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Is CPAC a Vested Interest in Failure?

Mar. 12, 2013 11:49pm

Richard Mgrdechian is the founder, President & CEO of Purple Eagle Entertainment and manager of the popular pro-American rock band Madison Rising. He […]

Richard Mgrdechian is the founder, President & CEO of Purple Eagle Entertainment and manager of the popular pro-American rock band Madison Rising. He expects Madison Rising to be the crest of a massive wave that sweeps through American culture over the next few years to create what liberals fear most – a truly level playing field. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the prestigious California Institute of Technology, along with an MBA from Columbia University.

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In just a few days, the largest meeting of conservatives in the country takes place just outside Washington DC and, through some sort of divine inspiration, will determine just what needs to be done to get this country back on track. They call themselves CPAC – the Conservative Political Action Committee, but I think that tends to be a bit misleading. So I prefer to refer to them by a much more appropriate name: CPIC – the Conservative Political Inaction Committee. After all, that would certainly be a much better description for a $5 million self-serving waste of money disguised as a positive, pro-American solution for all the problems this country faces.

I have one simple question for the organizers (and the profiteers) of this political farce: how does anything being done at this event help promote American values of hard work, integrity and gratitude in any way? The answer is, it doesn’t. There is no take away whatsoever. There is no expansion of the voter base. There is no creation of any kind of value. As usual for the establishment on the right, the whole thing is nothing but a zero-sum game. Money goes from one pocket to another, and when everyone leaves, there’s nothing to show for the effort. Nothing on a macro scale at least, except maybe a few clips of the speakers on Fox, and a ton of ridicule from all the other networks.

Let’s face it – at the end of the day, CPIC is nothing but the Academy Awards for the Right. Pretentious people superficially congratulating each other while all the time plotting some nefarious way to step over the other guy. Monopoly, duopoly, collusion. It doesn’t matter. The only thing that does matter is they are playing with your future. But that seems to have become a big business for them: sponsors, awards, fancy hotels, and first class airfare. Coveted parties and invites. Everyone involved gets to feel important and live high on the hog off of other people’s money.

Of course, there is a way to get in to this whole non-profit “celebration of meritocracy.” You could become a sponsor of the event at only $10,000 – $50,000 a pop. That’s right. That’s how it works. Groups pay CPIC for exposure, so they can then raise more money from you, to pay CPIC and everyone else for even more exposure, so they can raise even more money from you, and so on. It’s not about what can help get the country on the right track; it’s about who can raise the most money and get those dollars back to them the fastest.

In other words, CPIC is nothing but one big advertising platform. Exhibitors pay for a booth, which is understandable. But what is absolutely inexcusable (and what will be the ultimate demise of the right) is that what CPIC brings to you in terms of ideas are not based on merit all – they are based on the highest bidder.

And what about all the talk about CPIC wanting to reach out to the younger demographic? Fortunately, they do have a panel on that called “Winning with Generation X/Y” Unfortunately, the experts on the panel consist of people from Red Alert Politics (an $18,000 sponsor), Young America’s Foundation (another $18,000 sponsor), Generation Opportunity (an $11,000 sponsor), and the College Republican National Committee, which somehow got away with a $9,000 contribution. Isn’t the ACU (the parent of CPIC) supposed to be a non-profit? Does it exist to promote itself, or the cause it supposedly represents?

We need to face the facts: the conservative business model is broken. It DOES NOT work. You can spend an infinite amount of money trying to sell buggy whips and still not get anywhere. So guess what – it’s time to stop selling buggy whips and start to make things happen. People come to conclusions emotionally (based on their internal belief system) and then try to justify them intellectually. THIS is the dynamic that needs to be addressed. A generational one. A cultural one. We can spend another billion dollars next time around, but we’re still going to lose.

Is CPAC a Vested Interest in Failure?

But for CPIC, that’s just fine. After all, keeping you angry is big business. Just as a race baiter’s worst nightmare would be great race relationships, the establishment shows no signs whatsoever of wanting to actually solve any problems. If they did, they would at least offer something of hope. Something positive for the people. But they would just rather keep you angry and riled up. All of this leads me to another question: are there any true believers anywhere out there – other than the ones sitting home paying for it all?

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Richard Mgrdechian is the founder and President of Purple Eagle Entertainment and manager of the best-selling popular pro-American rock band Madison Rising.

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JDale
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:04pm
There is a dangerous fallacy that continues to circulate amongst some claiming to be “conservatives” that ought to be confronted, in no uncertain terms, dealt with, and made clear NOW.

CONSERVATIVES don’t get “bogged down in Social Issues.” Issues such as Pro-life and Pro-family policies that oppose abortion on demand, the entire concept of “homosexual marriage,” opposition to the legalization to drugs, prostitution, and other “object” or “subject” crimes are at the very HEART of what it MEANS to be a Conservative. And there’s NOTHING “Unconstitutional” about that. It is THE position of CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES.

Those who hold the Socially LIBERAL ideas such as Abortion on demand, “Homosexual Marriage,” decriminalization of drugs, prostitution, etc., are NOT “conservative” in ANY way. They are LIBERALS, or they may be LIBERTARIANS — but they are NOT Conservatives, and to be SURE they are NOT “Constitutionalists.” Our Founders wouldn’t even recognize their support of such flagrantly immoral and inhumane practices — most of which WERE illegal in the Early Republic as well.

BUT, most of these issues were dealt with at the STATE or COMMUNITY level, because it is the RIGHT of communities (STATES) to decide for themselves what constitutes their legalities WITHIN their States (with the exception of LIFE – i.e. Abortion, as Life is guaranteed in the CONSTITUTION). The Federal Constitution leaves MOST of these issues to the States. The Feds

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CAtilano
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:44pm
I was off today. I spent the day working in the office cleaning out files. I listened and watch many of the speakers and found many of them to be inspirational. There were some of the speakers that I had never heard before, but after hearing them, I wish to learn more of them. I don’t write this to contradict what was written in this article, only to say that I found it worth while and don’t think it to be a total waste.

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Mariposa3939
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:17am
Richard Mgdrechian, what are you doing on The Blaze? You sound like a liberal.

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Inkmage
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:34pm
@TAKSAVILLAGE

You don’t get it.

I’m all in favor of our leaders expressing the importance of a strong family, and being defenders of religious freedoms… I am not in favors of politicians like Santorum, Akin or any other hardcore social conservative nut, who talks of it as if he is trying to legislate morality, they’re no different from the nanny leftist. They make the party look like some sort of political church.

As for your comments about the constitution and Feinstein.. Anyone can say they are something, but its their actions that count- and what their core beliefs are. There are hardcore social conservatives who talk all of that talk, but could be doing the very things they condemn, in their public lives. Whether they do or don’t, the personal lives of Americans should be none of their concern.

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taksavillage
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:57pm
We have the choice of trying to move toward what we think the voters want or of explaining what Conservatism is and, like Reagan did, drawing them to us.
Think of the parallel in the radio world where top 40 tries to conform to polls while Talk Radio takes a stand and brings them to us. And Talk does it even as hordes of henchmen try to discredit the personalities and distort their views! WHICH FORMAT IS GROWING STRONGER EVERY DAY?

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- Inkmage
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:40pm
  Most of the radio talk show host, say what conservative politicians won’t, or just not strong enough. Then they get all mired down in social issues, and often fall into the left-wing trap, and look like out of touch morons.
  
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- jdickiso
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:42pm
  I’m not going to lie, this article makes some amazing points. It’s true…when I attended FreePAC with freedom works most of the speeches rang hollow. It was buzz words like, “Constitution, Freedom, Liberty” and so on. YES WE GET IT! You are absolutely speaking to the choir. And their solution? VOTE. That’s it? That’s all I can do? Very underwhelming. Honestly, Glenn Beck is at the cutting edge of this stuff. He is actually helping understand that voting doesn’t really get us anywhere, at least not anymore. We need to affect cultural change. We need to win the battle of emotion AND principles based on FACTS. Stop conceding the battle of emotion to the progressives. Change EVERYTHING locally. Worry about the FEDS later. Change your city council, change your school board, change your state legislature. MOST IMPORTANTLY, change the cultural. We need to gather together and support the culture of conservatism. Stand together and ONLY give your hard earned money to those people who hold your principles. PUT PROGRESSIVES OUT OF BUSINESS. If we don’t gather somehow, it will all be over soon and we will have lost.
  
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patriotcaudill
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:39pm
Couldn’t disagree more. Respectively, of course. CPAC 2013 in its first day has been such a firestarter for me. To float the idea that the conservative movement is ‘dead’ is a gross exaggeration in my mind. We have so many great thinkers and Tea Party patriots speaking on our behalf that I’ve never been more optimistic. CPAC 2013 is a flame carried by all of us, fueled by our principles. It is everything FreePAC and Glenn Beck’s wonderful events stand for. I am inspired.

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PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:22pm
Who is the author of this article? He does not understand Conservatism. CPAC is one of the few places where true Conservative. life changing ideas are spoken. Just because CPAC is not willing to give in on principles that define Conservatism and Freedom doesn’t mean we can’t win. Like Rubio said today in his speech that the American idea is the path to the real America.

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Inkmage
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:40pm
I’m also sick of people being so concerned over social conservatism, or what kind of Christian someone may be. All I care about is if that person running for office is a strong follower of the Constitution, and understands real freedom- and isn’t trying to sell collectivism be it from the left with big government, and wanting to be everyone’s politically correct radically secular overseers. Or the right’s big government wanting to be everyone’s priest, and legislate morality.

But most of the blame goes on the idiots who flock to these snake oil salesmen, because their either ill informed, or like having their ears tickled… Both I think really

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- taksavillage
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 7:51pm
  Whether you like it or not a strong moral compass is needed to keep a politician facing the right way. Anyone can say he/she believes in the Constitution. (See Feinstein above!) The fact that the Constitution is based on biblical principles has more of an impact on its strength than the ideas stated. All those ideas are written in a context and have to be understood as such.
  Everyone that has tried to go on their “inner compass” ends up as rudderless as a sailor would be who tried the same gambit.
  
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Inkmage
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:23pm
Video games is another huge thing, actually the biggest right now, which hasn’t been taken over by the left- it can be though, if conservatives keep ignoring the media, and going on about it in the same ignorant way they have. I’m 32, and have been playing video games since I was 7 (still do, and now making them), I’ve played many games with conservative themes, some very heavy. The game Call of Duty was basically like a Black Hawk Dawn, or Act of Valor. The story was great and gave you an idea of what could happen due to what is going on in the world.

Not only that but you walk away with a much bigger appreciation for what those guys do overseas. The game was very well done, the developers consulted with the military, and even a conservative think tank… All I hear from conservatives is how violent it is.. The game isn’t for children, nor is it marketed towards children.

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Inkmage
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:16pm
This guy is dead on, (although I liked Rand Paul’s speech). Brietbart’s quote is also so very true, and its shame conservatives STILL haven’t caught on to it. culture is everything, which means media/technology, academia, and mostly entertainment. Last year there were quite a few films that had heavy conservative themes, one of them being Batman the Dark Knight Rises, which viciously attacked the ideology of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I hoped that this would be talked about, it was though in the wrong way.

It was Rush Limbaugh talking about how the film was attacking Romney because the villain’s name was Bane… If he knew what he was talking about, he’d understand the character was created in the 90′s by conservative comic writer Chuck Dixion.

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:00pm
If “the conservative business model has broken,” it may be because a guy like Grover Norquist has his hand on the throttle and tiller of CPAC and he’s driving that organization onto the rocks!

Grover’s “no new tax pledge” is aimed directly at diminishing the US military. How’s that? The clever bostord knows that entitlement cuts will never happen so if their are no new “revenues” (taxes) we will see the military weakened, much to the liking of Grover’s Saudi masters.

Don’t believe me. Go to http://www.muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com and see for yourself. Frank Gaffney does one heck of a job pulling together plenty of evidence that Norquist is on a mission for Muslim centered, oil financed interests.

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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WakeUpAmerica1776
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 2:58pm
Richard makes some good points and challenges the current view of CPAC. Perhaps there was a time when CPAC was a think tank – a place to solve issues. Like many things right now, it has been co-opted by the establishment. Sure some of the speaches may be red meat for constitutionalists looking for any glimmer of hope, but at the end of the day, I believe Richard’s assertion to be correct.

Think about it! The right wing progressives want power just as much as the left. They will compromise thier values and sell the country out to achieve it given the chance. Keeping us angry with the same old divisions blinds us to the corrupt backroom deals and power brokering which they engage, just as much as the left. They have proven over the last few years they are untrustworthy.

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motionman
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 8:56am
this guy’s obviously a left wing lib hack. This year’s CPAC has line up of all star speakers that can truly
articulate what the Conservative & Libertarian agenda is. The only disservice they did was not inviting Glenn or Rush

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- skimmer57
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 6:18pm
  Gosh yes! I can hardly wait for Palin and Louie Gomerht to articulate what the GOP is all about. These mental giants are the face of conservatives everywhere! Some one que up the banjo music.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:30pm
  SKIMMER57 – I doubt if the rubes even understand your sarcasm. The GOP is at least 2 or 3 cycles away from getting itself back in contention, at least on the national stage.
  
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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:04pm
The guy doesn’t like the U.S. Constitution. What kind of anyone hires such a person as a manager?
Leftwing lunatic fringe.

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- Inkmage
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 5:07pm
  Can’t blame the left for everything, I don’t. I know who they really are, who their heroes are, and what they want. Problem is conservatives don’t get it, and so they don’t say the things that NEED to be said, boldly and intelligently. They’ll do a great job talking about god, and social issues (which needs to stop), but they can’t ever make a bold, intelligent and clear case for the constitution, capitalism, and real freedom- its like they become timid little rabbits. But they do a lot of bold talking at events like this.
  
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