sailingaway
02-10-2011, 08:30 PM
One of the stars on opening day was Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), another tea party favorite and son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), a libertarian and unsuccessful presidential candidate. Rand Paul packed the largest crowd of the day into a cavernous conference room and forced CPAC's host, the American Conservative Union, to set up a large overflow hall nearby.
Paul drew spirited cheers by trumping the fiscal messages of all the other speakers so far with a call to cut $500 billion from the federal budget. He also thanked the tea partyers in the crowd for their role in the 2010 wins.
"This town is talking about the debt and deficit constantly," he said. "The tea party made that happen. We are not inherently exceptional as Republicans. You keep us so by keeping the pressure on."....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021007407.html
Paul drew spirited cheers by trumping the fiscal messages of all the other speakers so far with a call to cut $500 billion from the federal budget. He also thanked the tea partyers in the crowd for their role in the 2010 wins.
"This town is talking about the debt and deficit constantly," he said. "The tea party made that happen. We are not inherently exceptional as Republicans. You keep us so by keeping the pressure on."....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/10/AR2011021007407.html