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this side of the room said hmmmm. i'm going to talk to the hmmmm for just a few seconds here. for $21,000, 56% of the student graduate. very few of those students go ou to get a two-year or four-year degree. opportu the choice act embedded in the choice act is a d.c. opportunity scholarship.ool it allows for school choice in d.c.ts here are the results of school choice. i'll be right back. for the wow factor over here, the d.c. opportunity scholarship costs $8500 per student. $21,000 typical public education, $8,500 for school choice.
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93% graduate versus 56% graduating.ng. 91% go on to a two-year or four-year institution. 93% of the parents are happy. if we were looking for a way to change the dynamics in who votes for us, the issue of education w cannot be owned by the ne democrats. cannot be owned by the democrats. and when we do our part, i willr tell you, the results are amazing. i'm taking this agenda people throughout south carolina and around the country and i'm telling you the truth. the pe people love it. all people love the concept of
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choice so much so, i've noticed a couple things in d.c. when the people start liking something, the federal government sues. if there seems to be a correlation or relationship, i don't know what it is. but in louisiana they decided to go forward with the school d choice agenda and the federal government, the department of justice decided to say that you cannot help poor kids get a better education, unacceptable. it will hurt public education.e i assume that's what they said.t don't quote me on that one. but they said something like bu that as they attacked public education because of school choice in louisiana. i believe the way that you improve public education is to decentralize public education cn from washington d.c. and send the control, the decision-making, and the money back to the states. you can do that very quickly. th
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think about the fact that the average employee at the department of education in washington d.c. makes $103,000 a year, and the average teacher makes $53,000.s people keep telling me that we have a money problem in education. i think we have a priority problem in education. we have a priority problem in education. this country spends $700 billion annually, and we have the states and the federal government together, on education. we can do better. we should demand better. the second part of the choice act simply says this. with kids with special needs deserve to maximize their individual to potential. everyone in america deserves ton understand their own potential. what we say is if you can't gett
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the education your child needs n in your zip code, you should spc make the i.d.e.a., the money for special needs kids, portable.juk just like we have school choice for vulnerable kids, we should allow the same thing for our s,e kids with special needs.ki a great story out of south year carolina, a young lady, at the time i guess she was five years old. owns she was going to kindergarten. she has downs syndrome, rachel lewis. doing pretty well in mainstreamw classes.el teachers got uncomfortable with her being around students, trief to push her into a special needd class. her parents fought to get her back into a mainstream class.ugt after a year and a half they ine were successful and then they realized that ultimately these teachers who fought to get her out of the class are now her responsible for educating her.re so they took her to a private to school, hidden treasure.school 20 years later or 18 years later, she's now 20 years old. 0
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she graduated from hidden treasures with her high school diploma and she doesn't have one job, she has two jobs. if we give people the he opportunity to maximize their potential, they will succeed beyond our wildest imaginations. it's kind of like ephesians 3:20. he is able to do above what we w ask or even imagine. that's the picture i want for th the kids.e thank you. for the bottle of water, thank you very much. coming from south carolina whers it's 95 degrees and the humidity is 100%, waking up at 58 or 60 r degrees in colorado springs the
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other day, had a little sniffle. i'm going back tonight and it will be 90 degrees in south carolina.will b my body is still adjusting.will by the time i get there i will e be okay. thank you for the water. it's helpful. i'll tell you this, though. the second part of the opportunity agenda is, in fact,o how do we build a better bet economy.i'll tel i'll tell you a couple things. the clock says i have 3 minutes and 30 seconds. my mama wanted a preacher which means i get three closes, not one.bs's jobs in the economy. it's simple. if you look at the economic recovery around this nation, if we did not see success in the energy sector, we would not have this terrible anemic recovery we're having today. the balance of our success has been driven by our energy production. today our president is considering whether we should
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federalize the rules and regulations around fracking, horizontal drilling and taking over the energy industry. i think that's a bad idea. y'all think that's a bad idea? that's good. i'll tell you that one of my aty bills in my opportunity agenda is called the see jobs act. i believe there are resources in the atlanta o.c.s. if we're able to seismic the atlanta o.c.s. we'll discover, i believe, deposits of gas. if we do that, south carolina f could see $1.8 billion of new revenue just from one state. the whole four-state region will see, i think 10 or $12 billion of more revenue. 9 million jobs a day in americai are connected to oil and gas.coc it can double in the next 15 ore 20 years. n we can see south dakota unemployment all across america that, once again, if it starts
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working right, the president thinks it's wrong. that's a problem we can solve. o we can solve that problem. let me close with this. se over the next several months you guys and gals will have an opportunity to send help to the united states senate to corey gardener.--him. we have to have -- corey's cousins are clapping for him. those of you not related to corey can also clap.period. we need corey gardener in the united states senate, period. if we are going to succeed in 2014 we've got to win six seatso while holding onto the 45 that we have. i have colorado on our map. so we need 51. number two, if we're going to o have a real shot, if we want tot improve the likelihood of our 21
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success in 2016, we need the house and the senate on the same page using reconciliation and other budgetary opportunities to push an agenda to the president's desk and make him say yes or no to things like tht keystone pipeline and tax reform, lowering corporate taxes. we have to figure out how to ght tackle the toughest issues ng o coming our way and that takes ae majority in the senate and the majority in the house. and with your help, this is a key state.tives. the west was won by the conservatives. we need your help. by doing so, we will return america to the brightest path ikeward with the greatest opportunities for success, and we'll see more kids like me rising up not to be senators, but to be ceos, presidents, and difference makers in their mmune communities. god bless you, god has already blessed the united states of ble america.
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>> all right, who's winning the fight on the right. i want to welcome back third time to the summit mary katherine, second time to the summit guy and, thirdly, james golden, summit newcomer, great u book out there, assault and flattery.wi thanks to the four of you for e being with us today. last night at the opening of
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summit 2014 we heard -- we heard the remarkable dr. ben carson propose a truce between the u rhinos and the tea party. someone came up to me afterwardw two sisters at the summit for ae the second time from southern california, the simon sisters.f the first words out of their mouth were they're loving the program and right after that, john, don't ever let the establishment take over the erns western conservative summit. you got to keep away from thoset rhinos. so there it is in a nutshell. ncili one approach is conciliations. the other approach is polarization.. let's get started with guy benson.guy, guy, who is winning the fight on the right? w we look at establishment versus tea party. we look at social conservative t versus libertarian. we look at drug legalizers versus drug enforcers.e we look at foreign affairs, for
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national security hawks versus , noninterventionists. versus who's winning and are we hurting ourselves more than we're han wr hurting the enemy. thank >> thanks for having me back and look at this crowd.all fo thank you all for being here.r s john and his team put on a put tremendous event.dous i think all of us do a lot of ev conferences over the course of r any given year and the western i conservative summit is one that i'm really always looking forward to because it is a firsi class operation. it's a loaded question that john asks obviously and sort of hn covered a lot of ground in his question.cove i would say there are a few different ways because i was ruminating how to answer this. e you can attack it from various g angles.it you can look at the 2014 cycle and look at the primary fights that have happened. who has had the upper hand on this tea party grassroots versus establishment struggle and tug of war that's going on and ther are examples in both columns. te
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mitch mcconnell easily won against a tea party challenger in kentucky. tom till ix s seen as the establishment guy in his primara had a couple of notches on theit belt. in nebraska you had ben sasser. eric cantor was stunningly defeated, something no one saw happening. and then there are the sweet spot examples, one of which is here in colorado, corey gardner. you have joni ernst in iowa. another way to approach the question is to look through theh prism of the upcoming 2016 cycle and the potential republican of field of candidates. of while i think that's wildly ish premature, the first rule of at political commentary is that sey it's never too early too out th
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baselessly and recklessly speculate about the next presidential election so perhaps we'll get into that. but if you want my candid and honest opinion to the very i simple question, who is winning the fight on the right, it's this.. the left. the left is winning the fight on the right. because we are spending an enormous amount of time and energy and passion and money beating the tar out of each e other while they don't. i was reading the wall street journal this week -- jo >> you would, rhino. >> they had an info graphic about spending this cycle, in 2014, from the biggest super a pacs on the right and left. they took the top three super pacs on the right and the top three super pacs on the left ant
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they broke down the numbers. overall the democrat top three super pacs have spent $24.1 million whereas the republican side was spent $13.8 million. the democrats are very lo comfortable spending lots of big money as long as it's big you o liberal money on politics. this if you look further into the numbers and this is where the journal's piece was so important, of the $13.8 million spent by those top republican cn leaning super pacs, 74% of that money was spent fighting ent primaries, 74%.pr on the democratic side of the mt $24.1 million they've spent, 90c of it was on general election t, beat the right, to beat conservative. only ten percent went to their o primary fights. i'm not here to say that we u on shouldn't have robust debates on foreign policy, social issues and what have you on the center right.f we should have those things.
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we are a party and a movement od ideas and debating things openly is important. i'm not saying that we should just crown people, nominees, ld without blinking an eye and do what the democrats do which is immediately and unquestioninglyd stand up and salute. they're much better than we are and i don't think we ought to aspire to be just like them. however, we have to think about strategically, when it makes nso sense to fight against one her,h another, how to kiss and make up and go on to the real battle united.e to if we don't do that, the left ne will continue to eat us for e lunch every single cycle and they are absolutely thrilled to watch this fight play out.t. i think that's the challenge to all of us here and in this room, to figure out how to avoid thate how to navigate those seas.willy i will say again on a positive e note, i think what you've done on the senate race here in colorado is exactly what needs to be done nationally.hat need thank you. [ applause ]
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>> guy, thanks. that gets us off to a great start. just thinking about that act row acronym that we throw at each other on the right, republican in name only, rhino, do you heae the other political party sniping and calling each other e dino in name only. we all agree that the liberal progressive socialists nostrums that fail again and again are about extinct on the dinosaurs a don't call them dinos. on i think that's kind of revealing. katie, what say you? >> i think they've won in a couple instances, but you can't talk about this topic without looking at where the battle between the nonestablishment an the establishment actually comet from. that comes from people being frustrated with the republicans versus democrats and not seeing a difference between the parties in washington d.c. the way
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the reason why we have a conservative movement in a tea party movement the way that we've seen it is because after l president bush left in 2008 president obama came in, peopleg said there's not a lot of what b difference here between what big spending republicans are doing t and what big spending democratss are doing. that's why it was important thah grassroots activists got into that cycle and had an incredible historic movement. debate is a very good thing and i think we can talk about serious issues without demonizing each other and come to an agreement.ssues guy is right when he says the u left is winning when we can't ni come to some agreement that we agree on. the establishment and conservatives, nonestablishment agree on a lot of big things that can have a big political f impact. obamacare is one of them. the irs scandal is another one. i think that if we focus on age issues that we can all agree one to fight the left, that's how we can win. reall
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it's really important to stay y focused that this is not a one size fits all policy. we've seen, as guy pointed out,, the differences between, say, lindsey graham winning in south carolina for example was was different than what happened inc virginia with eric cantor. the immediate headlines are teae party loses or establishment eb wins. the media, i think, fuels a lote of the war that goes on between us on the right as well, whetheh it's true or noter.so so it's important to have healthy disagreement, and i think the best solutions are in found by looking at our no difference, airing our ors differences in a nonpersonal attack way and behind closed nga doors and talking about how we e can come to agreements on some very, very big issues. of and we have a lot of those. meno you mentioned libertarians versus social conservatives. of there are a lot of libertarians who are pro life. that's an issue we can win on and an issue we can bring people who maybe aren't on the right in on according to polling. a lot
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so there's a lot of things that we can come to an agreement on. nobody is going to get ything t everything that they want.ve one of the biggest frustrations that i've seen is when ted cruz did his filibuster, for examplew the immediate reaction is he is crazy, why is he doing this. everyone is going to remember the government shutdown. gov no one remembers the government shutdown. that was false that was put forward by the media. i don't like this idea that the establishment, whenever there's an idea from the grassroots, it's put off. when you've been in power for 3t years you feel threatened and you don't want to power taken k away from you. i think that we really have to w take a serious look at where th fight on the right comes from me and that is there isn't that big of a difference in washington ho right now between republicans te and democrats and i think it's w time for big government republicans to take a hard lookd
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at the way that they're voting and the way that they're in bed with cronie capitalism. it's really easy for people who have been in the senate or in congress for 30 years to pooh-pooh ideas coming from the grassroots and saying those ideas aren't going to work when i don't think washington is working very well. we've seen conservative grassroots infiltrate d.c. and e there's been a lot of ut frustration about gridlock. but the whole point of the way the system was set up was to slow things down so we weren't passing through all of these ss things. when republicans were in chargen under george w. bush, we didn't do a very good job and when we expanded government y and th significantly and then the left came in in 2009, government rnmt again was expanding ficant significantly.ly a we're at a tipping point now no where we have to reign we have government in and fall on the side of less government or we'ri never going to be able to fix it. we should come to an agreement
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on the right and do it in a wayn that isn't attacking each other necessarily. but i think that we need to tak a look at where this fight comes from. it comes from people in inon washington d.c. getting dth comfortable with agreeing with o each other on both sides of the aisle and not wanting to reign in government spending. which is why we're here open having this fight today. >> that's great. katie. thank you very much. james move that laptop off to one side. get the camera in. get a load of the hat and jacket on james golden.it summit 2013 veterans will remember that i had serious fashion envy when moderating the james golden panel a year ago. my crack staff did some focus grouping on an andrews fashion makeover because i wanted to bes as hip as james golden in 2014. clearly i have made very, very little progress.
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i am wearing the new centennial institute, limited edition, 1776 signature tie. the 2012 edition was blue, the 0 politically fitting.fitt the 2014 edition is red, we hope politically prophetic. we there's a great women's scarf in the same 1776 motif.the it's a great conversation starter. be sure to get one at the exhibit booth. here's where i have gone out ane gone pretty wild. with the example of george h.w. bush and egged on by members of our media team, jeff and marty, we're now into the crazy socks, okay?into t so at least from the ankle down andrews is no longer, shall we say, a dinosaur. i'll be working on the rest of me. come back next year. who's winning the fight on the c right?
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no crossroads in america gets more of this debate than the rush limbaugh show. and when somebody dials that shb number, and waits in line for 90 minutes, it's you that's holdine them. what do you think, james?that's >> number one, i think you're a pretty hip guy, okay?ositive and proof positive of how hip you are is that you're making such a difference with your leadership, western conservative is growing to be one of the premier political events in this country. congratulations to you and everybody who put this together. and you speak about rush. i just want to talk a minute and say how blessed i am to have worked with rush limbaugh for so many years and what a great and amazing human being he is.g hum and i thank him. i thank god for bringing that d man into our life and into our country and to all of you who owhon and support the show, thank you so much.sten and now who's winning?k you s it's obvious.ri you were totally right. you told me right.in the left is winning this hands down. and they are winning on a -- not just the left as we think about
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it, but the left wing media is having a field day. we're political fodder for the left wing. they play us conservatives as io sometimes -- just they know what will set it off. if you want to know who else is winning the forces of intolerance of winning, and you need to look no further than what just happened in appens mississippi for an example of what happens when this gets agas really ugly.nd and people are prepared to put y everything into this battle against each other and yet what we keep waiting for is somebody to take the same energy and oppose the administration in washington, d.c., and that never happens. so what we get is a full-fledged war, and it has been, a and i full-fledged war on the tea n, a party since almost day one. now, i've never seen in my life
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where you have a majority handed to you in an election that can e flip the house. the 2010 mid-term elections were historic. and they should have been historic because it was a seat change.t you ha and instead, what you have of aa instead of actual seat changing politically, as a back stop to what was going on with the obamh administration, you had the republican leadership prettyth much ignore the victory that was handed to them. and squander what could have been a natural alliance with the tea party. who won? are they winning? is the tea party winning?ea par absolutely not. the only people that could be d winning politically is the left. one of the things that we have
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to do as conservatives is win. this is the war for the heart and soul of the republican party. a third party is going to cut it. you just dilute it to the point that we will never win elections again. we conservatives have to win isr this fight for the heart and that of the republican party. t that is our mission. i it is that simple. >> well said. >> from the panel, mary katherineham was with us when the summit was just getting inew started back in 2011. she was with us via skype last year. i think an historic first. the first west enconservative ov summit. baby brought into this world as part of the next conservative u generation. baby daughter's home with dad now, 11 months old. we are glad she is with us for the third, mary katherine, whath say you?hat >> thank you for having me. a
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thank you for allowing me to skype in last year. i would have brought my daughter, but frankly she was ar lot more quiet last year than yu she is now. she is not mic ready. she is with her dad.ays it is an honor to be here with t you guys, who do so much great work in your communities.ho and who wage this fight in wayst big and small all the time. is and it is also really cool to be here with you, who i've heard so much about for years and to too finally meet you in person is a blast. y i think just to echo a couple things that you guys said, yes s to katie.art of the media is interested in our fight.that we so that's part of our issue. and playing into that is something that we need to be wary of, especially when things get so ugly, as in mississippi.d and just a brief example, a friend of mine who does conservative politics got a cale from a reporter the other day putting together a panel of ee conservatives who disagree on guy marriage to talk about where this issue is going.
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when there are so many other things to talk about. and she said, i'm not really sos interested in relitigating all of these issues that we disagre on.and when she was done having the w, conversation with the media, pe comes to me and says, you know, i never see the panel where they put democrats with fracking racn activists and have them fight ai about what they disagree about. >> exactly. [ applause ] so >> and so i think we just need to be aware of that. and some of these things are not easily changeable. you go to war with the media yo have, not the media you need sometimes. but beaware of that. i want to maybe take this in a k slightly different direction by saying one of the issues of fighting with each other is that it can wall us off from the new people we want to speak to. because they hear a bunch of more conservatives than you bickering and they just cannot relate to that.e perh
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because perhaps they have never identified as conservative. perhaps they're hearing only det fighting and not ideas that soh speak to them. i think that's something we need to be wary about. and i want to offer a couple of issues where we can speak to ne people and where i think for th most part many establishment folks and tea party folks and libertarians can come together on something that is principled. and conservative. i will get -- i apologize -- a little al sharpton on you. because these are going to rhyme. all right? in here are the issues. overregulation, sued in and libations, educations, and innovation. these are all areas where the left is full of nanny state
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fun-suckers trying to ruin everything. on overregulation, most of us can agree. this is where the debate is healthy.thin because it is true, that within the establishment, the people who you have on the opposite ei side of these issues and opposite side of where they d should be, they are establishment republicans. t they have been inside the board too long and they are functionally with the left on some of these issues.ne i think the tea party has done f an amazing job of pulling some g of those people back to where they should be and we continue e to fight that fight. but on overregulation, we all know, it crushes dreams. oit it creates situations where e people cannot rise up.t's some so that's something i think alld of us can agree on and make an argument about. and many people in america do he
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not understand that the new regulations handed down rea every day, diminish the american dream little by little every time they happen. and that's one argument we can make. on food and libations, first of all, young people who would like to reach really hate michelle obama's school lunches. they also are not particularly a fond of soda bans. >> how did the first lady turn into the lunch lady anyway? >> i know. so i think that's an area wherer we can talk to new people.eople and sometimes locally, frankly. when you've got people sort of l default liberals who really love local food and farm to table and all of the things that the left talks about, those things require freedom. they require the fda not to come in and say, i'm sorry. your homemade sausage that you would like to sell to your neighbors doesn't have enough
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nitrates in it for our taste. so you are not allowed to make these free transactions among free people. and when that happens, it crushes a dream, crushes a smal, business and makes life less fun for people who would like to ear delicious pork products.e can and we can make that argument to people and make it to new people.ak education, obviously. freedom to choose is of dire importance and it's of the most importance in communities we're not reaching. finally, innovations, that's right, you like my al sharpton y bit?li uber -- i know you guys know be about it, alternative to taking a cab. liberals love it. co
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they are literally limo liberals on this issue.e things they like having a limo come thi pick them up because they ordered it on their smart phone. so suddenly they're libertarians.l d they don't want local government and taxi cartels to come down on these things. young people, i think, are very transactional about politics.sa what is it doing for me? sometimes that makes me sad.we n becasue a lot of times they go, thank you government for doing this for me. we can make an argument that looks, this is where governmentw is standing in your way. in often not doing things well. and this is the left teaming up with unions to keep you from --o so yeah we can be on board witho this.an make republicans have been good at identifying these are areas where we can make an argument. so i want to offer that with the caveat that, yes, the people will be establishment republicans sometimes.
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>> speaking of food -- - thank you.i'll that's great.arpton thank you.seuss. that's great. her i'll see your al sharpton and , raise you dr. seuss.ore ham, your fans here at the summit, every time we say less green eggs and more ham, okay? i got a food theme going yesterday. green eggs and ham doesn't work as well as steak and tofu.nd >> green eggs is just a metaphor for juan. >> that's right. it is on c-span. the whole world will know it. >> love you, juan. i want to go around the panel am time wanes, my friends. you have a living memory of the great reagan victory of the '80s. and you have living memory you were fairly young in the gingrich '94.we
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we agreed on 80% and disagreed b amicably on the other 20%.wi start with you, james. is that just a false nostalgia? was it really better back then e or have we always had these ki kinds of fights on the right? >> reagan was a better leader than what we have today. if you remember this period like i remember the period, the left absolutely detested ronald reagan. so and as quiet as it is kept, so did certain republicans, which we would now call the establishment republicans.tablis they didn't want ronald reagan m as their first choice.st choi what made him a great presidentt is that he did not waiver from s his convictions. he knew what he wanted to do. wa we're talking broad strokes. you can get into the nuances of politics and nitpick this and that. but what he wanted to do, op optimism, number one. of elieved in the greatness of the american people and he was not ashamed to say it. to
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this is a great country.countr i love this country.co and everything, every being, particle of this man, loved eve, america. that's one of the reasons that america loved him back. number two, he wanted a strong defense. he understood what the risks were from communism, and still i are, by the way, from communism and now terrorism, and was not y afraid to build up the militaryf they made fun of him, called him a dunce, all of that. man yet this man among with margaret thatcher and the pope changed gi the history. giving us unsustained economic m freedom and prosperity that's been unmatched since then. and he did this with an itand unfriendly media and with democrats that couldn't stand him. it is possible to do this again. >> so maybe it does come not bt
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just to an approach but to a leader who can inspire and e motivate around that approach. , i asked the three of you, i think of you two young guns, we have three of them up here this morning. katie, how about you? as you study your history, you didn't list through that periodu but as a pundit, have we always had these battles and divisions to overcome, as you see it? ranh >> i actually had the honor of being at the reagan ranch center yesterday. r so i got a little refresher on t reagan's time in office. i think that we've always had these battles.ssible but i think what made reagan ay great is when people said it was impossible to get these things done in washington. that's not the way we do things here.on he said, i don't care if this is the way you do things here, we are going to do things here. there have always been disagreements and i think that's healthy.d we're disagreements spur great ideas.
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i think disagreements allow us to come up with new way dose things and get rid of bad ideast and we're always going to have an establishment versus grass roots battle as long as people are allowed to stay in office for 30 years at a time. when people are able to hold on to power, they don't want to give it up easily.t so when people feel threatened, they will disagree.atened, but i think we can do it again.o we are well on our way for the 2010 election. it was an extremely successful,l historic indictment against bigg government. and i think in 2014, this year, we have some really good candidates who i think will go to washington and try to do their best to turn back that t tide of continuing government.wc we can do it again and we will l continue to have disagreement g and that's okay. >> i will ask you to take us ou
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by giving us a name or two, i think all five would agree up here, it is futile to look for the next reagan but that abilite to inspire and unite around a common vision and to bridge the divide.divi who do you see out there, mary katherine, that's good at this?, >> let me say first that when it comes to reagan, and i got a refresher course as well this ui week, because i watched the address that reagan gave after the korean airlines flight was s shot down -- and thank you for thinking of me as someone who maybe didn't live through the years. ome but i have some memory of it.. i noticed there wasn't an plausl applause line for under 35s in . the crowd. so i do remember some of that.i but i rewatched that speech and i kind of expected, going into it, of course i will like reagan better than obama, if that's all the comparison. all t i'm wired that way. s but what really struck me, especially having been in politics for 24 hours a day
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during this era for a while, is the intellect he assumed in the, american people.intellec the confidence that he had in them to listen to that 15 minutes prosecutorial laying out of the facts.ha and for the american people to approach that with an open mindc >> he gave us credit. approached us like grown-ups. like citizens. >> yes.citi frankly, i get frustrated sometimes thinking maybe if losi you're explaining, you're losing.la but i need to explain some ome things.tically. you see the studies ofth millennials who are all over the map on what they believe politically. a lot of confidence in government but still want government do everything. they want budget cuts but ng to any of the things they like. there are always paradoxes thatd make you scared. having confidence that we can po and giving the american people credit, it is part of the battle. so i just want to commend him m for doing that. r
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>> great thought to go back anda find youtube reagan addressing that kal flight 7 shoot-down from 1983. a couple of sometimes that you think are not the political scene and perhaps rising farce that have that ability to pull it together.gethon if you care to mention a name or two that are examples of how we shouldn't do it and do that, oe too. >> you were asking how things hw change on the right. i want to point out quickly how the left changed. just over the last few decades. in 1993, the bill called rfra, religious freedom restoration act passed congress with three total dissenting votes.d both houses. over 97-3 in the he inot rate. sponsored by fed kennedy.deov signed by president clinton. this weekend every single democrat voted to overturn the
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hobby lobby decision, which is d based on that bill. t the protections in that bill. we're not dealing with our s do daddy's democratic party close anymore. not even close. they never talk about how radical the democratic party hay become. npoint, so i wanted to make that point, which is unresponsive to john's question. but it is important to point out.br >> we're pundits. t that'swo what we do.th >> we're on a hard break. i need a name or two that has that unifying vision. >> i will now answer that question, john. i have watched what scot walker has done in wisconsin with great admiration. he has stood up to them, laid out the facts, treated the people of wisconsin like adults got his agenda through, beat them in the election and he's i for a very tough fight again fot
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re-reelection. the media is out to get him.r the long knives are out. if he can win for the third time in four years in wisconsin, i think he should get a look from our side heading into '16. >> and walker was great kicking off western summit a year ago. a lot of us were here. okay. as we wrap the panel. some returning three times. as the rookie, katie, we want to initiate you.te they got their ultimate glamour portrait last year. i hope we have the slide of katie's glamour portrait. slide please come back often. thank you, guys. katie, mary katherine and james golden. [ applause ]
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>> thank you senator andrews, how is everyone doing? isn't this an amazing event? yesterday, after all >> you know yesterday after all of the events i was reflecting on the tea party. when i think of the original tea party, i'm reminded of renegades who painted their faces and appr dumped teaan to the boston harb. when those patriots initiated their protests, they could not have known their demonstration would have become the tratio inspiration forn hundreds of e years later.ears i also imagine they would never guess that a savvy businesswoman and mother of two would be leading the charge. jenny beth martin, she fully committed to the grass roots movement and is today hailed as the tea party's cofounder.
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she oversees more than 2,000 affiliates and more than 15 million members she's also a frequent guest on every major television, print and online news outlet in the country. she blogs about everything from household menu plans to irs targeting and discrimination. i, for one, do not know how she does it.essed we are so tremendously blessed to have this revolutionary withr us today. please help me welcome, jenny beth martin. [ applause ] >> thank you.
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>> i bring news from the rio grand valley, the breach point for the largest invasion of american territory since the nku british occupied. and burned or capital city in the war of 1812. just yesterday morning i awoke in texas having spent the better part of the last week, seeing p for myself, and for you, exactl what is happening on our f, and southern border.i i spent that time talking with e local sheriffs and residents,lis hearing directly from the front lines and learning firsthand about the problems on the borderrn.oble we hear calls from people on thd left and even some in the s republican party saying that we must launch what they call a un humanitarian effort. they tell us we must care for the unaccompanied minors coming into our country.us
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they tell us we must not, no, we cannot, send these young people home., p they tell us we must borrow evee more money from china to house and clothe and feed and ngers inoculate and treat these strangers who broke into our home. well, i am a mother, i am a ouds woman, i am a christian and i'm proud to say, i am an american. i have listened to these eart arguments and i've checked them against my heart and my head, my experience and my values. and to these arguments i need s. but one word to respond. ppla [ applause ]use disagree? go to the border and speak to ke
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the american citizens with whom i have spoken.om learn about the crime. local residents will tell you they have seen a flood of illegal residents pouring into y their cities in the last two years. they will tell you how crime against persons and property has increased. sheriffs in del rio tell us of residents along river who have s had their homes robbed.idhave h everything from televisions to , washing machines to copper wiring, stolen from homes, put on floats -- put on rafts and floated across the river into mexico. i saw a photos of a home where a mother and her children had to hide under their beds for safetd while a gang of immigrants started shooting outside their home. s ci these are american citizens who. have called this part of our country home for the last decades.
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many for generations. they do not want to give up their property and they should not be forced to do so. [ applause ] you're the board border between texas and mexico, is 1200 miles. we have no trouble seeing the problem here. local residents realized how easy it is to go around and still get into the country. people have literally walked around the fence about 20 feet to the east of where it begins.
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if it were not so serious, this would be fodder for jon stewart. then there are the coyotes. evil people, who smuggle human beings across the border for profit, the coyotes get their money up front. they are disincentived, to care whether people they're smuggling into america make it alive. the retired sheriff who started the border sheriff's border coalition.
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and all too often on the u.s. side as well. the drug cartels are sophisticated and cunning. yet it's not rocket science for him to climb up on top of buildings in mexico, use binoculars and see where the border patrol are, and send the network through an area that's not being covered. sheriff's confirm that as soon as one area beefs up security and patrols, the illegal immigration in that area increases, while surprisingly, it decreases on the other side of the border. people don't realize how this administration has tempted people to enter the united states illegally, subjecting
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them to this evil in the process. president obama's deferred action for childhood arrivals program, another one of his executive dictates that flouts the written laws of this nation, is sending people to central and south america, if they just get into our country, they're going to be able to stay. images of plane rides, soccer balls -- that children will be cared for and showered with material gifts. but the media are blocked from the detention centers where many of the children are sick, where the young children cry themselves to sleep wanting their parents. reports ignore how dangerous a trek through central america to the united states can be. the articles for some reason don't mention that the overwhelming majority of these so called children are actually mid teen boys, 16, 17, 18 years
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old. just the perfect age for gangs. the young people are at the mercy of the drug cartels. and the brutal desert heat. they risk injury and death, if they're not pulled into the drug cartels and used for other purposes. friends, what we are seeing is neither moral, nor compassionate. it is neither moral nor compassionate to encourage parents to send their children off to embark on a life or death trip with an uncertain outcome. puts children at ring for bodily injury, disease or death, or possibly even worse, life is a game slate. it is neither moral nor
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compassionate to putfamily s to live on the border to pat t risk. unfortunately, those in washington are responding to the border crisis in the way they always do. grow the bureaucracy, concentrate more power in washington, d.c., commission studies rather than taking action. and throw more of our hard earned tax dollars at the problem. just like the bank bailouts were used by politicians to kvr up the problem of their own creation and pay out special interests. $3.7 billion border bailout rewards the president's allies, fills the centralized bureaucracy and concentrates more power in the hands of the
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government. this border bailout is so bad, we would be opposed to it even if it were free. we don't need it, we don't want it, and we oppose it. no foreigner bailout. let me have a show of hands, how many of you have flown anywhere in this country or around the world in the last year? at the beginning of every airline flight, we are reminded that should the cabin lose pressure and oxygen masks deploy, we need to put them on ourselves first before we reach over and help others. why? because if we don't take care of ourselves first, we're no damned good to anybody. let's call it the delta rule.
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delta airlines is headquartered in atlanta, i fly delta airlines a lot. i feel to be truly compassionate, to be rulely moral, we apply the delta rule to the border. first take care of our own, then take care of others. we are against illegal immigration.
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there already is a path to citizenship for those wishing to come to america, a legal path to citizenship. our government should not reward those who choose to get off that path, cut in line and break the law. to do so would be immoral, in fact, it would be immoral, in fact, it would unfairly punish those who obey the law and follow the rules. by simply respecting the rule of law and securing the border, we will send a message to the rest of the world, that we welcome immigrants who come here legally. and reject those who do not. one of the things that makes america exceptional is the notion that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men. but we will only be a nation of laws as long as we abide by the law.
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so today, i'm on a mission to recruit you for a mission. to rally in opposition to this proposed border bailout. it is immoral for the president to decide on his own in clear violation of the u.s. law, that he will not send back illegal immigrants, no matter what their age. the deferred action for childhood arrival program must end immediately. it is immoral for the president to seek to borrow millions more to pay for his border bailout. it is immoral for the congress to consider giving him what he seeks. call your congressman, write your senators, give them one simple message, no, tell them to vote no on the border bailout.
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if you feel so unkind, you can add a little more personal note, to give them a little bit more personal incentive, tell them, vote no on the border bailout, or i'll be voting no on you in november. thank you. god bless you, and god bless is united states of america. coming up on cspan 3, a discussion with university of minnesota president eric kaler. that's followed by a portion of the met roots nation conference and the annual u.s.'s convention. be part of cspan's

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