As demonstratorsA affiliated with Occupy Wall Street protested on the street outside the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, The Politicker spotted 2008 election star , Tea Party activist and Ohio Congressional candidate Joe "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher standing in front of the Mariott Wardman Park hotel where the conference is being ... (more)

RUSH: I want to move on to Rick Santorum. You talk about being perfectly positioned? Rick Santorum is a practicing Catholic, a pro-lifer. You talk about a candidate who is perfectly positioned to draw the most distinct contrast to Obama and the Democrats and what's going on right now.

For political junkies, the off-year elections held around the nation on Tuesday were pretty thin gruel.

I've finally had it with the "average" Democrats and Republicans who always vote for the best man or woman, and that person seems to be always the party-loyal, well-connected insider, good or bad, put forth and pushed by their party.

Today Romney spoke before a large and applauding audience at the American Conservative Union's CPAC 2012.

Last July, Rep. Michele Bachmann emerged as the darling of the Tea Party. She appeared on the cover of Newsweek with crazy eyes, and that was that.

CNN suspended Martin indefinitely for a series of tweets he sent on Super Bowl Sunday.

"Ultimately, I'm a lobbyist for freedom," a man in a yarmulke tells a pretty girl in the basement of a cavernous Marriott in northwest Washington.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gary Glenn of Midland Tuesday night won the support of the delegates a Cass County TEA Party group will send to a statewide convention of 55 such groups later this month where they will endorse and unite behind one candidate in the GOP Senate primary.

What did we learn walking around CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual Woodstock for the right, held in Washington, D.C.? For starters, don't expect the GOP presidential race to end anytime soon.