The CPAC - Conservative Political Action Conference - the conservative conference of conservative conferences has asked our man Marco Rubio to be this year's keynote speaker.

This is an incredible honor for Marco and I know he'll knock 'em dead up there. I'm proud that a fellow Cuban-American from Miami is regarded as the new voice of the conservative movement.

From Allahpundit at Hot Air:

It’s an easy pick because there’s no pol in America aside from Sarahcuda whom the base is more excited about, and he needs this exposure a lot more than she does. It’s essentially a huge, free advertisement for his Senate campaign with all the earned media that goes along with that. And of course it’s a great advertisement for conservatives too: He’s young, charismatic, and a minority, which makes him almost the polar opposite of the standard media caricature of right-wingers. Even so, it’s not often that you find CPAC pitted against the Republican establishment, but given the NRSC’s endorsement of Crist in the primary, that’s exactly what’s happening here. This isn’t as big a victory for tea partiers as a Doug Hoffman win would have been but it’s still big. Especially now that the NY-23 race is history and Crist has assumed the role of tea-party public enemy number one.

Crist should seriously consider dropping out of the Senate race right now.