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he starts o as ral cratnd en thothermos lth g oumeuite cova l iis career. a supporter of coolidge very early on. >> host: y? >> i'm not sure why but hdoes. oples ter cng r ionden t in 1920 he is still a democrat. in 1932 he is a democrat and hursat t origin ofack kdyatjoo ost ns tnk nat hefos a mocr ruing for the united states senate and got cheated -- controversl, lost the senate riorarnashe e ie anti-semite publishing the dearborn independent and elders of zion and the ternational view. >> did he pport third-party candatr wahertine cr tt? >>wono on h own. he probably flip over the republicans after the new deal. there was a poln2 ty d bhiwe ga'smao ch o t an people. number one was henry ford. this was after all his anti-semitic stuff and harding was well bewhat. thiss o ofhe insed abhieect ets i 4. besides knowing the scales were coming and also the republicans ha taken a big bath in the midterms. ge et 92s ti 9% of the vote for a long period of me in the ely eyde dr eces ofhery. blt s. whts blout't ma wour, for socialist. when it is closer like a 1916 th

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these teachings the fire toy's categoriza is the ch cova mrsora anmpngib i social and economic affairs. it really is all things to all n. always willing to speak his mind and put u a good fight, bill donohue is president of the catholic leagu and reminds re ohibo ofit wi tex catholic tradition. he explores the cardinal virtue of justice and fortitude and temperance and the church's best attributeappld toan prlemsociety mt ro eood society lies in waiting but the right recipe has been around f 2,000 years. the more we learn about the inspiring record of catholic soci teaching and applications to pblemthmore likel ll see how the negative stereotypes and first need to be educated about the record of teachings. and the book says why pp with this.eally matrs [applause] >> thank you. appreciate the opportunity to speak to you about the book. a couple years ago iasorkithtorn the random house group and had an idea about a book -- very politely taught me we can think of another book. we get a lot of negative s somestaran a lomefa being the target these days and somebody needs to write a book abo

and sometimes they have to lose elections in the short run because they are abdicating againstoton covaenot btrpca orrmelrate. cathotirs generational change. and so because of that, that's why you get this phenomenon on the right that you don't get on le poi, o a thliosnse ng hey ar contacin se bse cova mens ki andev- it strdred they do it over. so when you do that the democrats are like standing ove re crar snd te gs, mdoes cabonis? is an okay the majority leader is anti entitlement? that is democrats and republicans arevehe like dohat moshey a coming over here to the centrist. that means the center moved to the right which means there are republics who fall off the nstiovt.all ti they don't care about short-term election. in 2012 they will lose all the midwest governorships they won 01eye unikey' inab wos that dynamic doesn't exist on the left. there is nobody pulling the democratic party to the left. wo prresses hd cr p tef >>eee questions. go aad. >> thank you for the worthat u ngrs itie vern fm your sw we realize we have a shadow army of private contractors o fht in nneerur ag dial

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and that i could do have a lot cova ttiut r th rather prominent conservative jurist became a conservative, he wrote a very nice thing about macbook "why americans hate politics," he said he became a conservative afer reading "hy americans hatepol" ause liked, h wraed t scioh awo conservatives were. i had any change with the more i said i can assure you my purpose in writing "why americans hate politics" was not to convert you toward conservatism. but does give you a seseof anathee now about my conservative friends, not all of my conservative friends, but some of them, is that ty have really thrownoverboard what i see as one ofthe mot powerful stres osat william f. buckley, jr.'s very last book, or one of his very last books he wrote so many, was it the cold gratitude, where buckley tlked about our usurs ndteback to theie robert nisbet, as some of you may know, is riding is one of our -- u-boat a book called the quest for community. he was a great ritic of the nw ba iori by the new left because the new left was so interested in ideas of participatory democracy. i think the conservatives ar

he was elected in 2010 after cova vs regnson velopeg in washington. senator portman previously represented ohio's second district in the house for over a decade bs bfore serving in the cabinet levepost as the unied atepseind te tirr the office of management budget. he was one of just three senate republicans apinted to the joint select committee on defici reduction, reflection of the broad respt that comman on i ars araiinll business family senator poman has been fighting for pro-growth , ro jobs policies to help get ohio and the natio back on track. please help me in ecomng tobeor. la >> thanks very much. good morning everybody. 's good to have you wed aweou.. ths oup that understands that hard work and risk-taking and investment is what it's gog to take to get this economy back on track and get your business is back on tack, lpwri-class fili n ar t rytotngs moving again. i appreciate the introduction he mentioned the small business background. we dealt with some construction equipment over theyears, and 40rs ae as out le fbieom had he left his job a

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