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CANDO

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28. The Academy Awards

Reply to Capt. Obvious (Reply #26)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 03:26 PM

Mar 2014

You're not serious, are you? Not enough Liberal red meat slinging!

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Where is the equivalent Liberal Conference? [View all] CANDO Mar 2014 OP

Here. roody Mar 2014 #1

That site and organization hardly equates to what the cons have in CPAC. CANDO Mar 2014 #2

Yes, but it is a chance to network roody Mar 2014 #23

Do you want it all? Try this. roody Mar 2014 #25

Somewhere under that good bus no doubt n/t Fumesucker Mar 2014 #3

Sorry for the self reply... CANDO Mar 2014 #4

CPAC is funded by rich conservatives looking to keep their troops inline muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #5

The result of the left not doing a similar conference... CANDO Mar 2014 #8

Who would you want to pay for, and set the agenda, of a liberal conference? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2014 #10

I don't really have an answer. CANDO Mar 2014 #19

yes, Netroots Nation catrose Mar 2014 #35

Good OP and good point. HappyMe Mar 2014 #11

If it happened, it would get no mainstream coverage. roody Mar 2014 #24

How many elected Democrats would alsame Mar 2014 #6

Hard to tell Glitterati Mar 2014 #7

And that we don't have many Democratic pols going near anything "liberal"... CANDO Mar 2014 #9

They've been running away from the alsame Mar 2014 #14

And its a shame. CANDO Mar 2014 #17

Good question. I suppose you have that Netroots conference but that's pretty lame in comparison. bklyncowgirl Mar 2014 #12

What's funny (sad actually), CANDO Mar 2014 #16

Split up among several conferences treestar Mar 2014 #13

Maybe the averge American NEEDS to be scared. HappyMe Mar 2014 #15

That may be, but then they may turn to the comfort of treestar Mar 2014 #34

CPAC is a construct, a show, a sham, not a product of good organizing but a product Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #18

Seems you're missing my point. CANDO Mar 2014 #20

It was not your point I was addressing. I addressed the poster who claimed Repubicans Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #21

I'm sorry! CANDO Mar 2014 #22

It was on Sunday night Capt. Obvious Mar 2014 #26

The Academy Awards CANDO Mar 2014 #28

Imagine a clothes dryer. Imagine a clothes dryer full of ill tempered cats. Imagine turning it on. Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2014 #27

So, Rs have a conference so the Ds have to follow suit. Isn't that letting the Rs set the agenda? stopbush Mar 2014 #29

Not following you on one thing. CANDO Mar 2014 #31

CPAC may have been valuable for Conservatives when they were stuck in the political weeds, stopbush Mar 2014 #32

Sounds plausible. CANDO Mar 2014 #33

There is Netroots nadinbrzezinski Mar 2014 #30