CPAC IN-DEPTH: Tim Pawlenty's Niceness Makeover>>

This weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference — better known as "CPAC" or "Coachella for Conservatism" — has concluded, and with it, all of the glorious keynote speeches. Many of them are well-aware that despite their surroundings (which are mostly favorable to their beliefs), these conservatives are still on a national stage, and at a time when bringing moderates to their side is crucial in the run-up to the 2012 election, many of the usual sound-bite suspects for quotes kept it somewhat cool.

That said, these were the people who most definitely did not:

25. "If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed." - Wayne LaPierre, CEO off the National Rifle Association.

24. "The presence of a firearm makes us all safer." - Wayne LaPierre.

23. "Many of us think of him as the thinking man's Marlon Brando." - George Will on Mitch Daniels.

22. "I refer to the debt — the new red menace. This time consisting of ink." - Mitch Daniels.

21. "[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism." - Mitch Daniels.

20. "Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one." - Mitch Daniels.

19. "Anybody that brings up amnesty in this Congress, we need to just take the scarlet 'A' for amnesty and pin it on them." - Rep. Steve King.

18. "If Joe Kennedy wants to show he is really concerned about 'some' things [Hugo] Chavez is doing… he can see to it that the Fenway Park CITGO sign is covered up until freedom and democracy return to Venezuela." - Rep. Connie Mack.

17. "Our liberties, which have made us great, are now destroying us." - Rev. Michel Faulkner, at the CPAC "Traditional Marriage and Society" panel.

16. "We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas." - Newt Gingrich.

15. "A lawsuit a day helps keep the liberals at bay." - Dr. Mike Adams at the CPAC "Defending Free Speech on Campus" panel.

14. "Maybe conservatives need to start thinking about forming other institutions, and new types of universities that will be able to create our own Harvards and our own Yales and our own Princetons." - Dr. Richard Brake, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, at the same panel.

13. "Conservatives tend to be happy because they tend to like freedom. You are happy people, you here today, because like Reagan you have intellectualized conservatism and have rejected liberalism as anti-intellectual." - Craig Shirley, author of Rendezvous with Destiny, at the CPAC "Reagan at 100: Role Model for the Next Generation" panel.

12. "Now that [Reagan's] place in history is secure, [liberals] are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends." - Craig Shirley.

11. "I have fairly but intelligently earned many billions of dollars which, in a sense, was both a scorecard and acknowledgment of my abilities." - Three-time bankrupt Donald Trump.

10. "When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States." - Donald Trump, again.

9. "Four fifty-four for gas… because we have nobody that calls up OPEC… and say, [mobster voice] 'That. Price. Better. Get. Lower. And it better. Get. Lower. Fast.'" - Donald Trump, still.

8. "The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied… now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan — and with good cause." - Pat Boone.

7. "Leftist, socialist, former and current communist czars." - Pat Boone, on the Obama administration.

6. "The objective of the liberals is to destroy this country." - Herman Cain.

5. "Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein… Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy." - Ann Coulter.

4. "What do you mean, 'knowing that there are more jailed journalists'? I think there should be more jailed journalists!" - Ann Coulter.

3. "That is [liberalism's] goal — to destroy the family… [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing… gays are natural conservatives." - Ann Coulter.

2. "It's just like a liberal, they import slaves, they hold slaves, they fight for slavery, they go to war in a civil war to defend slavery. They then install legal discrimination against blacks for a hundred years…" - Ann Coulter.

1. "It's gonna be a big heart-breaker

Gramma needs a new pacemaker

And the doctor says, "I realize she's ill

But there's talk of legislation

On all our medication

And maybe all we can do is put her on a pain pill.

Aw me! Hey Congress!

You vote Obamacare, and we'll vote you outta there

We the People have wakened to your tricks

You vote to let this pass, you're gonna be out on your

[funny]

We the People have awakened…" - Ray Stevens, in song.

And another, just because:

0. "Sit down and shut up." - Dick Cheney as he was heckled by protesters.

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