Secretive RW Council for National Policy to meet in Las Vegas soon

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The hot ticket for movement conservatives around Valentine's day? The
invitation-only meeting of the Council For National Policy.

The group's leaders bristle at the word "secretive," but the CNP does
its best to keep prying journalist eyes away. This year, the CNP's
several hundred members will meet at a ritzy hotel in Las Vegas --
probably where liberals would least expect.

For nearly a quarter century, the CNP meetings have brought together
leading conservative policy intellectuals and political movers and
shakers. Candidates who want movement cred often skulk around, as do
professional fundraisers and consultants. That's worried some CNP
stalwarts, who want to tighten membership requirements and keep the
hangers on -- out. Others say the CNP is too stodgy and its members --
the veteran warriors of the movement -- are no longer as relevant.

And competing groups are springing up. About 140 conservatives who
call themselves Legacy -- not Legacy group or The Legacy Project, just
Legacy -- met in Washington, D.C. this week to assess conservative
candidates seeking state and national offices.

That's partly a trademark of CNP. At a meeting last year in Orlando,
members like Paul Weyrich mused about the potential presidential
candidacy of Tim Pawlenty.

In 1999, then Texas Gov. George W. Bush won over not a few prominent
conservatives by promising that his evangelical faith would inform his
policy. One sign of the times: two presidential hopefuls -- Gov. Mitt
Romney (R-MA) and Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) -- spoke to the Legacy.

None are known to be scheduled to speak CNP -- at least not yet. But
in one way -- the flowering of competition is testament to CNP's
power: founded to spread conservative ideas widely, dozens of
conservative movement entrepreneurs owe their success to its success.

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