it s x factor this year because there s a game changer now in the santorum momentum that s happening reet now and cpac is a very dynamic place. if a person has a speech that takes over the place, it could change everything. i was at the straw poll, the florida straw poll about three months ago when herman cain won. and that surprised everybody. and that started his momentum going forward until the herman cain implosion occurred. and i think that right now rick santorum has a unique opportunity to gain unprecedented momentum because mitt romney has chosen not to connect with the conservative grass roots. the tea party right, so mitt romney is going to give a speech but he s also met with conservatives because of all those things that you say. he s kind of getting in to get a one-on-one message here sort of private meetings. and then, number two, rick soon santorum has to deliver a message that leverages off the momentum. how does he do that? well, this crowd yesterday wh
of our constitution is the separation of powers and an independent judiciary. we ask judges to make sure that when we vote for something, we re not depriving minorities of their sconstitutional rights. that s what the judge did. let me go back, it was june 12th, 1967 that the supreme court struck down a virginia statute which at that time there were 16 states that banned whites from marrying nonwhites. and look at this poll because we were talking about public opinion and clearly public opinion had no influence on that supreme court. this is a gallup poll from 1968. do you approve or disapprove of interracial plarnlg. only 20% of the country then approved of it. 73% disapproved. so i guess my question to you, and i wasn t trying to set you up here, this was a case public opinion was squarely against the idea of interracial marriage and the courts completely ignored it. are you hopeful that will public opinion at least might have some influence on the supreme court or at this point, d
that we ve got the stamina and the determination to see this through. sure. we not lose sight of these other two challenges we have before us. i only say that on public opinion because there s been an argument and in fact on fox news sunday, ted olson, one of the two lawyers who is on the side of trying to overturn prop 8 was asked about this issue of the fact that basically it was public opinion in the state of california that said they wanted to ban same-sex marriage. here was ted olson s response to chris wallace. we do not put the bill of rights to a vote. 41 states once prohibited interracial marriages. so that in virginia, when the supreme court finally struck that prohibition down, the president s parents could not have been married. our fundamental rights, the part of our constitution is the separation of powers and an independent judiciary. we ask judges to make sure that when we vote for something, we re not depriving minorities of their constitutional rights. that s