Official CPAC 2014 open discussion thread

[Valli6]

National Review:

Paul: ‘Great and Tumultuous Battle Underway for the Future’
By Eliana Johnson March 7, 2014 3:15 PM

For the first time since the Conservative Political Action Conference convened on Thursday morning, the excitement in the conference’s sprawling ballroom was palpable. The reason: freshman senator Rand Paul.

In the midst of a conference that, by comparison to those of other years has lacked electricity, the mere presence of the Kentucky senator brought the crowd to its feet. The audience rose as he took the stage and lined the sides of the packed hall. ....

http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...ultuous-battle-underway-future-eliana-johnson

 

[thehungarian]

Anyone got a tuber? I missed it, of course.

 

[William Tell]

Anyone who thinks Rand isn't electable, just look at the reaction when he does what he does best, standing up for freedom and the constitution. It's the kind of uniting stuff that makes for a landslide election

Yeah, but we have to keep in mind, that a ton of those cheering already liked Rand enough to travel and pay good money to see him.

 

[Harald]

Video of full speech is available at mediate:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rand-pau...cpac-speech-we-must-defend-the-rights-of-all/

 

[Liberty74]

Just home from work and missed Rand's speech. Anyone have it on video yet? I see nothing on YouTube.

Edit: I just saw above...thanks

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Steve Deace is slobbering over Huckabee on facebook, and Kevin Gutzman revealed himself to be a fraud by praising Reagan and saying Huckabee, Rubio, Walker, and someone else would be good candidates.

 

[William Tell]

Bruce Fein is doing a good job talking about Snowden, except he keeps calling our country a Democracy. Is he really that ignorant?

 

[William Tell]

He just called it a Republic now.

 

[specsaregood]

Bruce Fein is doing a good job talking about Snowden, except he keeps calling our country a Democracy. Is he really that ignorant?

He is no dummy. His book will make your head hurt.

 

[jurgs01]

https://www.facebook.com/candidates4libertydotcom/posts/10100313927459054

 

[Crashland]

Jim Gilmore makes me want to pull my hair out. His defense of the NSA is sickening. But fortunately the crowd is not on his side, and I don't think the greater American people are either.

 

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Trending on Twitter:

 

[jurgs01]

I liked Rand's use of the hardcore drinking song Tubthumping

 

[juleswin]

Here a youtube video of the speech.

 

[mello]

Good speech. I also watched the Snowden debate afterwards with Bruce Fein. that was really interesting too.

 

[eleganz]

I think Rand got some extra votes after that brilliant speech. I think envoking the sons of liberty really helped him there.

 

[William Tell]

He is no dummy. His book will make your head hurt.

I guess it was a slip of his tongue, he said democracy at least twice. And Republic once.

 

[anaconda]

Just out of curiosity, why do you have an avatar of Jimmy Carter?

Some day I want to be able to smile that much.

 

[anaconda]

About 1/4 of what is coming out of Santorm's mouth actually makes sense

So he's having a relatively good day.

 

[anaconda]

No one appointed to introduce Rand? I like it. Just show up and start talking.