Let me be clear about a couple things. This is not at all about the principle that every defendant deserves a competent attorney in his trial. It is not about the idea that somehow a person, a lawyer should be condemned for the crimes of his client. This was always about the principal that no one should be able to make a mockery of our criminal justice system, fan the flames of racial strife in america, join a dishonest international antiamerican campaign, along the way drag the family of a Fallen Police officer through three decades of hell and then be confirmed to a high post in the justice department. [applause] so why am i telling the story . It is not just to celebrate a conservative victory but thats ok. Once in a while, we need to do that. I think it demonstrates that when we stand up and we fight and we fight on principle, we can actually win. Sometimes even in washington, d. C. And this is what republicans need to do. It is what republicans need to do across the country. It is what republicans need to do in congress. We need to stand up to a president who thinks that the laws of america do not apply to him. [applause] we need to stand up to senator reid, who thinks he can marginalize republicans and the millions of americans who voted for us in the United States senate. [applause] and lets face it, we are not always going to win these fights. Especially not when the democrats control the senate and barack obama is in the white house. But we can win some of these fights. And if we demonstrate the ability to carry on the fight, the willingness to have the fight, and the fact that we will base those fights on conservative american principles, then the American People will trust us to govern and they will give us a chance to take this country back. Thank you very much for being here. Thanks for all that you do for our country. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] please welcome senior Political Editor at town hall. Com. Good morning. I need to begin with a Public Service an outlet for the young women in the audience here at seatac at cpac. In spite of media reports that he is about to be back on the market, stay away from congressman alan grayson. [laughter] his charms are difficult to resist what it is for the best and for your own safety, allegedly. N is onea rumor grayso outburst away from qualifying for his own weekend show on msnbc. [laughter] i am not even talking about lockup. Shades oftle, 50 grayson. Of this rumor was harry reid, it is probably bs. Are you fired up by senator cru z . [applause] to introduce our next speaker. He was the republicans point man in its exposing obamacare. Depictedng attack ad him literally wheeling an elderly woman off of a cliff. That was the punishment for the sin of advancing a plan to save medicare from insolvency. An empirically undeniable crisis for which the socalled party of science is the rest of solutions. Most challenging, he debated a deranged person for 90 minutes on National Television in front of 51 million americans and emerged with his dignity intact. Asset forndispensable modern conservatism. A policy innovator and a Solutions Oriented wonk with dreamy blue eyes. Congressman paul ryan of wisconsin. Thanks, folks. How are you doing . Great to see you. Good morning. Guy, thanks. What can i say about that introduction . Well, it is the most recent introduction i have received. When al asked me to speak at this year, he said, paul, i to save the best for last. So you are on thursday morning. [laughter] all i can say is it is great to be back. Thanks a lot, everybody. I appreciate it. Now the 2012 election didnt go exactly as we had planned. [laughter] last year, ive got to tell you, it was pretty tough to be optimistic after a loss like that. A year later, i think there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic. [applause] you know why . I think the left is exhausted. Our side is energized. And on election day, we are going to win. [applause] take the president. He released his budget this week. And from the looks of it, he is just doubling down. He is moving further to the left. His teammates arent much better. You notice they all kind of sound alike these days. All they talk about is income inequality. They say it shows party unity. What it really shows is that they are out of ideas. The reason they keep talking about income inequality is because they cannot talk about economic growth. They have spent five long years in power and all they have to show for it is this lousy website. [laughter] the president was remarkably candid when he said he would fundamentally transform the country. He has done his best to keep that pledge. In the end, i think hes going to fail. [applause] you see, now that the president is implementing his agenda, it is a total fiasco. Big government sounds good in theory, but it looks a lot different in practice. And we are learning this the hard way. This is our opportunity. For the president and his allies, this campaign will not be a sprint will not be a sprint or a marathon. It will be a 50yard dash. They will run from their record. They will point fingers. And they will try to make us the villain in their morality play. I dont think its going to work because they are going to overreach. Take just one example. The Little Sisters of the poor. The administration is trying to force a group of nuns to violate their conscience. The left is not trying to solve a problem here. They are trying to make a point they are in charge. Ive been in politics long enough to know that if you throw your weight around like this, you are going to be thrown out of office. That is not the way a Majority Party acts. A Majority Party welcomes debate. It brings people in. It does not burn heretics, it wins converts. And it knows people dont want to be pandered to. They want to be treated like adults. They want to be convinced. They want to be inspired. Thats why im excited about our team. The way the left tells it, the Republican Party is in this big massive civil war. It is Tea Party Versus establishment, libertarians against social conservatives. Discoursenfighting, look, i am irish. That is my idea of a family reunion. [cheers and applause] i dont see this great divide in our party. What i see is a vibrant debate. We are figuring out the best way to apply our principles to the challenges of the day. Sure, we have our disagreements. And, yes, they can get a little passionate. I like to think of it as creative tension. For the most part, these disagreements have not been over principles or even policies. Theyve been over tactics. So i think we should give each other the benefit of the doubt. [applause] but we, your representatives, we have to earn this benefit of the doubt. We have to offer a vision. We have to explain where we want to take the country and how we want to get there. Now there is a fine line between being pragmatic and being unprincipled. And sometimes its hard to tell who is here to start a career and who is here to serve a cause. But the true test is not what specific path you take but whether you move the country in the right direction. And we will. Look, from our governors in the states to our members in congress to the Tea Party Groups across the country, a conservative modern reform agenda is now taking shape. We are offering a vision and we have got plenty of ideas. You are about to hear from one of our leaders, senator tim scott. [applause] what tim scott and eric cantor are doing. They said, sure, lets make things a little more equal. Lets let every parent choose where their child goes to school. [applause] because we believe to help every child get ahead, every parent should get a choice. Take congressman graves. They want to give states more control over highways so they can build the roads they need. Because we believe families should spend less time in traffic and more time at home. Rubio wants to repair our safety net. He wants to streamline Government Programs and give working families a boost. Because we believe in this country it should always pay to work. We believe in the dignity of work. [applause] take congresswoman martha roby. She has a great idea. If you work overtime, you should be able to take more time off, paid time off, if you want to. Because we believe that working parents know best how to manage their own time and washington should just get out of the way. Take chairman dave camp. He wants to lower tax rates for businesses and families. Right now, the tax code is 10 times the size of the bible and has none of the good news. [laughter] here is the way it works. You send your money to washington and, if you do what washington tells you to do, you can get some of your money back. I have a better idea why dont you just keep your money in the first place. [cheers and applause] take obamacare. The way the president ok, dont take obamacare, but work with me, ok. Consider obamacare. The way the president talks you would think there is no alternative here and weve got plenty. Senator tom coburn has one. Tom price has one. Each plan has its virtues. But the unifying principle is clear. We believe you should pick your health care plan, not washington. [applause] once again, the gop is where the action is. Just as it was at the beginning of the reagan revolution. You know, people forget that cutting taxes was once controversial, even in our own party. Senator bob dole used to make fun of supplysiders like jack. He used to say that the good news is a bus of supplysiders went over a cliff. Seats weres is some empty. He warmed up to the idea. When he ran for president , he promised to cut tax rates across the board. That is what we call the battle of ideas. I saw this with my own budget. When i introduced my budget for the first time in 2008, i had just eight cosponsors, eight conservative backers who wanted to stick their neck out. Then the Tea Party Members got elected and now the house has passed it three years in a row. [applause] this is how it always is. You fight it out. You figure out what works. You come together. Then you win. Its messy. Its noisy. And its a little bit uncomfortable. But the center of gravity is shifting. Were not just opposing a president. We are developing an agenda, a modern, progrowth principled , agenda for our party. We are going to show the country that there is a better way. The way i see it, let the other party be the party of personalities. We will be the party of ideas. [applause] i am optimistic about our chances because the left isnt just out of ideas. They are out of touch. Take obamacare, not literally, but figuratively here, ok. We now know that this law will discourage millions of people from working. The left thinks this is a good thing. They say, hey, this is a new freedom, the freedom not to work. I dont think the problem is too many people are working. I think the problem is not enough people can find work. [applause] and if people leave the workforce, our economy will shrink. There will be less opportunity, not more. The left is making a big mistake here. What they are offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul. The American People want more than that. This reminds me of a story i heard from eloise anderson. She serves in the cabinet of my buddy Governor Scott walker. [applause] she once met a young boy from a very poor family and everyday at school he would get a free lunch from a government program. He told eloise he didnt want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch. One in a brown paper bag just like the other kids. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand. We dont want people to leave the workforce. We want them to share their skills and their talents with the rest of us. [applause] people dont just want a life of comfort. They want a life of dignity. They want a life of self determination. A life of equal outcomes is not nearly as enriching as a life of equal opportunity. [applause] ill tell you, the party that speaks to that desire, the party that tries to make it concrete and real, thats the party that will win in november. We are that party. [applause] we are that party because that is the country that we know. And in a few years, i think we will look back at all of this creative tension. I think we will look back at 2014 as the time when we got it right. When we gave the country a real choice. When we earned back the peoples trust. That is the moment we are in right now. This is the party that is forming. This is the battle of ideas that is happening. And this is the party that is going to do this so that we can finally save the american idea. Thank you very much for your participation here. [applause] this is here. It is now. We are coming together and we are going to do this and youre here to help us. And we are going to look back at this time when we say that. Thank you everybody. And god bless. [applause] please welcome tim scott, u. S. Senator from south carolina. Thank you. Thank you very much. Do i see some south carolinians in the house . Cadets the citadel cadets, didnt they do a good job this morning . How many of you, like me, believe in the future of america. [applause] agenda focuses on the American People and not the federal government. Welimiting the government, empower the people. We do not need the Big Government and obamacare choosing our doctors. Do we . Forcingt need obamacare pizza places to tell us how many calories are on our pizza. Do we even want to know . When i eat my haagendazs ice cream, i went to enjoy those 129 2 calories and all 100 grams of fat in one sitting. Not wantou all do obamacare to increase the taxes on the tanning beds. Please note i said some of you. I do not really care about that tax. Just joking. You have got to have some fun at cpac. Americans andut selfdetermination. We are not about the government. The greatest assets we have cannot be found here in washington dc. Our greatest assets are not in washington dc. Except when cpac is in town. [cheers and applause] they are found in the thoughts and in the ideas of people in places like greenville or a orangeburg, and charleston. Not in the executive orders of this president. It instead end up wisdom of our Founding Fathers. And on the pages of our constitution. [cheers and applause] a smaller, less intrusive government means more resources for the creation of the next generation of entrepreneurs. The success of our economy is seen in the size of our ideas. Not in the size of our tax bills. We need to cut our taxes, not raise them like president obama wants to. Great news created and relationships. When people pool their resources and start Small Businesses. In their garages, at coffee shops, and at their kitchen table. I started my Small Business in a small apartment with friends. Our genius emerges from our classrooms, from our libraries, filas. Our chik i call them freedom fries. Those little waffle fries, freedom fries. That is where i met my mentor. He taught me the power of thinking. Some of you have heard i was a poor kid growing up in a singleparent household. I had lost my way. I had flunked out of high school as a freshman. Failed rural geography, civics. A u. S. Senator who failed civics. I thought i was the only one and then i came to the senate. Then i realized there might have been a couple that did not have civics either. Then i failed spanish and english. They do not call you bilingual, they call you biignorant. That is why i get so much credit to my mentor, he came along at the right time. The people whoy, change the path of young kids like me are sitting in audiences like this. He taught me you can think your way out of poverty. That citadel graduate taught me if you want to escape poverty it comes through the power of education. He taught me that. That is one reason why my opportunity agenda understands the necessity of a good education. Kids, nots that unions, should be the focus of our public education. [applause] that parents, and not bureaucrats in washington, should decide the path of their childs education. They should be free to choose. They should be free to choose homeschooling, Public Schools, charter schools, parochial schools. It should be the parents choice. Because when the parents have the choice, the kids have a chance. [applause] i think of one story from greenville, south carolina, a lovely young lady named rachel lewis, born with down syndrome. Optimistic, energetic, focused, smart little girl. Her parents fought tooth and nail for a year to keep her in mainstream classes. Unfortunately, after a year, she was able to win keeping her little girl in mainstream classes, but she realized the very teachers, the very system she had to fight with would now be in charge of educating her kids. She decided, i cannot do that. She found a little private treasure ind hidden greenville, south carolina. And that young lady went through school and earned her High School Diploma and today, she does not have one job, she has two jobs. We need to set free all of the potential in the kids in our country through school choice. [applause] finally, there are 4 million jobs vacant today in america. 4 million jobs unfilled. We need to prepare our adult learners to fill those jobs. We need to focus our attention on two facts. Every child does not want to go to college. Some kids can earn while they learn. We should have a dual track, one for college and one for the skills necessary to fill the 4 million vacancies we have today in america. [applause] my opportunity agenda does that. Let me close by saying as we unveil more about my opportunity agenda, i believe the best is yet to come. We will remain focused on the American People. God has already blessed our country. I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that that blessing continues. If this was the church, i would take up an offering. And ask you to stand for the closing benediction. You have already made the offering. You have done so with your time, by getting involved in campaigns. You are the backbone of the conservative movement and men and women like myself stand on your shoulders. God has blessed us because we have you. God bless you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the host of the daily on the one america news network. Good a