Current TV’s John Fugelsang is joined by Democratic strategists Alexis McGill Johnson and Karl Frisch and Forbes.com contributor Rick Ungar to review the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual meet-up of conservative activists and elected officials that kicked off today. Ungar says, “It’s the circus, and the circus is fun. We’re all picking our favorite clowns already — I can’t wait for Donald Trump.” Frisch defends CPAC’s right to exist, saying, “The (longer) that they exist … it’ll only be better for the country because it’ll show the American people what the Republican Party’s becoming.”
The panel weighs in on some of the speeches at CPAC, and John zeroes in on Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who said in his speech that the left would criticize him because “I didn’t offer any new ideas. And there’s the fallacy of it: We don’t need a new idea. The idea’s called America.” John observes, “You couldn’t write a better parody, could you, than that?” and Ungar points out that substance is always absent from Rubio’s speeches. John concurs: “That’s right. Substance has been abused.”
