if the eisenhower election produced phyllis schlafly, the cold water election produced ronald reagan. while it is tempting to say that the rest is history, the political successes that followed produced a better world that created new problems, with which a new generation of conservatives must contend today. ronald reagan brought an optimism to the conservative political movement, born both of his own amiability but more importantly, from his deep believe that the values that motivated him and us were not only worth fighting for but were true. he knew that we were right and they were wrong. that is something most politicians do not know when they get up to deliver a policy speech. ronald reagan knew. he knew that our ideas work and that there is to knock -- there's -- theirs do not. that was and remains today a solid reason for optimism. he also had the common sense of the average american. he proved time and time again that if you are willing to frame your ideas well and communicate them effectively, they will gain the public's support they deserve. no one sends his son quite as has

republicans are furious with the establishment's choice in political candidates. 88-year-old activist phyllis schlaflyn called for a fight. >> the fight i'm asking you to engage in is between the establishment and the grassroots. the establishment has given us a whole series of losers. bob dole and john mccain and mitt romney. >> boy, that's kind of heavy on jim carrey loser. but sarah palin slammed karl rove for picking failed republican candidates. >> if these experts who keep losing elections, keep getting rehired and reeking in millions, if they feel that strongly about who gets to run in this party, then they should buck up or stay in the truck. buck up and run. they can head on back to the great lone star state and put their name on some ballot. though for their sake i hope they give themselves and discount on their consulting services. >> buck up, huh? rove was not impressed with palin's remarks and hit back the following day. >> i appreciate her encouragement to run home and run for office. i would say this. i don't think i'm a particular good candidate at sort of a balding, fat guy. and secon

phyllis schlafly [applause] od morning cpac-ers. and thank you sarah palin for warming up this great crowd. analyze whyeed to we lost last year to barack obama, who has said he wants to fundamentally transformed america in ways we do not want to be transformed. that theuggest democrats had a better ground game than republicans. they did not make use of all new volunteers to get out the vote on election day. i would give you an example of how the democrats were so clever in using early voting to polls.eir people to the vot michelle obama made a speech at the university of iowa. they had set up on of the early voting places right across the street. her speech and marched right out to vote. that is the way they got a lot of their votes. there is some fraud, too. you know that. then you look at the republicans. unfortunately we let the establishment pick another loser for us. have and the fight i am asking you to engage in is between the establishment and the grass roots. the establishment has given us a whole series of losers, bob dole

phyllis schlafly who led that -- >> you pointed that out in your article. >> there are differences, as. was one tool of the feminist movement and they may have lost the battle but won the war in terms of having lots of statutes passed. lots of states happened with the states, even if the e.r.a. didn't. is not exactly aanalogous to it. >> the article is amazing and i think people should look at it from an historical perspective. and there was a quote that when the equal rights amendment first proposed by alice paul, you mentioned it was introducing in 1923. it was worded equalities of the rights should not be abridged by any state on account of sex. this fits into the dialogue today. when you talk about the equality of rights, we call this debate. same sex marriage vote here's say this is marriage equality. >> that's right. it certainly echos of the same debate. it is interesting to see what the opponents of e.r.a. did. they said my gosh, you're going to have, first of all, they said you can draft women in the military which seemed like a crazy and outlandish idea at the time. same sex

under that cloak they're quite literally making law i mean i realize i some i'm sounding like phyllis schlafly and nine hundred seventy four but that's what's going on well it is listen this supreme court has the lowest approval rating is had since its inception right now most of that is because you have scalia out on the speaking circuit and every times every time he appears in public and makes another ridiculous lee absurd almost ignorant statement about what pall of about the state of politics in the state of the law the public says oh my god and that we saw what they did with citizens united they would they even ahead they even had a higher approval rating during that period it continues to drop roberts thought he could resurrect the approval rating of this court biased by allowing the health care reform to take place but it hasn't helped because this is a supreme court right now a majority of five kennedy alito roberts thomas scalia have branded this court is being exactly what you just described and that is a judicial monarchy who realizes they're in there for a life they're going to ign