Foundation. Now, im so happy today introduce todays speaker. I know youve seen kate on fox news where shes a passionate, articulate defender of conservative values and also one of the booths policy institutes policy speaker for many years and speaking and mentoring young women that weve worked with for decades. She helped the institute so many times, too, and im grateful to you, kate, for that. Shes also been in almost all Great American conservative women call cars, and our 2013 calendars out. We did it differently this year, not just beautiful women, but beautiful scenes. Heres kate of march of 20 13 and the quote on her page is courage is the ladder on which all over great virtues mount. Kate, we love having you in the calendar. Now, kate today is going to be talking about how despite lofty claims ofupty, the left is really dividing america with radical policies. Kates not just a regular guest on fox news, but others as well. She was on larry cudlow this week, speaks all over the country, radio show, and here, we are especially honored to have kate as a board of directors. She came from the university of virginia, writing for the conserve titch paper there, a student leader organizing campus events and one giant statewide event; right . Right. She came to Young Americas Foundation out of college and took a lecture program which was small and made it into the biggest, best lecture program in the country. She left for other things and came back and was the Vice President for a number of years until recently. She was the chairman of the Republican Party from 2003 to 2006, and in that capacity, garnered National Attention leading the charge against tax increases and expanding the role of government. They have been going through pretty rough times about then. There was a scandal, one of the leaders had before kate but straitened that out and set the partys for smooth sailing. She served a senators staff, and while she was working for governor allen, as his chief education and health adviser, she recommended me for the Virginia State board of education. I was appointed to that, and worked with becky at that point because she was serving in the cabinet of george allen as well so we got to work with kate on state level issues as well. Shes the author of a new book called dividerinchief the fraud of hope and change. Its selling outside, and shell sign copies, if you like, after she speaks. Kate was born into a family of conservative leaders. She resides in win jr. Chester with four extraordinary wonderful children, especially the youngest daughter, one of the most gracious young ladies ive ever seen. I want her for myself, but i get to visit with her every now and then. A wonderful activist for our cause. Please join me in welcoming kate. [applause] thank you, all, so much. Its wonderful to be here. Lets talk about courage. I have to point you to the two ladies here with me. What a joy it was to get to know becky when i worked in the Allen Administration during a real revolution. O great restoration, and virginia was going true a difficult time, and george allen championed the great reforms of abolishing, implementing academic standards, reforming welfare so the crazy thing where you have to work for benefits, which, now, of course, is watered down, but becky was part of the revolution. As secretary of health and human resources, there was no issue that she was unwilling to tackle, and that is a tough area for conservative. She was there on the front lines during the entire administration, and she was an inspiration for me and for a lot of other conservatives, but, particularly, for conservative women. I just thank becky for the service to the commonwealth and the country. Thank you. Michelle i knew for years and years and years since i started at Young Americas Foundation as a wee one graduating from the university of virginia, and managed to combine career and family in the most professional and noble manner, the three incredible young men as sons, and she has put the family first, her husband and boys, but she puts the cause of freedom first. Thats something talking to groups of young women, i want to impress that upon you how important that is. I chose originally to stay home with my children, but to be involved. I was still on the council of higher education, but the goal was to raise my children, and then i got a crazy phone call when i had four children under five, okay . So four Little People under five and under. They were five and under as my mom points out frequently. Three boys and a precious baby girl. I was so happy. Life was what it was supposed to be. I got a phone call from george allen saying, hey, we need you. You need to run for state Party Chairman in virginia. Im like, no. Thats not happening. I am a very busy woman and happy the way it is. Of course, you know george allen, you cant say no probably more than once because he doesnt give up. He fights for what he believes in, and so, finally, i thought, okay, okay, okay, ran for Party Chairman and spent the next three years going all over virginia fighting for conservative ideas. What i impress on you, as hard as that was as a mom of young children, i would not change it because it is so important for us to get engaged in the battle. If we dont, nobody else will. Well passionate about conservative and unique degree of passion because we are moms. So many of us. Even if you are not moms, you are passionate. We are passionate because we want to pass liberty on, not only in pass, but expand it, to our children, our chirps children. If you embrace the traditional role, looking forward to it, please do not think you can get out of activism and out of being involved. We need you in this battle from here on out. Its too important what were standing up for. Its too important. I want to thank the clear booth policy institute. One of my favorite things is traveling around the country talking on College Campuses because College Students are on the front lines of the battle, and it is so important what you all do standing up for Young Conservatives and giving them the courage that they need. I did just write this new book that michelle held up dividerinchief the fraud of hope and change, and i did it because, lets see, i talked to kathryn lopez, National Review online, and i was asked why did i write it . Was it an awakening . I said, you bet it is. It stuns me that half of the American Population fell for the empty montra of hope and change. The Obama Administration was going to be that transcendent administration that brought us all together. That is why barack obama earned the white house because he said he was going to be the great uniter. Remember that beautiful inaugural address . It was glorious. He said to conservatives, i want to listen to you, especially when we disagree. Okay. Nice, beautiful, beautiful idea. He was going to meet with conservatives in congress once a week. That was a great idea too. He meant twice, twice, two times. Three days after that beautiful speech, the conservatives in congress came to the white house, and they had a meeting, and eric cantor, congressman from virginia, articulated the conservative perspective on increasing taxes, that we shouldnt do it. You know what obama said three days after he said ill listen to you, especially when we disagree. He said, you lost, i won, i trump you on that. He said he wants the folks who got us into the mess to do less talking and more listening. You can talk a little bit, but i want you to be on the sidelines while we clean this up for you. Unbelievable. Gone was any notion of unifying the country of bringing us together. Instead, there came this steady montra of attacks and vilifying of the other side. No idea. It was not an idea just like the 2008 campaign for president was not idea based. It was hope and change, glorious lofty speeches, no substance whatsoever. He was going to unify us, be a postpartisan president , and, yet, almost immediately, it was conservatives are hostage takers. They are the enemy. They care only about millionaires and billionaires and not children with autism and down syndrome. Now, what was this approach . Why did obama and his Administration Come in wanting to vilifying the other side with intense hatred . It was bringing to the administration that philosophy of a community organizer. For years, obama said im still a community organizer, just at the national level. Well, this was the one qualification that i think obama brought to the administration. If you can call it a qualification for being president , was that he was a community organizer. He was a darn good one. Absolutely. He was known by his fellow Community Organizers as the master of agitation. Now, this is really important because this is the essence of how he views the world. Obama would go into a community and identify an enemy for that community, and he would stove their animosity, fuel it, and really generate an angst, anger, and hay hatred. While they are riled up hating or angry at whatever he focused their attention on, he rammed through the agenda. No discussion, no need for discourt, just all based on distract everybody, get them focused on an entity, and ram through whatever you want. Well, look, thats what hes done at the national level. For the past four years, theres been no philosophical back and forth. No dynamics free and open exchange of ideas. Now, i wrote the book called divider in chief, not because im attacking division in politics. Im all for it. When its based on idea, thats the premise of the country that were free to have a vigorous exchange. They were not sitting around singing, but duking it out with a different philosophy. Because they were able to have this mutual respect, not always republic, but could fight it out based on ideas and philosophy, we now live in the greatest, most prosperous nation on the face of the rert because the best ideas were able to triumph because reason combated ideas that were not that great, but that is whats happening now. We are losing the ability for reason to be free to combat bad ideas. Do you hear the Obama Administration defending why it works to raise taxes on Small Businesses or on individuals who have are successful, and this, from an economic standpoint, this is how we generate more income and sustain it. No, for one, it doesnt, but generates less income. It is indefensible, and so, instead of trying to articulate a defense of their economic policy, they rip us apart. They divide us. They start vilifying conservatives as hating poor people and the middle class. This whole class warfare thing, by the way, ripping us apart based on economic status, i was sitting there watching obama give a speech the other day. Well, it was a couple months ago, and he said 12 times the middle class in the speech. Whats with pigeonholing us into the middle class . He loves says, i love to help you americans, you Little People is what he means, get into the middle class and stay there. Okay, first of all, why is the president of the United States his responsibility to decide what class i should be in . I should have dreams to achieve whatever level of income and greatness that i want to. This country provides me the opportunity that i have a good shot of achieving my dreams. Play by the rules, work hard, have some hootspa, and you can build it and achieve greatness. This president , instead, tears us apart and villainizes those who succeeded. You know what he says the problem is in the society . The breathtaking greed of the few. That is an amazing, amazing thing to condemn those who have achieved success in our society. We honor success in this culture, but he vilifies it so he can ram through the notion that we need to punish these people with higher taxes. That is his justification. Theres something wrong with the people. They got there through illgotten gains so we have to punish them. No economic rationale for it. Then you have conservatives arguing for lowering taxes, since we have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the world, and the rationale for why that works. Why, from an economic standpoint, that produces more prosperity. How it works under reagan, how jack kennedy did it and how it worked. You dont hear the same argument from the administration. They cant argue the facts because the facts do not back them up. They also cant come forward and have an honest discussion about what their objectives are. Whereas conservatives will argue our objective is to elevate everybody by increasing prosperity, by unleashing the private sector from over bearing, not republican, but overbearing reasonable government regulations so that everybody can prosper. We believe theres an unlimited ability for prosperity. The left believes that its a fixed amount. Its a pie. Everybody gets a little slice of it. Its never going to get bigger. Thats not how we see things. You dente dont hear the left or tick articulating a response to the discussion because what obama wants to do is force redistribution. If he was honest about that, honest about the goals of not just equalizing everyone, but bringing them down because thats what happens when you try to equalize income. You bring everybody down. If he were to be honest about that and give a philosophical defense, the American People would reject it resoundingly. Instead, he tries to turn conservatives into the enemy. Let me tell you, its incredibly effective when its not met with powerful courageous, profound articulation of our ideas. We have seen that when there is a vacuum on our side, that hatefilled rhetoric just rams through. I look, i want to talk, in particular, since were with the booth policy institute, i want to talk particularly about the notion of a war on women. You know, obama doesnt has not just kept the hateful rhetoric to class warfare or war against women, but its dividing young people, turning young people against old people, young people against businesses and corporations, dividing us based on our faith, dividing us, of course, based on race. It was supposed to be a postracial presidency, and yet racial tensions are higher than ever perhaps in the country in terms of trusting one another and thinking the best of one another. Hes divided us based on immigration, saying that conservatives are the enemy because we have a different philosophy an granting amnesty and that thing. The war against women is probably the most stark example of how hes tried to pit americans against one another. Now, ill say i think there is a war against women happening here, but its not coming from the conservative side. Its a shame that were using words like war against women, but ill get to that in a minute. The reality is that this administration used that health and Human Services mandate, not to have a discussion about religious liberty and what religious organizations should be compelled to do, but, instead, to use it as an opportunity to say, aha we told you conservatives hate women. They want to take women to the stone age, deprive them of their they call it reproductive justice because they were conservatives do not believe religious organizations should be compelled to provide an . Erns program that covers something against their beliefs. Because of that very rationale explanation, conservatives despise women. They are engaged in an assault. This is the language they use. Conservatives are involved in an assault. We are actually waging a war against women. Womens health needs are increasingly under attack by conservatives. Thats what they say. The language is pretty serious stuff, but my favorite example of the whole war on women montra coming from the left is congresswoman jacksonlee. She has good stuff. She is talking about this conservative, us get it, we are attacking women because we hate women. Our assault on women, she says, quote, i think the next act by conservatives will be dragging women out of patient rooms into the streets and screaming over their bodies as they get dragged out of getting access to Womens Health care. Seriously . Okay. Seriously, thats what we are going to do . It is up believable. Theres nos fact, no nothing to back up such a profoundly, misleading statement that only to insight hatred and mistrust, mistrust of our intentions and goodness so when any issue comes up in congress or the public discourse, statements like this and statements that the president has said, the administration said will nullify objections from conservatives on any issue, particularly on issues relating to anything related to women which, of course, for the left, by the way, runs the gamet between a and b, abortion to Birth Control. Thats all we care about, according to them. It absolutely silences our side. Its pretty effective. Particularly, among conservative men and look at this, and are, like, wow, i cant talk about issues relating to women. You know what . Oh, my gosh, absolutely, they have to talk about issues related to women, because they are issues that affect everybody. Women are concernedded about the same thing men are concerned about, but look at what the left is saying, and how open minded and tolerant they are. Hillary rosen, mentioning a Hillary Rosen said ann romney, the wife the mitt romney, that shes never worked a day in her life because she was a stay at home mom. As a stay at home mom and any mom knows, we work its harder to stay home with the babies than it is to go to work. Ill tell you that. It is very tough to be a stay at home mom. How about democrat chairman chairman of the Democrat Committee in south carolina. Hes on the left. Hes just a profound raging liberal. Dick harpootlian compared Governor Haley to eva brawn. Did you hear anybody on their side condemn that as vicious and hatefilled . No, nothing. She has suffered, by the way, disportionally, as all conservative women do by ridiculous character assaults, attack, attack, attack. While running for governor, she was accused after having an adulterous affair. Okay. Ridiculous. Theres not a single gram of evidence to back it up. She said if you bring up a piec