DAD 2009 Day 2

A flurry of Twitter & Blog activity is going on this morning from DAD 2009 – Defending the American Dream, organized by Americans for Prosperity. I’m collecting quotes from speakers as they are tweeted and blogged. many are not direct quotes as they are assembled from tweets. Assembling as fast as I can manage…

Steve Moore:
‘Cap and Trade–the China and India full employment act.’

Herman Cain at DAD 2009

Herman Cain:
Be aware of liberals’ S.I.N tactics:

1. Shift the subject,
2. Ignore the facts,
3. Namecall

Herman quoted by West Virginia Watchdog:

I found out I’m racist. Maybe I missed something. Maybe what they’re trying to say is I have a perfect tan.

We are crazy about liberty, we are crazy about freedom, and we’re crazy about the United States of America. That’s what we’re crazy about. We’ll show you some crazy; all these crazy people are going to show up at the polls.

Newt Gingrich DAD 2009 Day 1

Newt Gingrich:

“Yes we can but not his way.”

“Bowing to a Saudi king is NOT an energy policy”

“Hasn’t the world changed when the French are leading the charge of freedom?”

“The federal government can’t organize a vaccine for the flu, yet they want to take over our health care?”

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt

“There is forming up an army with walkers & artificial hips to fight Healthcare.”

“We need Chris Christie to clean out the swamp that is New Jersey. ”

When the moment comes and Israel must strike Iran, we must stand with our ally Israel.

Ed Morrissey at DAD 2009

Ed Morrissey

The tax code allows Congress to limit our behaviors they don’t like and try to control our lives.

The existing tax code perfectly suits the purpose of politicians who love to manipulate it.

People spent $250B to hire professional tax preparers due to complexity of laws. This is unacceptable

It costs us twice as much to adhere to tax code than to actually pay the taxes.

“We need to revive the conversation about lowering marginal tax rates for individuals & businesses.”

“If you keep more of every dollar you earn it creates incentive to do more.”

“The President is attractive, engaging, and doesn’t know a thing about how to run an economy.”

“I don’t want less care, I want more. I want less government in healthcare. Healthcare is one of the largest employment sectors & growing.”

“This will pass if we are steadfast in our beliefs” – liberty, self governance, free market capitalism.