>> jim demint discusses how we can fix our social and economic problems. he argues nothing will be solved and solutions will have to come from communities around the country. this is about an hour. [applause] >> good evening. welcome to the national constitution center. how is everybody tonight? we are being filmed in multiple venues both wise and live to tape. heritage is carrying us live. did you know that? why if right now online into c-span recording for a future broadcast so i expect all of you to let people know how to do thingwe dothings into without f. there's an open bar unless some of our salespeople are. want to run a tab. isn't it great to see the senator demint here into without the crux of costco i want to thank the sponsors tonight on west shore funds.com. they've been the most fantastic hosts and have put a premium. our friend has put a premium on bringing speakers of all strides and one of the things he said to me when he became the head of the constitution center was i want conservatives to note they are welcome and have a home at the cen

they are at its foundation, america's fortunate to have jim demint as its president. jim has been the de facto leader of the conservative movement for many many years. as that later he has understood something that most conservatives quite frankly have an understood and i think it's been to our detriment. that is why he wrote the book. the subtitle of the book is a 100 year war for the soul of the gop and how conservatives can finally win it. .. haven't understood that they are in this battle and you're not going to win a battle with much less a war if you don't know that you are in a war and so i think it's very important for conservatives to understand the past, because if you don't understand the past, you're not going to know how to chart the future. we have had as a movement in my opinion our guns pointed at the wrong target. we have been focused on the democrats, pelosi, reid and obama and that has been a mistake because the opponent is inside the republican party. we are like those that had to wander through the desert for 40 years until the generation failed th

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. >> jim demint discusses how we can fix our social and economic problems. he argues nothing will be solved and solutions will have to come from communities around the country. this is about an hour. [applause]

the miseducation of jim demint. former u.s.tive think tank the heritage foundation has interesting ideas about the federal government's role in ending slavery. huh he put it to a christian radio show. >> no liberal is able to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. it was abraham lincoln, the vet first republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it based on a love in his heart that comes from god. >> abraham lincoln, president of the united states a federal job, the man who wrote the emancipation proclamation, which ordered slaves in confederate states freed. but that proclamation made effectively no difference until the end of a massive government undertaking known as the civil war. joining me now, correspondent for the guardian and spring fellow at university of chicago institute of politics, anna marie cox and from washington, staff writer for "slate." jim demint is not -- he is a fringe person, but he's actually head of a very powerful organization, the heritage foundation, that has been the motor behind

they are at its foundation, america's fortunate to have jim demint as its president. jim has been the de facto leader of the conservative movement for many many years. as that later he has understood something that most conservatives quite frankly have an understood and i think it's been to our detriment. that is why he wrote the book. the subtitle of the book is a 100 year war for the soul of the gop and how conservatives can finally win it. ..

. >>> up next, some revisionist history about slavery and the civil war from former senator jim demintf the heritage foundation. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> back to "hardball" and time for the side show. ukraine may be in the news a lot these days, but a recent "washington post" poll found that, catch this, only one in six americans could find ukraine on a map. what's more surprising, however, was how far off some people were. guesses ranged across six continents and some participants in the poll even thought that ukraine was here in the united states. but according to steve colbert, that shouldn't necessarily matter. >> the exact poll found the less americans know about ukraine's location, the more they want the u.s. to intervene. damn straight, this is america, and we don't need to know where a country is to send troops there. the ukraine is wherever the american people say it is, and according to this poll, americans say it is everywhere. you cannot trust maps. they are always changing their story. one day it's pan gee ya, 300 million years later, it's something

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if jim demint called a meeting of the conservative free market environmental groups there would be a handful there. on the left, they have the third force organizations, own funds, own membership and agenda and they pull everybody in that direction and you open up leadership positions for chairman, funding, president, speak opportunities, membership chairmans. the opportunities to bring in new leadership for our cause is m magnified. very few people are focused on politics and everything. there are many issues people are concerned and get them focused on those. remember, hilary clinton was a go-water girl in 1964. by the late '60s, she is a hard core leftist. she got involved in a single issue group, anti-vietnam war. and if people are not interested in joining your conservative organization, think about the top issues in your community you can get people involved and there are many opportunities to get people involved in something dealing with public policy other than just next election. i am very optimistic and i will talk about that. but we should not be under any illusion as to t

ladies and gentlemen jim demint. >> thank you, folks. [applause] [applause] >> folks thanks for coming. the senators going to stick around and sign some books. thanks very much for listening to talk radio. it means a great deal to all of us. thanks for coming tonight and have a great weekend. [applause] [inaudible conversations] last week booktv attended the san antonio book festival in texas in partnership with the texas look festival held annually on the state state capl grounds in austin. the festival hosted more than 90 others who discussed a variety of topics. booktv covered several events from the san antonio public library on the federal debt, cesar chavez local san antonio history the nsa. we kicked off her coverage of the san antonio book festival with houston mayor bill white on the history of federal debt limits. >> and please introduce to leave his conversation with the honorable bill white whose new book "america's fiscal constitution" its triumph and collapse has just been pushed. former three term

in 2009, then senator jim demint said the health law could be the president's water lloo, that it would break this president. it didn't. we saw tea party rally ace attacking the president for socialism. in 2010, there were massive tea party protests as a final vote in the house approached. >> kill the bill! kill the bill! kill the bill! >> democrats on their way to vote for allegedly heckled and spat on. then it became law. and in came the scare tactics. do you remember the death panels? >> making our health care premiums enormously unsustainably more expensive with death panels to boot. >> let's repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. >> well, that literally never happened. then they moved to a new talking point. it would kill jobs. >> in my opinion, obamacare is the biggest job killer we have in america today. >> it's become such a job killner our economy. >> obamacare is the biggest job killner this country. >> and the economy keeps adding jobs. so then they warned the law would kill itself, collapse under its own weight. >> the law

think about what jim demint has said about the big government did not end slavery. it was people of faith and the, quote, love of abraham lincoln and not government. this is a deliberate effort to discredit government, to discredit big government, to say it can't do anything right. so say we're going to withdraw its hold of the citizens. it goes back to fast and furious. they've held him in contempt. think eve treated him like they've treated no attorney general in the history of this country. it's an effort to repeal the federal government, to repeal the 20th century, and to repeal the protections that have brought so many rights to so many of us. and they're not subtle about it anymore at all. >> some of this reminds me of an old snuffy smith comic. a bunch of people in the mountains in tennessee worried about the revenuers coming. anybody work for the government is bad, especially if they're blablg. db black. your thoughts? >> i do think if you're black, you see that interaction there very differently than if you're white. i think you see it very differently than

eastern with jim demint. the former congressman discusses how we can fix our social and economic problems. that happens tonight on booktv. >> what you find on the larger corporate set yours are typically the things that would appeal to the broadest audience were those that are generally perceived as most profitable. and what i have discovered it's not the stuff that actually feeds us was going to uplift us. so if we are going to be able to share information about things that truly enrich us, all of your going to have to help do that. because the large corporations simply will not do it. it's not in their interest to do it and they haven't demonstrated a propensity to do it. but one of the things that i feel is lacking is that lately, it's our willingness to promote this and we are losing and hemorrhaging the platforms. so there's a good side and a bad side to the story. i bought a list of the bookstores that have closed since i started keeping track of them. this is a list of bookstores that have closed. >> t

from the heritage foundation, jim demint pointed out that sarah palin is is the most popular., breitbart.com posted she was the most popular candidate. >> is that because it's a beginning part of a race, a primary, whatever. because i think didn't we learn, nicole, that being able to generate a crowd doesn't necessarily mean you will win. >> i think it comes a lot to dollars. and so her primary opponent has outspent her 10 to 1. but it's largely coming from his own pocket as kasie mentioned. she also mentioned mitt romney. when you're talking about within the party, you have such diverse party appeal, that's going to help her with the big donors. >> carrie, do you think sarah palin and joni ernst can rewrite the script for republicans, not just republican women but republican men and -- >> the whole war on women thing. >> that war on women. how do you think they can help undo that? >> first, i think this war on women is fake. it's about as real as manti te'o's girlfriend. it's not real. so this magician. they just did a documentary about him. the amazing randy. like dangling a