CPAC in Denver, Colorado on Oct. 4, 2012 - Mitt Romney's Surprise Appearance

by Mark A. Cohen

This summer I realized I wanted to attend the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) for 2013, to be held in Washington, D.C., in March. So, I checked out the web and discovered a local version of CPAC, to be held in Denver on October 4, 2012! I signed up. After all, I have a completed manuscript to publish.

I breezed through the sign-in process and noticed the schedule of top-notch speakers to appear later in the morning. I recognized most of the names. My admission gained me access to the main section, and because I arrived so early I figured I’d sit in the nearly empty front row. Immersed in enjoyable conversation with a fellow conservative, the time for speakers arrived before I realized it. After some formalities and a brief introduction, Al Cardenas, Chairman of the American Conservative Union appeared, and gave a fine speech.

Sen. John Thune (SD) followed Cardenas, then Sen. Orrin Hatch (UT), and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (UT) gave short speeches. How nice to see these prominent conservative leaders, right in front of me. Sen. Marco Rubio burst out onto the stage with youthful vigor and enthusiasm. No worries, my liberal friends, not a mean word did we hear. No name calling, just positive ideas and encouragement. The camera well in front of us filled up with photographers. Sen. Rubio is quite popular, I thought. A friend then suggested that our candidate would be next. But, wait, he’s not on the program…

Someone introduced Mitt Romney’s four sons. Hmmm, that’s odd. And then one of them began speaking about the knock-out his father delivered the night before - in the first presidential debate of 2012. He said, “There are five brothers, but one of them couldn’t make it here. So, we thought we’d bring this guy along instead.” Yes, Governor Romney himself made his way out onto the stage! The crowd went wild… and, there he was, right in front of me, closer than fifteen feet. Similar to his debate performance, this presidential man made his case once again. We need to elect him.

After the Mitt Romney appearance, I listened to some more speakers, heard a panel or two, and then made my way out to the rest of the conference. What a wonderful thing, to be amongst like-minded people. I had the honor of meeting many people, some famous, some not so much, and spoke to a few about my memoir. The friendships I made there can last a lifetime. And, maybe, just maybe my manuscript will finally get published…

In the coming weeks I may write more about this CPAC; I have videos to post. In the meantime, we have a Vice-Presidential debate to watch. No predictions, but I’m hopeful that Rep. Ryan will win by side-stepping Vice President Biden’s attacks and by presenting the prosperous Romney vision for America. Every time our candidates get the chance to offer our concepts without the negative filter of the Mainstream Media, we gain ground. When the spin, sarcasm, and mocking are shut down, people understand conservative principles, take them seriously, and generally agree with them.

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The Upcoming Debates – What Romney Must do to Win

by Mark A. Cohen

A boss of mine once said, “If you want the manager’s job, you must act like a manager.” In the three upcoming presidential debates, the first on Wednesday, Oct. 3, Gov. Romney must seem like our president. I suggest he avoid too much criticism of President Obama, and surprise us all with details. Tell them your plan, Mitt.

The mainstream media (MSM) will come prepared to trip the Republican candidate, so Governor Romney will need to turn their loaded, biased questions into clear answers. Don’t let them distract you, Mitt, as they will try. Stay on target and tell the American people what you came prepared to say. They will try to make President Obama look like a champion of the people instead of the commander-in-chief of so many failed policies. They will attempt to make you look like a fool, a rich guy, one who doesn’t care. We need to see how much you do.

A few of my readers might not understand how the questions will be biased, so let me give one example. The chances are high the talking heads might ask something like, “Governor Romney, when you said you didn’t care about 47% of the people in that video…” - He didn’t say he didn’t care about anyone, he said they wouldn’t vote for him. And, they won’t concentrate on any of President Obama’s gaffs, believe me. Not all, but several will be softball questions to the president, watch and see. “What do you like best about being president?” is but one example.

As a presidential hopeful, Mr. Romney needs to tell us about his vision for a stronger America in a safer world, his better economy via job creation at an accelerated pace, better schools, better teachers, his ideas for a re-invigorated and active space program, (how’s that for education, my liberal friends?) – and specifically, how to get there from here. We have to see him answer the president’s talking points, you know, “trickle-down doesn’t work…a return to the Bush policies…pay your fair share…spread the wealth…Republicans do teacher-bashing…more people covered than ever before…the Republicans opposed me at every turn…tsunamis, ATMs…I can’t change Washington from the inside…Republicans favor dirty air and dirty water…” He must challenge the president at least three times, ask questions of him, point out his failings in front of him; policies, ideas, over-spending, and ideology. Mr. Romney must seem like the adult while not scolding the child.

Yes, the specifics are all there, Democrats - policies, issues, details, on his web site here or here, pay attention, please. Tell us you don’t like the ideas, but do stop saying that there are no ideas. Oh, and by the way, if you own a business, you did build that!

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Rick Santorum Is On Fire!

While he's been one of my favorites all along (as well as Cain and Bachmann, both of whom are sadly already out of the race), I didn't expect to see such a slam dunk performance by former Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses yesterday. Congratulations to you, Sen. Santorum, and for God's sake, keep it going!

As I've mentioned before, we Republicans have been blessed with an awesome field of primary contenders to choose from. Unfortunately, however, the trend for the past several months - impacted in no small amount by the mainstream media political talking heads, of course - has been a rousing game of musical chairs. King Romney has been planted firmly in one seat and a slew of other (much, much) more conservative candidates taking the remaining seat. One by one they have been picked off, not only by strong media criticism, but also by the factions within our own dismal party.

Ever since Rick Santelli's iconic rant on CNBC, the sleeping giant within the GOP now known as the Tea Party Movement has placed a firm grip on the true conservatives of America, and placed themselves squarely at odds with the strangest of adversaries - no, not the bleeding heart liberals in the White House - our own stodgy, GOP political elite, also known as 'the Establishment.' Mwahaha! It sounds so powerful and daunting, doesn't it? The Establishment has become such by riding along with the status quo, compromising conservative values in order to stay in office, and racking up an enormous federal budget in the meantime.

The make-up of the GOP has been firming up for the past nearly three years, and it looks like 2012 could be (dear God, please let it be!) the year that the Establishment is kicked to the curb and conservatives grab the GOP wheel and yank us all back to the right.

What Santorum needs now is a solid New Hampshire victory next Tuesday to push him over the edge and into front-runner position. Hopefully right now he's getting floods of donations and Republicans all over the northeast are driving in to help his team go door-to-door and make calls. If you haven't gotten involved in this race yet (and I am definitely one of the folks that hasn't), now is the time! This next weekend/week is going to be fun!

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