Posted on 02/28/2009 3:09:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rush Limbaugh was 15 minutes early to the stage, but no one was complaining Saturday evening in Washington, D.C., at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Quite the contrary. On the conference's third and final day, the conservative talk radio host was the headliner, and the crowd greeted him with an immense ovation.
"Ladies and gentleman, this is my first ever address to the nation," Limbaugh joked, noting that FOX News and C-SPAN were broadcasting the speech live.
Limbaugh then spent his first 15 minutes giving an impassioned summary of what it means to be a conservative before turning the focus to the movement's recent electoral record.
"We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate," he said.
The speech was the culmination of an event that featured often fiery speeches by some of top names of the conservative movement and the Republican party, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and conservative commendator Ann Coulter.
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Thanks for the lecture.
I was quite disappointed that CSPAN didnt carry the CPAC conference, at least when I checked.
Also on the straw poll “Romney won” isn’t the whole story.
“Romney took 20 percent of the vote, followed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal with 14 percent, Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 13 percent, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 13 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 10 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 7 percent.”
Just google Small World Software liens. And you’ll see the type of guy JIm is up against.
[Think for a bit about how quickly the public perception of pop culture figures like Britney Spears or Mickey Rourke change.]
...and who promoted the public perception? It was the same source that has denigrated Conservatives, the media will do their work to identify the favorite in the Conservative and systematically destroy them.
The public won’t be given the chance to forget, it will be a relentless attack to keep that person’s image as negative as possible for as long as it takes.
We were in one of the other side room watching RUSH @ CPAC
during his 90 minute grand slam out of the park speech!
The rooms were going NUTS people couldn’t get enough.
Mason Dixon
“currently, he’s one in a million,”
More like one in three hundred million ;)
It's time to find someone else, someone who's never been part of the GOP establishment. Someone who's not a politician.
true...and yet, didn't he (Romney) spent 42+ million, during the last election cycle...maybe he paid / furnished tickets to this mtg. and all they had to do is vote on this straw poll, This was a very cheap victory. 
Was so stupid he was the only Republican against Reagan, after Reagans successes.
Bailout useless Olympics for hack real estate mob in Utah. Was for the Detroit bailout, before anyone.
Was the father of Massachusetts socialist medical care.
Yeah. He’ll be helpful.
RUSH as does ANN and Hannity preache to the choir.
Had he and the others spoken out a tad about BUSH- they have reached outside the choir.
A very inspiring campaign slogan, indeed. Still doesn't convince this naysayer, though.
Guess you can vote for someone else. Obama?
I sure hope it isn’t Palin. At this point, I like Newt the best.
Rush’s speech was pretty good. But Newt’s was better.
We can't wait for another election. Have to begin speaking out, again. Even though I'm a nobody, politicians used to reply.
Romney is a friggin RINO. Have we learned anything?
Idiocracy is a great movie. The movie seemed incredulous in how bad things were in the future 2505, but the parallels from that movie and our currect president is eerily similar. I’m waiting for Obama to have the Department of Agriculture to start using Brawndo to water crops with, because it’s got electrolytes!
I sure hope so. Get behind one and vote. It doesn't matter at this point. Obama needs to go.
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