First Day at CPAC

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My first day at CPAC 2010 began with opening remarks by U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio of Florida. He spoke about his background as being the son of exiles from Cuba. He talked about the need to save the free enterprise system in America.



The next person that spoke was South Carolina senator Jim Demint. He currently heads a Political Action Committee called the Senate Conservatives Fund who is endorsing Marco Rubio of Florida, Chuck Devore of California, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, and Michael Williams of Texas. He talked about the fact that the Constitution as it originally was intended did not specify an income tax or any of the plethora of taxes we have in place today.






A great speker on the first day of the confrence was Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She had the best quote of the first day of the confrence when she said "Stop apoligizing about America and start defending this country." A special surprise was that she brought out her father Dick Cheney who spoke at the confrence.





The next speaker was former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney who was introduced by the newly elected Republican Senator form the state of Massachusetts Scott Brown. In my mind, Mitt Romney is too moderate to carry the mantle of conservative leadership and Scott Brown will almost have to vote moderate with Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe to get reelected but I could be proven wrong.



Our next speaker at CPAC was House minority leader John Boehner of the state of Ohio. One of the plans he laid out when the Republicans take control of the House is to bar Members of Congress from having projects named in their honor.




Our last speaker of the first day of the confrence was Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association. He quickly dispelled the myth that American made assault weapons and rifles were making their way into Mexican and Latin American gangs. He let people know that the 2nd Ammendment was not to allow people to just go hunting but to protect themselves against government if the need arose.

Russell Haggard