getty Images/AFPJenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, speaks at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on March 16, 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland.Barack Obama is a closet Marxist; liberty, freedom and the American way are under attack.

Maher: ‘Sh*t-kicker’ conservatives don’t know ‘America has moved on without them’

Raw Story

Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher dedicated part of his weekly “New Rules” segment to asking why such a tiny number of angry, out-of-touch conservatives can wield such a disproportionate amount of power of the Republican Party and over national policy.