[laughter] [applause] we can solve that problem. let me close with this. over the next several months, you guys and gals will have an opportunity to send help to the united states senate via cory gardner. cory's cousins, are clapping to him. we need cory gthank you. are going to succeed in 2014, we have to hold onto the 45 we have. i have colorado on the map. we need 51. a realre going to have shot, will want to improve the likelihood of virus success, we leave the house and senate on the same page using

reconciliation and a budgetary opportunities to push the agenda to the president's desk and make them say yes or no to things like the keystone pipeline and taxes. we want to figure out how to tackle the issues coming our way. it takes a majority in the senate and the house and with your help, this is a key state. won by the conservatives. we need your help. by doing so, we will return pathca to the brightest forward with the best opportunities for success and we will see more kids like me rising up not to be senators but to be ceos and presidents and their communities. god bless you. united states of america. [applause] >> former bush/cheney advisor rafer reid addressed the9 in a

denver -- western conservative summit in denver. a moral andr spiritual awakening of america. this is 30 minutes. ♪ >> thank you. thank you so much. good morning, western conservative summit. did you like hearing from senator scott? we need about 50 more like that in the u.s. senate. amen. let me say to senator scott and to his colleague, help is on the way. i think there is going to be a wall of water 50 feet high that is going to hit the beaches of

this political system on november 4, 2014 and we will see real change. not the kind of change we were promised in 2008 by the way. remember that? we are the change we have been waiting for? remember when there was a candidate who promised that if we would just vote for him, if the waters would receive, partisanship in washington would come to an end. we would live in sweetness and light and the planet would heal itself and all would be wonderful. remember that? one journalist and editor of a major news magazine that went on television who said

that barack obama uttered those words hovered over the rest of us kind of like a god. umm, you remember obamaeek" magazine after was elected did a cover story and the headline of which was " we are all socialists now." and wask" went bankrupt sold for one dollar after that headline. ie differences between eu and and millions who share our values and the folks who fail for that line and who fell for that false and misleading promise is we are not looking for a messiah, political or otherwise because we of are ready found our messiah.

we do not look for that out of politicians anywhere. e want you to look at th outcome or product of the policies and leadership that were promised six years ago. the economicurn to landscape where we now have a $17 trillion national debt. a national debt that is equal to the entire u.s. economy. a national debt that is equal to the annual output of our entire economy top to bottom. economists tell nemic a warning sign of a growth, sluggishness, joblessness because those who are creating jobs are having to overweight cost of a

government that is too big and spends too much and out of control. way, that $17 trillion national debt will be 20 choy in dollars by the time -- $20 trillion i the time barack obama leaves office. that is just the national debt and does not include $75 trillion according to the national center for policy nfunded medicare and medicaid and social security, promises made to future generations and beneficiaries that cannot be paid and will never be able to be paid. without either tripling the payroll tax, cutting benefits, or more. in addition to the national debt and in addition to the fact we are spending more on interest education we spend on

and the military combined, you also have this debt timebomb of unfunded entitlement operations. we are still in the slowest and most anemic recovery from the longest and deepest recession since world war ii. a recession in which the federal government borrowed $1 trillion from the chinese and other lenders in order to spend it on cash for clunkers and digging holes and filling the backup and promising unemployment would never rise above 8%. well the lowest labor participation rate in 35 years. according to 40 economists, leading economists surveyed by "the wall street journal," in an article, they estimate that economic growth in 2014 will be a eurozone 1.6%.

folks unless we see change, this is what we are staring at 4 staring -- we are staring at for as far as we can see. bloodiest east, the and most unstable region in the fkl -- flames from tripoli to the mediterranean. syria, a bloodthirsty dictator that this president drew a redline and said if he cross it, he would pay. and then retreated at the behest did takeir putin, dead -- that a dictator has of his own 160,000 innocent civilians in order to keep our wall of this .dministration sat and watched

catholic priests is have been -- catholic priests have been beheaded trying to overthrow that administration. the muslim brotherhood took place and began to destabilize the peninsula and turning get into the wild west and it has been replaced by a military regime. in iraq, isis, and al qaeda a radical of over iate, over 160,000 christians in iraq, the last remaining christians in that country have literally had to flee for their lives. and these terrorists are mocking the entire free world and essentially spitting on the

graves of americans who gave their lives to liberate that country and in this administration cannot do think other than send 300 military advisers. behind,, we lead from leading to the attack on the compound and benghazi. in russia and crimea, vladimir crimea ands threatens in ukraine and the other baltic republics and as you know, this week, 239 innocent people lost their lives when malaysian airline flight 17 was shot down. i believe by pro-putin separatist guerrillas. what does the united states do? nothing. i do not expect any action about any of these things including the fact that in gaza, a terrorist haven occupied by

firedfunded by iran has thousands of rockets into israel. thank goodness there is a leader in a benjamin netanyahu who will stand up for his people and defend his country. [applause] i know i speak for not only you but millions of americans when i say that we have israel's back in this struggle and they have every right to defend themselves. [applause] don't you wish we had a leader like that in the united states of america? what we get is what shakespeare called "words, words, words." talk, talk, talk. every now and again, they can free time on the schedule for

being in the fitness center and watching espn or yet another hoops,ser or shooting whatever else is going on and you can go to the microphone to utter an empty condemnation of another act of tyranny. friends, weneed, my need a leader who will put down the putter and get off the golf course and give us moral current and deeds of action and not just words. [applause] that is the international theme. who would've ever thought that do even a generation removed from the fall of the berlin wall , the disintegration of the ofiet union, and in the end

one of the most dark and evil kind,s that governed man namely the soviet union. as margaret thatcher correctly the coldald reagan won war without firing a shot. we would be looking at a world today that is more dangerous and more unstable and more of a threat to our vital national security interests. how does the culture affect this picture? my friends it affects us in profound ways. regardless of who we send to washington, we live in a nation today where one out of every two marriages roughly in and in divorce and half of all children, a majority of all children in america today will grow up in a home without either

a mother or a father. usually a father. 40 percent of all the children born in america this year will be born outside of the institution of marriage. we talked a lot about the direct to theinstant -- threat institution of marriage by same-sex marriage and i believe very strongly that marriage should be defined as a man and a woman in a sacred union for their entire lives. [applause] that will tell you, straight folk have done more damage to the institution of marriage than just about anybody would've dreamed of doing. way in the african-american community, that figure is 72%. in it he has sped community, -- in the hispanic amenity, is 52%. there is no way to build a

society of future, productive, and engaged workers, citizens, and taxpayers without the family of an intact that gives a child tougher law. there is no teacher, no cop, and counselor,o juvenile no prison warden, no government program out of denver or washington or anywhere else that will be able to do for that child was only a loving mother and father can do for that child. [applause] and if you think that is just rhetoric, i want you to consider this. new yorkport in the times, a newspaper i do not make a daily habit of reading, but in this case, a fact was

accidentally reported. [laughter] 80% ofreported that graduates of public high school in new york city, wednesday sought entry into the city of new york university system were either functionally illiterate, could not read or write, or required remedial classes to even get ready for college-level work. paper in south georgia a few years ago. the facility and they show me all the technology and product to be and amount of things and they were able to produce on a daily basis. and i was amazed after the sophistication, and the cutting-edge engineering and technology that they use. these were huge machines.

at blinding speeds. afterwards, we want them to the office of the plant manager and i said, tell me the biggest challenge you face as somebody who is managing a facility like this with over 1000 employees. and i thought he would say the corporate tax rate or the eta or osha, government regulators. you know what he said to me? he said the biggest problem i have is hiring employees. i said, you have got to be kidding me? people are unemployed and get -- and needed jobs. i have a 100 jobs i have to fill in this plant every single year. the 1000 i have to fill a year. if i get 1000 applications, the first thing i do is administer a drug test. fuse --er flunked or

refuse to take it. you do not turn down taking down a drug test if you are going to pass it. he said in the second thing i do is give them an eighth grade reading test. half of them flunk it. hire a, i have to hundred people out of what is left. and the moral of the story is , so, as the family goes goes the nation. what really makes america great in the end is not it streets of skyscrapers or- checkbooks or 401(k) plans, or wall street, or military power, or anything else. the thing that makes america great and will restore america character ofis the our leaders and the moral fiber

of our people and our alliance on almighty god and do nothing short of those things will turn america around. [applause] now, i have painted was some of you may think is a fairly bleak picture this morning. i ask you, do i paint it fairly or do i exaggerate? i think i paint it fairly. here is the good news. we have been here before. in the dark here days of the american revolution when frankly, a ragtag bunch of patriots, most of by that point it did not even have shoes and were walking into battle with cloth wrapped around bleeding feet. we faced a did during the great depression stop and when we took on fascism and defeated the nazis.

days of it in the dark before the civil war when a 600,000 americans lost their aves and brother faced brother and family member faced family member across 1000 bloody battlefields from one end of this country to another. we have been through valleys before. and we have always returned to things happen. number one, we need a moral and awakening --great spiritual great awakening that restores the foundation of this country. [applause] and we needed that great awakening to begin and our homes and our families, our marriages, our houses of worship, and community and we needed to rubble from there. if we want real change, we

needed to begin with us. with a greater reliance on god and a renewed commitment to serving the lord, to glorify him , and to make america great again. and the second thing we need which i truly believe will be a byproduct of the first, we need change. and our political and civic system. changea real and honest not the counterfeit version we were offered six years ago. have meet this morning, we of thes until the end obama administration. not that anybody is counting. folks, we do not have to wait that long because we have an election that will decide control of state houses governorships and the house of representatives and in my view, most importantly, the u.s. days and was a lot

of work to do to make sure that there is change that sweeps from one end of this country to the other and make it clear we will stand and will fight for our values. [applause] now, in order to do that, we have to build a strong grassroots organization. andork handily outhustled 2008 and 2012. barack obama had over 3 million volunteers and $4 million in 2008 and evil more in 2012. raised over $1 billion. you give me the white house $1 billion and air force one and i will beat you nine times out of 10. we have to be knocking on doors and registering voters and turn that vote out. at mys what we are doing

organization, faith and freedom coalition. we have organizations in 34 states and we will be deploying over 2000 staff into every key, n thisitive race i country. what a voter file of 27 .5 million conservative christian and faithful catholic voters and them,l mail them, phone knock on their doors. we have a cell phone numbers all 42% of those over voters. we will text them. if they have not voted by election day, we will drive to their house and will get them to be polls and change the direction of this country. [applause] i think people are ready for that. i think people are ready to quit waiting for somebody else to save us. and they are ready to be the answer themselves.

coalitionnd freedom right now, we are adding over 1000 new members every single day and we will cross the one million member mark sometime in the next 30 days. [applause] the second thing we need is a message. , a message ofope opportunity, a message that says america's best days are still we have answers and solutions for people who need a job, who need a safe and secure retirement plan, who need quality health care at an affordable price. beenn the way it has offered under the present administration but a consumer centric, freedom driven the health care system that will not allow bureaucrats to pick our doctors and tell us which plans we have to join, but will go out

and do that ourselves. will compete among free insurance companies to get the most affordable plan that fits for us. [applause] you see, if we truly mean what to offernd we want this country a brighter future, we cannot say what we are against. we have to say what we are for. we have to vote yes and we have to have an agenda for every american. on the things that affect their daily lives. messengers, we need we need messengers who can deliver that message with a wisdom and love and with an inviting spirit to people who may not ever -- who may not always felt welcome. including seniors and young people and african-americans, latinos, asians. people who will not always been a part of our movement for real

and honest change. bill rusher, the publisher of barryal review, once said goldwater believed all the things ronald reagan believed and reagan believed all the things goldwater believed. ronaldith a frown and said with a smile and he made all the difference. as you leave here this weekend, do me a favor -- smile. an invitingrward spirit and face and let people know that if they believe in the constitution, the declaration of independence, and the bill of on our we wanted them team. let's hang out a welcome mat and we wanted himn. on our team. amen. [applause] his the only guy who ended sentences with amen?

i hope not. we need to be bold. the bible says we have been given a spirit, of love and power. there is power in this message. tried totly, they have get us to be silent bisecting the irs on christian and pro-israel organizations. they tried to conquer great regulations that set with cannot post voter guides on a website. listen, i have news for you this .orning -- i am an american my freedom has been purchased with the blood of a great cloud of witnesses that now stand up in heaven and look down on us and cheers us on to finish the fight they began. i am now going to cower or

grovel or be silent or beg and plead to any irs or bureaucrats, any lawyer, any left-wing media outlet. i will stand up and speak out in what i believe and. [applause] mention, i have to wrap up now. i think this is really important. in that the boldness, we need to quit apologizing for our faith. we need to quit apologizing for being believers in christ. you saw where phil roberts of "duck dynasty," was dismissed by the network but cuts in an interview with "rolling stone," and don't tell me why he was talking with them, i do not know. i could've given immediate advice on that one. he expressed a belief and in the

bible and they tried to dismiss them all fist -- facebook and twitter and e-mails and in phone calls and e-mails to the network , millions and millions of people said if you do not put him back on the air, we will never watch your channel again. a put him back on the air. -- they put him back on the air. [applause] when the obama administration tried to tell hobby lobby and other privately held small businesses and companies whose ceos are believers they have to pay for medication that causes the taking of the life of an unborn child, many of us went to court and we beat them like a drop in and we need to continue to stand and fight. [applause] who we are done apologizing for being christians -- and are done apologizing for being christians and the values we hold our

eternal and they made a nation great and they will make a great again and we will be bold and unapologetic. we demand leaders who do the same. who do not retreat when they come under attack. close this morning by quoting a man who i believe is probably the best friend in this country ever had. winston churchill. his mother was an american. he loved this country. and even though he was a british citizen and a british leader, he the cause of liberty and the world on this and fellles -- rose with the prosperity of america. , the americansaid people always do the right thing after they have exhausted every other possibility. [laughter]