There was plenty of strong rhetoric coming from the stage at the Republican Leadership Conference here this weekend. …
In some years, the RLC gathering in New Orleans is a cattle call for potential presidential candidates — as it likely will be in 2015. This year, only a few of those who might run in 2016 showed up. Instead, the three-day meeting highlighted the continuing strains of a contemporary conservative movement trying to strike a balance between conviction and compromise, purity and pragmatism. CONT.
Dan Balz, Washington Post