Joe the Plumber to Advise Young Republicans at Conservative Conference

By Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post
Posted on February 26, 2009, Printed on May 27, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/story/128992/joe_the_plumber_to_advise_young_republicans_at_conservative_conference

On Thursday, conservatives will be descending on Washington DC, the place they like to slam the most, to galvanize their mission to take back Congress and the presidency. Reports say this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will bring in record numbers despite it not being a midterm or presidential election year. According to The Washington Times, 7,000 people attended last year and 9,000 are expected this year.

Last year President Bush and Cheney were the stars of the event. And Mitt Romney chose the conference to announce that he was suspending his campaign.

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." And of course Rush Limbaugh will be there as the biggest draw.

Katharine Zaleski has been the News Editor of the Huffington Post since May 2005.

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