Top 5 Speakers from CPAC

The Band Of Patriots ^ | 2/13/12 | Bryan Thomas

[bthockey]

I had such an amazing time at CPAC. I met amazing people, heard great conservative speakers, and spent a great deal of time with our blog team which was a lot of fun in and of itself! I wanted to take some time to list my favorite speakers that I heard at the conference. I decided to leave out all of the GOP candidates as I didn't get to see two of them so I don't want to give a biased answer or make anyone think I'm endorsing someone. If you wanted to go to CPAC or you missed any of these speeches I would urge you to watch them! They are extremely good.

[Mozilla]

Comedian Brad Stein:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304339-3

Republican Representatives Steve King (IA), Michele Bachmann (MN), and Jim Jordan (OH) spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC):
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ConservativeIssues20

[nutmeg]

How was Ann received by the CPACers when she was on the stage?

Pretty much the same as every year at CPAC... she was and still is a Rock Star. The room was pretty much densely packed as when Sarah Palin spoke on Saturday. And that Marriott ballroom is massive - biggest venue I've ever seen.

When Ann mentioned her "fondness" for Romney, there was some grumbling in segments of the audience, but overall the crowd absolutely loved her.

Just my observations after attending the entire conference for the full 3 days (and part of Wednesday night): The crowd seemed to be pretty evenly split 30-30-30 between Romney, Gingrich and Santorum supporters. 10% Ron Paul supporters.

Also... My husband and I and our friends did take part in this year's straw poll at CPAC. FReepers aren't going to like hearing this (yes, I know Romney won - we didn't vote for him), but this was the first of our 10 consecutive years attending CPAC where we felt that the straw poll was (finally) conducted in a scientific, legit manner - as far as we could tell anyway - so the results are most likely correct.

We were each given a special PIN number so we could only vote once - no stuffing of ballot boxes with stupid paper ballots for the first time in 10 years, so no hijacking of the poll by Paul-bots, or Romney-bots, etc. If you tried to vote again with that PIN number, you couldn't do it.

[nutmeg]

Wow, thanks for all those CPAC links on this thread, Mozilla! Dana Loesch is a treasure... I’m SO glad she’s on our side! She could (and probably should) overtake Ann Coulter as “Rock Star babe” of the conservative movement! She’s a big hit at every CPAC.

[onyx]

Interesting. At home, her applause sounded dulled.
One loud cheer near the end. Q 7 A.

[nutmeg]

I'll have to get back to you later with my Top Five list (and hubby's as well). The Top Two, just off the top of my head:

1. Sarah Palin

2. Daniel Hannan (UK)

[onyx]

Sarah’s speech rocked.

[nutmeg]

Interesting. At home, her applause sounded dulled.

Ann Coulter's speech? No, the place was rockin'. But as I said, at least 1/3 of the audience was pretty anti-Romney, so there were a few boos, and a lot of grumbling that probably didn't pick up well on the video.

[Seattle Conservative]

I didn’t get to hear/see all of the speeches, but these were my 2 favorites from the ones I saw. I thought Newt did well, too.

I’ll watch more from the links above - thanks to Mozilla for posting them!

[Seattle Conservative]

Adding Link to Col West’s speach. I’ve always liked him and he was FABULOUS at CPAC!!

http://www.therightscoop.com/allen-wests-keynote-speech-for-cpac-2011/

[thesearethetimes...]

BumpForLaterListening ; )

May God guide our course.
Tatt

[nutmeg]

I didn’t get to hear/see all of the speeches, but these were my 2 favorites from the ones I saw. I thought Newt did well, too.

Yes, Newt always brings the house down at CPAC each year! His speech this year was extra good.

Also... like her or not, Ann Coulter always rocks the house at CPAC - she did it again this year. Wayne LaPierre delivers a kick-ass CPAC speech each year as well.

[nutmeg]

OK, finally made up my mind, although it was difficult. So many great speeches at CPAC this year (and every year!). My Top Five CPAC 2012 Speakers were:

1. Gov. Sarah Palin

2. Daniel Hannan (Member, European Parliament)

3. Rep. Allen West

4. Sen. Marco Rubio

5. Speaker Newt Gingrich

And I have many on my "honorable mention" list (in no particular order):

Herman Cain
Andrew Breitbart
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North
Ann Coulter (like her or not, she always rocks the house)
Sen. Rand Paul
Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President, NRA
Laura Ingraham
Amy Kremer (Chairman, Tea Party Express)
Dana Loesch (conservative talk radio host and also Editor-in-Chief for Breitbart's "Big Journalism")
Rep. Steve King
Rep. Michele Bachmann
Gov. Bobby Jindal
Gov. Mike Huckabee
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA)
Gov. Scott Walker
Rep. Paul Ryan
Sen. Rick Santorum (surrounded by his lovely family as he spoke!)
John Bolton
Phyllis Schlafly
Gov. Rick Perry (he gave a MUCH better speech this year than at CPAC 2011)
Ken Cuccinelli, Atty General of Virginia (he choked up at the end of his speech as he said "...someday we may be telling our children how we used to be free here in America..." - my paraphrase)

View many of the CPAC 2012 speeches here:

http://www.therightscoop.com/?s=cpac

Also, check Mozilla's posts for more links to CPAC 2012 speeches. Thank you again, Mozilla!

[iowamark]

Newt, Newt, NEWT!

[combat_boots]

Mine:

West
Hannan
Breitbart
Gingrich
Rubio

maybe Palin, too.

[CPT Clay]

Dana was awesome. You’re right, I glad she is on our side, she is vicious.

[CPT Clay]

bumbed, i cant find Allan West’s speech from this year.

[RobbyS]

Mitt loaded the wagons with his guys and drove them to the convention to vote. An old technique. That is the way that Wilkie won in 1940.

[RobbyS]

Hannan’s speech got to me. Like when I hear Charles’ Laughton’s renditiion of the Gettysburg Address on You Tube. Check that out if you haven’r hear it. Laughton makes Lincoln’s words sing.

[sauropod]

I agree with the list.