senator demint was my choice and i knew that jim[ó was goino be president, i just didn't know he wasgoing to be president of the heritage foundation. [laughter] and the heritage foundation, conservative movement, america is very fortunate to have jim demint as its president. >> i think it's been to our detriment, that's why i wrote the book, "takeover." the subtitle of the bill is $100-year war for the soul of the gop and how conservatives can finally win it. and i should say that, i jokingly refer to myself as 003. means i've been active at the national level, the conservative movement, longer than every living conservative except two others. 001 is the fist lady of the conservative -- fist lady of the conservative movement, phyllis schlafly, and 002 is dr. edwards. so i've been at the front lines of this movement for a long time, and i've seen us take loss after loss after loss. and so i wrote this book because i think for the most part conservatives haven't understood that they're in this battle. and you're not going to win a battle, much less a war be you don't know -- if you don

what is the jim demint position on term limits?>> i don't condemn folks who don't limit their own terms. for me, it was important for my own peace of mind to just decide with myself i am not going to become a permanent fixture in 10. i still think it is the best reform that can happen. it's not quite happened in washington first. it's got to happen at the state level. a number of states have done and i can tell you from visiting the legislature would they have turned limit, while it is not a perfect scenario by any means, it is much better than those who grow instead get tied in with the lobby community. you don't get people like marco rubio pushing their way up to the senate. he was speaker of the house in florida at 35 years old. he was term limited out and wanted to serve florida in this country. what it does is push right young people into federal office and makes it harder for the old guys to defend themselves. we saw these people like rubio, cruise, rand paul, to me, they knocked out. >> you know, i think the cruise filibuste

ladies and gentlemen, jim demint. >> thank you, folks. [applause] >> thanks to come to us and it will stick around and sign some books. he has a 9:00 train to catch so we want to get into the lobby to meet him and say hello. thank you for listening to talk radio wpht. it means a lot to us. have a great evening, drive safe. [inaudible conversations] >> i focus on trying to stop wasting to go to in the past but to go out and figure it out and ham it up if it's 50% of their predicament 20%, 50% i think we spent a lot of money. my staff time can be better spent on to find the wrong, i can buy the bonds and help correct them. >> so if i ask you have the american people got their moneys worth speak with therefore money's worth? no. definitely not. there have been some good things done, a lot of good things done. a lot of hard-working people department of interior, a lot of these

[applause] >> jim demint. [cheers and

>> at end of the day, there was nobody, jim demint.a party leader it would have been a voice, but they are important, we need them. pluralty of voters did not vote yesterday, we'll win that senate seat, we need every one of those tea party people supporting them. >> they picked bad candidate in past, harry reid candidate, tea party candidate he spend millions of dollars making sure he would get elected, we have our act together, we have good strong candidates we'll win races. lou: hard to figure out, the president has unleashed the left, what some wags are saying. mercedes, the left is hell-bent ongoing after in this election, winning irrespective of incentive ti they may express, y are down right vicious. are you expecting there to be a response? >> well, i think so, but i think we'll see a republican party that is very energized. we're tired of losing, we need to get candidates that can bridge togher the g.o.p. establishment, tea partyer to make it work, democrats are in a pad position, you have obama low approval rating, in addition

the group independent of jim demint is spending in safe primaries in the hopes of notching a win. then there was the biggest blow to the tea party this week. north carolina on tuesday night. republicans needed a candidate to run against democratic senator kay hagan. the establishment had its choice, thom tillis is his name. he's the speaker of the state house of representatives. mitt romney endorsed him. the u.s. chamber of commerce spent heavily on his behalf. when it comes to endorsements, he's about as establishment as it gets. meanwhile his main opponent was backed by rand paul, who is the biggest tea party star in america. he came to campaign for that candidate on the eve of the primary. freedom works also endorsed brannon. they talked up the grass roots nrge. for the past few years, this has been the setup for one tea party triumph after another, for one humiliating blow to the establishment after another. but not this week. thom tillis won easily on tuesday. north carolina will probably be the most closely watched senate race in america this fall. it's a pivotal state for r

this was one of my favorite highlights from jim demint. trying to figure out how to get the extreme positions to generate. is that possible, do you think? >> it was fascinating for me to be at the ritz carlton hotel in virginia. they had a messaging panel and there was a lot of frustration that the conservative values of this group represents and tries to promote are not resinating with the voters they are trying to connect with. not resinating with young people. they are grappling with how to move forward not only with divided government, but this changing country. >> amanda, this is a big money season. one of the things that interested me is the fact that so little of the republican money right now is going to specific tea party candidates. you see the stat there out of $37.5 million raised this year, less than $7 million has been devoted to helping specific candidates. do you think that shows a lack of faith in that wing of the party's own candidates? >> the tea party groups have gotten some criticism for that. why aren't you spending m

government that goes all the the way back to two centuries to john ka houn and lee atwater and jim demint. he's a tea party guy. he's got inside moves but he was elected in 2010 after challenging a sitting republican incumbent. he's tea party and aggressive. and he's an experienced prosecutor and this is a trial in his mind. they are going to put this together with the continuing investigation of lois lerner of the irs and almost political co-cooping. it's partly strategy but policy for them. in a low turnout midterm election, i think the democrats need not to automatically assume it won't work because it's going to gin up the republican conservative base big time. >> it's funny you mentioned his background as prosecutor. he was on "morning joe earl quer in the week and when asked he used the term trial instead of hearing. what concessions do you think the democrats are trying to get from republicans? nancy pelosi is waiting for a call back from boehner. what is she hoping to achieve here? >> they would like to have some type of participation in the subpoena process in terms of who -- man

. >> it's interesting to compare the primaries today to like 2010, for example, where senator jim demint famously said i rather have 30 marco rubos in the senate than 60 arlen suspecters. we know how that year turned out. luke was hitting on this earlier republicans were wanting someone that could win the general election more than anything else and they kicked the flawed tea party candidates to the curb. we're done with this. i want to start winning. it makes the chances taking the senate much higher. >> one thing that's in play is that in order to appease the base, have these victories they moved their candidates further right. the establishment candidates, kingston in georgia is a great example. this guy was endorsed by the tea party to hair the house appropriations committee. he's the one that said kids should be sweeping categorioka cafeterias to pay for their lunches. if you're the gop how do we kind of appease the base, start to put in at least some adults. jack kickston has served 30 years in appropriations, so i assume he knows how things work. but there is something to be said.

but, no, these groups, this was a movement who was defined by what jim demint said which was i'd rather have 30 people in the senate who think like me. than have the majority of republicans in the senate. and, you know, we talked about it after the government shutdown blew up, you can tell all of these groups have felt pressure since then from republican donors and conservatives. saying we want harry reid out as majority leader. boy, you saw it. there's no civil war in the republican party, at least from what i saw. >> i think part of it, too, they realize they picked the wrong guy in matt bevan. >> cockfighting. >> they should have researched more on the cockfighting thing. it's the scarborough doctrine. i think you're seeing more of that now. maybe a correction to what happened two years ago and before that, we want to keep our conservative principles, but we have to win above else because of barack obama and harry reid. >> right. it's all a passage of time. 2010 happened in the republican party. because republicans from 2000 to 2008 were absolutely shameful on big government spending

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 the mike lee is an rand paul's and arco rubio's a few years ago. it is slow but the leadership is coming forward. host: john is on the republican line from florida. i was watching c-span the other day and louie gohmert came out with a chart saying haves of the cbs and nbc somebody in the white house or in the federal government and that is why you don't hear the less talked about. guest: it is an incestuous situation between government and too many in the mainstream media. , hisresident spokesperson wife is in a mainstream media outlet. is in bed with the mainstream media. we were only able to be successful advancing our cause because of the rise of the alternative media. politicst involved in back in the 1950's, nobody heard us. rise of direct , now we have radio much more a level lane field and o

that my former house collie, jim demint, continues to lead that fight, and although you may think about him as a senator, to me he will always be a house guy. homerday i flew in from my in dallas. some of you know that i live in dallas. i work in washington dc. was getting ready for this beach, i recall the time, probably seven years ago, that i got stuck in washington on a weekend. it doesn't happen often. it happens occasionally. to seeingn are used me on the weekend, so i called home. my now 12-year-old, then 50, i spoke to her on the phone and we were chatting a little bit. she finally said daddy, what day is it? sorry it's saturday, i'm i'm not home. she said that's funny, daddy, it's saturday here, too. the things they teach in kindergarten. so we continued to chat a little bit longer. after while she said daddy, where exactly are you? i said you know, daddy works in washington, d.c. she said daddy, is washington dc part of america? at a time observe when the federal government has clearly grown too big, too powerful, too arrogant, too expensive and intrusive, that an innocent chi

were a republican right now, your goal is to send harry reid home and you're not thinking like jim demint30 people in the senate that think like me than a majority. >> there are up to 13 states where it looks like they'll have nominees who are plausible candidates that can win. who aren't so far saying outrageous things and they're plenty conservatives. there are no arlen specters being nominated. so the party, i think at this point has to be pretty happy. i think a lot of these divisions are overstated. it's a conservative party on economics. that's what the party is running on. >> i have no problem, either, katty kay, with conservatives getting out there and doing exactly what they were doing yesterday and pushing. because obviously i went after establishment republicans forever because they spent too much money and turned their back on core principles. but right now there are a lot of republicans looking to the election saying let's nominate people who can actually win elections. because if we don't win elections, we can't shape the country, we can't shape the court, we can't control t

senator demint was my choice and i knew that jim[ó was goino be president, i just didn't know heas