"Look, Honey! There's Joe The Plumber!"

Will they be able to find the conference hall? 

From the Washington Times:

Conservatives expect their largest turnout ever for the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, despite the Republicans' recent electoral batterings, the economic free fall that began under a Republican administration and only one Republican senator's having scored a perfect 100 in the American Conservative Union's just-released ratings.

Voters didn't reject conservatism - they just said “no, you can't” to the Republican Party after it had failed to walk the conservatism it had talked, ACU Chairman David A. Keene said this week.

This year, the star attraction, Rush Limbaugh, has as his only full-time quest the pursuit of Arbitron ratings. Yet the conservative movement's troops are converging on the Potomac anyway.

Why liberals don't hold a similar gathering or even refer to themselves as a movement is open to speculation, both hostile and friendly.

“We don't need the safety of numbers to feel secure in our ideology,” Richard Greene, the liberal host of “Hollywood Clout” on Air America Radio, told The Washington Times. “Conservatism is such an outdated and dysfunctional political philosophy these days, it requires reinforcement by masses of people, either in person or via wackjob talk radio.”

From HuffPo:

This year, Cheney and Bush are off the agenda, replaced by ghosts of the campaign trail like Joe the Plumber (Joe Wurzelbacher) and documentarian John Ziegler, who has been making the rounds to restore Sarah Palin's self-imposed media debacle with his documentary "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Targeted." 

Other events include: "Al Franken and ACORN: How Liberals are Destroying the American Election System"; "The Presidential Banquet with Master of Ceremonies: Rep. Michelle Bachmann"; "Bailing Out Big Business: Are We All Socialists Now?"; A book signing with Ann Coulter; "Media in the Obama Era: Is Journalism Dead?"; "The True Cost Of Global Warming Hysteria"; and "Will Congress Take Your Guns?"

Thanks for reading. I need to take a shower now.