…and Infuriates Paul Supporters
Fox Nation @ FoxNews.com
2/10/2011
If CPAC is a primary for self-confidence, Donald Trump won hands down.
The real-estate mogul with a genius for self-promotion gave the most-acclaimed – and most colorful – speech at the conservative gathering this afternoon, from the moment he took the stage to the song “Money, Money, Money.”
Continue Reading
With no visible sense of irony, he slammed libertarian Ron Paul as a losing hopeful who can’t capture the brass ring and got booed by some for it, said our current president came ‘out of nowhere,” and quoted a business magazine’s story about what a terrific entrepreneur he himself is.
Yet he was by far the best-received speaker and the audience lapped up his act, as he read some of a prepared speech and used his hands to punctuate his words. He also hit on social issues “briefly,” as he said, saying he’s pro-life and anti-gun control. He said he’d dismantle Obama’s health care law.
Read the full story at Politico.com
Update: Blogger Warner Todd Huston is at CPAC and filed this report about Trump’s speech. There’s a video there that runs two minutes longer than the video here.
Update 2: NY Times, Trump Will Speak at CPAC
