Mitch
McConnell Brandishes Gun at CPAC
Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., came onto the stage at the Conservative
Political Action Conference today brandishing a long gun. McConnell held the
rifle over his head and the CPAC crowd loved it.
McConnell
delivered a red meat speech to the conservative activists, pummeling President
Obama and Democrats. “The president of the United States is treating our
Constitution worse than a placemat at Denny’s,” McConnell said.
ABC
News, March 6th, 2014
Rubio Bats for the Bleachers in CPAC
Speech
Senator Marco Rubio hit a home run
with conservative activists today when he took to the stage at the Conservative
Political Action Conference wielding a baseball bat. Admonishing the President
for “settling for simply walking the American people,” Rubio, while repeatedly
slamming his bat against the podium, promised to “hit a home run for the people
of this great nation.”
Los
Angeles Times, March 6th, 2014
A Booming Voice and a Boomerang from
Christie
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
made sure it wasn’t a “g’day” for a heckler who interrupted his speech at the
Conservative Political Action Conference this evening. As Christie began his speech
to polite applause, a man, later identified as Martin Crandall, stood up and
shouted for the governor to come clean about his role in the so-called “Bridge
Gate” scandal.
Without missing a beat, Christie whipped out a boomerang, tossed it over the crowd, and knocked Crandall cold with it. The crowd gave Christie a standing ovation. Crandall was not arrested, but was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was cited for disorderly conduct.
FOX
News, March 6th, 2014
Today’s Conservative Political Action
Conference put the emphasis on the word action, as two of their scheduled
speakers wound up in what conference organizers later characterized as a “playful
brawl.”
As Texas Governor Rick Perry was
speaking, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul interrupted him with a shout of “Liar!”
from the audience. Perry then reportedly invited Paul to “say it to my face,
you Washington weasel.” Paul then leapt to his feet, took to the stage, and the
two men exchanged some apparently heated words before Perry took a swing at
Paul, knocking the junior senator to his knees. Conference organizers quickly
moved in to separate the two men as the members of the audience clapped and
chanted, “Fight! Fight!”
The second day of the Conservative
Political Action Conference came to a quiet close tonight, after two days of
sound and fury making news around the world. Former Arkansas Governor Mike
Huckabee was the final speaker of the day, but he had trouble holding the crowd’s
attention after the fire and brimstone – and weaponry – displayed by CPAC’s preceding
speakers. When it became clear that Huckabee was going to speak, and nothing
more, the audience started to drift out of the hall.
“Mike Huckabee is a decent,
intelligent man,” said attendee Wayne Hunt from Orem, Utah. “But by god, he
needs to learn to kick a little ass.”
Former Alaska Governor and GOP
Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin brought a fiery finish to 2014’s
Conservative Political Action Conference today, as she took to the stage with a
tank of gasoline strapped to her back and a flamethrower in each hand. Members
of the audience alternately cheered and ducked for cover as she shot blasts of
flames out over the crowd.
Struggling to be heard over the
cheering of the crowd, and the peal of multiple fire alarms, Palin began her
speech by stating that she was “on fire with a deep, burning love for the
American people.”
Palin’s speech followed one given by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who made his own memorable entrance by blowing a hole in the ceiling of the main hall at CPAC and parachuting onto the stage.
Washington
Post, March 8th, 2014
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