CPAC 2012: HuffPost's 'Best In Show' (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- This year's Conservative Political Action Conference drew plenty of colorful characters, many of whom stopped by to be interviewed for HuffPost's video livestream coverage.

We talked to puppets, dogs, people in tri-cornered hats, semi-celebrities and cranky old men, to name a few. Take a look at HuffPost's favorite interviewees from the conference in the video above, and declare your all-time favorite in the comments section.

 

 

Comments

[SitandStay]

09:13 PM on 02/14/2012

So now we know Archie's daughter, Gloria, was a bigot too.

[ProgressivesWin]

03:11 PM on 02/14/2012

Institute a Transaction Tax on WallStreet and be done with this Insaneclownposse.

[ProgressivesWin]

03:06 PM on 02/14/2012

Halloween, 24/7. Shudder.

[kareemachan]

11:55 AM on 02/14/2012

Do these baggers not realize that dressing like you were around for the American Revolution is SO 2008?

[FreedToChoose]

11:53 AM on 02/14/2012

Nothing like exposing mold and mildew to the light of day.

[wvmarv]

11:20 AM on 02/14/2012

Well, you can't accuse that last woman holding her black child as a racist. So apparently she's just not very bright.

[ProgressivesWin]

03:08 PM on 02/14/2012

She won that child at the Dunk Obama booth.

[Kittypost]

10:58 AM on 02/14/2012

Wow, putting a Romney sticker on your forehead and say you have him on your mind. That's pure comic gold ... for second graders.

A tea partier dressed up and pretending to have a foreign accent. What's wrong with an American accent?

For that lady that had that girl wear that awful shirt: all republicans should have a shirt that says "I cry when Democrats hold us accountable."

And that's probably the best effort for Republicans to be funny all year.

[skooney]

10:20 AM on 02/14/2012

Funny if you put Santorum in the video making some of his outrageous claims he would win the "Best in Show" easily, not many can out crazy Rick.

[redhead55]

09:34 AM on 02/14/2012

Grover Norquist at CPAC -

“We’re not auditioning for someone to tell us what to do,” he declared. “We know what to do. We just need a president who can sign the legislation that the Republican House and Senate pass. … We don’t need someone to think. … We need someone who knows how to hold a pen.”

[drlouise]

09:38 AM on 02/14/2012

They also want voters who don't think.

[kareemachan]

11:56 AM on 02/14/2012

Thus, their war on education.

[Aurical]

10:00 PM on 02/14/2012

Yeah why listen to an elected official, let a lobbyist decide the policy! Show me the word lobby in the constitution.

[Wonder Land]

09:23 AM on 02/14/2012

Marvin looks at least as presidential if not maybe even a little more than the other four candidates
for nominee......

[gurukalehuru]

08:13 AM on 02/14/2012

Where did she get that black child?!? Inquiring minds want to know.

[SitandStay]

09:11 PM on 02/14/2012

Rented from a consulting group.

[ebanks84]

08:02 AM on 02/14/2012

I hate the fact that that lady with the little black girl is indoctrinating her to dislike democrats. That's child abuse as far as I'm concerned. We should let our children grow up and make up their own minds instead of passing on to them our very own prejudices and bad behaviors.

[jollywhitegiant]

08:24 AM on 02/14/2012

Although I agree with you to an extent, we must be aware that indoctrination occurs even if it is not expressly the goal or intention. Children glean form our every action and word and opinion, so it is inherently difficult to completely prevent indoctrination at some level.

However, when it is blatant, as regards your post, then it becomes a huge problem.

[ebanks84]

11:29 AM on 02/14/2012

True.

[Underabridge]

08:55 AM on 02/14/2012

Yes because black parents don't teach their kids to hate the "man".

[miketothad]

11:22 AM on 02/14/2012

No, they don't, paranoid ignorant gossip.

[mervr1]

11:27 AM on 02/14/2012

Been watch Foxy Brown and Dolemite movies again, haven't you....Next you'll be calling the man Mr Big.....

hint...that's only in the movies from the 70's

[OliverBrayton]

08:01 AM on 02/14/2012

CPAC = Cronies Posing As Conservatives

[BlueBird55]

07:36 AM on 02/14/2012

When a party's platform is "smaller government" but:
1. They want the government to dictate who 2 consenting adults can marry
2. They want the government to intervene in families making end-of-life decisions
3. They want the government to go into the doctor's exam rooms with women
4. They want the government to block civil rights to a whole group of people
5. They want the government to continue sending their SS checks
6. They want the government to continue Medicare.
7. They want the government to continue Medicare D
8. Please feel free to add to the list...

Then you know they are just hypocrites or stupid--perhaps both.

[gurukalehuru]

08:08 AM on 02/14/2012

8. They want a huge military

[Mac1000]

08:18 AM on 02/14/2012

Both.

[kcwookie]

08:36 AM on 02/14/2012

Yes.

[returnofthejedi]

07:08 AM on 02/14/2012

Lions and Tigers and ignorance.......OH MY!