Cpac 2014 News Today

Immigration or foreign policy, which we just talked about, immigration is where the republican party has a lot of thinking to do and moving to do. it was barely brought up. how does the party begin to reconcile concerns on big ticket items when they cannot talk about it in private-ish forum? >> this is the opening bell for 2016. remember, cpac poll winner hasnt won the presidential election or nomination. its the opportunity to establish that conservative part of the pie that somebody will win a...

Our message with passion or will we be sunshine patriots retreating under adverse fire? good. >> people want to be inspired. >> you are the path to the future. you represent the renewed hope that america can be great again. >> talk of rebellion, of god, of guns, of liberty, of benghazi, of midwifery. of the ancient palestinians. welcome, america, to day two of cpac 2014. it is the election of the old, the new and rick perrys glasses. first on the roster was governor oops who brought a texas-size...

Attendance been like? any diversity at cpac? >> you have a lot of aging, reagan-era conservative activists. people who have been around cpac for 30 years. you have the college students, although the ticket prices are expensive, they have deductions and they come here cheaply. this is not a party crowd. this is not an republican national convention meeting trying to come up. with a party future. they are here to celebrate and have a little fun. get red meat and toss at rising stars and go home. >...

>> thats true. >> the things that is exciting for republicans or should be, some really diverse candidates. several candidates who have been around the track. rick perry. last time he had three weeks to get ready. this time he has three years. he is good when he is prepared. >> do you think there is a benefit going to cpac if you want to be a general election candidate and win swing voters. >> jeb bush and others have not showed up. there is a strategy to going and strategy to not going. you hav...

Just going on the air after he spoke. there wasnt a ton of analysis. in the days since, where do you place his star in the universe right now? ascending or holding steady or descent? >> i think it is ascending, but dipped because of the work on immigration. i think marco rubio came to the senate in 2011. he tried to assert himself to a hawk. he moved to the immigration and the right quickly faded. rubio has to have a better message. can he be more than throw some meat on foreign policy issues? c...

Heard marco rubio said that. that is on the table and map and a compelling political discussion and issue likely in the near future. republicans are going to be jumping forward and leaning forward with the exception of rand paul. >> robert. the issue of foreign policy and projecting americas strength. it did not sound like it got a huge reception. rand paul, it sounds from reports, plenty of applause and energy seems to be with him and paul lights, molly tweeted out something. she said the cpac ...

Resort in protecting american freedom. mainly, it seemed, mr. huckabee was at cpac to talk about god. >> i know there is a god. i know this nation would not exist had he not been the midwife of its birth. i know that life begins at conception. heres what i know. it is time for the government to scale back, not people of faith to scale back. religious liberty should be unimpeded in the nation. this one thing i know, my time is up and i must go. >> hours later, huckabees biblical counterpart, the ...