Republican activists keep their sights on Obama at conference

Do we have to see Michele Bachmann kissing babies? I don't recall so many Republican/Conservative conferences in my life. Every week there is another conference with the same group of people with their sound bites talking about how bad the President is. I can only hope that in the 2016 election, the Democrates have just as many conventions and the media covers it the same way.

A parade of long-shot candidates was warmly received by thousands of GOP activists meeting here for the Republican Leadership Conference, an annual gathering that this year turned out to be more of a pep rally than a testing ground for potential presidents.

For all the affection and accolades that greeted the candidates’ red-meat rhetoric, it was clear that the rank-and-file is already turning its focus to the more practical question on the horizon: Who among the field has the best chance of beating Barack Obama next year?

Indeed, it was telling that some of the leading contenders skipped this year’s event, previously known as the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the presumed frontrunner, was raising money in Nevada. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty was doing the same, two blocks away from Romney.

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