in the 1980s the list was, phyllis schlafly and ronald reagan used the term military superiority.ilitary superiority means we are better than the others in every way we need to be so when our enemies think about us they are afraid and when our allies think about us they feel good and supported. instead we have a conversation about government, excuse me about the military that's broader and convoluted and we are losing superiority. my wife and i watch these kids from american france and my wife said it makes you proud to be an an american and as an american as you cost and said something like that's one of the things that seems to be slipping from us. part of it is the clarity of vision and military superiority, but i say military superiority i think you know where we are going and we have to get back to that kind of clarity about who we are as a country and what government is supposed to be doing. >> host: let's go to wreck waiting in detroit michigan on the lines for independents. you were on with ed martin. >> caller: good morning. i would like to address the education problems

thank you. >> first of all, i and my boss as well as my mentor, phyllis schlafly. we have never subscribed to the third-party theory. you have to go to europe if you like that. here, we have a two-party system. we have to make a change. i think it is a fool's errand to try to encourage that too much. we are at a breaking point in terms of the party structures. both parties are facing that. i didn't know where the conversation would go. maybe it will still go there. the republican party was founded and sort of became a party very quickly over the course of about a year and by two years in, it had elected lincoln. it was founded very specifically to fight by name against slavery and against what they call the twin. i forget the phrase. the twin evils or the twin problems of slavery and po polygammy. i hope we go to the convention. there are reasons to believe we will be at a convention that's contested and have an argument that the public will look at and say, i like these people's principles, i may not always agree with them but i like their principles and who they

las it takes a village to replace phyllis schlafly.he is the chair of the board and ceo of the organization. she is a prolific writer and speaker. no one is filling her shoes, more importantly, we are building the organization to go forward. host: speaking about the work of the organization, here is a tweet's, a quote from you last week -- politics is where the action is and we are waging the war. what are the frontlines of that war? what are the issues? guest: first i would say, i found it has been at the republican convention every year. one of the great successes that she would point to, in fact, she has a book coming out this fall, is the implementation of the pro-life plank in the republican party. in 1934, you had people like nixon and ford saying the supreme court has spoken on life wade, get over it. a littlem hype phyllislic about war -- and the organization has said we are interested in the making theystem in republican party a conservative party. as a conservative party. as an organization, we spent a lot of time in the stat

. >> phyllis schlafly became the voice of the opposition of the e.r.a., and she was quite competent at what she saw as an assault on american womanhood. >> i would look to begin by asking mrs. schlafly to state her principal objection to e.r.a. >> e.r.a. won't give women anything which they haven't already got or have a way of getting. but on the other hand it will take away from women some of the most important rights and benefits and exemptions we now have. i think the laws of our country have given a very wonderful status to the married woman. and the wife has a great deal of many rights. for example, she has legal right to be supported by her husband. >> there is no law whatsoever in any state that requires a husband to support his wife. clearly true the equal rights amendment is going to be passed. >> i don't know. mrs. schlafly is not going to let it pass. >> no, i don't think. more states have rejected it this year than have passed. >> we have gotten eight states vote to ratify it this year. we have 30 states. >> we have 14 states to reject it. >> they can't reject it. >> nobody

it takes a village to replace phyllis schlafly.e are building the organization to continue her work going forward. that's how we look at it. >> talking about the work of the organization, here is a tweet, a quote from you last week from the eagle forum website. politics is where the action is. we are waging the war. >> what are the front lines in that war? what issues are on the front line there? >> phyllis has been at every republican convention since 1952. she has been on the platform most of the time. one of the great successes she would point to. she has a book coming out this fall is the creation and the implementation of the pro-life platform plank of the republican party. 1974, folks like richard nixon and gerald ford, the supreme court has spoken on roe v. life. get over it. instead, phyllis put this in. the front lines of politics and the action is the republican party on the issues we care about. she has not been shy in saying we are interested in the two-party system and contributing to the republican party as a conserva