Marco Rubio speech at CPAC conference brings conservatives to their feet

It is great to hear the reception that Marco Rubio, R-FL candidate for US Senate, received from CPAC attendees when he talked about American exceptionalism. We have spent the last year and actually more then that if you count the Obama campaign telling us and the world how bad America is and how the world doesn't like us. Progressives were elected in Nov 2008 to run the Government and it has been a miserable failure. Americans more and more are deciding they don't like the hope and change that happened with Obama/Pelosi/Reid in charge.

Now Marco Rubio comes along with his positive message what America stands for versus the negatives from Obama. Rubio is a first generation Cuban born in this Country after his parents immigrated from Cuba while Obama's Father came from Kenya, he was adopted by an Indonesian and received his first schooling in Indonesia. Even though they both have experience with parent(s) raised in other countries, their philosophy is polar opposites. Rubio is very pro-American while Obama has dissed American around the Globe which we believe goes back to upbringing. Rubio was given a love of American from the beginning by his parents while Obama was raised by a Mom and Grandparents with ties to the Communist Franklin Marshall Davis who mentored Obama through high school.

Today's speech couldn't have showed more of a contrast.

Marco Rubio speech at CPAC conference brings conservatives to their feet
By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 18, 2010; 3:46 PM

Marco Rubio, the 38-year-old son of Cuban immigrants and candidate for an open Senate seat in Florida, electrified thousands of conservatives Thursday morning with an impassioned defense of American exceptionalism.

In the opening address at the three-day Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington, Rubio delivered a fiery assault on President Obama's economic policies and his administration's handling of national security.

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The morning session belonged to Rubio, the former Florida House speaker who has become a darling of the conservative "tea party" movement during his underdog primary campaign against Crist for the state's open U.S. Senate seat

"They are using this downturn as cover, not to fix America but to try and change America, to fundamentally redefine the role of government in our lives and the role of America in the world," Rubio said. "The good news is it didn't take long for the American people to figure this out."

A crowd hungry for new conservative leaders repeatedly interrupted Rubio's speech with standing ovations. The speech served as his debut on the national stage.

"Every time somebody starts yelling 'Marco,' I'm afraid they are going to be yelling 'Polo,' " Rubio said with a smile, "and that would ruin the speech."

He drew rousing applause and shouts of "Amen!" when he criticized Obama's record on national security.

"We will do whatever it takes, for however long it takes, to defeat radical Islamic terrorism," Rubio said. "We will punish their allies like Iran. We will stand with our allies like Israel. We will target and we will destroy terrorist cells and the leaders of those cells. The ones that survive, we will capture them. We will get useful information from them.

"And then," Rubio continued, "we will bring them to justice in front of a military tribunal in Guantanamo -- not a civilian courtroom in Manhattan."
Rubio said November's midterm elections would be "a referendum on the very identity of our nation."

"The issues are so big, so consequential, so generational, that many of the old rules of political engagement will not apply," he said.

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