CPAC's conventional product: Conservative ideas

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Like many conventions, the Conservative Political Action Conference includes sessions on how to sell various products — in this case, conservative political ideas.

CPAC delegates are looking to promote both policies — particularly health care and education — as well as the simple nuts and bolts of getting conservative-leaning people out to vote.

"Yes, We Won in 2014—  but Still Fail on the Ground and Online," announces the title of one CPAC breakout session.

Other CPAC sessions are devoted to "The Conservative Replacement to Obamacare," "Common Core: Rotten to the Core?" "When Should America Go To War?" and "The New Frontiers of Data."

These and other sessions take place in and around speeches by prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates — among the most prominent targets of conservative sales pushes.

Meanwhile, conservative activists roam the halls of the convention center at National Harbor, selling causes that range from legalization of marijuana to asset forfeiture laws. One group hands out buttons reading "God Bless Free Enterprise."

The idea is that delegates will return to their cities and states armed with new arguments, and presumably better ways to publicize them.