barry goldwater was -- senator goldwater running for president in 1964 was the most quintessential losern american political history and also barry goldwater won 1964 reelection. it just took 16 years to count the ballots. >> before hanging 10. any other questions from the audience? you are bound to have a question. >> i'm supposed to wait until i have a microphone. >> if you don't raise your hand -- you have a statement anyway. >> i'm going to lay the groundwork. in 1980, when reagan so up the nomination george herbert walker bush was the last surviving serious opponent to him and reagan soda in 1980. if you define everybody who's supported reagan at the time he sewed up and call from reagannights and those who were not supporting reagan at that point don't qualify even though many of them did support him when he became the nominee. since reagan the republican party has nominated a number of other candidates for president of the united states. 1 of the united states. none of them met the definition, it is high time for us to nominate another reagannight. who should that be? >> well said

goldwater lost pretty much every state in america. out all over again knowing exactly what outcome will be. a republican party divided between the huber conservative and everyone else. with that divide, a lacking unified message on pretty much anything. democrats to their credit have been smart to jump on this, attaching any extreme view to the broader party overall. the gop makes those an easy task. look to their response to cliven bundy. i think this guy deserves no where near the attention he craves but initial sympathy from conservatives like rand paul and sean hannity, they've made him a huge story, elevating bundy to hero status without knowing anything about him other than his hate for the federal government. conservatives jumped on the bandwagon. look how that turned out. democrats and left painting the racist brush on everybody who quickly jumped on the bundy bandwagon. this important question, what is the bigger prize? political power and legitimacy conferred by majorities at ballot box or your pride, tied up with individual

is it barry goldwater? nelson rockefeller? or richard nixon? we'll have the answer when we get back. >>> welcome back. now the answer to our "crossfire" quiz. hillary clinton was a goldwater girl in is the1964. >> oh, i knew it. that a girl. >> let's fast forward to today. here in washington republicans and the media are obsessed with the clintons. here's the real story i think everybody is missing. the republican party is lurching to the right. don't believe the headlines about the tea party's time being over. consider this. the republican establishment spent millions of dollars to ensure their senate nominee won in north carolina, but their candidate, tom tillis, still believes in abolishing the department of education and outlying contraception. in iowa, the establishment has embraced joni ernst who turned herself into sarah palin in order to win that primary. we all know how mainstream that is. so the tea party is not dead. it renamed itself. it's now called the republican party. the "crossfire" tonight, hilary rosen, and republican strateg

goldwater won 26. >> talking about the polls, another interesting thing for the nbc poll. in kentucky, 57% of people have an unflavorable view of, quote, obama care. with only 33% favorable. when they call it kynect, more view it favorably than unfavorably. >> the governor has been very aggressive in making sure the implementation there is successful. it tells a great anecdote about going to a fair where folks are signing up and said this kynect is so great, i don't know why obamacare doesn't learn a thing or two from it. but it's the same thing, right. but republicans have been very effective for a long time in saying don't like the president and if you don't like the president, you also shouldn't like his health care law, because when you poll separately on what obamacare was, the provisions were consistently popular, but the name itself had been so politicized. now we're faced with a situation where it's not so easy for republicans. real people are benefitting from the law. real people are getting health care that have never had it before. it's your friends, family memb

numerous occasions but this has to be repeated and i think i can't remember the exact quote berry goldwater said if you're hesitant in deliver it's not good. those closed sessions are all the time their appearing your withholding stuff it's coke to say we have the documents related to the case and the public has to figure out which documents. i think this case has hundreds of documents are you going to look at it and did you get hundreds of documents or thirty and what specific documents did you get in those matters i'll be willing to bet you've been given documents the public hadn't seen and we're supposed to guess we're said in the navy a wild hairy guess. you don't tell us anything you say we're going into closed session owe talk about x. what about x when we look at what happened in the last case there's a good argument the city attorney said the bulk of what we had should have seen and you all sit there and act like the city attorn city attorneys issue the staff are the ones who pick and choose what you the he the public deserves the same right to know what you're going to did you say

well, van, really it is -- look, the conservative movement's been around a long time, since barry goldwater. the tea party movement is nothing more than that as an outgrowth. it truly is. when i was a youngster, i would have been called a tea partier back when i was a young man. >> tea party has a specific brand and it's terrible. 29%. >> branded by folks like you. >> i didn't make up the name tea party, i think you did that. 29% favorability is not very good. isn't it bad now even moderate republicans, so-called, have adopted this tea party extremism on every issue. don't you think that's terrible for the republican party? >> let me agree with you. all of this is well and good. we all got to spend a lot of time on various topics, but these primaries are a side show. as you said, tea party has taken over the republican party. what republican incumbents learned is they better run and govern like the tea party. >> like the conservatives -- >> i'll give you three quick examples, mitch mcconnell hid under a desk while ted cruz shut the government down, eric cantor will not cross the tea party c

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>>c-span: you were close to goldwater. >> guest: he was a libertarian. in philosophy. not party.-span: bill clinton? >> guest: he is a socialist. as somebody who believes the way to achieve is to have government do it to. in to say earlier in the discussion in to take care of the bottom up. but the progress of society comes from the bottom. >>c-span: how do take care somebody in the lower third? >> guest: in my book i call the negative income tax to get rid of all the welfare programs but replace it by a minimum income. >>c-span: you also said that will not happen. >> guest: we're learning that. >>c-span: what will that do? >> guest: where we are wrong is with this special welfare programs and what i argue we should replace the whole ragbag of programs with a single negative tax. >> what about the theory that proves to be wrong? >> during world war ii i was the keynesian as i believed the way to control inflation was to control government spending. i paid very little attention to money only after rolled were to only then did i come to different conclusion. he was a great man but

vulnerablewant to be to attacks by barry goldwater during the campaign of 1964.hat he was weak, soft on military. scared. have the red scare come in and to be a factor in that election. >> he is an interesting guy. i know a lot of people think he is the most interesting president of the last -- after roosevelt. the most interesting guy to inhabit the office. the largeness of the personality. >> unbelievable. i think it was bill moyers who said linden johnson -- lyndon johnson is 11 of the most interesting people i have met. he is the full spectrum of emotion. you cannot assign anyone attitude to him. you have to use all of them. passionaterial and and interesting. wallowing in self-pity. brazen, funny, embracing, threatening, ferocious. you never knew what part of lyndon johnson you were going to receive when you walked into his office. >> is probably dependent on what his needs were. >> absolutely. his political acumen, the flipside of that hubris going -- coin, was unmatched since roosevelt. he knew everyone in the house of representatives. anyone in the senate

william howard taft in 1964, goldwater against rockefeller. didn't work out well in 1964.y -- the republicans won five of the next six and seven of the next 9 presidential elections. fighting is not fatal. and indeed it shows a certain native vigor in the party. >> is there a change in the way they are thinking? >> speaker boehner is right first of all there is not that much difference. the fact is the tea party could have gone its own way and become a third party. it went into the republican party it infused the party. it is now where the energy is and the party has moved toward the tea party. >> they need the tea party towards the energy. they don't want the people lining their own pockets. a lot of these direct mail types. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned for one show's advice for a department head under fire. the success of your small business depends on results. go vests! all organic, and there's tons of info on our website. that's why you rely on the best for your business. and verizon delivers the best devices on the best network. you're all big toes to me. s

then you had those white goldwater who were not racist but very driven by the libertarian ideology that'sit his mind gave comfort to people like certain and others who said they can all retreat to the suburbs and use it as a cover to fight the next battle. >> once again you sound very prescient. the last two questions from me. one of the echoes i am hearing is fighting the battles is analogous? on a positive note if americans did it once maybe they can with a similar parallel ichiro. >> there are distinctions gun-control is one to say it is clear in the constitution we have this right in people are more evenly split that they do support reasonable gun-control but at the same time one of the unintended consequences was to demonstrate how effective politics achaean be this is another way that the 64 act is very much a new beginning of the politics of america demonstrated how effective organized and passionately driven interest groups can be to change policy and the people involved with the civil-rights movement were very committed but now they're the fake grass roots groups but you also hav

it's like goldwater in the '60s.ty had to literally become so conservative that it just blew up. then the next person they put in at the white house was a guy named richard nixon who created the epa. they're not there yet. the republican party is not at that point, but they're going to get there. >> jonathan, the race is really exposing a big rift, though, in the party because mcdaniels has scored some big endorsements from those on the right, including club for growth, freedom works, senate conservatives fund. >> yeah. and that goes to the fight that i was talking about before within the republican party where you've got those groups that are heeshoeing the tea par candidates. in the last five year, certainly the last ten years, those republicans who were certified conservative republicans by any definition, as a result of the tea party movement, those conservative republicans are now not conservative enough. and that is the big battle within the republican party. and that's what i meant when i said that the tea par

barry goldwater, the great conservative senator from arizona marched down to the white house with a groupblican leaders finally and said mr. president, you must resign. this was about a criminal president, nothing we have seen since it is about a criminal president of the united states. >> how about benghazi? >> and benghazi is certainly not about a criminal president of the united states or anything of the kind. however, in terms of the immediate memo that is causing such noise in washington, the white house and the state department were absolutely wrong not to have turned it over. jay carney, the white house press secretary ought to stop his double talk and say this should have been turned over. but it is all in the context of the scorched earth politics, ideological cultural war fare going on in washington for 30 years. >> so does the white house have a credibility gap when it comes to benghazi and why wasn't the administration more transparent? joining me now is christian white and a former state department senior adviser and the author of smart power between diplomacy and war. and ma

>> you've got to look back at when this all began obviously with the goldwater revolution, if you willdoctrine. and this -- what we're having a conversation about is how did the identity politics come about. you just showed how he does everywhere but the south. it's a race issue. call it what it is. white men above the age of 50, they're never going to change their issue on race. they're already halfway through with their lives. why would they change? that's not who we should care about. there's a great study in 2006 by a woman named karen kaufman who talked about the gender gap in politics. it's that white southern men were leaving the democratic party and that's why there's a jend for gap. we'll never get them back. to include white southern males. and if you can do that, you can win. that's happening in virginia, south carolina, and georgia. if you don't believe me, look at all the competitive races going on there. it's happening. >> let's zero in on georgia for a moment. what's happening to jimmy's point, you do have the diminishing. but you also have a smaller and smaller number o

and, of course, you guys like goldwater who were validly not racist a source he said and i don't think he was, budgeting very driven by the libertarian ideology that, in his mind to te state to give a lot of comfort to people like thurmond and others who were saying well, we can just retreat, whites can all retreat to the suburbs and we can just fight big government or we can call a big government and use that as a cover to fight the next battle. >> once again you are sounding very present. and speaking with the president, to less questions from me. one is, one of the echoes i'm hearing, it's about gun control where people are fighting these battles. is it analogous issue? that's one question. and the other is, you and on kind of a positive hopeful note that if americans did it once, maybe they can do it again on be similar parallel issues in our time. >> i think there are distinctions between civil rights and current control issues and gun control is very clearly the proponents of gun rights can look to in a minute, i mean they can look to the second amendment and say it's very clear

the reason the goldwater institute designed the right to try initiative is that we have a million americans-- dying of terminal illness every year and the vast majority of them are locked out of accessing these drugs. am i saying there is a magical cure for every disease out there? absolutely not. but there are a lot of promising drugs that are in trials that families like jake's want to access and only 3% of the sickest patients by and large are even able to get into them so there is not a system in place. the system is broken and that's what right to try is going to change. >> there is a system -- >> don -- >> go ahead, elizabeth. >> there is a system but the problem is the system does not work very well. the system is laid out. there's, you know, it's all there in black and white but when you go to change.org and see patient after patient looking for these drugs and being told no, you just know that something is just not quite working. i interviewed a man whose 15-year-old daughter has cancer in her brain, abdomen, pancreas, lungs, bones and even more places, went to plea major drug comp

really only reagan and goldwater were true blue conservatives. the reason for that is that the moderate sort of establishment republicans who come in second in any given presidential year in the primaries, they tend to go around trying to win over enough of the conservative base to get a winning coalition. and we see that's what mitt romney did, that's what john mccain did, that's what george h.w. bush, that's even to a certain extent what george w. bush did. and the problem with jed is he seems -- jeb, he seems uninterested in trying to win over a base of support particularly from the tea party base. jon: it's also been some time since he was governor of florida. he was a successful governor, two terms in office there. but is that, you know, going too far back in history for voters to be able to say, okay, well, what are your credentials or what would you do now in this, you know, twitter era? >> yeah. you know, i think he's actually perfectly qualified to be president of the united states in terms of his resumÉ and his capabilities. he's -- i d

. >> he did not want to be vulnerable to attacks by barry goldwater during the campaign of 64 that he was weak, soft on military, you know, and scared, have the red scare come in and be a factor in that election. >> he is an interesting guy, i know a lot of people think he is the most interesting president of the last, you know, after roosevelt, probably the most interesting guy at the office. >> i think so. just the largeness of the personality. >> unbelievable. >> i think it was bill moyers who said lyndon johnson is 11 of the most interesting people i have ever met. >> he is the full spectrum of emotion. you cannot assign any one adjective to lyndon johnson, you have to use all of them. he is mercurial and passionate and interesting and wallowing in self-pity and brazen and funny and embracing and threatening and ferocious. i mean and you never knew what part of lyndon johnson you were going to be able to receive when you walked into his office. >> it probably depended on what his needs were. >> yes. absolutely. >> and his political acumen the flip side of the political hubris coin

over and over and over again the time for choosing speech which he gave on behalf of barry goldwater october 27, 1964 said that in kind from the swamp to the stars has above all struggled to be free. and by their reckoning, people everywhere needed freedom. at that time in 1964 they talked about a person that was peacekeeping castro's cuba and he said how lucky he is he had a place to a scape to and he said if we lose freedom here in america, there is no place to a scape. this is the last stand on earth. ronald reagan felt that americans needed to understand this. they needed to understand this. it's a beautiful speech written and that, also is one of the speeches written in the back of this book. ronald reagan talked about a freedom man and i will quote here he said he has become increasingly pensive in the last few weeks as he prepares to leave washington. he prepares to go back home to california to about 40 minutes up the road and he talks about looking out the white house window. i've been thinking of that window and reflecting on the past eight years and what they've meant and

and of course then you had guys like goldwater who were validly not racist, as far as he said -- and i don't think he was -- but being very driven by this libertarian ideology, that it's in his minds distinct but gave a lot of comfort to people like thurmond ands who were saying we can just retreat. whites can retreat to their suburbs and we can fight big government -- or call it big government and use that as cover to fight the next battle. >> host: once again you're sounding very prescient. and speaking of the present, two last questions from me. one is one of the echos i'm hearing about gun control, where people are fighting these battles at the gut level. it that -- is it an analogous issue? that's one question. and the other is, you end on a kind of positive, hopeful note, that if americans did it once, maybe they can do it again on the similar parallel issues in our time. >> guest: i think there are distinctions between civil rights and gun control as issues. gun control is very clearly the -- proponents of gun rights can thick-i think all of this things -- probably would have

william howard taft in 1964, goldwater against rockefeller.work out well in 1964, but republicans won five of the next six and seven when they combined presidential elections. fighting is not fatal. indeed it shows a certain amount of vigor in the party. >> i thought it was interesting the democrats wanted to say tea party versus traditional republican party. before the election was announced debbie wasserman schultz said it has been a struggle and the tea party has won. now as you come out and you see in almost every case the tea party has lost, you realize too there is going to be a combining of the power. for the republicans to be successful, it has to happen, number one. number two, the tea party organic music which is taxed -- organic movement which is taxed enough already, does anybody disagree when you look at your paycheck? why is it important for democrats to point out that the tea party still is so powerful? >> brian, you've got to feel sorry for debbie wasserman schultz because the elections yesterday took away her talking point bec

that context that a living wage for fast food workers is actually the fiscally conservative barry goldwater thing to do for a global order by the way what do you know does department store in phoenix pay his workers quite well of course even with that in mind right wingers would still argue probably that making fifteen dollars an hour flipping burgers is impossible or some sort of pie in the sky liberal fantasy but it's not over denmark a country that beats the united states in pretty much every category when it comes to developing quality of life mcdonald's workers make between fifteen and twenty one dollars an hour that's in u.s. dollars. the myth of course is that a living wage of fifteen dollars an hour would price teenage workers those workers who supposedly dominate the fast food industry out of the market but that argument doesn't match up with the facts as you can see in this chart the most most fast food workers workers are over the age of twenty in fact the average age is twenty nine and they're supporting families the evidence is clear it's time for fast food workers or companies

country joining me now for more on the right to try laws is curt altman senior attorney for the goldwater institute's sharf norton center for constitutional litigation kurt welcome to the program. hi tom thanks for having me it's great to be here thanks for joining us so right to trial laws basically allowed terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs that haven't been fully approved by the f.d.a. and haven't gone through i mean there's as i recall four levels of experimental notice you know is it does it kill you if you try it does it actually work against this is ease what's the dosage and then you know what are the side effects of you if i'm remembering correctly and i've known a couple of people involved in these trials. what level of experimental are you proposing here that people be able to try for example drugs that haven't even been tested for safety or african c no. no. not at all tom and you're right there's three to four levels of the f.d.a. approval process and what right the tribe does in every state that's passed it so far what the legislation does is allow people with

daisy spot that didn't help lyndon johnson, who was -- that johnson, who was going to win against goldwateranyway. i do not buy the theory that it matters in presidential elections. there is a point of diminishing returns and i think both candidates reached that early october 2012. host: you make a reference to this ad in 1952, before you were born, larry sabadto. [laughter] guest: i was born. host: let's watch. [video clip] america.ower answers >> the democrats have made mistakes, but aren't there intentions good? >> if the driver of your school bus runs into a truck, drives into a ditch, you do not say his intentions are good -- you get a new boss trevor. -- a new bus driver. host: larry sabato? you howhat shows primitive television was and television advertising. the first was presidential candidate to go out and hire an advertising firm to produce his ads. he was a brilliant general but could not read cue cards worth a damn. there were some others that were even worse. his opponent, at least even send saiddlai stevenson, president should not be sold like soapsuds. stevenson lost and one

progressive element of the republican party has basically been falling by the wayside going back to barry goldwater. so this is not surprising that it's continuing this move to the right and the establishment reflects that. >> i guess it comes to the ideological question and also how do we govern. thom tillis supported the government shutdown. are you going to let somebody willing to compromise? >> it's always been a conservative party and sometimes it's a little less conservative or more. now it's in a period of more conservative. it sets up a really clear, really clear cut ideological divide in north carolina and a lot of other places. in some ways it makes it harder for the democrats because they can't rely on self-sabotaging. . so they have to make arguments for obamacare, expansion of medicaid, climate change argument again and again and again, because it's how the establishment, which make s it more powerful to be mouthing these far right ideological views with guys like thom tillis or mitch mcconnell in the senate who are well trained politicians who know how to win. >> ultimately that's act

didn't help lyndon johnson, who was -- that did help lyndon johnson, who was going to win against goldwater anyway. i do not buy the theory that it matters in presidential elections. there is a point of diminishing returns and i think both candidates reached that early october 2012. host: you make a reference to this ad in 1952, before you were born, larry sabadtto. [laughter] guest: i was born. host: let's watch. [video clip] >> eisenhower answers america. >> the democrats have made mistakes, but aren't there intentions good? >> if the driver of your school bus runs into a truck, drives into a ditch, you do not say his intentions are good -- you get a new boss trevor. -- a new bus driver. host: larry sabato? guest: that shows you how primitive television was and television advertising. eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to go out and hire an advertising firm to produce his ads. he was a brilliant general but could not read cue cards worth a damn. there were some others that were even worse. his opponent, at least even send -- adlai stevenson said president should not be sold l

governmentes limited constitutional conservatives like barry goldwater and told buckley. -- bill oakley. we have to do a better job of defining ourselves. the law of politics is defined or be defined. if you are able to define your opponent, you have a big advantage. jobenemies have done a good of improperly defining tea parties. we need to be about the business of connecting with the american people. they need to explain what their beliefs are. their beliefs are america's elites. we have allowed our enemies to define us. host: does the decentralized nature of the tea party work against this idea of defining who you are? guest: in many ways. being a leaderless organization, it does work against us. we don't have access to the mainstream microphones like the karl rove's of the world do. we don't have a headquarters like ryan's rebus does. we don't have a big building our staff. leader is jim demint. i think we are seeing some exciting things come out of the heritage foundation. it is slow coming. i reference plans. i think in the next few years, you will see this voice. we did not have t

by the italian charity emergency as you can see here in the border because a few injuries but the goldwater later border to border to border to borders border to border that is afghanistan to does or for the war is over but still people get treated on more casualties were up at this hospital by thirty six percent in just the first two months of this year and a staggering eighty five percent increase since twenty ten most are civilians but here free treatment for all victims of war regardless which side no questions asked three new clinics are being set up to cope with the demand as american troops prepare to withdraw the talabani is making a comeback bill the level of violence has been increased dramatically in the last year and the conflict has been about what are we going over there. now we don't do sitar doesn't know what topped it but he knows it's a miracle that he survived this shy young man who was working at a fuel pump in kandahar. when unidentified gunmen shot him twelve times at close range i thought they needed something so i approached them but they opened fire first because it

one thousand nine hundred sixty four when the dark horse weird for in conservative candidate barry goldwaterbecame that party's the republican party's nominee as minor puts it it's just possible that two thousand and sixteen could be another nine hundred sixty four nine hundred eighty years when the republican establishment proved weak and pliable enough to allow a candidate previously considered extreme to come in from the coal miners is the reason for this in addition to the fact that rand paul has good polling numbers is that there is an existing infrastructure of paul support within the republican party thanks to ron paul taking big chunks of support from republicans and twenty twelve. those people who are ron paul followers in two thousand and twelve are now rand paul supporters and they're well embedded into the republican party so basically rand paul has a very good shot at becoming the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen. so why is it. but that might be a good thing for democrats and maybe even for our nation the answer is really simple a rand paul republican

their allies like the republican party i mean barry goldwater famously said to be straight to shoot straight i mean the republican party has not always been so fundamentally socially conservative before and nixon promoted the drug wars in response to a democrat nelson rockefeller in new york i mean it would be easy to say oh it was a bad democratic idea gone wrong i don't think the party would have a problem with their putin has are changing ideas if the coax or somebody with that kind of influence wanted to but again those don't make money for koch industries and you know so the question is you know are these guys out there just trying to line their pockets or from from you know all the time that i spent looking into these guys talking to people. i got the impression that these guys really are true believers and i'm not sure you know in terms of what's happened during the obama era with them. taking the high profile they are having their political activism you know that's not terribly good for it's not a terribly good business model you know and there are some risks to them by doing this in

you're talking like barry goldwater i thought i believe but you know i operate from the sumptuous from the assumption that the underlying foundation of the constitution is a protection of our privacy at least as far as the government is concerned that the constitution explains what the powers of the federal government are limits them and says all the other powers are reserved to the states right but if you protest meat and my privacy but it's not explicit there's no word privacy because the notion of privacy is me wonderfully and it will be only care about what the words of the constitution salsa. i think i care very much about that going of interesting mind you should fact if you look up look at a dictionary of the late seventy's hundreds and i don't want privacy meant toilet functions people used to say i need some privacy and everybody would understand that they were going to leave the table and good the outhouse which was called the privy and so it never even occurred to the fathers that the fourth amendment should include the right to use the bathroom so that's why the private tha

kennedy, richard nixon, lyndon johnson, barry goldwater, robert kennedy, eugene mccarthy and george mcgovernd i think the vividness of the white's writing inspired me to devote my career to running for office and serving in elected office. the 0 white is no longer around to chronicle presidential races and it falls to dan balz and others to carry on that tradition. peggy noonan of the wall street journal said dan balz's "collision 2012: obama vs. romney and the future of elections in america" is the best presidential campaign chronicle in many years. it is a great book, in part because it isn't about what happened as much as it is about how people in the campaigns with thinking. al kamen from the washington post said the behind-the-scenes reporting makes the book i must read. it was a fascinating ride. i think the real value of this book may come not so much now, because many of us who read his reporting daily and other contemporaneously reporting may already know the fundamental details of the 2012 race although this book provides in-depth commentary in interviews that were not reported in