[applause] the score is not just a belief in our that is tough in this city. çi do not think i need to say anything more as i turn the microphone over to the only perfectly rated senator in this country. [applause]

>> i wish i could tell you what's happening here means to those of us who are on the front lines. we're carrying up the rear here up in washington. i have a great honor. i want to introduce to you your keynote speaker and one of the most exciting people i think you will hear from in this congress. a u.s. civic candidate from florida -- [applause] this candidate is going to lead republicans once again to lift the banner of common-sense conservative principles and help save freedom in america. last may, i was in 8 meeting with republican senators who were getting after endorsing gov. chris in florida. at that time, he led by over 30

points. unfortunately, they were putting holes -- polls before principles. what they did not know was that a few minutes later, i would meet him for the first time. in the course of 15 minutes, listening to him speak, as you willko shortly, i heard the most refreshing passionate defense for conservative principles and american greatness that i had heard in 10 years in washington. u ç later, the washington establishment laughed it off. they are not laughing now. [applause] he comes to us today more than 10 points ahead.

as one of the leaders of the american awakening that will hopefully save generations -- save freedoms for generations for to come -- generations to come. his mom and dad worked blue- collar jobs their entire lives. he is a florida gator graduate. he earned his law degree from the university of miami. he is a volunteer community leader and a family man. he and his wife have four children. he was elected to the florida house of representatives in 2000 where he served as majority whip, majority leader, and speaker of the house. he promoted lower taxes, better schools, a leaner more efficient government and free market. he will win it, absolutely. please welcome a great leader for aç new generation of conservatives. [applause]

>> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. i really appreciate it. thank you, senator, who believed in me when most of the people who lived -- believed in me lived in my house. thank you to cpac. i am honored that you have me here in washington. i was watching all of the images of the winter weather that even impacted government. congress could not meet to vote on bills. [applause]

çthe regulatory agencies could not meet to set new regulations either. the president could not find anyone -- anywhere to setup a new teleprompter to announce new taxes. ç[ççñkgobççxhyçw3t(qíroe best thing to happen to the american economy in 12 months. [applause] i want to recognize all of you folks that came up from florida who are here today. i saw some of the young republicans from the university of central florida here and i want to recognize them. thank you. my wife was able toç join us today. i told you that people come to my speeches. [laughter] as i reflectim3 on thiswçóiññ, it reminds me of my grandfather. u!my grandfather was an enormous

influence on me growing up. he was born in 18992 familyç in cuba. he had polio as a very young man. he could not work the farm until they sent him away to school. he became the only member of his family that could read. he would read anything and everything he could. when iw3 was growing up, my grandfather lived with us. on many days, i would sit on the porch of our home and listen to him tell me stories about history, politics, and baseball. çit has beenç over 27 yearsçe i have satw3 on the porch. all the details of the things he has told me are not as clear as they once were. there is one thing i vividly remember. çit was a powerful sentiment tt he wanted to make sure i understood. çççzvba to you was born to, there was only so much he was able to accomplish. he wanted me to know that i

would not -- there was no dream, no ambition, no aspiration unavailable to me. he was right. ççi was not born to a wealthir connected family. "s!me>!?xd never felt limitedy ^duzç; circumstances of my birt. i haveç never welts' -- once ft that there was something i could not do because of who my parents why isçsit that i have been abe toç accomplish theq thingsç ty grandmother could not -- grandfather could not? i amv:ño' privileged. i am privilegedt( toç be a citn of the single most greatest -- greatest society in history. [applause] there has never been a nation

like the united states ever. it begins with the principles of our founding document. çprinciples that recognize that our rights come from god, not for our government. -- not from our government. [applause] okçprinciples that recognize tt because all of us are equal in the eyes of our creatorç, all life is sacred atw3 every stagef life. [applause] çóçthese principles embodied a commitment to individual liberty which has made as the freest people in history. çóçthey also made possible oure enterprise economy which has made us the most prosperous people in history. the result is an american, which is the only place in the world where it does not matter where you came from. you can be anything you are willing to work hard to beat.

-- work hard to beat. -- to be. the result is the most reliable defender of freedom in the history of the world. there is nothing like america and all the world. it even today, with the problems that we face, how would you rather be? which country would you trade places with? just remember, ask yourself, when was the last time that you heard news accounts about a boat load of american refugees arriving on the shore of another country? [applause] there have always been those that do not recognize this. they think that we need a guardian class in american government to protect us from ourselves. they think that the free enterprise system is unfair,

that a few people make a lot of money and the rest of us get left behind. they think that america's enemies exist because of something america did it to worç earned their enmity. the problem is that in 2008, leaders with this world view won the election. now they know that the american people will never support their vision of america, so instead of the last 12 months, they have used a severe economic downturn, a severe recession, as an excuse to implement the status policies that they have long for all this time. [applause] they're using this downturn has coverage to fix -- not to fix america, but to change america. to fundamentally redefine the role of government in our lives and the role of america in the world.

let's remember the expansion of government has implications abroad for this country. it is being funded by borrowed money. fáalmost half of this money is held in foreign countries. one of them, china, every time we say something they did not agree with, they remind us of that. çthe good news is that it did t take long for the american people to figure all this out. [applause] ççças we near these midterm elections, with the american -- what the american people are looking for is very clear. they are looking for leaders to understand what has happened, who will come up up here and stand up against and an offer a clearç alternative. we have to understand what has happened. leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy, and our country.

people figured this out over a year ago. they did not wait for their senator or for their congressman to do something about it. they did it themselves. they have taken mattersç into their own hands. from t parties to the elections in massachusetts. -- from tea parties to the election in massachusetts. [applause] we are witnessing the single greatest political push back in american history. [applause] the political clout to makeç sense of all of this, but they cannot. never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more at of touch with the american people than they are today. ç2010 is not just at( choice

between republicans and democrats. it is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation. [applause] the issues are so big, so consequential, so generational, that many of the old rules of political engagement will not apply. forq example, a long list of early establishment endorsements will not spare you a primary. çççt(ç[applause] clever one slogans are not going to spare you the need to discuss policy issues in detail. [applause] the old tired political attacks

thatt( works once in the past ae not going to get you elected this time. [applause] the reason is simple. people get it. t(they understand that if we get this wrong, there may be no turning back for america. that is why the second thing leaders want -- the people want our leaders that will come here to washingtonçi] d.c. and stanp to this big government agenda and not be coopted by it. [applause] after all, the u.s. senate already has won our inspector too many. çarlen specter too many. [applause] america already has a democrat

party. it does not need to democrat parties. -- two democrat parties. it is true. americans do want leaders that will come to washington and work together to get things done. that comes with a very important caveat. it depends what they're trying to do. [laughter] if they are working to lower tax rates, simplify the tax cut, they want us to work together. i]if they are working to get control of a runaway federal debt and annual deficits, they want us to work together. if they are working to defeat radical islam and the threat that is opposed to terrorism, they want us to work together. [applause] however, if the goal is to ó8(p'don the american free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert america into a submissive member of the

international community, if the goal is not to fix america, but to change america, then they want leaders who will come up here and fight it every step of the way. [applause] 1

instead oft( havingñ] the federl government go out and open an insurance company, let's make a seriesmç of simple changes that puts the consumer in charge of health care spending in america. while we are at it, --

[applause] let's undertake serious measures to show that we are serious about getting control of our federal national debt. americans are also looking for clear alternatives on the issues of national defense. there is no greater risk to this radical islamic terrorism. let me be clear about something. these terrorists are not trying to kill us because we offended them. they attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can in america is standing in their way. [applause] we need to make it unmistakably clear that we will do whatever it takes for however long it takes to defeat radical islamic terrorism. [applause]

we will punish their allies like iran. like israel. we will target and we will destroy terrorist cells. it will capture them. -- we will capture them. we will get useful information from them. we will bring them to justice in front of a military tribunal in guantanamo.

[applause] as i said, in front of a military tribunal in guantanamo, not a civilian court room in manhattan. çlet me close by saying this -- for many of us who were born and raised in this country, it is sometimes easy to forget how special america really is. i was raised by people who know what it is like to lose their country, by people who have a unique perspective on why elections matter or lack thereof.

by people who clearly understand how different america is from the rest of the world. they have taught me this my whole life. they taught me by work -- by word and by deed, that what makes america great is that impossible everywhere else, but are possible here. why is that? it is because of the choices that people who came before us made. almost every other country in the world chose to have the government run the economy. they chose to allow government to decide which companies survived and failed. they chose to allow government to determine which industries are to be rewarded. the problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence the government keep winning. everybody else stays the same. in those countries, the employee never becomes the employer.

the small business can ever compete with the big business. no matter how hard your parents worked or how many sacrifices they made, if you were not born into the right family in those oçcountries, there is only so r you can go. we have had our excess here in america. for the better part of 234 years, americans have chosen something very different. americans chose individual security of government. americans chose a limit of government -- a limited government?; that protects -- t ex} to protect our rights. americans chose a free enterprise system designed to çprovide equality of opportuni, not compel the quality and results. that is why this is the only place in the world were you can open up a business and a spare bedroom of your home. that is why this is the only

place in the world where a company that started as an idea drawn out on the back of a cocktail napkin can one day be publicly traded on wall street. that is why this the only country in the world where today's employee is to mars employer. -- tomorrows employer. yet, there are still people in american politics claim to it -- cling to this belief that america is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people emigrated here from there. [applause] they have the right to believe whatever they want. i do not have that option. i am one generation removed from a very different life. my mother was one of seven sisters born to my grandfather. born to a very humble parents struggled every day.

it even tougher. his mother died when he was only 6 years old. the day after her funeral, he went to work selling coffee in the streets of havana. he worked from been on for 70 years. the came to america with nothing. no english, no money, and a friend.i] ç wonly the strong determinatioo provide theirç]iç children af theçç opportunities they never had. my mom worked as aok cashier, a factory worker, and made and a stock clerk. my dad was a baránleq both of my parents worked jobs so that their children could have careers. their life was never easy. how many nights did i hear myñrç ç70-year-ñrold father at the dr as he came home afteri] a anothr 16-hour day? how many mornings what i would wake up and run into my mom who was coming home from an overnight shift as a stock clerk?

when you are young and in a hurry, the meaning of those moments escapee. as the years go by, and as my own children get older, i understand it now. i realize that my parents were once my age, that they once had dreams, that there were things they once wanted to accomplish. because of where they were born, because of who theyñr were born too, because they lost their country, their dreams never had a chance. they came here to america and went to work. it became the mission of their lives to give us the chance to do everything that they could not. i know that every chance i have ever had and everything that i will ever accomplish, i hope to god, to my parents sacrifices, and to the united states of america. [applause]

my parents never achieved wealth or influence. there harbert open doors for their children that had been closed -- their hard work opened doors for their children that had been close to them. it is a story that is rare in the world. yet it is common here. it is common here because those that came before us chose to live in a free society. it is coming here because those who came before us chose free enterprise. now our leaders are asking us to choose something very different. they're asking us to abandon the things that separate us from the rest of the world. those that came before us made

their choice. now you and i must make ours. i must decide how do i want my children to grow up in the country that i grew up in or do i want them to grow up in a country like my parents grew up in? you must decide. do you want your children to inherit your hopes and your dreams or do you want them to inherit your unfilled and unresolved problems? -- owe want to continue to be exceptional or are we prepared to become like everybody else? it is a clear choice between two different very futures -- a very different features. -- two very different futures. my four children, your children

and grandchildren, are members of the most important generation of american history. if we succeed in convincing the american people to fall loss, there's a be the most prosperous generation in the history of our -- follow us, there is will be the most prosperous generation in history of our country. the final verdict of our generation will be written by americans who have not even been born yet. let us make sure they write that we made the right choices. çin the early years of this century,÷ facing trouble in an uncertain times, there were those who believed that the great american story had run its course. that we did not agree, fear did not lead us to abandon our liberty. uncertainty did not lead us to abandon the contras and moral spirit. we fought for those things and çmade -- and because we did, there was still one place in the world or the individual was more

important than the state. çthere was still one place in e world where who you, from does not to determine where you get to go. letç us ensure that history's s clear. ensure that history's likei] those american to keep beforeç us, we rose to faceç e challenges of our times.q like those americans who came before us, we've made the right choice. because we did,ç atç least foe generation more, the american merkel lived on. -- the american merkel lived on. -- miracle lived on.ç thank you. [applause] >> i am going to turn the microphone back to the senator.

[applause] before i do that, i would like to say this. át you and others around the country this year, not only do people share ourçi%iu)árjz d the vision so well articulated byç our keynote speaker this wi+ning, but wherever you go, they say what can i do? that is why people are gathering inç movements all around the country. done. we showed it in massachusetts. one of the things that we are going to work with the senator and others is a group of home

parties in the fall before the next election that we hope will take place in 100,000 homes across the country. but there are other things we can do. anyone who is interested knows that they can goñr to conservative.orgç. please do that. joined with's and join -- join with us in this effort to preserve the america that we love. [applause] ç >> am i supposed to sing alon? ç[laughter] oki could use a man like that in

the united states senate. [applause] if you did not love this country when you got here today, i know you love it now. i was standing backstage with tears, just reminding myself of çwhat we have here, what a treasure. david, thank you. ççthank you to theç american conservative union for organizing this critical mass of conservative hope and change. i[applause] ççafter todayçó,ççó after i s happening around theç country,i am really excited aboutçó the prospects for conservative republicans. three years of the democrat majority and just one year of president obama have awakened americans and led millions to

be, more passionate advocate for freedom -- to become more passionate advocate for freedom. this has created a new wave of republicans who are embracing the energy and passion of the american people. the democrats arrogance and audaciousç power grabs have mae americans stand up and say, enough is enough. [applause] w3we now all -- we see all too clearly that the hope and change that the democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. now that the democrats goals are glaringly obvious, the battle is between the american people and the democrats and i like those odds.

americans have been stunned by the fact that in the world's greatest bastion of freedom, our government now owns the biggest auto companies, the largest mortgage companies, and the largest insurance companies. it controls our schools and it is trying to take over our health care system. the federal government is assaulting almost every sectorxd are free marketç economy at a time when i fear america is teeteringok toward tyranny. çi wasç thrilled to hear thatc adopted the theme of saving freedom for this year's meeting. sitting freedom is something that i have been thinking a lot about. i published a book last yeart( f the danger of losing freedom is

no longer theoretical. it is very real. i wanted to remind people that our country has been the boast prosperous, the most prosperous nation -- the most prosperous nation and exceptional in so many ways to treat their economy, our culture, our government wereç built on principles of freedom that were unique in the entire world. understanding of american history will confirm that a good government policy is always based on a proven principlesç. it proven principles are derived from constructive values. constructive values are founded on judeo-christian convictions. if we remove the foundations for our principles and policies, america will fall. those principles were written into a contract with the american people that promised to

limit the federal government's power. we call that contract the constitution. when it was signed, it did not even allowed a federal income tax. that sounds like a good way to limit the size of a federal government to me. every congressman, president, supreme court justice takes an oath to protect and defend that constitution. ii] think it is time that they started honoring that oath. ç[applause] the principles of freedom require limited government and a vibrant private sector. freedom cannot exist without free markets, individual freedom, and personal sq%ei+ real freedom includes the right

to succeed, to build a large business and to make lots of money. it also includes the freedom from -- from mismanaged institutions to fail. despite the call for freedom from the american people, there is still a struggle within the republican party about who we are and what we stand for. it is really a fight between those who take their constitutional oath seriously and those who do not. [applause] we all swear an oath to protect and defend the constitution that specifies a very limited federal government. it is hard for me to believe that congressmen and senators who continue their addiction to parochial earmarks in their support for almost every new spending program have read the same constitution i have.

that is why i introduced a budget reform proposal just a few weeks ago. this proposal would put a one- year moratorium on your marks and require congress to balance the federal budget. [applause] we have got to do it. all republicans should support these two common sense bills. there are currently 12 republican senators who have concert -- co-sponsored this proposal and no democrat. my website lists the names and phone numbers of those who have and have not signed on as co- sponsors. please do me a favor and use those phone numbers to encourage senators who are not cosponsoring to join us with this proposal. think about it. with our countryç drowning in debt, if we cannot give up court

for one year and will not even try to balance the budget now, there is no reason to think that we will ever do it tomorrow. we cannot continue to trust budgets that call for more spending, more borrowing, more debt with the big promises to cut spending some time in the future. we should all take caution from the biblical admonition from proverbs, the borrower is slated to the lender. it is a truth that becomes more apparent for country every day. we're piling up trillions of dollars of debt for our children that they have to pay back. i refuse to commit my children and grandchildren to a lifetime of debts slavery because people in washington are too willing to trade freedom for earmarks and kickbacks. [applause] thank you.

a some of you know, i have been criticized by some of my republican colleagues for saying that i would rather have 30 republicans in the senate who believe in the principles of çokfreedom than 60 who do not believe in anything. [applause] çlet me make myself even clear, i would rather have 30 marcos in the senate than 60 arlen specter's. if wexd had 30, we would not hae to settle for just 30. strong conservatives who believe in a constitutional limited government will pave the way to a new republican majority that

will keep our promises to the american people. [applause] the best way to reach earned the trust of the american people and to reclaim a republican majority is to find and support candidate who believe in the principles of freedom. it is that simple. that is why i founded the senate conservatives fund. i am afraid we are causing a little trouble for the establishment. i believe in holding incumbent republican senators accountable to the principles that we say we believe and. t(when republican senators do nt do the things that they say they believe, voters should have a choice of a new republican. [applause] ça real republican.

we in doris -- that seem to encourage arlen specter to follow his liberal roots back to the democrat party. we caused a little more trouble when we endorsed marco in florida. i think we need a good choice on that one. ç-- i think we made a good choe on that one. we endorsed another true conservative in california. even though some of our colleagues had already picked another candidate. chuck is here at cpac and iç he

you will give him a hero's welcome. we endorsed michael williams in texas. senator hutchinson has announced that she will retire from the senate. michael is here and i cannot wait for you to hear him speak. let's talk for a minute about the presidential race in 2012. i help americans -- this time, i hope americans will expect more from their next president than a great speech. we have confirmed that you y it is because you are good on television does not mean you can sell socialism to freedom loving americans.

we need a leader who were mind americans how we became the greatest nation in history and what we need to do to make sure that we are the greatest nation in the future. mythis will require telling americans the cold hard truth. if america is going to survive and thrive in the future, the federal government must do less and not more. [applause] w3no more false hope and empty more failed government solutions. we need to get back to basics. that means no more bail out. that means we will not spend money we do not have. it means that we will not throw out the face of our founding fathers. -- face of our founding fathers. -- faith of our founding

fathers. america's future will be brighter than our past if politicians have the courage to stop using other people's money to oppose their good intentions on everybody else. [applause] if they have the courage to restrict the federal government to only those things that it has to do, like defend our nation, create a low tax business environment, keep our promises to seniors and veterans. for those things we do not have to do at the federal level, we should return power and money to the people in the states. ç[applause] reducing the size and scope of

the federal government is the only way to cut spendingç, to save freedom, andç to save america. we need leaders who are willing to tell america this truth. please continue to help support to and promote and believe in those leaders. it i want to thankç eachñr of u personally for your support to and encouragement. you regularly recharge my batteries. i did not come to washington to make friends and so far i have not been disappointed. [laughter] [applause] thank you for being a friend. i have taken many positions and have defended the president, the union bosses -- i have even offended a few of my republican colleagues. it feels like i am trying to hold back the tide in the battle

gets a little tiresome. -- and the battle gets a little tiresome. if i could not come here every year and plugged into the cpac renewable energy source, i would not even have the strength to show up at waterloo much less when the battle. -- when the battle. -- win the battle. [applause]

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>> ladies and gentlemen, lesley sanchez. >> good morning. i am energized. how about you guys? a year ago, there were press reports that conservatism was dead in america. i think the crowd here and the energy shows how wrong the press can be. no doubt about it. thank you so much. it is going to be a dynamic couple of days. i'm excited to be with you. we're going to demonstrate how

conservatism is alive and why is a life. the theme of this year's conference is saving freedom. we will be doing it to the strength of our ideas, technology at our fingertips, and the inspiration of the voices that lead this movement. i want to talk to you about technology. you may be seeing a little bit about cpac. if any of you are on facebook or twitter, please use the # cpac. it is driving the liberals crazy. at 10,000 strong, i want to announce that i am on the board of resurgent republic, a dynamic organization that will -- please take a look at it. we hope to have your interest

and involvement. moving on to the first panel, it is going to be saving freedom for future generations. i have the honor of introducing the executive director of the young americans for liberty, an organization that grew out of the student's of ron paul. it is really quite an amazing achievement. just less than eight months, they established over 500 college and high-school chapters in all 50 states and has over 26,000 students joined who were part of the ron paul 2008 campaign. please help me in welcoming him. [applause]

>> good morning, cpac. thank you very much for it joining us here in the belly of the beast, washington d.c. will discuss a panel, saving freedom for future generations. how we will prevent tyrannyçxdd save this country and restore the american republic. you are not here to hear from me this morning. our distinguished panelists are ççfirst,okvq+in mccullough ie hjdñç of national syndicated radio showç and the ceo of the extreme media. he is a twice best selling author and a fox news contributor. next is stephen baldwin. i don't know if he needs an

introduction. he is an actor and a family man and a born-again christian. he is the august of the baldwin brothers and has appeared in over 80 television and movies. next is ohio rep. he has served to tower -- to two wars in iraq. -- two tours in iraq. he was elected as state representative in 2006 and reelected in 2008. he is a proud leader of the school of choice movement and holds a bachelor degree from the ohio state university, a lot -- a law degree and has completed the investment decisions of the table finance program at harvard university. çhe and his wife currently rese

in ohio. i want to talk about the panel. we will discuss some of the tactics and philosophical approaches to saving freedom for future generations. i would like to introduce kevin mccullough. çq>> good morning, cpac. i am glad you are with us. xdokççpresident obama said wel lying in telling our friends untruths about things. xdçthen he said he was going to call us out. we showed up. washington tod. çwe're talking about saving freedom for the next generation.

we're talking about the greatestç task being asked of y generation to beç passed on to those who are 30 and under. in the history of our nation, the greatest task that has been asked of a single generation with perhaps the exception of the world war ii generation. this enemy does not come from foreign elements or reside in the halls of academia and legislatures and of judiciary's that have ignored the people that sent them there. that is you and me. the problem is that now we are asking those that are 30 and under to step up to the plate and to solve the problem that my generation and my parents' generation did not have the courage to correct. how do we do that? çhow do we do that with a clear çconscience and a straight fac? çhow do we in power that group that says i want to be involved. i know about internet and

technology. i know about things that can be used for the cause. the best that washington can do is say, go become someone's intern. some day weñr might let you maka decision about something. we are here to say right now, at this very moment, at this cpac, this generation does not have to wait in line anymore. ç[applause] çwe are hereç to say and i ame to predict that this is -- that it is the energy of the under 30 generation this day that in their time we will see the end and fall of roe v. wade. çi am here to predict that then the elections of 2010 and 2012, we are going to see a magnificent energized, articulate, smart generation go

to their friends and talk to their professors on campus, challenged assumptions. they will not sit at the back of the bus. they will not take no for an answer. why do i know this? because they are here today at cpac. çhow do we go about empowering them if my generation failed? how do we go about giving them the toolsq that will help them o what they need to do? qget with them in, encourage them power them, or get the out of the way. it is not the timeç to lead eae -- ego override the purpose. it is not the time to say, you did not weigh your turn in line. it is not the time to say, you have not gone to all the things that i have in my a mediocre

existence in public policy. is it any surprise that 52% of the american people said this week that president obama does not deserve a second term. is it any bigger surprise that 63% of theñrçç american peopld throw everyone in washington d.c. to the curb and start over again? [applause] i am a pragmatist. if you are -- i will fight like madd to keep you where you are. -- i will fight like mad. w3i am not that terribly disturd that sarah palin keeps getting shot at, her books keep making more and more money.

i am not terribly disturbed that right now, mike huckabeet( would beat president obama by 6 points. the truth is, this generation understands the score. they just need a little encouragement. they need a little bit of empowering to say, do not hold me back. let me turn might twitter feed on and what magic happen. . .

>> led happen.

thank you for being here. [applause] >> wow. i feel like i can just relax now. no pressure. i get the wonderful pleasure each and every saturday night of sharing a radio microphone with that guy on a program we do. i will tell you very briefly how kevin and i came together. my wife listens to christian radio all day long. i was outside, working in the yard and in the kitchen i heard my wife going that's right.

you tell them. she was listening to a program hosted by this gentleman you just heard. i walked into the room and i stood there for a minute and watcher get more and more excited. she says you are fantastic, you are cute and wonderful, but you need to be more like this guy. that subsequently led to calling in to the program several months later, saying hello and defending kevin. in a story that is way too long to tell, partnering with kevin to do this radio program and launch another idea we have

called extreme media which is a content reality we want to utilize to fire up the conservative movement, stand up and start to push back louder and more ferociously than it ever has before. i'm not going to get too specific about politics. i'm going to do best way have done on my 44 years on the planet, i'm going to try to keep it simple. i am here today because kevin and i were here at cpac last year. there were 5000 young conservative people here. we had the opportunity to observe that for a large

percentage of the time they were here, there was not for them to come together, share their ideas, andp!yñ platform and fellowship. interestingly enough, we turned to each other and said the why is that? why don't the young conservatives here at cpac have an opportunity to have a platform greater than the one that existed? thank god, thank goodness, if it wasn't for cpac they would not have come together in the first place. so kudos to cpac for all it has already done in its history. [applause] kevin and i said we're going to

come together and see if we can create an atmosphere at cpac and we were blessed to have cpac, once they heard our idea, graciously accept the idea that we have something happening here today and during this whole experience called xpac, which is a social and entertainment lounge for young conservative folks to come together, hang out, have some food, get to know one another, share their ideas, sure they're fresh, new, smart, intelligent, innovative concepts about what might be a way to make greater strides for the conservative movement in the future. it's really funny to me because little companies have been

started by some very young people. companies like google, companies like facebook, started by young people -- enola's great about this people? they did not wait their turn. they were people who had the belief in themselves that they could leave something if they just stood up and chased their dream and had a voice and did not wait to be heard. so we are so excited to be here this year and launched in partnership, the xpac 2010 of lounge. we have over a thousand kids to have signed up to come through. this is all we want to do -- we want to say to them that we are here for you. what are your ideas?

what do you think is going to be the best way to move the conservative ideals for word in the future? it is time to pass the torch from the current generation to the next generation and let these young people be the are. let them have the breath of life to live and experience what they believe at what they love. i have been working in hollywood for 20 years. pray for me. it's not easy to be standing at this podium and at the back but i am a conservative. [applause] and i'm not afraid to stand up for what i believe and.

[applause] i want to give you guys some good news -- there are a whole lot more conservative in hollywood than you guys realize. gary sinise is a wonderful conservative. i think we have coming together now is absolutely perfect storm. we have a perfect conservative storm on the horizon. all we need to do is remember if we keep enough fuel and gasoline in reserve, and that is the young people. if we have enough young people who feel compelled to stand up

and allow their voice to be heard, that warrant it going to swell and everything we stand for that is the reason we're here today will come together and all must will see a realized reality of what we hope for that will be the future of the conservative movement. thank you very much for giving us this opportunity. got left and thank you very much. [applause] -- god bless and thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. i am a state representative from the cleveland area in ohio. [applause] i'm running for state treasurer in ohio. [applause]

as i have been traveling the state, i have a lot of. some of these people, but i'm their age 40, want to be congressman or by the time they're 50, they wanted to the governor or, by the time they're 61 to be a senator. i try to keep my goals relatively simple. by the tisq 35, i hope to be shaving. [applause] ladies and gentleman and all you young hard charges out there, wanted, story of how united states marine corps. i shipped off to paris island

south carolina and came back to the cleveland area and was in a reserve unit, going to law school there. my third year of law school, there was an opening on our city council. i decided to run for city council and i was told listen, kid, you are too young. wait your turn. i did not like that as a reason not to run. and i know from steve's comments that he does not like that either. so i bought a pair of shoes and started knocking on doors. i knocked on every door in the community. i stood on their doorstep and stood on principle. [applause] and i was elected to city council. thank you. i was sworn in and then i was activated to do my first tour in

iraq with the brains in 2004. -- with the marines in 2004. in my first piece of legislation upon returning, i wanted to introduce a piece of legislation that had meet on the bones that would impact the community. i introduced legislation to reduce property taxes in our community. [applause] the other councilmen said you can actually lower the taxes. that's not possible. i went out there and did my homework, i took an intellectual approach and worked with the finance director and bankers and different experts in the community and came back and said listen, we can do this. we can keep our community on sound financial footing and get some property tax relief to our citizens. the other councilman said listen, we're going to embarrass you. we're going to vote this down 1-

6. don't proceed. i'm not one to back down from a fight. [applause] i took out my note pads and the notes i took a people's doorsteps and i made about 1000 phone calls and that people to come to little city council meeting where the same eight people show up every other week and asked -- and at this meeting, we had over 300 people show up. [applause] one by one, they got up there and said to the other councilman, we want you to lower our taxes and vote for this proposal. instead of the vote being 1-6, it ended up being 6-1. [applause]

i submit to you this little city council meeting in many ways was a precursor to a lot of these deportees we see happening are on the state of ohio and the country. -- these little tea parties we see happening are around the state of ohio and the country. people who are not necessarily republicans, independents, or democrats. people believe in our country and freedom and the principles of economic freedom. they want to come out and take their country back. [applause] i have been proud to speak in democratic-rich areas throughout ohio that these t parties. on the reagan's 99th birthday, we had -- in dayton, ohio, had a thousand people.

throughout the state and country, people want to take our country back. [applause] so in 2006, i decided to run for the state house of representatives in an interesting district. it is approximately two-one democrat to republican. half the district is represented in congress by dennis to salvage. -- by dennis kucinich. i went to a lot of the leaders in my area as an they said listen, you cannot win this district. some other folks said listen, you are too young, with your turn. so i went out and bought another new pair of shoes and in 2006, started knocking on doors in the snow in the february and did 19,6079 doors.

-- not on approximately 19,6079 doors. [applause] i wore out 3 pairs of shoes and with the help of people like yourselves, people who believe in freedom, who believe that families and businesses should keep more of their hard-earned dollars and they get enough to the government [applause] knocking doors, standing on doorsteps, licking envelopes, i was able to get elected. [applause] when i got down to columbus, the state house, i decided i was not there to keep my mouth shut and i was not there to bite my time. i was there to stand on principle and i have been proud to be a leader at are state house. i'm proud to stand with people, including legislators like jimmy stewart and others to stand for

these principles and advocate for these principles and of our state and our country for into it with a lot of young people by our side. [applause] a lot of people, including those in the media, want this to believe it's a waste of time to spend on college campuses and talk with young professionals in their 20's and '30's. i think the opposite. i think what we need to do as a movement is spend a lot of time on college campuses, spend a lot of time with young professionals and in gage and motivate them to get active and get involved. [applause] in 2007, in the middle of my first term, the marine corps asked me to go back to iraq as part of the surge. i had a decision on my hand because i was a legislator and

felt a duty to my constituents. but i also felt a duty to my country. i decided i didn't join the marine corps to say no when my country called. so in 2007, i volunteered to go back to iraq. [applause] thank you. [applause] thank you. [applause] i would back to iraq as part of the surge. from the time i was there, i saw great progress. i came back from iraq in 2008, got married, and in my reelection battle, my opponent's campaign team decided to attack me for being an absentee legislator.

leveling the charge i was absent from my duty to the state house because i was in iraq. in this district that is 2-1 democrat to republican, that dennis kucinich represents, people came out. republicans, democrats, and independents elected with over 70% of the vote. [applause] one of the main lesson that took from that was that while some of us may have neighbors with a d next to their name, it doesn't mean they are off the reservation. it's incumbent upon leaders in hollywood, leaders in the

media, leaders running non- profit organizations, leaders in political office to reach out to these democrats and explain to them for reasons of economic freedom, for reasons of peace through strength, for reasons of prosperity in our country, they should be voting for republicans. [applause] moving forward, i want to leave you with to commitments. these two commitments are charges for all the young people in the audience. one of those is stand on principle. whether you are in a student organization, running for office, serving in office, no matter what group you are involved in, don't blindly follow the leaders. even if the leaders are republican or a good person, if they do not stand on the right to vote -- the right philosophy

and principle, don't blindly follow them. stand on your own principles. [applause] the second charge i give you is don't be out of work. when i knocked on all those stores -- don't be outworked, when i was knocking on the stores, instead of putting a picture of the cleveland indians stadium behind my desk, i hung up the pair of shoes i wore while i was out knocking on doors. when people came to meet at the state house and continue to meet with me at the state house, they looked behind my desk at parachutes with holes in them. before i got on the plane to fly here to washington last night, i ripped th% issues off the wall. -- i read those shoes off the

wall and i brought them with me. [applause] for all young people in the audience, i charge you to stand on principle and never be outworked. thank you very much. [applause] 3p >> what an amazing inspiration and testament to what a young person can do. i've had the same problem with trying to shave. with young people, it's amazing, if you take the initiative, what

you can do. we're limited on time, but i do want to forget our last panelist. he is a spokesperson for young american foundation and moonlights for michele malkin's web site, hot air.com. on march 30th, his first book will be published called "obama zombies -- how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation." [applause] >> it's always a delight to participate in cpac. this is like our woodstock. except, unlike the last gathering, our women are beautiful, we speak in complete sentences, and our notion of

freedom doesn't consist of snorting cocaine. which is certainly one thing that separates us from barack obama. actually, on the cocaine front, i do believe many and people in america you him in the same fashion as they do drugs -- it was [unintelligible] but like most narcotics, the hangover after word has them thinking what the hell did i just do? [laughter] [applause] the fact is that obama's america has given conservatives a ripe opportunity to capture what is perceived as the left stronghold -- the youth vote. the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs as entrepreneurs

grow skeptical of the latest government seems proposed by this administration. the youth unemployment rate now tops 20%. amongst young black men, unemployment has hit 50%. buyer's remorse is setting in. even slutty obama girl said her crush has faded. [laughter] the opening is there for us, but it will be a challenge. in 2008, john mccain lost young boaters' by almost 40 points, which was the biggest margin of defeat with in any demographic in presidential history. it's not hard to understand the origins of this ideological alignment. students are subjected to a bombardment of liberals talking. strut their collegiate careers. professors and administrators

supported obama overcame by 12 to one ratio. think about that. that is how out of step with the rest of the country academia has become. aren't liberals always talking about diversity? where is it? in reality, when real -- liberals talk about diversity, they don't mean offering students a wide variety of ideas, including conservative ones. their version of diversity is bizarre. for instance, at the university of michigan, students can take a class on native american feminism. there is also cyber feminism at cornell university and my all- time favorite, the class at occidental college which deconstructs what it means to be a feminist new black man.

if you are wondering what a new feminist black man looks like, think of a crossover between rupaul and barney frank. the allegiance of political correctness on college campus goes a long way toward explaining how young people in their heart of hearts believe a scrawny street agitator turned presidential candidate could save mankind, renew our faith in american politics, stop glaciers from melting, curve racism, and all wars, tackle terrorism, provide health care, pay for college tuition and while he's at it, he promised to send a government in a corn dog from the sky to flies off to the world for people dance across the street of eating fda- approved candy canes and where

ms nbc is program on every channel. [applause] i want to fill you in on the name i have coined for those individuals who put barack obama on a pedestal. i call them obama zombies. that's right. it is actually the title of my forthcoming book set to be released by simon and schuster on march 30th. it's not just an argument against liberalism, but we are creating a movement designed to capture and educate freedom loving young people everywhere. [applause] i have had the opportunity to be a tv correspondent for michelle malkin's web site, hot

air.com. as such, i have been able to. many liberal icons on camera, including john kerry, charlie rangel, and john murtha. people come up to me and say how the work of the courage to confront these guys? it's nothing special about me, i just hate liberalism and i love the good fight. [applause] where i grew up, in brooklyn n.y., we don't sit on the sidelines. i know the young people here wants it this fight out either. we will not idly stand by as barack obama and his bevy of czars try to radically redefine this country. there are two things young people can do today. first, go to the boos that young

americans foundation. it's right by the student registration. learn how you can be accurate -- how to be active on your campus. the second thing you need to do is go to the booth and get your reminder postcard for my book. make no mistake about it. we are on a collision course between government control and individual freedom, between the empowerment of washington and the empowerment of people. as milton friedman said, quoting the battle for freedom must be one -- "the battle for freedom must be won over and over again." [applause] it is time for every young person here today to make a bold and counter cultural statement that we are freethinking, freedom loving young people who

are fed up with the left's lobotomy of a generation. we must be that generation that stands before history yelling, hey, jackass, get your government of my freedom. [applause] [applause] it is time to slam educated elbows into the rib cages of our fellow obama zombies. breaking the obama code is going to take a unified effort. but can we weaken our generation of obama zombies, yes, my brothers and sisters, yes, we can. [applause]

>> that wraps up our panel. i want to thank you for coming out and saving freedom and i hope this is a testimony to see how many and people are involved. all want to encourage you to find a young person, pat them on the back, thank them for their support and tell them to take this energy back home and fight the battle back home. [inaudible]

>> thank you. we have had a great start to the morning. if you are just joining us, you can see this street life that the town hall.com. our next speaker is the dynamic dick armey. he served in the house of representatives for texas's 26 district for 18 years. he was the house majority leader from 1995-2003. he is one of the central authors of "contract with america." that led republicans to power in 1994 after leaving congress, he

went on to found and had freedom works to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom. please welcome leader dick armey. closed. i'm dick armey, and i'm from dallas, texas. let me tell you how nice it is to be here. every now and then, these politicians crack me up. they can be funny. i think the funniest thing i have heard in the last couple of weeks is president obama, when he appeared before republican conference and he said something i found quite amusing.

he said i'm no ideologue. i thought to myself, mr. president, you are only just that. you are an ideologue and you give credence to my axiom that there is nothing so arrogant as a self righteous in cumbria distributor. -- self righteous in come and distributor. yourself intelligent and have no ability, you have proven yourself already to be, even to the recognition of your fellow democrats, the most incompetent president perhaps in our lifetime. you have no ability, you only have talent and your purpose is in come redistribution. your methods are transparent,

you create the perception of a crisis in order to be able to ride to the rescue and achieve your self indulgent purposes of controlling the distribution of income in america. whether it is the crisis in health care, which is a notion you are getting away with battling despite the fact that america has the greatest health care in the world. [applause] the greatest science, the greatest facilities, the greatest practitioners compaq the greatest accessibility, the greatest inventiveness and innovation and that which is copied by the rest of the world. it needs not to be taken over by the governments of the chicken control the distribution of health care services. it simply needs to have those programs interfering with the

greater efficiency we're capable of doing the solution -- that solution is not more government control, the solution is less government control. if you cared about healthcare and thought deeply about it, you would see that. that is not your purpose or mission. then we have a crisis of the perception of environmental catastrophes a week and have at and trade and you can control the distribution of income, some eggs must be broken. in their eye off it -- in their ideological point of view, everyone having a lesser -- as long as they control what is, because it's about control.

i could go on with other examples, but at the end of line, the central purpose of this presidency is for the government to beat in control and redistribute income. they're willing to sell the touch the performance of the american economy to get there. what the president didn't recognize and what most politicians are slow to recognize, -- we will throw them in also. the fact of the matter is, what they did not recognize that time they were elected was that there was already an unrest starring in america. a sense of disappointment and concern.

born quite frankly out of the frailties and malfunctioning of the republicans in office. [applause] it was real, and it was growing, and it was a groundswell of american citizens uprising out of concern for our nation. because there was a sense that in washington, there were people who did not understand and did not treasure our great nation and were doing a disservice to it. that groundswell was real, before president obama was elected. then it turned into a tidal wave of fear and anxiety when we saw what we had in these ideologues in the white house, the speaker's office, in this set, who are willing to destroy the american economy and the

american way of life and the american culture to get their hands on our lives and control the way things are done in our lives. that is now -- by the way, noticed how long it took press to get their attention? even in september 12th, when 10,000 of us showed up on the mall. remember that? were any of you there? oh my goodness gracious. we had to ask, do you hear us now? they were in a state of denial. we were not real. we were not somebody they needed to listen to. by the way, what are these things? [laughter] file is thought if you knew what

you're talking about, you didn't need them. -- i always thought if you knew what you're talking about you didn't need them. [applause] this groundswell has become recognized as of the american tea party grass roots, small government movement. what baffles the liberals is that they understand this movement, this movement understands and appreciates the miracle and genius of america. america is the sound is contra -- construct of a political economy and defense and for the purpose of serving individual liberty in this her -- in the world. churchill knew that. it has served the world better than any nation state. even still today, it is the greatest blessing the world has ever known. [applause]

because we had enough sense to trusted genius and ability and resourcefulness and decency of ourselves in limits -- and limit government and leave ourselves in control. that is what has worked so well. these folks want to be constructed and put themselves in charge. they know not better and day care even less. so here we are. liberals fascinate me. i'm not real impressed with them. they are not deep thinkers. my feeling was there is a substantial difference between being caught in an arrogant and being incompetent and arrogant. they don't know the difference. they look at all less and save you pour, misguided people, you are not agreeing with me.

there must be something wrong the second thing is, they want to get chewed at have what they have no matter what. the audacity. they can put 30 people on the street unless they're organized from the top down and paid to be there. [applause] says the notion that hundreds of thousands and even millions of people come by their own volition and that their own expense by their own initiative , by their own means to get to a central place where they could all be seen together saying what they had to say, which was leave us alone, we did not come to washington as the give me gang, asking for more, we came to washington's -- we came to washington, but it -- confident

in our own ability, if you just leave us alone and don't steal our money and property. [applause] they cannot comprehend that, so they have been looking for someone to be in charge and they have been picking out people this guy, that guy and the other guy. nobody. this grass roots movement that is taking back america is a thousand points of entrepreneurial lights for liberty and we are all here by our own separate initiative, gathered together in a sense of unity and commit men and purpose because we understand the constitution of the united states was a wonderful act of genius and courage and it has to be served and protected. [applause] if we have the decency to note the goodness of our own instruments of liberty like the

constitution, and ourselves as a nation of the people, we will and fact continue to be a blessing to ourselves and the rest of the world and we must stop these audacious people who think they should be in control. the purpose of this movement is not to put somebody in control, but protect liberty and individuals and separate initiatives. around great ideas and in every instance, the idea is bigger than the man. the i get is bigger than the party and bigger than the moment. -- the idea is bigger than the party and bigger than a moment. the idea is precious to preserve that we must reserve it among ourselves. please let us not get into a contest to see you as top dog. we don't need a top dog. we are all pulling together. please, let's stay focused. the number one biggest problem in america is the physical size

of this government. it is choking down the economy and the liberties of american people. [applause] i'm from texas. in texas, we indulge ourselves with a bit of horse sense. so let me give you the horse sense. when you take a look the structure of the political economy, it is the private sector of personal individual separate initiatives coming together they give you the horse that gives you the burden. we are carrying the government, the government is the writer. as long as the horses bigger and stronger than the writer, we can win the race. their notion is star of the wars and feed the jockey. when the jockey is fatter than the horse, you will lose the race.

i have no doubt that somebody at ms nbc has determined which and of course i am. [laughter] i can live with being that part of course because i have seen the jockey. [laughter] please understand it's not a competition trade one of the most precious things we got from ronald reagan -- you would be amazed at how much good can be done if nobody gets the credit. let's stay in the race together, keep our focus, let's fight this monster is big government that is out of control and bankrupting the next generation. but stay civil among each other and the civil with the world. our discourse does not need to

be angry. it's does need to be assertive. we need to let them know we mean business. let's look at the two great parties and say to the president, unfortunately to the democrat party, your congregation is dominated by folks who frankly have an open and honest to america. their whole concept of the world and how it works is an ethical to who we are, who we were meant to be, -- and to set a goal to we are, who were meant to be and we must be in the future of our grandchildren are to be safe and prosperous. so we are sorry, we will amend your passing. -- wheat lament your passing. if you have just been able to understand the greatness of america and had the decency to respected, you might have been a continuing great political party, but you are now and anathema to all we hold dear. let's look at the republicans and say blusher little hearts.

there embed a timer to along the way when you really did get it, didn't you? you understood about liberty and understood about the restraints of big government and were willing to work with great ideas. you inspired as and encouraged us and we dared to invest our open purse, but i'm from texas, and in texas -- but in texas, we don't call you a cowboy until we see right. so let's say to the republicans, will you show us that you know how to be you? when you understand that when you are like them, you lose and when you are like you, we can all when? can you rise to the occasion of liberty? [applause] if we can form a productive coalition of commitment, hard work, devotion, to the principles of liberty and small government and responsible restraint of power, we can take

america back. but, let's not leave them to their own devices once we succeed, which we could do in the next election cycle. they must come to us and show there were the of our loyalty. we don't go to them. [applause] we are the servants of the great ideas. we have no personal self-serving short sighted individual, parochial objective. the objective is the great nation we hope to preserve. you come to us and get in league with us. then, when we help you win back the majority that you love so much, we will be aware of your penchant for drinking back sliders' wine. [laughter] when you think you're going to slip back into being the same people that broke our hearts a few months ago, we are going to be there.

quite frankly, if you find the job is to much for you and your not man or woman enough to stay committed to the purpose, we will help you find your way to someplace else. [applause] let's or relieve ourselves of petty grievances and stay focused on the great purpose, those great purposes that are so much larger than any of us. let's understand this wonderful, wonderful miracle of asian, -- miracle of a nation, that those courageous and bright people did this. this ain't no thinking thing. it's not hard to understand america and our great as. the constitution of the united states is a short document written by intelligent, courageous, disciplined people. i like to put it this way. they knew what the meaning of it is was and it broke exactly what they meant.

thank you. -- of wrote exactly what they meant. [applause]

>> the tea party movement has been considered the biggest grass-roots uprising in america. our next panel are direct soldiers in the movement. i looked forward to welcoming the director of government of pairs -- government affairs and national taxpayers union, a citizen group founded in 1969 working to lower taxes and smaller government and economic freedom on all levels. he served at the cato institute's center for educational freedom. let's begin saving freedom one patriot at time. good afternoon everybody. i'm glad they left the teleprompter appear for me. i sure i will be using it.

let me welcome you to our panel today, sitting freedom one patriot at time. i'm director of government affairs for the national taxpayers union, the oldest taxpayer group and you can find out more about how we fight to protect your wall every day at our website. you will hear from our trip but analysts about how we build on some of the grass-roots momentum that exists right now, but i want to tell you a story about when my eyes were opened up to this. back what seems like an eternity ago, when congress was debating the wall street bailout, i was in my office working on an alert in opposition to sent to congressional offices. when we send those, we put a phone number at the bottom that says if you have questions, contact us. being a saturday, our office was closed and we didn't have anyone to answer the phone. so i put my cellphone number on that. little did i know that one of my

colleagues had sent the alert to the entire list of members and activists. within minutes, myself phone was ringing incessantly. for members all across the country who are outraged about the bill didn't know where to start a fight it. they called me to learn how they could defend the constitution and the country loved. that gave me the idea of why not give them the ability to join the fight directly from their mobile phone. unlike your home computer, the cell phone is always in your pocket. congress is not going to wait for you to get home and check your message before they vote on something. within a few months, we had a program up and running -- a text message alert system we launched last year. you're so inclined, you can pull out your phone and text the word flight to 67292, and you can join with us and we can give you

a direct link to your representative. but this is not about me. you don't want to join up with us, don't. but the seek out your local tea party. contribute time or money to estate tax payer group or find a candidate you believe in and can work for. this is the illustration of the kind of energy that exists in the resources we will need to marshal it to turn the tide in washington and elsewhere. we are going to need every single technology and, more importantly, every single patriot that cares about lower taxes, less spending, and limited government, to join up and fight alongside of us. if we fail, it will not be the people in this room that feel that the worst. it will be the littlest pagers -- 11 -- like bill littlest patriots. my 11-month-old daughter. a crushing debt to look toward to. i would like to introduce bite -- are like to introduce our

first panelist -- a founder and president of liberty central inc.. she has worked as a lawyer for the u.s. chamber of congress, as the deputy assistant secretary in the part of labor and an aide to former majority leader, dick armey. and a liaison to the heritage foundation. she's a nebraska native and reside in the great state of virginia. [applause] >> what a pleasure to be with you today. i'm an ordinary citizen from of all, nebraska who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you. we are in the midst, as dick armey just said, of historic times. what we are all doing in the next few weeks, months, and years will result in one national decision -- over whether we want to be self- governed because of a document that has real meaning and truth

and starts with three simple words -- we the people -- or whether we will surrender to be ruled by a vigorous government our founders would never have recognized, filled with arrogant elites is think they know how to micromanage our lives from cradle to grave. from -- over the last 30 years, i have worked and struggled inside this washington beltway, waiting for you people to show up. as a committed conservative from nebraska, for the u.s. chamber of commerce -- for of the u.s. chamber of commerce, and other places, now i have felt called to the front line with you. with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made america great. future generations deserve the opportunities, the prosperity, the freedom, the security we have come to know. i have come to know and love the tea party patriots. it has been a privilege to

become a bit of an ambassador for the national board of the national -- of the tea party patriots who i adore. i adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country and i am happy to help show you the ropes in the washington area because we need help. don't you love their passion, dedication, tenacity, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit and patriotism? how about those homemade signs? . .

>> do any of you remember barbara olson? [applause] she was a passionate leader for principle. she diedñi on september 11, 2001 in that american airlines plane that hit the pentagon. along with way too many americans who died because people outside this country thought we were weak. when she was gone, i knew i had to work harder. how many of you know paula nokowsky? she died last month of a heart attack when she gave every day to the battle.

she was my friend and a fellow warrior and capitol hill. she rose to the boys club of politics these days. i was proud of her and i was proud of john boehner when he made her his chief of staff. she was a hero. she is gone. and my mom, she died at age 91 last year. she voted for civic energy in fighting communism, challenging the country club republicans, and supporting principle the politicians at the state, local, and federal level. she kept after that once they were in there. she modeled conservative political feminism for her daughters. she was a patriot for all the right reasons and she did it with passion, with courage, and a smile. i want to be like her. [applause] thank you. liberty sun central.org will be our 501c4 that will be an online

resource for activating and motivating everyday citizens around court founding sent principles. we will be in the fight with you. there are many of us doing the same kind of thing but we will try to raise our voice and help you out. our model will be "preserving liberty within formed action." i have the best and brightest i can find. we are growing fast and we want to help connect new activists with existing online resources. liberty central and tea party patriots commissioned a poll that was released about the new citizen activists. let me tell you a few things while i have time about what we found. perceval, the total number of potential conservative activists is 57 million people. 14 million of those we thought were out there. those are conservative activist but what we found from the poll is that there are 43 million conservative information's speakers who are ready to be like you and i. it is time for us to go out and

find those people. we found out a lot of other things that i don't have time to tell you about. i will cut this short we will do some press this afternoon. we have found that the mainstream media has not been telling the truth about the new citizen activists. we are here to correct the record. [applause] people say people are frustrated out there. politicians are not listening to citizens. they are not to bring the bills. they are writing legislation in a techno-jordan's only special interest lobbyists can understand these things. we want to be heard and we want the system to work, right? is that so hard? the mainstream media, one thing we learned is that the new citizen activists are better consumers of the three networks than the rest of america. they are deserting and they reject the things that are coming through there and go to the internet and fox news and

talk radio. elections changing an agenda to became a leftist agenda pretty fast. the leftist agenda is not going down well because once hope and change got transparent and got put into legislative language, we saw what they were doing and it was a big old power grab. change you can believe in sudden the -- suddenly became the revolution you have to pay for. in summary, we are all responsible for the state of our politics. we all trusted public officials with -- while some of us lead ordinary lives prayed it is time to wake up and refocus. like any form setting, we need to tell the ground and attend the crops before we can harvest the crop. it has occurred in high schools and k-12 textbooks, colleges and

hollywood and mainstream media, in our churches and government. we have been asleep. policies have try to destroy what is good in america and wrote us into a dependent on our federal government. we have access to principles, our constitution, to each other, to common sense. we have the ability to inform, persuade, and activate others. we need to replant in focus. our ideas are worth fighting for. liberty center will be activating a community of grassroots patriots to provide knowledge, tools, and alliances to make our voices heard for real change. we're nonpartisan but we're focused on principles like the founding fathers. here is my final question can we count on your help to stay motivated, fine friends, show leadership, and get connected to liberty central to preserve liberty with informed action? thank you. [applause]

>> thank you. our next panelist is john o'hara at the international policy institute. he served as an appointee and the george bush administration and before that, he was a collegiate network fellow. he is the author of the new american tea party. he is too modest to tell you that he will be signing copies of his book in the bookstore in the exhibit hall. you can check the book right here. he hails from needham, mass. and now lives in chicago. please welcome john o'hara. [applause] >> a year or so ago, i was very

concerned with the direction of our country, more so than usual a popularly elected president had declared that he intended to fundamentally transform the united states of america. world leaders, newspaper headlines were declaring the death of capitalism. our free market system that has pulled more people out of poverty than any system ever. this radical agenda was not met without resistance. people began to organize. even social networking tools like to order and facebook and old fashioned tools like websites and e-mail. [laughter] people organized tea party protest across the country. from february to the enormously successful 9/12 marks and washington were dozens of conservative activists can that

and made their voices heard. the really exciting thing about this is that it is not about labels. is that people are opening their eyes, not only paying attention to politics and the political process and what our leaders are doing but they are dusting off the principles that many people in this room have been fighting for for a lifetime and realizing that less government, limited government, individual liberty is both a practical and principled route to more prosperity for all americans. we have a saying at the illinois policy institute, "policy changes blogs." more people are realizing this. -- "policy changes lives."

we are warned of a counterrevolution to the radical policies and principles and tactics, many things we are seeing adopted today, universal health care, cap and trade, we are that counter revolution. [applause] let's get out there, get busy, work together, and let's not let a good counterrevolution go to waste. [applause] >> thank you, john. our next speaker is dana lash. she was named the river front times best, -- columnist in 2007.

in may of 2009, she was named one of the top 60 most powerful moms online by nelson. -- top 16 most powerful moms online by nielsen. she is a co-founder of the st. louis tea party and lives with her family in rural st. louis, missouri. please welcome dana lash. [applause] >> hello cpac. i was talking to up some of my fellow panelists and i ask them how they are approaching this topic? how will they talk about saving liberty 1 pager at a time. i was nervous because i thought i should come here and have some kind of happy go lucky speech prepared about how we can all get along and the compassion that. and then i thought about it. i said i would not do that because we are in the middle of

the war. we are in the middle of a war and we are fighting for the hearts and minds and souls of the american people. one of the things that i wanted to hit on today was the dirty tactics. that is one of the things i love about conservatives is that we are so polite we care so much about what other people think. we don't want to hurt their feelings. we don't want to put them out i love that about all of us. i really do. we are in a war. it is okay to throw manners out the window in cases like this. talking about saving liberty one patriot at a time, in order to do that, you actually have to exercise your liberty one patriot at a time. people have been talking about facebook and twitter and all of that stuff.

every single one of you should have a social networking account. you have no excuses because you can put it on your phone card you can take it into the men's or women's facilities with you, for crying out loud. there is no excuse. it is all about amplifying your voice. making yourself heard, not being afraid to say that you do not like barack obama and a public place. [applause] i was in a supermarket heir after the election with my kids and i live in st. louis and, as we all know, they don't really like conservatives in st. louis. we have an acorn problem in st. louis. we haven't sciu problem and say low as. we have a lot of purple-sure the people running around in st. louis. my son saw president obama on every magazine cover.

my son is the new alex p. keaton. he said i don't like a bar -- barack obama and i don't like his policies and he is costing people jobs. [laughter] [applause] i am in the supermarket surrounded by hippies and my first inclination was to turn around and go, shh." then i started thinking, how are we going to win if we cannot raise our boys in the supermarket? my child had more cordial and i did in that moment. [applause] he refused to be silent. do not be afraid to talk about politics. do not be afraid to sit in a restaurant. if we are sitting in a restaurant and we hear people talking about politics, we will engage them. [laughter] [applause]

get onto those tactics now. one thing we have learned quickly in the st. louis tea party is that we cannot be static in our approach. we have to be ever-changing. we like to employ a variety of tactics in order to keep our political opposition on their toes. anybody can go and stand on a street corner with a sign. it is a lot of fun and you get a lot of attention but one of the things that i would suggest that you do is after cpac is over and everyone goes back to their homes and goes back to their environment, find and seek out your liberal watering holes. you all have one in your neighborhood. we have several bars that are in test with liberals in st. louis. go in there. take them over. go in with groups. sit down at the tables and get a pint or a burger and start talking about how much you love

the constitution and how much you love ronald reagan. [applause] say it loud. make them feel uncomfortable. have no mercy, take no prisoners, suffer no fools. [applause] do not let them have a sanctuary. make an appeal on comfortable. get them out of the comfort zone. one thing we are actually thinking about doing is getting a flood for the next party gras parade. we have a big mardi gras celebration, seconded to new orleans. we would like to get a big flow and have a big ronald reagan had on a and people will throw beats off -- at a spread do things that are unexpected. this is a long battle we are in and i know people get tired.

this keeps the energy going and keeps it interesting, doing crazy stuff like this. if you do not, you should all have e-mail distribution lists with activists in your city. decide that you want to hang out at someone's office. you can take american flags and maybe a bullhorn and hang out at a lawmaker's office. keep it interesting. do not ever become predictable. one thing we have done in st. louis, bill hennessy, the co- founder of the tea party in st. louis is we have done bypass. this was in response to the whole foods situation. i think we should maybe do it again every time i see union protesters, i want to go in there and drop every bit of money i have and what ever they

are protesting to the opposite of a boycott. with wholefoods, we went in there, i think we dropped $50,000 in one day at the st. louis all foods store. [applause] there was one protester out there but i felt really bad for him. i wanted to buy him some food. he was a hippie. keep it interesting, mix it up. 'mone of the other things thati think is important and i cannot stress this enough in this battle and this is my golden rule -- i never allow my opposition to define my boundaries. i never allow the opposition to set the narrative. when you go back home, you should make sure that does not happen. that is what amplifying your voice is all about. that is with getting out there on social networking is all about. you can control a but by other golden rule is leave no patriot

behind. i think everyone here, we can all safely assume that each one of us has felt heat at one point or another in this journey. a very good friend of mine, james o'keefe, felt that he tat. i was in. infuriated by the man who brought down a corridor the liberal media attacked him and tried to define an hour to before we did. the our people of my acquaintance that are no more. leave no patriot behind, never let the opposition to define your boundaries, ever. [applause] support each other, create networks, promote other voices, it is so important, attack, attack, attack, never defend.

it is not an easy fight. if we all stick together, we can drag each other across the threshold of a victory. it can be done. we have already seen it. we saw in virginia. we sought a new jersey. most recently, in massachusetts. [applause] again, to save liberty one patriot at a time, you have to expedite this. the loud, be proud, do not be ashamed of it, get out there and clement, set the narrative. we can all do together. it is great being here. i love being at cpac. the energy is wonderful. thank you so much. [applause] jhñ>> thank you. we hope to have time for a few questions. if you like to get to the microphone, that would speed the process along.

our next panelist has been, while the rest of us havepku ben saving 31 pager at a time, she has been doing several hundred thousand patriots at a time. jenny that martin is the coordinator of tea party. she is one of two key individuals who work tirelessly to make 9/12 march on washington the success it was and she deserves a round of applause for that. [applause] jenny bath was also -- is also the mother of twins, a movie star, the central figure of the tea party documentary, please let meant -- please welcome ginnie beth martin. >> thank you for having me here. thank you for being here today. thank you for coming to learn

how we can increase our patriots across this country. one year ago tomorrow, wreck santelli had his infamous grant that was heard around the world. it was one year ago tomorrow. after that rent, there were a bunch of us on twitter talking about how that really spoke to us. we agreed that the stimulus was wrong, the trap was wrong and we were fed up. there was an individual but decided we needed to have a free conference call service. we got on the conference call following day, ona friday, february 20, at 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. there's 22 of us around the country on that call. we talked about it and decidedme iron was hot. we need to go ahead and a host tea party protest. we hung up the phone and thought

we had five or 10 tea parties the following friday. it was a protest and we figured there would not be many people. we were wrong. we had 48 t parties in less than five business days with 35,000 people in attendance. [applause] they were organized, using tools like facebook, they were also organized because three organizations were set up to be able to support them and support them online using these new technology tools. they were don't go which is now liberty alliance, a smart girls in college, a top conservatives on twittered. if you are not plugged in, you should probably be because they

are the founding organizations of the department. after february 27, we began planning for april 15. on april 15, we had over 850 t parties with 1.2 million people in attendance. [applause] thousands, millions of showed up on a wednesday afternoon in the middle of the week, many of them with their suits and ties on to protest out of control government taxing and spending. our core values united all of us. this was constitutionally limited government and free markets. the simple principles are so important we started the tea party patrons to keep the tea party movement going forward. the three original organizations

as well as all the other organizations helped make the april 15 to party possible. we're going back to the mission. we started tea party patriots. we have departed in july. you guys made the town halls happen in august. we provided information about them and you made that happen. we came together again in september with 1.7-2 million people. here in d.c. on september 12 to make our voices heard again. now, it is time for you to come out and grow these numbers. we have over 850 tea parties last year. how many can we have this year? how many of you are a local coordinator or who have organized some tea party event in your community?

we don't have one or two simulators. we have over 1500 local coordinators around the country. we have over 50 million people involved in the tea party movement around the country right now. that is to our leaders are. we are not leaderless, we have up to 50 million liters. [applause] this year, we are asking you to host 80 party. you can do something very simple like show that he party movie. you can get it at the tea party movie.com your help. is the single best advertising

tool for the two-party movement. does not because i am in it. my good friend and neighbor luke livingston put this together with volunteers. it explains what we are about and why we are doing this. it is a way to very easily exploited your family and friends and neighbors what you have been doing for the past year. when you disappear and you do not watch tv or hang out any more, this tells them what you have been doing without being in your face about it. it is a great recruiting tool. causton april 15 and the party. -- post in april 15 t parted let's triple our numbers. it does that took -- it does that have to be elaborate. get your friends and family together. each and everyone of you has your own circle of influence. you have family and friends and aunts and uncles who may not go

to a big tea party but they will come to your neighborhood because it is you. are you willing to stand up and posted the party? are you willing to bring people into this moment so we can reclaim our founding principles? we are 50 million leaders strong and every single one of us are ordinary citizens reclaiming america's founding principles. we can only do it if each of you continue. it is a battle of the hearts and minds of our country. we have to convince those people in their hearts that it is their responsibility and it is worth it. they need to know these things so when they go and vote and they worry about legislation, they understand what is at stake. it is up to you, each one of view, and may and all of us here, to make it happen.

i challenge you to get involved. you don't have to spend a lot of time. host a movie or a house party. get involved and make your voice is heard. thank you very much for having me and thank you so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you. i am sorry to say we will not have time for questions. i want to leave you with two quick points, two ideas of how you can get involved. one of them you may have heard about, the contract for america is a way you get out there and vote on the principles that matter to you rather than having somebody handed down from high of washington. you can go to the contract.org vote on that. we will do the march again this year. it is a sunday this year, september 12, right here in washington, d.c. i hope that all of you can be

there. thank you for coming today. [applause] [country music] [country music]

>> it is getting good.stz we li? hal is our morning going? [applause] we are reading your tweets on twitter. cpac10 this the address. ñrlet's get in here. it will get even better. i want to welcome back david keene his call to action is to go to conservative.org. it is going to get fun in here. [applause] >> i am back. are you enjoying the concert so far? [applause]

good. pleasure to introduce someone who has not spoken to cpac before i think you will enjoy them very much hearing from parent. are a few families who have contributed a lot in america and one family is the family of dick cheney. [applause] we all know what dick cheney did in congress as secretary of defense and as vice president of the united states and as a spokesman since then. we all know what his wife has done over the years in administrations and out and at the american enterprise institute. we forget sometimes that these folks had kids. they are not just kids. one of the cheney kids, liz, is

one of the most accomplished foreign policy and defense experts in the country today. she served in the state department as assistant on middle east policy. she is a lawyer. went to the university of chicago a. am always partial to with midwesterners. since the administration left and these new folks came in, she is the co-founder of keep america safe. you have seen on fox news and other places. she speaks around the country. she is carrying on a tradition in a family that has contributed much to american politics, to policy, and to america's greatness i will not take up. of your time but i think it is time as we move to new generations of leadership,

getting rid of folks have been -- folks like me, for example, that we hear from another generation of cheneys, from a family that really has a lot to say, a lot to add, and who, like her parents, is one of us. liz? [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. it is such an honor to be regarded as an honor to be introduced by dave keene who has done so much for this country and this movement. thank you very much, dave. [applause] thank you to all of you. what a fabulous time to be a conservative. [applause] it has always, in my family,

been a time to be conservative. [laughter] there have been some critics, you might have noticed. i had a good lesson back during the 2004 campaign in how to deal with criticism and critics from my daughter kate. she was 10 years old and she had a friend spent that night for the next morning, we were in the kitchen, i was making breakfast, and kate and her friend were on the floor of the kitchen working on an art project. the tv was turned on and pretty soon howard dean who was running for president showed up on the tv screen. it did not take long before howard dean said some pretty nasty things about my dad. i thought to myself, "should i turn it off? what to write to hear dax? ?" i decided to act cool and not turned off. her friend said that guy is

saying nasty things about your grandfather. my sweet darling little girl looked up from her art project, look at the tv, saw that it was our being, and said," in know what? don't worry, that guy is psycho ." [laughter] [applause] you well know that criticism of conservatism and protections of our demise reached a new crescendo after the last election. all across the mainstream media, you could see so-called experts giving their analysis, saying conservatism was dead and barack obama's plan to radically re- change the nation were a done deal. a few weeks ago, the people of massachusetts told those experts what they could do with their analysis. [applause]

the white house was spooked by that election. you could tell because the day after the results came in, use of the president's men, all over the airways. david axelrod and robert gibbs and rahm emanuel saying that they are populist. they are returning to their populist roots. barack obama is a populist. you have to admire that ambition. everybody in this room remembers that president obama is the president who said small- town americans are better and that is why they cling to guns and god. now, suddenly, the white house tells us he is a man of the people. good luck with about one. [laughter] [applause] in the year that president barack obama has been in office, we have learned a lot. we've learned he is not going to

govern from the center. we learn he does not believe an american ex sectionalism and he will travel the world apologizing for this great nation we've learned he will raise everybody's taxes. he will try to expend the size of the federal government until it permeates every aspect of our lives and every corner of our land. he will try to turn our healthcare system over to the federal government. we have learned he was to give terrorists constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent he has moved. terrorists from guantanamo bay on to the american homeland. that is not change we can believe in. it is not change that the american people voted for and it is time for all of us to stand up and take this country back. [applause]

nowhere has this president's policy caused greater concern than in the area of national security. a little over a year ago, as you well know, he said he would close the facility at guantanamo bay where we detain our court al qaeda terrorists. he had no plan for what to do with the terrorist and he had no national security reasons for closing the facility. it is not a surprise that he failed to meet his objectives. woody has done over the course of the last year, week by week, continuously, is release and transfer hardened terrorists out of guantanamo bay. if you pay attention, you will see that the white house likes to make these announcements late at night on days when there are other things going on, hoping we won't notice for the problem is that the terrorists currently at guantanamo bay are such bad guys that most of their own home

countries do not want them back. president obama in order to keep his campaign promise, has to transfer these terrorists, the worst of the worst coming into america. as we meet here today, the obama administration is trying to appropriate over $200 million to buy the facility, the correctional facility in illinois to hold the terrorists there. this is on top of the money the u.s. taxpayer has already spent on guantanamo back. this is not rocket science. my nine year-old daughter grace, who was a genius, if i may say so, asked me about this recently. she said, "mom, is president obama really trying to bring terrorists into the united states?" [laughter] [applause] i told her," yes, sadly, that is

exactly what he is doing." she cut right to the core of the issue and she said,"man, use your brain dude. that is totally stupid." [laughter] [applause] it is not only stupid, it is dangerous also. if president obama and attorney- general holder do not get it back to this time for congress to act. we need all of you here today to help us in this effort. please go to my website, keep america safe.com. we have a petition of the that tells president obama that terrorists belong at guantanamo, not in the american heartland. [applause] while we are sending messages to president barack obama today, here's one more -- stop apologizing for this great nation and start defending us.

[applause] and keeping these terrorists and detained is important. it is necessary but not enough for us to win this war it would also have to be able to get good intelligence. there is no question that in the time president barack obama has been in office, he has diminished our capacity to do so. 9last april, he released the details of our enhanced interrogation program. it is a program we know save lives and prevented attacks. he stopped the program and he said not to worry. he will replace it with çósomething else. hm )ill have the national security council setññ the high value interrogation program. about that same time last august, attorney general holders

said he would start investigating and maybe h÷prosecuting the cia officers o kept us say that the 9/11. since then, guess how many al qaeda terrorists have been interrogated? that's right, none. during that same spirit of time, this administrationñr has been investigating, questioning, and possibly prosecuting many cia officials. [applause] one cannot help but think they do not understand who the enemy is. let's help them out. attorney general holder and president barack obama, the cia officials who kept us safe after 9/11 are patriots. [applause] they deserve our thanks and are

praised and they do not deserve to be the targets of a politically motivated investigation by your justice department. [applause] the next time you hear president barack obama say he is using every tool and at his disposal to fight terrorists, remember this -- he rebuild our enhanced interrogation program to the terrorists and then he stopped paying attention he failed. to follow up for nearly one year. he could not be bothered to make sure that the national security council had actually established a new interrogation program. it turns out they hadn't. ;yñpresident barack obama wantso keep this nation safe, he has to make it a priority. our counter-terrorism system will erode without constant daily presidential oversight and vigilance. fighting terrorism cannot be president barack obama's part- time job. [applause]

there is an equally troubling story of incompetents, ms. judgment, and presidential neglect leading up to the christmas day tech itself. the christmas day bomber was trained and armed in yemen. it is worth reviewing a bit of history here. for vice president joe biden's benefit. [laughter] [applause] during the presidential transition, the bush counter- terrorism team briefed the obama team about the threat from yemen and what we were doing to address the threat. in june of 2009, america was attacked by a terrorist who had xdjust returned from yemen who s under investigation by the fbi and killed an american soldier. in september, the president's own counterterrorism adviser traveled to saudi arabia where

he was briefed personally by the head of saudi intelligence. he had just been the target of assassination attempts for the bomber used precisely the same kind of bomb the christmas day bomber used it there have been reports that intelligence sources believe the bomb may have been made by the same bomb maker in yemen. in 2009, in november, we had the attack at fort hood where 13 americans were killed by a terrorist with ties to the same cleric in yemen who trained the christmas day bomber. despite all that, on december 20, 2009, president barack obama released 6 yemeni detainees from guantanamo back to yemen. of course, we had a christmas day attack. that is was publicly number there is no doubt that the daily intelligence briefing of this is ministration contains far more information about threats from yemen.

after all this history, on january 7, counter-terrorism adviser brennan and janet napolitano gave a brief at the white house. they said they were surprised that al qaeda in yemen was operational. [laughter] secretary of pollock, went on to say that she was surprised that al qaeda would launch an attack against us. somebody needs to get her a newspaper description. [laughter] there is no polite way to put this, that kind of incompetence get people killed. [applause] and yet no one has been held accountable. during the 2008 campaign, president barack obama admitted he did not have a lot of experience. he told us what he did have was wisdom and judgment. [laughter]

the kind of wisdom he said we would need in a nation facing tough crises. the record is now clear -- a wise man would not give the mastermind of 9/11 a platform in civilian court on american soil from which to preach jihad. [applause] qaeda-trained terrorists onto american soil [applause] it wiseman would not -- would not fret about whether a terrorist had been read his miranda rights. [applause] a wise man would hire better people. [applause] ñthis president's policy, the very radical nature of the

changes he wants to impose, imposes a duty on everyone else in this room. it is critically important that we stand up and speak out. we need to make our voices heard and read the upside is to prevent it. we have seen how much the white house dislikes being criticized and attacked. we have seen what they tried to do to fox news, the chamber of commerce, really to anyone who disagrees with them. they will fight back against us. they will try to attack.r us and they will play dirty. they will try to silence us. but this is america. far too many brave young men and women have paid too high a price for our right to speak. [applause] join with me, right here, right

now. let's send an unmistakable message to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. president obama, you never silence us. [applause] there is one man in particular we all know who certainly has taught me what it means to have the courage of your convictions. youo% know who i am talking abt [applause] for my whole life, he has taught me to stand up for what i believe in andjutjpá is right. often before big speeches like ñithis one,ñi i asked his opinii

seek hisñr advice. today, instead, i brought him with me. [applause] [applause] [applause]

>> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you all very much. thank you. knock off. [laughter] a welcome like that almost makes me want to run for office again. [applause]

z$but i'm not going to do it. [laughter] i believe very deeply in something date said earlier and that is that there comes a time when those of us of our generation need to move on and make certain that the younger generation has an opportunity to step up and take on the responsibilities that are so ñiimportant to the nation. i am enormously proud of my daughter. [applause] she said i could come with their but i had to be armed candy. [laugaiì(lc@&c+ in all sincerity, one of the

highlights of my years in public office have been the opportunity to come before cpac. data's been kind enough to invite me time after time and i deeply enjoy a partly because this organization is so important in terms of keeping alive the basic fundamental commitment to those principles that have been essential in our 200 year history as a nation. as i look to the future, i think the developments we have seen over the last several months are enormously encouraging. when we can achieve the kind of results we have achieved in places like virginia and new jersey and massachusetts -- [applause] the sky is the limit. 2010, i think will be a

phenomenal year. [applause] i think barack obama is a one- term president. [applause] let me thank yoe time and energy and effort you have committed to our common cause. you have been fantastic. there are some great years ahead of us. it is very very important that we succeed. i will do everything i can, most especially, i want to encourage that younger generation, all of you, and that is most of you --

[laughter] who are younger than i am, it is a remarkable time to be an american and the conservative. good luck. thank you all very much. [applause] yda[applause]

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better. [laughter] the vice president walked backstage and he said it was a nice crowd. that was exciting and can we have another round of applause for liz janey. was she amazing? [applause] -- liz shancheney. there are a number of conservative women entering the arena now. the other people you hear people talking about is the rise of conservative women's organizations like the concerned -- the national organization of concerned women. it started small and now they are spreading across the united states. smart girls politics. independent women's forum are moms for sarah palin. there are numerous organizations and women who have come together in responseñr.

they want to see more of these moms run. for that reason, i want to mention that i am signing a book. i have a shameless promotion, join me at 2:00. learn about the sarah palin that fact. our next panel is dynamic. i saw the speakers. you want to hear from these people. they will be moderated. it is called saving freedom through technology. robert arrived at the heritage foundation in 2007 to become a lazy -- liaison and conservative blogger. he has served as editor of human events.com and is a staff writer for cnn news.com. he was one of the first to