CPAC

"I'm worried about her ideas. She's nothing more than the symptom of a broken culture," Charlie Kirk said of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

The commentator made the remark at CPAC, leaving McCain's family upset.

"The Bible will always be used as a justifier for whatever you want." 

Falwell Jr. told the crowd at CPAC on Friday that he has one hundred cows and Ocasio-Cortez better not take them, suggesting that he may hurt her if she attempted to.

Conservatives seem to have replaced principled debate with fear-mongering—but they need a much more comprehensive set of ideas to move ahead.

"The Democrats are now preparing to pounce," said David Gergen, a former White House adviser to four presidents.

Trump declared on Saturday that any colleges who refuses to comply will face a heavy toll on their budgets.

"Rest in peace," Rick Tyler said. "It's over. The problem is that the Republican Party has no grounding governing philosophy anymore."

"That sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s," Samantha Vinograd said.

Donald Trump has previously denied reporting that he mocked Jeff Sessions as a "dumb Southerner."

Cindy and Meghan McCain responded to the comments.

Conservative commentator Candace Owens discussed the black vote and criticized Senator Kamala Harris during her speech at CPAC.

The Green New Deal, claimed Gorka, is a "Watermelon. Green on the outside, deep, deep red communist on the inside."

The rancorous debate on CNN mirrored conversations happening across cable news stations, as surrogates of the president denounced Wolf's cutting jokes but were forced to reconcile them with the president's own history of insulting opponents.

Republican awards honoring conservative African Americans were absent the party's first black chairman.

Fear has been a political motivator for years. But with conservatives in charge of all three branches of government and ISIS on the run, CPAC gathering seemed listless—until a reminder about Trump's troubles blew up the room.

"I'm disappointed about our side about being silent about serial harassers and abusers, including the one sitting in the White House," Mona Charen said at CPAC.

John Bolton said new sanctions against North Korea won't make a difference.

Facing a potential Democratic wave in November, the president returned to the popular themes of his last campaign to rally conservatives for a tough midterm battle.

"She has the appropriate access to brief the president" of South Korea, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said of Ivanka Trump.

A social media firestorm encouraged car companies and other businesses to end discount programs for NRA members.

The president appeared to be alluding to a viral video that showed a bald spot on the back of his head.

President Trump's youngest son, Eric Trump, tells a small audience at CPAC that the nation has lost its "manners" and decries the lack of "consequences for behavior."

Ben Shapiro told President Trump to stop lying, in a rare CPAC rebuke.

"Seb Gorka just got in my face, told me to 'fuck off' and shoved me," reporter Caleb Ecarma tweeted.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen offered a nativist vision of France at CPAC.

Hannity invited his audience into the parallel universe that constitutes Fox News prime time programming.

Pence grieves Parkland victims, cheerleads for Trump, slams Iran and North Korea at Conservative event.

The Republican base seems to have undergone a rightward deviation.

The NRA's Wayne LaPierre and Dana Loesch defended the organization amid widespread outrage after last week's school shooting in Parkland, Florida.