By Joey Lauer

CPAC 2010 had around 10,000 registrants– more than ever before. Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker and he was greatly welcomed into an enormous, packed ballroom. Even I had to view from an overflow ballroom, but that didn’t detract from a phenomenal speech. We laughed. We we were touched. It called us to action. Glenn Beck said what needed to be said.

You can watch Glenn Beck’s speech here. It’s just under an hour (start at the 5:oo mark). I encourage you to skip one TV show and watch this speech.

Beck told us about the “cancer” of Progressivism– now under the term “liberalism”– and how it is slowly destroying our country. He explained how in the late 1920′s, low taxes and high spending helped lead to the Great Depression. He mentioned how we need to turn back to personal responsibility and learn from our failures because some of the best successes come from the of greatest of failures. He claimed that in America, we don’t need big government, because we work hard to succeed and we are naturally generous to one another.

Beck stressed that we are in a tough place right now, but we can do something about it: “stand for the right things. Our future is not cast in stone. It does not have to be this way. It does not have to be that the greatest American generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standing of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that!”