and the other great moment was when tip led a bipartisan delegation over to meet gorbachev for the first time. when they met in geneva, tip called up those guys and said don t cause trouble with the freeze movement and they were patriotic together when it came to the time you had to be patriotic and they were human beings together. i think that s different than today. can you imagine that happening today? i can t imagine president obama this is a nonpartisan statement sending john boehner to moscow to help set up his relationship with putin. it s unimaginable. the today show played it as a completely straight story that morning. that s what changed. context. it was normal 30 years ago for the opposition to be loyal and accepted as such and now today it s all war. it s all war. this is an incredible book. it s truly a great book.
lot of eyebrows. gore saying this, we re quoting, i think the most important part of it is winning the conversation. i remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the south by, i remember a time when one of my friend made a racist joke and another said, hey, man, we don t go for that anymore. the same thing happened on apartheid. the same thing happened on the nuclear arms race with the freeze movement. the same thing happened in an earlier era with abolition. a few months ago i saw an article about two gay men standing in line for pizza and some homophobe made an ugly comment about them holding hands and everyone else in line told him to shut up. we re winning that conversation. all right. are you scratching your head on that? doug schoen joins us, former advisor to president bill clinton. monica crowley, radio talk show host. both are fox news contributors. comparing climate skeptics to racist homophobes and drunks may strike some people as beyond
bush sr. and bush jr. couldn t do it. tsongas, every time there was something courageous to be said, he trounced him on it. coming up with something that for years there was a freeze movement. everybody was anti-nuclear. now i guess the choices force you to something clean even if it is potentially dangerous. that s right. if democrats want to reduce greenhouse gases, what they need is something that can take over from coal, for example, 24-hour a day, 7-day a week for this country. wind and solar power can t do that. we re talking about electric bases. electric power. if we need cars driven by electricity, do we need more of this? i think it does. because we don t have the renewables to put into the grid to the extend they need to be. what renewables do we have that can fire up these generators? there s a limited amount of solar, there s a limited amount