Mitch McConnell CPAC: Senator Speaks At Conservative Political Action Conference

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) made a pop-cultural reference Friday in his speech at CPAC, jabbing at the age of Hillary Clinton.

"Don't tell me Democrats are the party of the future," he said, "when their presidential ticket looks like a rerun of the Golden Girls." The minority leader was referring to the 1980s sitcom about four older women living together, starring comedian Betty White.

"They got Hillary and Joe Biden," he said.

McConnell is throwing a stone in a glass house. He is six years older than Clinton at 71, while Biden is 70.

He has an election of his own to win in 2014 in Kentucky, where he is already airing ads, and actress Ashley Judd is expected to run against him. McConnell continued to attack a liberal super PAC, Progress Kentucky, for sending racist tweets about his wife, Elaine Chao. The group, however, has very little money.

McConnell said the fight against Obamacare is not over, despite the fact that President Barack Obama was reelected and that it was upheld by the Supreme Court. He also offered praise for fellow Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Both moves seemed calculated to appeal to conservative base voters.

He brought a prop of what he said was 20,000 pages of Obamacare regulations, tied in a bright red ribbon. Referring to an amendment this week by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that failed, he said, "Every single Republican voted to defund Obamacare." The crowd loudly applauded. "Anybody who thinks we have moved beyond it is dead wrong."

He said that he would "bring the fight to the left."

"I'm going to mention my Kentucky colleague Rand Paul as an example of that," he said to loud applause.

Below, a liveblog of the latest updates from CPAC: