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Conservatives go back to basics at CPAC

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    Lawmakers regroup and look to future after 2012 loss

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Leaders -- tennis agency pack in a moment Florida senator Marco Rubio already taken the stage and looking at America's.

Future.

Now Susan -- speaking I'll tell you -- the criticism on the left is going to be number one he drank to much water.

We're told they didn't offer any new ideas and there's the fallacy of it.

We don't need a new idea there is an idea the idea called America.

And it's still work.

Huge applause -- are you -- Republican senator Mike Lee just got back from -- fact he's with us from there -- -- senator.

Good morning rates and yeah I -- that line there from rubio.

They just get it yet again here okay we don't need a new idea the ideas of mass market still words you spoke also.

What was your message about -- framing the discussion about these centralized government.

My message was that individuals in voluntary associations and help care for people much better than government can.

We can take care of ourselves and others much better without the brooding on the presence of a centralized government.

Dictating how we live our lives from Washington DC.

That's the message of what we call civil society.

And it affected families and individuals working with voluntary associations.

And religious groups.

Can do a great job if government will stay out of the way to what you're saying is take the discussion away from the focus on on government.

And putting it on what the family in the community.

And -- violence.

Precisely because those are the things that have made America great work great as Americans not because of who we are part because of what we do.

And you know government can't create these voluntary associations government can't.

Required that we do all of these things but if government stays out of the way.

These things can happen.

If government gets too big he can weaken these voluntary associate with when -- it's not so much prosperity to a literacy -- yesterday how much discussion is there.

Reflecting on the the election -- 2012.

Vs the reflection on what's coming up in the future and how the Republican Party needs -- strategize.

You know a lot of people are still sad they're still upset about what happened in 2012 and they're also acknowledging that we've got to retool we've got to prepare better we've got to communicate our message better.

And that's part of why it's so important that what were asking Americans is it to prosper or asking them and fighting them.

That join us in this move toward prosperity the kind of prosperity that can backed the conservative message promises that it enables -- his big government.

Kills economic growth it kills jobs and we want Americans to prosper at the best way to do that is to limit the size and the scope and the reach of government.

-- Just throw down a bit more forming and I think discuss what rubio was -- it is it rip up the game plan to start again.

No it's not bad at all -- go back to the basics -- go back to what it is that we believe as conservatives why it is that we are conservatives.

The ideas are not new.

But the messaging needs to be fine tuned to go back to those basic principles of what it is that we believe.

And why it is that we believe that that we want individuals to prosper we want America to continue to be successful.

In that one of the reasons why we succeed last -- we -- is because we've allowed our government to become too big into expense how is that message received.

-- received very well I think intuitively we all understand those things -- conservatives but sometimes we get.

So caught up in that dated gay rhetoric that we use that we sometimes.

Forget why it is that we are conservatives and it all has to do with prosperity with peace and strength as a country.

Senator thank you for your time appreciate.

They might -- a Republican from Utah he delivered his big speech yesterday with us today from -- thanks.

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