all the time. tonight s headliner is former florida governor jeb bush for years spurned talk of run for president but recently said he is not ruling it out. he has taken his name off the straw poll ballot for tomorrow saying it s too early to talk about 2016. except that that is a real big part of what this conference has been about for the last two days and will continue tomorrow. bret: exactly. carl cameron live at cpac. thank you. mixed messages and lobster salad from the president and senate republicans. that is next in the grapevine. plus, film critics can be a tough crowd. we know that. one specific group of critics is talking about ben affleck being executed. my mother made the best toffee in the world.
conservative political action conference for the first public speech since losing the 2019 election. urged republicans to raise their heads and renew the fight. it s fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about america. about conservative solutions. about the republican party. i utterly reject pessimism. we may not have carried on november 7 but we haven t lost the country we love. and we have not lost our way. the right tries to expand the appeal to minorities and women, romney s former running mate argues the g.o.p. needs to replace lip service with real action. we can t just talk about communities. we have to talk with them. we have to engage them. leaders don t just speak up. they listen, too. day after florida senator marco rubio who personally opposes gay marriage says it should be up to the states to decide. same time, rand paul urged the g.o.p. to be considerate of the liberty in the social sphere.
political story. republicans attack the administration. second counting on the fact that the passage of time it s important. you get the former secretary of state saying and hearing four months after the event, what does it matter at this point? yeah, it s almost a third of a year later. so it s essentially rear-view mirror. counting on the fact that there isn t a human face on this. the dead are dead. and what you would ordinarily hear from are the people who were there. probably in terror. thinking where is the country. who is thinking about us. having that core inside with a president that showed no interest in this whatsoever. aside a briefing that was already scheduled early in the evening. then retires for seven hours and opportunity inquire after that. when you put the human face with the apparent
calling it negative campaign. so newt gingrich s forces are saying this is hardly negative and mitt romney was saying the ads on newt gingrich and money he got from freddie mac and fannie mae is not negative just truthful. the end result, it is in the eye of the beholder. where does this leave republicans? guest: well today in south carolina my understanding is that newt gingrich said the ads are crossing the line and he suggested it that our focus should not be on how to eliminate the competition at every and all expenses but we should focus on what we are going to do in order to make sure that america returns to the road of prosperity because making profit is not an evil. that narrative works well. changing positions, attack your opponent or talk about your opponent s record on the issue especially those issues that
sacrifice. we re all going to have to make sacrifices. the next president? why do we have to wait 14 months? time to call in heidi harris of the heidi harris radio show in las vegas, and bill press, host of the nationally syndicated bill press show. nice to have both of you with us tonight. turning to president obama, he s out there defending workers, the middle classers. here he is earlier this week. you know what, it s asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber, makes me a warrior for the middle class. i ll wear that charge. i ll wear that badge of honor. where does this leave republicans, heidi? that s ridiculous, bill, because a lot of that they re talking about the investment money they make and things like that. a plumber is paying less money percentagewise on his income than a billionaire is on his income. it s apples and oranges. it s not exactly the same thing. and ultimately, like i said before to you, if i tax you more