It’s the year’s biggest event for conservatives – and the biggest names on the right are gathering in force to boot President Obama from office.

An all-star lineup of pundits and politicians – including Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Paul Ryan and WND Editor Joseph Farah – will speak at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. The event will take place Feb. 9-11 at Marriott Wardman Park.

Palin will be CPAC’s keynote speaker after four years of consistently rejecting the top spot at the high-profile annual conservative conference.

The CPAC speakers will debate several questions, including: “Is America still an exceptional nation?”; “From Fidel to Chavez: How do we stop the resurgence of socialism in Latin America?”; and “Is the Arab spring good or bad for America?”

At 9 a.m. Friday in the Harding Room, Farah will unveil his plan to freeze borrowing in Washington in 2013 as a first step toward returning the nation to constitutionally limited government and sane economic policies – no matter who is elected president in November.

The “No More Red Ink” campaign entails heavy grass-roots lobbying on Republican members of Congress, a no-more-borrowing pledge for elected Republican officials and candidates and the formation of a broad coalition of groups and individuals who agree that the debt limit should not be raised again.

A complete schedule of CPAC 2012 events is available at the CPAC website.

Other CPAC speakers include:

• Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), former 2012 presidential candidate and author of “Core of Conviction“

• U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio

• Hon. John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

• L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center

• Herman Cain, WND columnist and former 2012 presidential candidate

• Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union

• Ann Coulter, WND columnist and best-selling author

• S.E. Cupp, conservative commentator and author of “Losing Our Religion“

• Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., author of “The Great American Awakening“

• Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online and author of “Liberal Fascism”

• Hon. Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament

• Hon. Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate and author of “A Simple Government“

• Laura Ingraham, best-selling author of “The Obama Diaries” and radio host

• Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.

• Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the Republican Study Committee

• David Keene, president of the National Rifle Association

• Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association and author of the WND book, “

• Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

• Michael Medved, radio talk-show host

• Col. Oliver North, host of “War Stories with Oliver North” and best-selling author

• Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform

• Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council

• Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, former 2012 presidential candidate

• Ralph Reed of the Faith & Freedom Coalition

• Phyllis Schlafly, WND columnist, founder of the Eagle Forum and author of the WND book, “The Flipside of Feminism“

• Gov. Rick Scott, R-Fla.

• Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice

• Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.

• Rep. Allen West, R-Fla.

• Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch

• Michelle Duggar, star of TLC’s “19 Kids & Counting”

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