

This hour, guest host Peter B. Collins takes on the "clown college for conservative" or CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference). Adele Stan, Washington bureau chief for AlterNet, and Alex Seitz-Wald, Washington staff writer for Salon, join the conversation to explain CPAC's history, what we can learn about dynamics within the party, which issues conservatives will stick with and why the recent glorification of Rand Paul matters.