this moment that s kind of i mean, just feels today like on the heels of what happened in ferguson, with the video of the shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice, with the way that social media operates and the camera phone s operating, we have a consciousness of what s happening that we weren t able to get before in quite the same way and whether that galvanizes something nationally. what do you think? maybe, maybe. i don t know. i hope so. i would like to think so. i would like to think that the drive-by killing of an 11-year-old child would galvanize something, but chris, i really hate to keep going back to this. but we are under the weight of some 350 years of state-sanctioned racism and about 50 years of just halfway trying to dig our way out of that. to expect things to change because, you know, a few cases over the past few months i think is to expect too much.
now there is something about this moment that s kind of gal van i mean, just feels today like on the heels of what happened in ferguson, with the video of the shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice, with the way that social media operates and the camera phone s operating, we have a consciousness of what s happening that we weren t able to get before in quite the same way and whether that galvanizes something nationally. what do you thing? maybe, maybe. i don t know. i hope so. i would like to think so. i would like to think that the drive-by killing of an 11-year-old child would galvanize something, but chris, i really hate to keep going back to this. but we are under the weight of some 350 years of state-sanctioned racism and about 50 years of just halfway trying to dig our way out of that. to expect things to change because, you know, a few cases over the past few months i think
happened in ferguson, with the video of the shooting of 12-year-old tamir rice, with the way that social media operates and the camera phone s operating, we have a consciousness of what s happening that we weren t able to get before in quite the same way and whether that galvanizes something nationally. what do you thing? maybe, maybe. i don t know. i hope so. i would like to think so. i would like to think that the drive-by killing of an 11-year-old child would galvanize something, but chris, i really hate to keep going back to this. but we are under the weight of some 350 years of state-sanctioned racism and about 50 years of just halfway trying to dig our way out of that. to expect things to change because, you know, a few cases over the past few months i think is to expect too much. this is a long, long fight. i m not calling for fatalism, i m not calling for giving up.
personal aspect to this but what did you learn out of this episode? i guess her comments were interesting that had been reported before when she talks about criticizing the women that accused him of sexual harassment. that was the one thing that was interesting to me, jumped out to me. in broader context, though, conservatives are going to go after her. the campaign is starting already. her approval rating will go down in term of republicans at least and it tells me that the attacks on hillary clinton or the campaign is really going on the conservative side now. and you know, amy, i m of two minds. every time lewinsky is used, hillary clinton benefits. it always has been the case for her. sort of galvanizing. galvanizes support for her. however, it does remind you she s a person of the past, not of the future. it s never going to be that we re going to find something new about hillary clinton. that is going to be almost impossible. the question for her is how much does the ol
the people, of course, who funded, maybe in jesse helms name this lecture series that obviously is taking place at the heritage foundation, for those people, it is an applause line to say jesse was a terrific fellow and we need 100 more like him. but guess what? that phrase, in a national election, is a commercial, if you want to run for the presidency. that s a commercial that means you lose. because that commercial galvanizes everybody in the country who is against segregation and against failed efforts to blunt civil rights and who don t like diversity and who are homophobic, for all those for all that does, is it means that ted cruz is not a national candidate, can t be the republican standard bearer. and for the republican party, if we re going to win, if we re going to be competitive in 2016, the only way we do that is by being a big tent. our party has to say we have