NEW YORK TIMES: …“We don’t need any new ideas,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida told a room packed with cheering grass-roots activists, anticipating what he predicted would be liberal critiques of his remarks. “The idea is called America, and it still works.”
Speaking immediately after him, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky declared, “The G.O.P. of old has grown stale and moss-covered.” A “new G.O.P.,” he said, “will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.” …
Antipathy for Mr. Obama and his agenda appeared to be a baseline requirement for entree to the speakers’ list at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center here… (more)
