Maybe next year it'll be re-named FudgePAC.
Posted on 02/10/2011 7:50:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO AT LINK)
If CPAC is a primary for self-confidence, Donald Trump won hands down.
The real-estate mogul with a genius for self-promotion gave the most-acclaimed — and most colorful — speech at the conservative gathering this afternoon, from the moment he took the stage to the song "Money, Money, Money."
With no visible sense of irony, he slammed libertarian Ron Paul as a losing hopeful who can't capture the brass ring and got booed by some for it, said our current president came 'out of nowhere," and quoted a business magazine's story about what a terrific entrepreneur he himself is.
Yet he was by far the best-received speaker and the audience lapped up his act, as he read some of a prepared speech and used his hands to punctuate his words. He also hit on social issues "briefly," as he said, saying he's pro-life and anti-gun control. He said he'd dismantle Obama's health care law.
The ballroom attendance bulked up massively in advance of his speech, with conference staffers pleading with people to stop blocking the stairwells and doors.
"You're hired!" a fan screamed from the crowd, and he pointed back at her and said, "You're hired! These are my people. This is beautiful."
Supporters of Paul, who are notoriously rabid in defending him and whose son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, was the next speaker, booed wildly when he said, "by the way, Ron Paul can't get elected, I'm sorry. ... I like Ron Paul, I think he is a good guy but honesty he just has zero chance of getting elected and I can tell you this, if I run and if I win this country will be respected again":(continued)
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How do you know that?
Maybe next year it'll be re-named FudgePAC.
“Our current president came out of nowhere — in fact I’ll go a step further,” he said. “The people who went to school with him, they never saw him, they don’t know who he is.”
Someone posted a recent interview by him about a week ago. This guy gets it better than just about any candidate out there.
Sick thing to say.
Good... He doesn’t need to be there...
Noone does...
cpac is for fools...I just figured a fool like him would try to reach out...
my bad... huck huck in the cpac, the fags would like that...
Baptist preacher his a$$...
PALIN IS THE DRAGONSLAYER... YA BITCHES...
SHE Is The Downhill Skier To the republican curlers...
that is what they are,,, effin’ curlers...
SHE Has THE WILL TO WIN... they just pretend to ‘sweep’...
yOU are not that dumb. please tell me you are not...
/s is your friend, and you would have more of them here if you used it...
T. Boon Pickins with better hair and a chin quiver. No thanks.
I wasn’t being sarcastic. I liked his speech.
Y’all are out of your freakin’ tree!!!
No way, no how...
Flyover peeps will not stand for Trump... I promise...
Paul runs to make money.
Is Trump serious? Being President would sure complicate his life as a businessman. He would have to divest a lot and his “empire” would suffer. Just don’t see him actually running. I think he just enjoys the limelight.
I want hear him repeat the slogan over and over again: "Obama, you're fired!"
MmK, he may make a good cabinet position.., but thats it, but I am afraid he would just expand gov. when he should say ‘your fired”....
Can we really expect him to do as much? Really?????
ok if he got the nomination you would not vote or vote for obama? come on
As I said, we shall see. And as I also said, I need to hear more. He needs to promise that he will nominate constitutionalist judges. If we have a conservative Senate (and I think our efforts are best directed towards electing a conservative Congress), a Trump presidency would not be the worst outcome.
Trump still has to go some to convince me, but I think he has shown a a native love of country in his recent media appearances. Make up your own mind, but give a listen to his recent comments. He's no less imperfect than most of the others. I'd love to elect Sarah, but we could do worse than Trump. The main thing is to elect a Tea PArty Congress. That's where the real mojo is these days.
When I hear Donald Trump, I think of Hugh Hefner...heh.
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