CPAC 2012 Kicks Off in D.C.
- Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:00am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. has become an annual pilgrimage for many conservatives. Every year, thousands descend on the nation’s capital to hear some of the most popular speakers in the conservative world. This year, speakers include Michele Bachmann, John Boehner, Gov. Scott Walker, and GBTV’s own S.E. Cupp. The conference, held at the Marriott Wyndham Park, lasts from Feb. 9 through Feb. 11.
Not able to attend the conference? Don’t worry — you can watch the live stream off all the big speakers by logging on to the CPAC website. And as live embeds become available, we’ll also be posting them below. So be sure to check back regularly.
The Blaze also has several of your favorite writers and bloggers at the conference. Check the blog for regular updates.
UPDATE:
You can now watch the conference live below:
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Dakota Hawk
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:19pmgo easy on Ann….some are late to the party and haven’t educated themselves. She’ll wake up one day and relize she was duped. Ann look at his record. He is a RINO he can’t beet Obama! He’s ran for office some 25-28 times and has only won 5 elections. 5!!! His policies are oportunistic. He flips more than he flops. Even though he has flopped 20 some times as an a canidate. This is the time for a real conservative ….a non-Romney. Its crucial!
Report Post »olddog
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:15pmOh Whoopie I get to listen to Anne Coulter, Hey Anne are you still sleeping with Bill Maher???
Report Post »I just can’t believe anything coming out of that pie hole…
RJL
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:21pmWhat makes the Glitter Man think he can balance the budget? His only accomplishment was balancing Massachusetts budget. Massachusetts is only the size of a postage stamp. If he done such a great job then why didn’t the voters give him another chance?
Report Post »PresidentDowngrade
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:06pmAnne Coulter the next Monica Lowinski…She is gonna put her red white and blue knee pads on and make her way from christies office to willards office.The next laurel and hardy
Report Post »olddog
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:25am@ Patty Heny, You are Right except for the point of Democrats. The Democratic Party is long since Gone. These people are Socialist, Communist and Marxist…This 21% including the media our teachers and unions are and have been for decades trying to make America what They Want,not the majority of Americans like a democracy would suggest…They will do Anything to win, Anything..I turned the media off years ago because of the constants lies, misdirection and basically feeding the Americans people What They want them to believe. We are dealing with Evil to the core peole. If our government is going to investigate Anyone it should be George Soros and friends, There we will find the majority of Americans problems. Right out in the open, everyone knows what he’s doing and has done but no one is stopping him… Why?
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:22pmLove the messages given.. why the heck isn’t it on every radio channel in America… How the heck do we get our country back unless everyone gets the message? I remember my grandparents sitting at the breakfast table every morning listening to the radio then again at lunch time. Lord help us!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:00pmTHERE are 75% of us (CONSERVATIVES/PATRIOTS) and 21% of THEM. THEY are rude; they lie; they are prideful; they will say ANYTHING to make their point. THEY MAKE UP FACTS/FIGURES to support their faux points. They are NOT interested in the TRUTH.
Report Post »THE REASON they got a ‘foothold’ is because they play DIRTY. DECENT AMERICANS don’t get down in the dirt, make up facts, lie and downgrade AMERICA….so for a long time, these lying Liberals have KNOWN that we wouldn’t fight back on the same level they fight. THEY KNEW we would not march in parks, defecate on Police Cars, leave mountains of trash…they thought they were home free. UNTIL they stepped on our FREEDOM OF RELIGION. THEY NOT ONLY STEPPED ON IT…they stepped IN it. NOW get involved. Fight. Do not take their bait and fight in the streets, but fight instead by making sure that Horrible Slug HARRY REID and those horrible ANTI-AMERICANS in the WH are never able to get back in power again. THAT IS HOW WE DEAL WITH THESE DEMONS.
Leopold
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:31pmThis birth control issue was brought up on purpose. It will be used as: “Republicans are against contraception”.
I believe Obama gives the green light to the people in the background. They scheme and deceive the citizen on a daily basis. Making new laws and regulations.
Running THIS CAMPAIGN was started the day Obama entered the White House in 2009. Every decision they have made over the last 3 years was weighed and measured on how it can also be used for his re-election.
Obama cannot do this by himself. I don’t think he is smart enough. He wants power and his minions make sure he gets it. Obama does not love this beautiful country.
Remember when Romney was asked about state controlled contraception. That was done on purpose to bring this issue into the campaign. Now with the Catholic Church fighting against the over-reach of government into religious issues, Republicans are coming out to stand with them.
The Democrats and Obama will bring a message like: “Republicans are against birth control”. That message will motivate mainly young people . So they hope anyways. Obama has lost their enthusiasm and will use this as a tool to get it back.. The young want to get all the free contraception devices they can get. Sex with no responsibility is very appealing and not only to the young, I suppose.
Now it is not about RELIGIOUS FREEDOM anymore, but will be about; ‘Republicans are refusing birth control.” Just wait and see.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:07am@ABBYGIRL1994
That is why we MUST support him .. and get the message out .. he can win and beat Obama .. if the Paul people and Donald Trump don’t screw it up. BTW I will vote for ANYONE but Obama .. I wish those mentioned would take the same pledge!
OMG 2012
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:33pmIm sure the establishment will pick the ken doll mittens rommney, or the war mongering ricky s. And in 2013 one of these guys will take us to ww3. Everyone will be so happy to bomb the middle east. A million dead Iraqis isnt enough.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:10amYes .. those middle east guys are really going to negotiate and stop their war mongering (sarcasm) .. just wait around for them to get a bomb that can reach the U.S. or another terrorist attack like 9/11 only larger. Too many people are that naive. The BEST defense is a strong Offense as Ronald Reagan proved.
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:25pmYou know who won the cpac the last two years in a row? Ron Paul. But now the establishment has done everything they can to make sure he cant win. Just like the voter fraud in Iowa and Nevada .http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/nevada-vote-fraud-official
They hate the message of liberty and sound econmics.
DOWN WITH THE WAR MONGERS
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:30pmAt least you are admitting he can’t win. . . that’s progress. :)
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:03pmI have no allusions. But by having Paul lose the race is no means the death of his message. Rand Paul will be hot on the heels of the neocons. So I take it in strides.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:30pm@Wakeup, Keep the faith
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kspatriot
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:58pmA vote for anyone but Ron Paul, is just a vote for the Status Quo. PERIOD!
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:34pmRand Paul is great. I even Like RON PAUL now that I can hear HIM, but I don’t like his foreign policy! He is an asset but he’s not PRESIDENT. But guess who I don’t like? His PAULBOTS, the hysterical, 20 year old boys who are not mature enough to do anything but ridicule and harass. THEY are the reasons most of us turned off PAUL. I’d love to see him in Charge of THE FED. :) SO grow up PAULIES…you are not helping your candidate. MANY of us have been voting longer than you’ve been alive. We’ve built businesses, we’ve fought enemies inside and outside of our country. We were taken advantage of and now we are awake. IF you seriously want to help the USA and see your candidate (or his son who is coming up) take an active part, then you will stop the threats and slice/dice stuff. YOU don’t have the wisdom required, young Paulbots. You have enthusiasm, you have energy…now get some maturity if you want to help PATRIOTIC AMERICA.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:52pm“His PAULBOTS, the hysterical, 20 year old boys who are not mature enough to do anything but ridicule and harass. THEY are the reasons most of us turned off PAUL”
Mmmhmm… Saying that you dislike and his foreign policy and following up with particular flaws you see in it could foster a decent debate. Calling people PAULBOTS and assuming you know something about who they are based on a few comments here and there on a blog… well you’re just provoking the responses you seem to dislike so much. Sorry, I’m just not buying it.
Report Post »clark
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:04pmRon Paul haters? Lol
Report Post »Get a life. Please?
TRILO
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:52pmBlah…Blah…Blah… This is nothing more than fodder for the sheeple. The same republicans who voted for increases in spending and growth in government programs and departments under Bush are now telling us about the debt problem. Must I remind them that during the Bush years the debt exploded too. Not by as much as under BHO, but it doubled on their watch.
Then they have the NERVE to talk about CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES!!! Coming from the same people who voted to extend the Patriot Act, pass the NDAA, failed to stop the funding for the illegal war in Libya and approved over 30000 drones to fly over and spy on American citizens.
Where is my duct tape!!! MY HEAD IS GOING TO EXPLODE listening to these RINO’s !!!
Report Post »clark
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:05pmThank god I’m not alone.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:55ameven ron paul could be a rino by that definitinition… he loaded up bills with more pork than almost any other member of the house during his time…. he just says he voted no, and he did vote no… but he knew that they would pass and he would get the money….. im not bashing ron paul….. there WAS A GAME THAT WAS PLAYED FOR 4 DECADES in congress. which was who can bring home the most bacon….. the whole country was fooled and EXPECTED THIS GAME… WE VOTED PEOPLE IN BASED ON IT…. so im glad that we have santorum and ron paul standing up for the constitution, and mitt standing up for buisness and free enterprise, newt is a piece, but they are not all total rinos
Report Post »Scott15sb
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:35amTrue conservatism by Ronald Reagan:
Report Post »“I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God’s help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can’t expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living.”
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:14amRon Paul Turns Down CPAC 2012 Invitation, Paul groupies Spew Conspiracy theories. But Paul supporters I’m sure will be marching in with the precision of a stoner drill team and stumbling back out to the tune of the Animal House theme song for the hemp… sorry… straw poll.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:21pmYes .. and Paul has turned down requests to be on numerous talk shows also .. what is he afraid of?
Report Post »clark
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:08pmWhat are you guys afraid of? A real conservative?
Report Post »imbiasedtowardstruth
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:23pmMaybe Paul turned down the chance to speak just to give someone else a chance to win the straw poll: Seeing how he won it the last two years in a row. Or maybe, it’s this http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-excluded-from-2012-cpac-event/
Report Post »I think the later, considering that Dr. Congressman Veteran Ron Paul rarely turns down the opportunity to speak out on behalf of freedom and the Constitution.
Howsit
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:15pmTime_2…
Report Post »That’s funny! I had to admit I laughed at the imagery. What isn’t funny, is that you were able to conjure up an image of Ron Paul supporters as dunk/drug addled nutjobs. You should be ashamed of yourself. Misleading readers that aren‘t familiar with Ron Paul’s principles into believing that if they agree with him, then they too will thus pigeon-holed. More and more Americans are realizing that people that use Alinsky’s rules for radicals (you) to marginalize those they want to destroy cannot be trusted. The more you are revealed, the more people will research things for themselves. You are lucky people won’t know your true identity when they figure out how much of a fraud you really are. Americans won’t easily forgive and forget those that knowingly and willfully lead them down the path to their enslavement.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:12pmCATB. I dunno’ CATB? I thought Ron Paul was a fearless fighter and could take on any question, in any setting, from anyone and makes us all believers because he’s just that good! I have to laugh at his refusal to go on the O’Reilly Factor ’cause he thinks O‘Reilly’s just a mean disrespectful guy. Even though I think sometimes that O‘Reilly’s a blow-hard like Rush, Hannity and others, I like their shows and put them into perspective. The least Ron Paul can do is come on and attempt to crush him (O’Reilly) with his wisdom.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:21pmYeah, yeah… that’s it CLARK! We’re afraid of the REAL Conservative. Who would that be? Certainly not the foreign policy progressive (even left of Obama) Paul. Certainly not the way out there social-Liberal Paul.
Now if you said we (I) was afraid of the neo-lib, quasi-conservative? You would be right because that’s Ron Paul. Oh, but there’s sooooo much more to it than just that.
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:23pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JPvbVsDdY
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:00pmIMBIASED. Yes, we know…. Paul wins EVERTHING… his supporters can either skew on-line polls or show up in college age herds for things like CPAC, Values Voters Summit, etc.
But… ask how many Paul supporters actually stayed and listened to a real patriot like LTC Allen West? As far as college age, liberally educated Paul supporters… it’s mostly all about the dope.
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:04pmYeah didnt know you “a real” patriot is someone who locks up ameriKan citizens with no trial no jury not way to get out. Thats a real patriot. my hats off to you Allen West.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:26pmHOWSIT. Maybe you’re right, I shouldn’t Paint ALL Paul supporters with the same broad brush. I will cencede that. You can’t deny however that there are thousands upon thousands of one issue (mostly college age) Paul supporters who have that one particular issue at the top of their list (drug legalization) and the freedom to do whatever chaotic intoxicant their little addled heart desires. They couldn’t care if it was Obama, Barney Frank or Ron Paul… they can slip and slide back and forth just like the anti-war and anti-military crowd. In their eyes… a Democrat or quasi-con Paul… they don’t really care… whomever gets there first. Not a group of people I would want in my camp. But the big junkyard magnet which is Ron Paul appeals to most of the fringe metal hat wearing in our country.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:33pmWAKEUP. Sure like the way you spell “ameriKan.” Very OWS 99% Democratic Party of you.
Hey did you hear about the BIG TRUTHER guy who is one of Ron Paul‘s BIGGEST SuperPAC’rs. Gary Franchi? I usually don’t take anything by MSNBC seriously…. but just this once, okay?
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/09/10358155-super-pac-supporting-ron-paul-is-operated-by-a-911-truther
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 12:03am@time4chains. enlighten us, who do you support? obamalite, gingrich or St. rick ? or trump?
Report Post »it does not really matter statis quo is statis quo
Howsit
Posted on February 10, 2012 at 2:15pmTime_2
Report Post »I agree with some of what you are saying. There are populations within EVERY voter block that will throw their support to whomever they feel will support their pet projects. They don’t care who or how they get what they want, they just care that they do get what they want. However, your implication that this “ends justifies the means” tactic is unique to Ron Paul’s supporters is where your reasoning derails. Again, you try to marginalize Ron Paul by associating anyone that might support him with the druggies and the crazies. You try to make your presentation of him as “reality” so that people won’t even bother to research it for themselves to learn the truth. I do not do drugs, I am not crazy, I do not wear a metal hat, and I am not “fringe”. The more people identify the Alinsky tactics you are using the more they will not trust what you are saying. The more they research for themselves and find the truth…. the luckier you will be, for being anonymous. :-)
EqualJustice
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:00amOH YAY.. get ready for all the GLITTER freaks. HAHA What a bunch of IDIOTS! :)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:24pmI doubt that they would pay to get in .. if they show up someone paid them to be there .. I wonder who would do such a thing? (sarcasm).
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