Hot Air: CPAC interviews: The candidates

February 12, 2012

By Ed Morrissey

Originally posted by Hot Air:

Every year at CPAC, aspiring candidates for Congress make their way to Washington to speak directly to the conservative activists that can lift them to victory in primaries and general elections — and this year was no exception.  There were a number that I simply didn’t get a chance to interview, most prominently Utah’s Mia Love, whom Tina interviewed before I had an opportunity to do so.  (Younger and quicker sometimes doesbeat older and craftier.)  I did get interviews with our friend Ted Cruz, who is running for the Republican nomination for Senate in Texas, and who was energized and enthused by CPAC — and enraged by the mandate imposed on religious organizations by the Obama administration for contraception and abortifacients: