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"The president of the United States looks like he is a really good father, a really good husband. But he is a terrible president," Senator Marco Rubio said to a standing ovation.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also took aim at Obama's economic record, accusing him of being "completely and totally AWOL" when it comes to reining in the country's massive debt.
"We're not in this mess because of a tsunami in Japan or a debt crisis in Europe," McConnell said. "We're in it because (Obama) got everything he wanted for two long years.
"When November comes around, voters will know who was in charge -- they'll know this president's record, and after that he'll have as much time to play golf as he wants," he said, referring to this year's presidential election.
In one animated speech after another, conservatives highlighted Obama's shortcomings, using increasingly apocalyptic metaphors.
"We are on the precipice of an abyss," said Colin Hanna, who heads the grassroots group Let Freedom Ring.
Senator Mike Lee invoked conservative icon and former president Ronald Reagan's image of America as "a shining city on the hill," and warned that after four more years of Obama it could "become a decaying city in a hole."
Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a presidential candidate for months until she dropped out in January, savaged Obama's foreign policy and said he "made a mess" of the Middle East.
Senator Rand Paul, whose father, Texas congressman Ron Paul, is the fourth Republican vying for the White House, suggested Obama hates rich people, saying "the president continues to roam the country blaming millionaires and billionaires" for the economic woes of the American middle class.
Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan advisor, told CPAC that Obama was "the greatest gift to conservatives" because he would unite them against him.
That has yet to happen. While Romney leads in the all-important delegates count, he slipped up badly this week, losing a trio of state contests to Santorum, and there is mounting skepticism about his conservative bona fides.
David Keene, president of the powerful National Rifle Association and a board member of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, said the party is tentative about Romney.
"In the primaries he's been drawing more and more conservative support, but the one thing that all of these people have to unite them, whichever one of these guys is nominated, is Barack Obama," he said.
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell also took aim at Obama's economic record, accusing him of being "completely and totally AWOL" when it comes to reining in the country's massive debt.
"We're not in this mess because of a tsunami in Japan or a debt crisis in Europe," McConnell said. "We're in it because (Obama) got everything he wanted for two long years.
"When November comes around, voters will know who was in charge -- they'll know this president's record, and after that he'll have as much time to play golf as he wants," he said, referring to this year's presidential election.
In one animated speech after another, conservatives highlighted Obama's shortcomings, using increasingly apocalyptic metaphors.
"We are on the precipice of an abyss," said Colin Hanna, who heads the grassroots group Let Freedom Ring.
Senator Mike Lee invoked conservative icon and former president Ronald Reagan's image of America as "a shining city on the hill," and warned that after four more years of Obama it could "become a decaying city in a hole."
Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a presidential candidate for months until she dropped out in January, savaged Obama's foreign policy and said he "made a mess" of the Middle East.
Senator Rand Paul, whose father, Texas congressman Ron Paul, is the fourth Republican vying for the White House, suggested Obama hates rich people, saying "the president continues to roam the country blaming millionaires and billionaires" for the economic woes of the American middle class.
Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan advisor, told CPAC that Obama was "the greatest gift to conservatives" because he would unite them against him.
That has yet to happen. While Romney leads in the all-important delegates count, he slipped up badly this week, losing a trio of state contests to Santorum, and there is mounting skepticism about his conservative bona fides.
David Keene, president of the powerful National Rifle Association and a board member of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, said the party is tentative about Romney.
"In the primaries he's been drawing more and more conservative support, but the one thing that all of these people have to unite them, whichever one of these guys is nominated, is Barack Obama," he said.
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