They rolled piece over keys overtop of us. They rolled cap and trade over the top of us before obamacare. It did not get through the senate because of the super majority required before here you read pulled the trigger on the nuclear option. They rolled cap and trade over the top of us. Because it has been blocked legislatively value now you have , barack obama deciding that he has Constitutional Authority to make applause on his own. And to direct his minions to do whatever they decide to do to impose this agenda on us. I have long spoken about the constitutional violations. Here is the one that is the clearest to me. When barack obama stood up to the podium after a beating on them religious community because there was a requirement to provide sterilization even through church organizations. And therellion evasion through church organizations. Barack obama took a two week beating, and he went up to the podium like this and said, now i am going to make an accommodation to religious organizations. Now i am going to require them to provide it for free. He said, for free. He said for free. He said it twice. There was not a letter changed. The only thing that changed was that barack obama had spoken. And the Insurance Companies lined up to do his bidding, as if he was king. The imperial presidency has emerged. I want to take you back when nancy pelosi walked through you and carry that big apple through. And she had that, let them eat cake moment. A glorified how they are going to use that gavel to impose the will of the leftist on the American People. And they did that. They did it over the largest uprising of people that i have seen in my lifetime. And that was you. I remember walking down the steps the day we saw that bill come out and having it conversation about, what do we do, how do we save this . Well, we call the American People to come to the capital. Just fill the place up. You know what you did . You did something that has never been done. You surrounded the capital. All the way around the capital. It was not a demonstration here or there. You circle the capital. [applause] it was not just a human chain. You were six and eight deep, with thousands of people in the corner still left to go. There is no picture of that. There is no air cover over the top purity you cannot lie helicopter over and take a picture. You stand up against cap and trade, tarp, against obamacare. What happened . The president sent the irs after you. And he said there is not any corruption involved in this. And that there is not any Constitutional Authority that this man exercises. He is outside the bounds of it. We have got to pull that down. We have a battle ahead of us. [applause] we are doing the right wing together. Remember this. We are about restoring the constitution. And we will do this with public demonstrations. We will do it through the grassroots. We will do it through the next president of the United States. We will restore Constitutional Rights in america. We will reaffirm that it says what it says, not what somebody wants it to say. We will identify for little babies american exceptionalism. If we do not believe it in our hearts, if we do not believe in us, if we do not know this is part of our civilization, they will win. Our children need to know that our Founding Fathers mean what they said. The constitution and the law, mr. President , mean what they say. We have got to step up here and we owe them. We owed this to the working class to protect and defend and defend it. And we need to hand it to the next generation. These are rights that came from god. They shaped the declaration of the constitution, fought a revolutionary war. We just have to hand it to the next generation in better condition than we found it. We are going to have the most patriotic motivations. We are going to serve with joy. We might as well have fun. If you can serve with joy, they can never defeat you. [applause] and they are never going to defeat the tea party. We are stronger than ever before. We are anchored in the constitution. We are anchored in limited government. We are anchored in free enterprise. We are anchored in strong families. We are anchored in western civilization, which is the foundation for the things we believe in. Lets go out and continue this effort in our homes, cities, churches, workplace, and families. God bless america. Lets save it. Lets save it together. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the congressman from idaho. Good morning. [applause] good morning. It is a great honor for me to be here. I would not be here if it were not for the tea party. Four years ago i ran for office. [applause] and the establishment decided that i was not the right candidate for idaho. They decided they wanted somebody else to be the congressman for idaho. We had a democrat in office. We all knew that he was beatable. What they wanted somebody who is electable. And the person, apparently, was not made. And i had a bunch of people out there who decided that they wanted me to be their representative. And they were people like you, who wanted to bring back america to what america used to be. They wanted the strength, the energy, the excitement that most of us have to be americans. In little old idaho, they decided, you know, the Tea Party Patriots are so racist they decided they wanted a Puerto Rican Mormon to be their congressman. [laughter] [applause] they worked so hard for me that in my primary i got outspent 51. They could not raise the money. But they raised the forces to beat the establishment. And i won my race by nine points. When the preferred candidate of the establishment lost, the decided that a were ok. The establishment decided they did not want me to be here in washington dc, so they were not going to help me in my race. They decided to move onto other races. And the tea party, and many of you in idaho, decided that they wanted me to win. I got outspent 61 in my general election. Guess what . I won that race by 10 points. [applause] i am here to tell you that you can and have made a difference for the United States. It is important that you get together and make a difference again in 2014. We need to take our country back. We need to remind americans what the dreams, and aspirations, of our founding feathers, of our grandparents and parents used to be. That is why we want a nation that is once again great. A nation where a young boy who was born puerto rico can aspire to college, law school, to own a business, and can do that without needing the government to depend on. [applause] and that young boy can move to idaho and decide he can run for office because he wants to make america what it used to be, give other people that opportunity to grow, expand, and to become great in the United States, and can run for a state legislative seat. It and that boy can decide he wants to go to congress. And he decides that in a state where there are less than one percent puerto rican descent, and less than nine percent hispanic descent, the majority of that state will send him to congress. [applause] not because he fits a particular class, or fits a particular idea of what a person should look like or should; but because he believes in the values that have made america great. It is because of you. When the tea party decided to get behind my candidacy, and many other groups it was not just the tea party. It it was the old reagan coalition. Social conservatives. Fiscal conservatives. In that silent majority out there that we have not talked about for many years. We are calling it now the tea party, but we have called it many, many thanks. It was when those groups got together and decided we can actually win and send people to washington dc that want to make a difference. I did not come here to make friends. I came here to save the republic and save the nation. I need you to get engaged. It need you to get active. With your help, i believe that 2014 will be bigger than 2010. [applause] thank you very much. God bless america. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome george rodriguez. I am fighting off an nsa allergy, i think. [laughter] theyre trying to silence us. Years ago the tea party came to texas, and is stronger than ever, particularly in south texas. What is curious to Many Political pundits is that we attract hispanics into the movement in south texas. There are several reasons. First of all, contrary to what many liberals believe, not all hispanics are the same. [laughter] ok . You just heard from a puerto rican. Here i am, a mexicanamerican. There are cubans. There are central americans. And even within the large group of mexicans, there are mexicans that have been here, like my family for generations, since before texas was texas. And then there are those that just crossed the border, legally and you know. All of them have a different perspective on american politics. Secondly, many hispanics continue to be attracted to the faithbased family values that we espouse. That makes Fertile Ground for recruiting them. Third. Very importantly is the outreach that we do. For example, we do trench work. Over the gop, and i dont want to hurt their feelings, but over the gop they hire professionals, professional hispanics. [laughter] im sorry. They hire professional hispanics. In a clear example of how the differences, first of all, let me give you an example. There was a recall going on against a liberal city councilman. There was a grassroots effort led by faithbased groups and Tea Party Folks. They go door to door knocking and talking to people. They are having great success. On the other hand, gop candidate Jerry Patterson is put together video, a professionally made a video that he is sending out. Who do you think is going to be more successful, ok . The fourth reason is that our message, my friends, is not a segregated message. I that i mean, the same message to all americans resonates in the hispanic community, ok . The message of god, family, and country. That is important to us. The Biggest Challenges that we have got and i want to point out that none of the latino, spanishspeaking media showed up. It is the Mainstream Media and the spanishspeaking media. Those are our challenges. In the spanishspeaking media, they look at us as monolithic, as victims who just care about immigration, ok . And i feel that that is just another form of liberal, reverse discrimination. Racism, that is what that is. I personally have worked very hard in south texas to show that the conservative and tea party have a brown face. The Spanish Speaking media, and we do need spanish speakers to speak out the spanishspeaking media, specifically, uinivision and telemundo referred to us Tea Party Folks as antiimmigrant. In reality, we are antiillegal immigration. [applause] intentionally or not, my friends, what they are doing is dividing a future group of american citizens. That is what they are doing, misleading them. Rather than helping them to assimilate, maybe they want to maintain a capture spanishspeaking audience. I do not know. But they are promoting their own liberal agenda. Conservatives, my friends, conservatives need folks like rush limbaugh, sean hannity and others to challenge the liberals in spanish, as with the Mainstream Media in south texas, where we have endeavored to speak out on national tv a, on fox and all the other ones. We must be heard in the spanish languages, as well. It is not just a bunch of old white men. I was born, my friends, i was born in public housing. My parents were selftaught. They taught us that while there may be many reasons to cry and surrender, there are more reasons to laugh and succeed. We spoke in spanish at home. We ate tortillas, but we were always american first. Liberals and the gop need to adjust the fact that the Tea Party Movement is not going away. The gop must realize that grassroots has been myself are true believers who will work to save our nation, unlike the professional hispanics who need to be paid to get the vote out. In texas, my friends, we have tea party hispanics who are americans first. In san antonio, and my very good friend, ted cruz. [applause] senator cruz who was elected because he was an american. I am proud to be of mexican dissent. What im much more proud to be an american. God bless america. Thank you. Please welcome the organizer of the washington blueprint. I am from seattle. What is seattle known for . Rain. That is a good answer, there. Rain. We are known for starbucks, amazon, microsoft, we compete a, cosco, boeing, and the seattle seahawks. What else is seattle known for . An incubator of National Movements and trends. If people think Washington State is not. It is purple. Three years ago, i read the book called the colorado blueprint. Some of you may be familiar with it. It is about how for individuals put a plan together to change colorado from red to blue. Im sure youre thinking, why is woody so excited about this. Because we can do that here. When looking at the immense task of how to turn Washington State red, john f. Kennedy had a quote. The american by nature is optimistic. He is experimental, and inventor , and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. This is about the American Dream. It is about how local activists can Work Together to turn a blue state purple. How did we do this . First, we surrounded ourselves with people who have a deep understanding of the political process. You also need people skilled in organization and structure. We need an organization that runs efficiently, like a business. For example, the executive that ran the 757 program was a perfect fit. He was on our team. Some of you know dan. Second is the coalitions. Coalitions are nearly unstoppable. We set out with patience, diligence, and brotherly love to form this coalition. To name a few, the Washington State federation, the freedom foundation, the Tea Party Patriots, and local groups from all across the state. I think i spied a couple of you in your earlier. The Second Amendment foundation. And the campaign for liberty. All of us standing together to work handinhand for the first time in 35 years, with one common goal. That is the goal of changing the state senate and house to fiscal conservative. We agreed to leave our egos and agendas at the door. [applause] the third factor is targeting. Selecting targeted districts to flip them is critical. With identified seven districts that the conservative candidate lost every election for the last 35 years, but with 40 to 49 of the vote. What you do once you have your districts . You must make sure your candidate can win. Do they have a Campaign Manager . Do they ever written Campaign Plan . How they taken a selfie with their iphone . You know, make sure the guy is not a moron. As election season started, we put the plan into motion. Some of you flew in from alabama, georgia, mississippi, tennessee, to watch with us. That made a huge difference. It was special to us that you all fluid. We asked the organizers from the effort to run the ground game. We could not have done it without them. It was truly a team effort. The hundreds of walkers began fanning out over two months, knocking on thousands of doors, engaging voters, handing out information on which candidate was fiscally conservative. Along with the walking came the training, one of the most respected conservative organizations in Washington State, the freedom foundation, was busy training hundreds of grassroots activists, along with campaign, staff, and candidates. The Washington State blueprint was in motion. Fast forward to election night. We sat and watched the disheartening news streaming in from the east coast. As the night wore on, and it got later, it seemed as if one bright night was shining in a night of disappointment and despair. Washington state results started trickling in. A celebration started to unfold, as it became clear that fiscal conservatives had taken control of the Washington State senate for the first time in 35 years. [applause] one first step at moving washington from blue to red. One step closer to spreading this to all 50 states. This cannot be about one state. It is about our country. This is how we finish the story, the fight for freedom, and fiscal responsibility. The American Dream. This project, this machine is capable of running in all 50 states, targeting everything from city councils, local elections, to purple and blue states. The next chapter is ready to be written. The blueprint is ready. [applause] please welcome catherine engelbrecht. Thank you. Thank yall. It is a pleasure to be here this morning. It is humbling, really. How many of you previous to five years ago have political experience . Let me ask you a different way, how many of you never had political experience before five years ago . What in the world are we doing . [laughter] i came five years ago to the first Tea Party Patriots rally in washington, d. C. Quick show of hands, how many of you all were there on that lawn . Wasnt that fun . I came to this hotel. I did not know what to expect. I had come completely unprepared. I did not see anybody else that looked like a patriot. My husband thought i had lost my mind. I knew i was potentially going to have to eat a whole lot of crow when i got home. When i prepared to go to the rally that morning i looked out of my window this is not part of my prepared comments at all, but i looked out of my window, and i saw the sea of red, white, and blue shirts working their way down to what became a current that led to the lawn of the capitol. Millions. Ladies and gentlemen, that does not happen but by the hand of god. [applause] we have been called here for a very high purpose. We could have been born at any time. But we have been chosen to be born at this time. We have jobs to do. Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if the American Dream is to be preserved, it will be because citizens are willing to take a stand and preserve, and preserve ideals that transcend politics. [applause] it is not about republican and democrat. We need two parties. We need debate. We need open discourse. That is healthy. That is good. What has changed is that we used care, his, and send this Common Center where , we believed in the ideas of freedom, opportunity, and faith. Somewhere along the way we lost that true north. That is what we need to find our way back to. I first up in 2009 when i started an Organization Called true the vote, which i thought would be a great, uniting effort. [applause] it has been. It is been interesting to watch. I always assumed that everyone would be in favor of election integrity. How can you be against free and Fair Elections . If you are against free elections then what are you for . I will leave that to your imagination. What i will say that as our reach increased, so did the number of alphabet soup agencies of the federal government that found their way to my doorstep, including the irs, fbi, at last count, thereve been in the past three years, 25 plus audits or investigations into my personal business. Now, this morning, as many of you know some tea party pages are testifying before congress on the same types of irs abuse and targeting that this administration is now looking to legalize, and i have a call to action for you. We started a website called w ewillnotbesilent. Org. Let me lay this out for you very quickly. The irs has attempted to write into law regulations that will stifle political speech that it will change the landscape of nonprofit organizations, many which are of the type you belong to in this room. A standard levels of Voter Engagement will be made illegal in these regulations, if they are allowed to pass. There is a window of time for citizens to comment. That window ends tonight at midnight. Tonight at midnight. If you go to the website you can leave your comments for the irs. At last count, there were over 100,000 comments. Let me tell you why this is important. It is a process. Thank god we are still a country of laws. In the law, it is a requirement that every comment be addressed. 100,000 comments is going to take an awful lot of time. Maybe, in that time, saner heads will prevail. Things might change. Maybe we will have a midterm election, and we can stop some of this nonsense. If we dont, and if you dont stand up, it is not going to stop. It will not stop. And this American Dream is worth standing up for. Thank you. [applause] thank you for everything you do in this room, believe me, things that many people would not believe have to happen just to preserve the right to free speech, preserve our constitution, preserve the dream for our children. Thank you on behalf of my family and my children. God bless, everyone. God bless america. [applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome steven tucker. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for coming. Mark levin just sign my book, so im not letting go of it until i leave the stage. He is coming up soon. Before the passage of the unaffordable care act, we were told by our friends on the left, zero, that have se we had to pass this law to solve the issue of preexisting issues. We were told that the board that people were dying in the streets. Is that true . No. Of course it is not true. We know the people are not dying in the streets. There is the emergency medical treatment and leave act. It was passed by reagan. If you are near an emergency room in this country they must treat you regardless of your ability to pay. Was president obama speaking truthfully when he said that if you are denied and the individual market, where there is no protection for preexisting conditions, does that mean youre left with no options . No. Who is responsible for preexisting conditions anyway . Where did it come from . As is the case with most of our problems, it comes from right here, right here in washington , d. C. Back in 1996, a Bipartisan Group wrote a law called hippa. When we hear that we think a privacy. But there is a far more important clause. It was portability. From oneort Coverage Plan to another, as long as they find a new job within 63 days. How do we know that is true . Has any employer ever said, boy, you can lose a few pounds . How many medications do take . Does your family have a history of Heart Disease . It is illegal to do that because of those laws. That protects 90 of the american injured. Insured. When the federal government wrote this law they dropped the ball, and extended no portability protection for those of us in the individual market. Today that is 14 million americans. Those people, prior to obamacare , could be denied for coverage for preexisting conditions. Do we need obamacare to solve the problem . No. Do we need to spend to join trillion over the next 10 years and still leave 31 Million People uninsured . We did not. The status started their own solution. We had infrastructure built already. In 35 states, before obamacare was heard of, there were laws. In the peoples republic of illinois, where i hail from, we have one called the illinois conference of Health Insurance plan. If you are denied for Health Insurance from any carrier, the regulators in the state of illinois said that they have to give a percentage of their profits to a poll of money. From anye denied carrier, we will ensure you regardless and you will carry a card. Even though you have the existing conditions. We did not need obamacare to solve the issue of preexisting conditions. 10 other states have guaranteed mandates. In ohio, they mandate that each insurer do this once a year with open enrollment. Long before obamacare. Another important clause is 274 2, which prohibits an insurer from dropping your coverage when youre sick, or raising your premiums when youre sick and i found this out years ago as a Health Insurance broker. That is right, i am an insurance broker. I watched a show and saw bill elliott. He said that it is forth battle of cancer, thanks to obamacare, his Insurance Company was dropping his coverage. Raising his deductible from 1000 up to 1500. His premium from 189 a month to 1500 month. I reached out and said, the president has been lying to the American People for four years. They cannot drop your coverage. They cannot raise or premium. It is illegal. Contact the governor and south carolina. She is one of us. He did. He printed out the section 2742, and the governor faxed it to the Insurance Company. I got a message from bill three days later. Its that, steve, i cannot believe it. The insurance called me. You were right. I can keep my policy. [applause] three weeks later, i want you to know that bill is still in full remission. What did he get for speaking out . A letter from the irs. That was on thanksgiving day. That was the same day i got my letter. That is right. I want you to understand that we should never be afraid from this tyrannical lawless regime that we are living under. We must speak out. You never know, through gods grace, when you might save someones life. Thank you. [applause] . Please welcome the congressman matt salmon. I am what they call a retread. I was elected in remember the 1994. Contract with america . I was one of the people who made a pledge and kept it. There were like 100 of those who made it. Five of us went home. That is the way things go. You drink that water, you change forever. Anyway, when i was in congress before, i was dubbed as one of the bad boys of the Republican Party. There were 11 of us. I think it was the precursor to the tea party. We were the tea party before the tea party was cool. Anyway, there were 11 of us. We were constantly having to fight bill clinton, and fight against some of the things our leadership was doing. We did not come back to be a mindless lemming elephant over the donkey. We came back with bellies. To bring Government Spending dont. To live within our means. To get fair taxes. We actually believed the things that the Republican Party stood for. That too is our big crime. They called us the bad boy republicans. Now, to be referred to as a Tea Party Patriot makes my life a lot easier. My wife did not like the bad boy republican thing. I want you to know what brought me back because i left for 12 years. I kept my term limit pledge. I never thought i would come back again. When i left, we had balanced the budget for the first time in 40 years. In 1998 we balance the budget. The year i left, in 2000, we have a 247 billion surplus. The federal budget was 1. 7 trillion. Fast forward 12 years, i see what happened 2010, with you glorious patriots standing up and fighting against the most to radical tyrannical president that we have ever had in the history of america. My juices just are flowing. I get energized. These patriots were on the mark. In 2012, i decided to come back and run again. I believe, with all my heart, that this movement is growing. You have heard from folks in the media, the liberals, we refer to it as the mainstream, lame stream media. The tea party is growing and strengthening. When i was in congress before, there were 11 of us on the house side. There are now 40 of us on the house side. [applause] that is a good thing. When i first came, there was nobody that was carrying the banner. Now we have about six or seven. It is only going to grow. I want to talk about the idea we get labeled with almost all the time. Extremist. We get called extremist. The father of conservative politics, harry goldwater, said that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. He said that moderation in defense, and the pursuit of justice is no virtue. I want to acknowledge something. If balancing the budget is extreme, i am guilty as charged. I am mixed stream. I am extreme. If sending obamacare to the netherworld is extreme, then i am extremely. [applause] if fighting justice is extreme, then i am extreme. If finding justice for ambassador stevens, who was murdered in benghazi is extreme, then i am extreme. [applause] and i will tell you something. The old phrase, when the going get tough, the tough get going. I will stand shoulder to shoulder with you people any day of the week. I will fight sidebyside with you until we take our country back, and get our freedom back. Thank you. 18 years ago, when i first came to congress, i was the young father of four children. Now i am a grandfather of six grandchildren. I look into a little eyes and faces, and it makes me want to weep. What kind of a country and legacy are we going to lead them . I spoke to a group of High School Students last week and i said, what we are doing today is spending away your future is so immoral. It is like your parents getting all expense a trip around the world to the finest hotel and then putting on a credit card in your name. That is what we are doing today. The kids get it. We need to get it. We need to fight for our country. [applause] if that makes the establishment cringe a little bit, if it makes them uncomfortable well boo hoo hoo. This is not a game. This is an epic battle. Abraham lincoln once said that, if america is defeated, it will not be from without. It will be from within. Lets rise up and take our country back. I am proud, proud to be a tea party republican. God bless you. Bless america. Please welcome Tea Party Patriot, indiana state coordinator. Thank you. People are saying that the American Dream is dead. However, i believe the vision that our founders had for this nation is alive and the hearts and minds of most americans. Never before in history has any group of people enjoyed freedom and liberty as we have here in america. Many of you gathered here today, like me, were tea party before they was a Tea Party Movement. I became part of the tea party because it fit in with the natural flow of my compassion and love for our great nation. [applause] i served in the u. S. Air force during the vietnam war. I saw the disrespect shown to those who would served our nation, upon returning home. They returned home from a war, to a citizentry that showed anger and disrespect. That is wrong. 30 years later while driving i heard glenn beck [applause] glenn beck say he wished he could find a way to reach our troops during his rally for america event. He wished for twoway communication, or in exchange to our troops deployed in afghanistan, iraq, and here at home. He said it would be too expensive. Hey, folks. That was back in 2003. There was no skype, no facebook. Cell phone bills were very expensive. But i am a ham radio operator. I had an idea of how it could be done for free. So i pulled over and called the local radio station. They laughed at my idea and hung up. Shortly, they returned my call and wanted to know more. Glenn beck held a rally in downtown, one of the largest in the nation at the time. I introduced him to radio connections to the event. We chatted live with the military during the rally. [applause] someone in the crowd began a conversation with a soldier. To our surprise, that Soldier Turned out to be her son. It was very emotional. As a result of our success, i was invited to the National Glenn Beck rally in west virginia. And then went on to organize a series of them on my own over the next 10 years, in my community and worldwide. Called amateur radio military appreciation day. I was invited to breakfast with president george w. Bush and his entire cabinet on the white house south lawn, all because i had an idea and took action. [applause] that is what i mean by being tea party before that was a tea party. Shortly after the Tea Party Movement began, i got a call from fellow patriots asking me to organize a rally in my city. I rose to the challenge, even though the local media said i would fail. They printed a frontpage story on local newspapers, saying this man will need a lot of luck to pull this off. They said that no one would attend a rally led by a black man. I had two weeks to prove them wrong. For that rally, this black man, booked another black man, alan keyes, as the keynote speaker. [applause] we had one of the largest crowds in the nation at a tea party event, organized by a black man, keynoted by another. [applause] anything is possible if you are active in pursuing your American Dream. That is fundamental to the Tea Party Movement. All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. A former congressman from oklahoma, also a black man, jc watts [applause] he said, when it comes to the American Dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in the dream. So i encourage you to stay the course because our voices make a difference. I would like to think mine has. Pursue your dreams. Do not ever think that one person is not important. Stay united. Continue to stand up for what you believe in. God bless you. God bless america. And god bless our men and women who serve in the armed forces of the United States of america. [applause] i will leave you with my personal motto, freedom and unity, use them or lose them. God bless you. Please welcome jeffrey lord. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for all that you do. The Obama Administration has made a point of calling its critics, extortionist and terrorists. You cannot be a nicer group of extortionists and terrorists. [laughter] i am happy to be here. I call you the heirs of Ronald Reagan. [applause] the tea party has been clear from your spontaneous beginning that you are concerned about the fiscally responsible actions of the federal government, the misguided stimulus spending the , takeover of the private industry. Your goals were equally as clear as they were reaganesque. Improve america through a support of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free market economic policies. Andbelieving in liberty, fiscal sanity, you were demonized, right from the beginning. It was astonishing. It was unsurprising to watch the torrent of abuse sent to the tea party. This kind of abuse was directed at Ronald Reagan for believing exactly the same kinds of things. He was called evil for believing exactly the same kind of things. He was called evil by House Speaker oneill, a president that was cold and cruel and of course, Ronald Reagan was inevitably called a racist. This is what the American West does especially when they are losing the argument. The tea party is racist, really . Really . Perhaps this charge of racism from the left comes from the Political Party that has proudly stood for and i want to be specific here, six platforms that supported slavery. They oppose the 13th and 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution that wiped out slavery and gave both the legal rights and Voting Rights to black americans. They supported segregation actively in 20 platforms. They opposed antilynching laws specifically supported by the Republican Party. Liberals did not just support the ku klux klan, they were the ku klux klan. Electing members to the United States and state representatives and the governorships. And the Supreme Court of the United States. These are people with a long and wretched political history of depending on any and every scheme imaginable then and now. They have the nerve to call of the tea party racist . It is more than past time to call them out. And hold the party [applause] and tell the party of slavery, segregationists, ku klux klan, racial quotas to quit judging americans by skin color and get back to the business of getting this country on the road to Fiscal Health and economic growth. [applause] you have received considerable criticism from Establishment Republicans. They also once scorned Ronald Reagan. No one knows this better than our friend mark levin. I cannot say enough about marks ability to bring constitution and the founding principles of this nation front and center. He is a National Treasure and we owe him a considerable debt of gratitude. [applause] mark and Ronald Reagan biographer certainly remembers and i do that in march of 1980 as governor reagan was on his way to winning the republican nomination for president , former president gerald ford went to New York Times to say the kinds of things that are said of the tea party today. Ronald reagan said president ford was too extreme, and a sore loser. I am quoting, a very conservative republican cannot win a national election. As you may recall, ford had lost to jimmy carter and reagan not only beat carter in a landslide in 1980 and he won reelection by 49 states. That was george bush sorry. [laughter] sorry. Which lastly brings me to the great friend Margaret Thatcher. There was a reason Ronald Reagan won two landslides and Margaret Thatcher was the longestserving british Prime Minister of the 20th century winning three times in a row. Both believed in drawing a line in the sand that clearly separate right from left. That is not only the key to victory, they were right about this and the establishment was wrong. President reagan referred to Establishment Republicans of the type the tea party does battle with everyday as internal order republicans. Mrs. Thatcher summed up the term and called her establishment conservatives the west. Both believed the politics of what Ronald Reagans called the fraternal order. Mrs. Thatcher sustained as disdained as consensus politics were roadmaps to defeat. If there had been a tea party in britain, mrs. Thatcher would have been the leader. Said she of the consensus politics she believed of repeated defeats in Great Britain and i am quoting here the Old Testament prophets did not allow them the highway saying brothers i want consensus. They said this is my faith, my vision, this is what i believe. Go out and preach it and practice it and fight it and the day will be ours. As you go by your challenges, the fraternal order republicans, whether here on capitol hill or across the land, i would encourage you to take the understanding of Ronald Reagan that theres a time and take to heart the words of Margaret Thatcher if i may americanize it. Go out into the highways and byways of america and make it plain as Ronald Reagan did, hold the American People, this is my faith, my vision and this was in the tea party believes. Go out and practice and preach and the day will be yours. Thank you very much. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome New York Times bestselling author and host of the mark levin show, mark levin. [applause] come on thank you very much. What it is all of this for . Happy anniversary. It is an honor to be with you. You are an inspiration to me and millions of others. The fact is today we live under a lawless president , a feckless congress, and an allpowerful Supreme Court. The federal government consumes nearly 25 of the entire economy and gobbles up whole industries. We are 17 trillion in debt. 100 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities. Not enough on the planet to pay that back. The overall debt when it is combined is 7 trillion a year. This president proclaims the era of austerity is over. [laughter] the federal government is the largest creditor and debtor and lender and employer and consumer, contractor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health care provider, and guarantor. So much for limited government. It unleashes thousands of regulations and rules every single year over the course of a decade and it fills nearly one million pages of the federal register. We are being devoured by the very government that is supposed to serve us. The centralization and concentration of power is now moving at speed as the constitution has been breached. I do not need a liberal law professor from George Washington to tell me what is going on either. [applause] we welcome them. The Tea Party Movement is the only thing left that stands between what remains of our republic and the tyranny of a runaway government. And i say this from the bottom of my heart and soul, and i thank you. You are the citizens from every walk of life who possess the spirit and enthusiasm of the Founding Fathers to proclaim the principles of individual liberty and unalienable rights as set forth in our declaration. And insist on the federal government compliance with the constitutions limits. You are astutely aware of the peril of the moment and all that is at stake. And for this, you are smeared, and attacked by the ruling class. Democrats and republicans alike. By the media. From the New York Times to the wall street journal and others who are dragging the nation into the abyss. I know at times, you wonder if we will be able to reverse course. You wonder if it is all worth it. You wonder if you should live quiet lives among family and friends and tend to your own needs. I also know you are americans. And you cannot be idle. And you will not be silent while a relative handful of self aggrandizing masterminds seek to lord over you. You will not allow your country to fail. [applause] let me remind you, december 23, 1776. When it looked like the American Revolution was lost, what was left of general George Washingtons Continental Army gathered for what the history books would describe as the battle of trenton. Before those men aboard the rickety wooden boats on a daunting course across the frozen Delaware River on that miserable winter night, they began to read aloud from Thomas Paines the american crisis. And today repeated these words, it became their motto. These are the times that try mens souls, the summer soldier, and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country. But he who stands by it now deserves the thanks of man and woman, that is you. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the heart of the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Triumphal we must and try off we triumph we will. My dear friend spoke of the reagan administration. We are fond of quoting the great Ronald Reagan. Ronald reagan was fond of quoting thomas payne and he would recite them in a Campaign Stop after Campaign Stop after Campaign Stop. Whether in the primaries or in the general election. You see Ronald Reagan was not part of the establishment, he was an outsider. Like you and so many others throughout history, he had the courage to stand up and be counted. And for this, also like you, reagan and his supporters were disparaged and dismissed by the same ruling class. I will give you a few examples. George will, 1974. Reagan is 63. And he looks it. His hair is remarkably free of gray but around the neck and mouth he looks like an old man. He has never demonstrated National Appeal and his hardcore support today consisted primarily of the kamikaze conservatives who thought the Goldwater Campaign was jolly fun. There is reason to doubt that reagan is wellsuited to appeal to the electorate that produced the democratic landslide. George will. Chuck percy, former republican senator from illinois. A reagan nomination and a crushing defeat likely to follow could signal the beginning of the end of our party in america life. He said reagan was far out of the centrist mainstream. The hell is the centrist mainstream anyway . [laughter] i used to think it was the constitution. I used to think it was free market and private property rights. Now that is right wing. [applause] john rhodes, who would become the republican leader in the house said, as soon as reagan gets away from the cliches and the campaign slogans, he is in trouble. Nelson rockefeller who leads the Republican Party i think, he warned republican governors in terms of reagans run that no party can long endure appeal to a narrow minority. It will not serve the nation to have our major parties polarized at extremes. Doesnt this not sound familiar to you . So damn many of these, i could go on all day with these. [laughter] [applause] i have a radio show to do and a president to attack so i cannot stay long. [laughter] [applause] well, let me end with this with our friends at the wall street journal. In 1979, they wrote, political packaging we do not need to turn to a 68yearold man. Maybe they will write for political packaging we do not need to turn to a 68yearold woman who would be hillary clinton. [laughter] [applause] but i digress. Now as you heard from my friend jeff lord, gerald ford went on to lose to a very weak democratic candidate named jimmy carter. Reagan went on to win in 1980 and 1984, the biggest landslide in american history. Popular vote, i would remind karl rove and the electoral college. [applause] having campaigned personally for reagan and in 1976 and 1980, i want you to listen. I feel certain he would be enormously proud of you. In fact, i think he wouldve been thrilled to that in front of you right here and thank you for all you are doing and all you have done and congratulate you on this fifth anniversary of the Tea Party Movement. And i think it is appropriate to end my comments with a truism from president reagan which is the last paragraph from my book which most of you have heard by now but i am going to repeat it anyway. For those of you who have not. Reagan wrote and said this many times, freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it in the blood flow and it must be fought for and protected for them to do the same or will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free. You folks, you are an inspiration to people like me. And millions of others. It is a great honor to be here. On behalf of all of those other people and your fellow citizens and generations yet to come, i want to thank you and god bless all of you. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] washingtonxt talks abouthn fund the influence and the growth