is well ralph reed was the executive director of the christian coalition in the ninety's and after that after he became kind of a kingmaker in republican politics he moved into the lobbying world and he partnered with his old buddies from the college republicans jack abramoff grover norquist and some others to basically scheme and deal and really recruit some sorted clients to push a very sophisticated lobbying strategy where they're taking money from casinos and then at the same time tricking evangelicals to be against their own clients so they form kind of a racket where they're collecting money from both sides in one case they collected money from a sweat shop owner and a site and islands while collecting instructing evangelical voters to lobby against a bill that shut down the sweat shop owners factories where there's forced abortion forced prostitution so. there is a huge racket but a scandal which kind of blew the lid off all this expose the e-mails expose the documents how they shifted money around from corporate clients like microsoft and enron to create all these friend gr

know there are metaphorically here to kiss the hand of the king the king of the religious right ralph reed of the faith and freedom conference. who is this man and why do you need his blessing to go to the white house to discuss this with me is i think more essential porter and blogger for talking points not everything so much for being at it for me for starters tell us all about king ralph reed his majesty why it's so important well you've been around for a long time on the religious right he started out with the christian coalition he was there for a long time a big organizer for them sort of fell off the radar screen for a while was involved little bit made rock scandal sort of tapered his appeal but since then he has started this new group of faith and freedom coalition which is kind of taking the tea party idea and mixing it with the faith old christian coalition idea which is you know sort of grassroots organizing on the ground he's got hundreds of thousands of people that make phone calls and you know people on the internet he was talking today about seventeen million or you know un

talking points memo i thank so much for being at it and for starters it tell us all about king ralph reed his majesty why he's so important well you've been around for a long time on the religious right he started out with the christian coalition he was there for a long time a big organizer for them sort of fell off the radar screen for a while was involved little bit made rob scandal sort of tapered his is his appeal but since then he has started this new group his faith and freedom coalition which is kind of taking the tea party idea and mixing it with the faith the old christian coalition idea which is you know sort of grassroots organizing on the ground he's got hundreds of thousands of people that make phone calls or you know it can have people on the internet he was talking today about seventeen million or you know untapped conservatives that he sort of reaching out to so these are voters that everybody is ready for president especially in a primary want to have so you come here you talk to ralph reed maybe you're get a big piece of that part and that we say we talk about the conser

the group was founded and is chaired by ralph reed. other speakers included john boehner, paul ryan, haley barbour. we will show you their remarks next. , it's a beautiful day. [cheers and applause] >> hey, everybody, good morning! [applause] how you doing? good. good to be with you today. listen, i want to share with you

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anthony list, jack jackie, and the governor of the state of wisconsin, rebecca. >> doesn't ralph reed i met ralph out in college at the duke university campus. he was wearing fatigues. he was fighting against the sandinista down in nicaragua. i met him going down to the duke student center. he was standing out in front of a private table. i thought you don't stand in front of the table. we can't see the stuff on the table. he said, you came to see me. [laughter] >> which was true. i want to thank ralph for gathering these ladies. diane black is taking care of business in the house. women belong in the house there's question about it. congresswoman black is from tennessee. she fought very hard in the tennessee legislature against planned parenthood very successfully. she has continued that fight. i'm so proud to say leading women across the country to let's say undermine planned parenthood's base at the moment and we have made great strides with your help. i have the honor of introducing these great women who actually like being women. they embrace the dignity, the true freedom of bein

republican christian base as they are trying to combine the tea party with the christian right and this ralph reed event this last week it was all about covering up those differences this is saying now folks need to pay attention and ask where these people's heart really lies i mean rand was an outspoken atheist does being an objectivist or a cause or libertarian or a follower of iran's require being an atheist she said that and that is kind of our point too we don't editorialize in this comment this is and i say no you know these are. publicans they knew somebody or whatever it is simply iran's words people who say well i'm a christian and i can follow my own rand well by definition you can't because iran taught you can't follow her and follow christ and she said that christ's teachings were evil and the root of most of the problems in today's society so if you're saying you follow both of them you clearly don't understand at least one of right and what she what she opposed was everything that was an ethical selfishness because she felt those selfishness was the highest value corporations are org

last friday about republican presidential candidates making their pilgrimage to kiss the ring of ralph reed the leader of the religious right be zero seven rivera or seven said on you tube wow what a couple of pathetic jackasses i see i mean i'm a catholic and i said i want a problem with the religious right but sheesh nothing but pointless bashing from these leftist pigs like the democrats and progressives don't have any skeletons in their own closets now be seven rivera thinks that my conversation with talking points memo evan make more essential is quote pointless and you know what i want to take to differ on that what doesn't seem pointless when an overwhelming majority of republican candidates feel the need to bend their schedule to travel all the way to washington d.c. to seek the approval of one. it isn't simply. what every single candidate feels that they have to plead and pander to the religious right to prove that they're socially conservative enough to win their endorsement and it doesn't really seem pointless considering that this powerful coalition has been able to launch an un

especially in conservative politics and we were just talking about this the other day of course ralph reed had his conference here in washington d.c. all of these g.o.p. hopefuls had to come in at least attend the conference if not speak there and kissed the proverbial ring to show their support but you know i think that those types of conferences also show how far we have not come because if you look at recent polling a majority of americans are now ok they support gay marriage all of our republican candidates do not so do you think that they are going to lose the young vote here or is something like gay marriage are those the issues that people are kind of willing to compromise on. well listen gay marriage it's no surprise that the field of politicians does not represent the will of the people if it did we might actually have single payer health care by now but that's not even really discussed in a serious way that would be the will of the people i was talking to jesse ventura recently and he said he has i asked him can you not really win if you run again for major office because you're

er's and people opposed to the war could theoretically hire high priced obvious like evan buyer ralph reed but there isn't much profit to be made in helping the unemployed or any wars so that leaves option to kick the whole cohens in the under the giants out of the lobbying world of capitol hill we need campaign reform and lobbying reform not all there should be only one irresistible force and that's the will of the people and only one immovable object our democracy as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website at www dot com. also check out our you tube page at youtube dot com slash not big picture artsy but you do you tube dot com slash. and this entire show is available as a free podcast on i tunes and don't forget to mark receive begins with you when you show up and participate tag your it. will. review the latest in science and technology from. the future of coverage. live free. education free instruction prelims free lists priests. prelims. for your media project.

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[applause] ♪ >> please welcome back to the stage ralph reed. >> be seated. don't go anywhere.has this not been an incredible night? wow. i have been doing this for longer than i care to acknowledge. i think we have just had one of the most incredible evenings of exciting, conservative leadership i have ever seen. i don't know who you are going to decide your nominee is going to be, but it is going to be a hard decision. we are getting ready to bring dick morris back up for it dick morris unplugged. he was a little unclog earlier. i am concerned about what is going to happen -- he was a lull little unplugged earlier. i am going to raise something i want you to be praying about. i think many of you know that glenn beck was scheduled to be with us this evening. we learned a few hours ago that his father-in-law was rushed to hospital, and he obviously needed to be with his wife and his father-in-law. what i would like us to do right now, if you don't mind, i would like for us to about our heads and prayed >> father, we intervene in this situation involving glen beck and his father

it was the rise of the christian coalition and ralph reed. look at the unemployment rate of 9.1%. you know what is really telling to use an overused word today, telling, we have seen the vote slip with urban and suburban voters. it has all dropped on this. >> listen to some of the -- we spoke to the voters in new hampshire. we'll listen and talk about it. >> i think people promote the values and the values change. i mean, if you did have traditional values, we would be in a segregated society. think about that. >> i don't think it is what people do in hair homes is any of the government's business. if people want to do something, as long as they are not hurting anybody else, i don't have a problem with that. >> okay. for the candidates here tomorrow night, what does it help and who does it hurt? >> mitt romney, the frontrunner is running primarily on the idea to turn the economy around back when he ran for the president in 2008 he talked about a great businessman and talked about a lot about social conservative issues. it will be romney who will certainly trumpet that tomorrow. >>

i want to also thank ralph reed, a good friend of mine, a prodigy of the conservative movement in americaent immeasurable voice and vision to the values that underlie the republican party, the values that make america, america. he's distinguished himself as a true guardian of freedom, faith, and family, and as a foundation of our country, so i ask you to join me in thanking ralph reed for his compassion, courage, and his commitment to the causes that bring us all together today. thank you, ralph. [applause] now, more than ever, our faith is fundamental to addressing the challenges that lie before us on matters of the sanctity of life, we understand that protecting the unborn is not merely a political issue. it's a miranda rule issue, and our faith tell us that we have a moral obligation to give a voice to the voiceless. [applause] on matters of family, we understand that the fight to preserve and protect the sacred institution of marriage is not just a political issue; it's a miranda rule -- moral issue, and our faith tells us that we have a moral obligation to defend marriage as a sacred

michele bachmann was one of the speakers at the faith and freedom conference, a group founded by ralph reed and held a two day meeting in washington, d.c. last week with the theme of restores america's greatness and founding principles. this is about 20 minutes. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> hi, everyone. [cheers and applause] thank you for coming. [applause] good to see you, good morning. [applause] thank you for coming. i can tell this conference is off to a great start already, isn't it? [cheers and applause] oh, what a wonderful year this is going to be and 2012 is even going to be better. [cheers and applause] we are looking forward to winning the triple crown, aren't we? [cheers and applause] holding on to the house of representatives, getting a conservative senate for the first time in a long time, and timely, a change of address form to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. [cheers and applause] because if we have anything to say about a barak obama will be a one-term president. [cheers and applause] well, it's a new day, and there's new things coming our way, and i'm extremely

tell us about this article and what kind of player ralph reed will be in the republicans choosing theirepublican candidates. guest: most know that he was heavily disgraced in the jack abrams of scandal. he was using that money to be ginned up evangelical support in alabama against casinos. this exposed him as someone who had shady financial dealings but also someone who was using his evangelical base for his own narrow and greedy purposes. but he is back. he held this conference last week in which every single republican contender for the presidency attended except for newt gingrich, i believe. he will be a power player. this conference was as much religious as a tea party gathering. this was really the pace of the party. he is clearly making a play to be a kingmaker again. host: back to the funds. you are on the "washington journal." caller: i keep hearing these reporters saying that so and so is not qualified to be president. i would like another idea of who is qualified since they know so much about it. host: before we let you go, who you think is? caller: i think any of them are. al

the group was founded and is chaired by ralph reed. other speakers included john boehner, paul ryan, haley barbour. we will show you their remarks next. , it's a beautiful day. [cheers and applause] >> hey, everybody, good morning! [applause] how you doing? good. good to be with you today. listen, i want to share with you a story. it's an unpleasant story. for those of us who have served in congress for a while, we were there in 2008 when we had a financial crash. and then we watched a recession start. we saw millions of people, friends, families, constituents lose their jobs. we saw trillions of dollars of wealth just vanish because we had a great recession. con subsequently, usually the bigger the recession you have in this country, the bigger the recovery. where's the recovery? but i want to tell you something, when that 2008 financial crisis happened, it caught us all by surprise. we didn't see it coming. and so ugly crisis legislation emerged from that. i want to ask you a question. what if your congressman, your senator, your pre