CPAC Day 2 wrap-up

Notes from the second day of CPAC:

– When in doubt about how to make people like you, talk about football. Continuing a trend from yesterday, politicians continued to use football as their go to topic for laughs or analogies. Whether it was former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty joking about Brett Favre with Wisconsin politicians or Representative (Wis.) Paul Ryan yesterday referring to the Super Bowl winning packers for a cheer line, football has popped up in more than a few politicians’ speeches. It’s an old tactic. I know a former Hill staffer who, despite having no interest in the sport, read up on and watched it just so that she could have something to talk about with her colleagues.